A best-selling author for decades, Wayne Dyer was one of the most popular teachers in the self-help, mind/body/spirit, and New Age communities. This interview was my first with Wayne. At the time I was editor in chief of New Age Retailer (now Retailing Insight), the main industry trade magazine for the category, and this piece originally…
Ray: If the dharma for all human beings is doing good and being good, it still manifests itself differently for different people. Are the differences in our dharmas based on choices we make—on free will—or is our specific dharma something with which we’re born? Wayne: We’re all individualized expressions of God, of oneness. We do…
Ray: What can non-African Americans learn from the close-knit tapestry underlying African American spirituality and culture? Lisa: I really appreciate that question. I have a large number of friends who are not African American, so I am going to echo some things I have heard directly from them. First, being in my space, they always…
Ray: What role do you think prophets today can play in human spirituality and life? Bishop Jordan: Prophets should be the awakening factor—the part that begins to awaken the God-man in everyman. So, prophets bring about the awareness of who you are, the awareness of your spiritually aware being. Prophets point you toward your purpose,…
Ray: What’s the biggest thing people need to learn in order to help them get beyond excuses? Wayne: They need to know that they are God. We mostly do not recognize that. We’ve lost the sense of our own divinity. We think that we’re separate from God, but we can’t be. We must be like…
