From Library Journal
Self-actualization guru Dyer has a talent for appropriating age-old spiritual concepts and marketing them with buzzwords like "spiritual manifestation." Here he outlines nine principles for manifesting spiritual destiny, which appears to be synonymous with getting everything we want. According to Dyer, if we can just get out of our ego's reach, the power of the universe would act in us to bring us everything we truly desire. By putting worthy spiritual ideals to the service of personal power, Dyer subverts the meaning of unconditional love, seeing it as the means to an end rather than a worthy end in itself. Buy only where Dyer's books are in demand.-?Bernadette McGrath, Vancouver P.L., B.C.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
Best-selling author Dyer says this title is different from any other he's written, but his 1992 book, Real Magic, was also about "using your invisible self to influence physical reality." Here, the message is muddled. On one hand, he tells readers that inner peace should be their greatest goal, but, on the other hand, he offers techniques designed to attain more worldly objectives, like a new job. There's lots about meditating and chanting, and he supplies distillations from A Course in Miracles, but ultimately, the volume veers close to the low end of New Age gobbledygook. Still, Dyer's name and a marketing push are likely to generate requests. Order this book as demand dictates, but for a better, more down-to-earth approach to the subject of attaining one's goals through creative manifestation, tell readers to check out Sonia Choquette's Your Heart's Desire, reviewed on p.1071. Ilene Cooper

FROM OUR EDITORS

In bestsellers like Your Erroneous Zones, inspirational leader Wayne Dyer established new ideas that changed people's lives. Now, in this stunning work, he helps you develop a spiritual awareness that can help you overcome life's obstacles to achieve almost anything. Dyer's nine-step process helps you streamline your thoughts, desires, and goals; tame your ego; fill your day with positiveenergy; and become more patient--creating a "mental state" conducive to positive change, peace, and love. A remarkable guidebook that shows us how to obtain our heart's desire.

ANNOTATION

Hailed by Marianne Williamson as "one of America's foremost teachers of transformational wisdom, " Dr. Wayne Dyer is an extraordinary sensor of what people want &3151; and he moves with the ever-changing times. Now, in this enlightening new work, the author of such phenomenal bestsellers as Your Erroneous Zones and Pulling Your Own Strings focuses on meditation and the best ways to truly get what you want.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Manifest Your Destiny is a stunning work that focuses on the ancient principle of manifesting through the timeless art of meditation. With characteristic insight and clarity, Dyer teaches the process of meditation as a way to streamline our thoughts, desires, and goals, and to bring what we most desire into our lives. Whether we realize it or not, we all struggle with built-in societal barriers that obstruct our inner potential. When we fall into a dream state - either in sleep or during a down moment of the day — we conceive of goals and desires that are more spectacular than those we entertain when "awake," yet we always wake thinking, "I can't do that." It is this conditioned response that prevents us from achieving what we want, and it is this response that Dyer teaches us to overcome through the Nine Spiritual Principles of Manifesting.

SYNOPSIS

From the inspirational leader and author of the international bestsellers Your Sacred Self and the classic Your Erroneous Zones comes this mind-awakening guidebook for making your desires reality.

Based on ancient principles and spiritual practices, Manifest Your Destiny introduces the Nine Spiritual Principles that will help you overcome the barriers—both within and around you—that prevent you from getting what you want, including:Developing spiritual awarenessTrusting yourselfReconnecting to your environmentAttracting your desiresAccepting your own worthinessPracticing unconditional loveMeditating to unlock the power within youLetting go of demandsFilled with warmth and insight, this invaluable book will help you achieve your goals—and take you to a level higher than you've ever dreamed.

FROM THE CRITICS

San Francisco Examiner

Dyer's New Age twist on the power of positive thinking, finding ways to make your dreams a reality.

San Francisco Examiner

Dyer's New Age twist on the power of positive thinking, finding ways to make your dreams a reality.

Plano Star-Courier

Remarkable. Buy one...It will be one of the best investments you've ever made.

Plano Star-Courier