Thanks Ockham.
there is a casual interview with Dyer and Oprah on OWN.
http://www.oprah.com/own-super-soul-sun ... rt-1-Video
Dyer is at his plush home in Hawaii. he describes his remote healing experience with "John of God" who treated Dyer from bazil by phone thousands of miles away. Dyer and Oprah admit that it sounds like "woo-woo" stuff [but then again ALL new Agers say that and ALL say "I was skeptical" or "I am a skeptical person"]. Dyer, of course can't really say he
doubted [Dyer's a dyed-in-the-wool New Thought devotee and NT does not allow "negative" thoughts.]
Anyway, the psychic surgery for leukemia amounted to a remote digging into Dyer's right eyesocket, a common, general treatement by John of God and his assistants. Dyer was told explicitly that a surgery took place and that "sutures" would be removed by entities in a day or so, and that after the phone connection, he was to go lay down for "24 hours" after taking some magical herbs?, etc. Dyer says that he felt okay after the surgery, felt like taking a walk, so he "disobeyed" John of God. Dyer nearly collapsed minutes into his walk and dragged himself home, then layed down for the required 24 hrs. When he woke he felt incredibly alive and loving. going around hugging family [he has 8 kids]. His daughter asked about the strange red marks on his right eye!
he then went to homeless people around town, giving them $50 and $100 all day long--he gave out thousands of dollars, he says. he was just "filled" with "love."
No mention of healing from leukemia or that some other conventional treatement was used for that as well.
What went on here?
Anyone who has studied suggestion under hypnosis can see what happened. Dyer is by definition a highly suggestible man--he admits to Oprah that he is very "open" to all possibilities. Folks under suggestion can produce marks of stigmata and bleed, or produce rope marks on their arms if the hypnotist suggests that their arms are tied tightly by a large rope. Dyer collapsing during his walk is classic post-hypnotic reaction to a "command" by the authority figure he trusts. He then interpreted the euphoria [endorphins] after such an ecstatic experience as "love" [a huge mistake made by many cult recruits early in their entry to a cult---WOW, I feel so full of love
].
Recall also that all New Thought sects and teachings are based in the suggestion therapy discovered by Phineas P Quimby [after Mesmer] [Quimby called it "Christian science"] in the 19th century. Dyer's entire message is based on self-suggestion or auto-hypnosis, and we can easily fool ourselves under the suggestible state despite the good feelings and "healing" that sometimes occurs.
Dyer has also taken to promoting the "I AM" invocations used by the old I AM cult and other New Thought groups earlier in the 20th century.