The Power of Intention
About This Book
The Power of Intention is Wayne Dyer's most important and philosophically complete spiritual work — a reconception of the popular understanding of 'intention' that transforms it from a personal act of willpower into an impersonal universal field from which all creation emerges. Dyer argues, drawing on the Taoist concept of wu-wei, the Vedantic understanding of Brahman as the creative intelligence underlying all existence, and the quantum physicist David Bohm's concept of the implicate order, that intention is not something the ego does but something the individual aligns with or resists — and that the degree to which life works well for any person is the degree to which they have stopped resisting the creative intelligence that underlies all manifest reality and have allowed it to express through them.
The practical implications Dyer draws are both profound and specific: if the field of intention is characterised by creativity, love, kindness, beauty, expansion, and abundance, then the qualities one cultivates in one's own consciousness determine how fully one can access this field. Anger, resentment, shame, and ego-contraction create resistance to the field; love, gratitude, beauty, and generosity align with it. The seven faces of intention that Dyer identifies — creativity, kindness, love, beauty, expansion, unlimited abundance, and receptivity — provide both a description of the field's essential qualities and a practical curriculum for developing the alignment with them that makes one's life increasingly effective, meaningful, and joyful.
What You'll Learn
• Understand the reconception of intention Dyer proposes: not an act of personal willpower but an impersonal universal field of creative intelligence — and what this reconception implies for how one relates to one's own desires, goals, and the resistance one encounters in pursuing them
• Grasp the seven faces of intention: creativity, kindness, love, beauty, expansion, unlimited abundance, and receptivity — what each means as a quality of the universal field, how each manifests in daily life when one is aligned with it, and how its opposite (destructiveness, cruelty, hatred, ugliness, contraction, scarcity, resistance) indicates misalignment
• Recognise the practical alignment method: how Dyer's entire teaching focuses on cultivating the specific consciousness qualities — appreciation, love, beauty, service — that resonate with the intention field and thereby allow its creative power to express through the individual more fully
• Learn the ego-transcendence dimension: how the ego's habitual strategies of control, competition, and self-protection create resistance to the intention field — and how the progressive release of ego identification allows the individual to become an increasingly effective vehicle for the field's creative intelligence
• Appreciate the integration of sources: how Dyer synthesises the Taoist principle of effortless action (wu-wei), the Vedantic understanding of Brahman as impersonal creative intelligence, quantum physics' field models of reality, and the contemporary understanding of consciousness to create a framework that is simultaneously ancient, scientifically informed, and immediately practically useful
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