This is a Dr. Joe Dispenza review. You will learn about Joe Dispenza, who he is, what he does and how he does it. If he does anything. I will talk about how I first came across Dispenza’s work, how I applied it to my life and the effects it had. I discuss the pros and cons of engaging with Dispenza’s work as well as some of the criticism he has received.
In a nutshell, I believe Dr. Dispenza’s work is phenomenal. The consistent results his students are experiencing in his retreats speak for themselves. The interest in his work which is being expressed by the academic establishment is also a sign that Dr. Joe is onto something. I highly encourage you to read his work for yourself so you can see that there is logic behind it.
After using Dispenza’s digital products and applying his teachings for around half a year I can confirm that they worked for me. However, I believe there are more effective (and cheaper) digital alternatives available on the market to achieve radical life changes from within.
This doesn’t invalidate Dr. Joe’s work, I am merely offering alternatives for those who want to achieve uncommon results in health and wealth but who don’t want to spend the hundreds or thousands of dollars on one of his retreats.
Who Is Joe Dispenza
Joe Dispenza has emerged as a modern-day guide of the mystical. Based on science he has demystified ancient spiritual practices designed to fortify the body, mind and spirit. Using his platform as an internationally recognized speaker he has communicated these “demystified” practices to wide audiences all over the world.
Dispenza has authored many bestselling books, including “You Are The Placebo”, “Breaking The Habit Of Being Yourself” and “Becoming Supernatural”. His in-person retreats are massively popular, drawing crowds of people looking to apply meditation techniques to address emotional, psychological and physical ailments.
His website and Instagram feed are filled with testimonials of people communicating their healing in the courses. This is to be expected, as he makes money from these courses. But the fact that so many people are willing to speak about their experiences on camera, I think, suggests they are benefiting from attending the courses.
Through a combination of guided, individual and group meditations, students at Dispenza’s courses learn to deepen their relationship with their bodies and heal ailments by engaging mechanisms which are just beginning to be studied by modern science.
Universities such as the University of California, San Diego and Bond University in Australia have partnered with Dr. Joe’s organization to quantify the changes brought on by engaging in the meditative work. Additionally, the National Institutes of Health has expressed interest in partnering with Dispenza and his team.
Not everyone agrees with Dispenza and his work. He has been called a quack, a pseudoscientist and a snake-oil salesman by established medical professionals. This review will also address some of these criticisms.
How I Came Across Dr. Dispenza’s Work
In 2019 I was perusing a book store in La Condesa, an upscale neighborhood in Mexico City. The bookstore doubled as a restaurant; I was set to meet a friend there for dinner. Having arrived 30 minutes early, I was looking through the books they had on offer and came across one which immediately caught my eye.
It was “Becoming Supernatural” by Dr. Joe Dispenza.
The book’s jacket intrigued me, it was forest green and stylized to appear worn with time. On the cover was the Caduceus, the staff with two serpents coiling around it and wings at the top. The Caduceus represents the Greek messenger god Hermes, and is often incorrectly associated with medical organizations and healthcare practices.
The book’s tagline read “How common people are doing the uncommon”. I read the book’s back cover and leafed through it and discovered that it talked about meditation, emotions and the influence our thoughts have on our physical well-being. At that time I was already a regular meditator, and was becoming aware of the power each of us has over our internal states. The book immediately sucked me in.
I didn’t know anything about the author, but the book sported endorsements by Tony Robbins, Lynn McTaggart and many others as well as being a Wall Street Journal bestseller. I figured that if so many well-recognized institutions and people were singing the book’s praises, there had to be something to it.
So I bought the book.
Reading “Becoming Supernatural”
I started reading it that very night. I learned that the author, Joe Dispenza, had actually appeared in a movie called “What The Bleep Do We Know?”, a film which sought to communicate the mysteries of quantum physics to a broad audience. It had been so long since I’d seen the movie that I had forgotten he appeared in it.
I was smitten by the movie as a teenager, it talked about mind-blowing concepts in quantum physics such as wave-particle duality and the observer effect. The film has been savagely criticized by the scientific establishment as pseudoscientific. Unsurprising, as it simplified complex scientific concepts in order to convey them to a layman audience. It also linked quantum processes to consciousness.
This is currently a no-no in science. However, to me it makes perfect sense that quantum processes are involved in consciousness. After all, quantum processes make up everything in the universe, including our brain; our brain and our consciousness are dependent on each other. So that means quantum processes have to be involved in consciousness.
Dr. Joe Is Rejected By The Establishment
In the book, Dr. Joe writes about how appearing in “What The Bleep Do We Know” injected a fair amount of chaos into his life. So much that he was considering retiring from public life. He also writes about how writing “Becoming Supernatural” represented a risk to his reputation. The ideas contained in the book are by-and-large rejected by the scientific and medical establishment.
Naturally, reading all of this intrigued me even more. Because paradigm shifts are always preceded by resistance from the establishment. Like when Cesare Cremonini, an Italian philosopher, refused to look through Galileo’s telescope.
It’s a rule in history that all revolutionary ideas start out at the fringe. When I found the book I had been out of academia for 2 years, and during that time I had read about plenty of ideas which were beyond the acceptance of the academic establishment, like non-local consciousness (the idea that consciousness extends beyond the body and brain) and extrasensory perception.
My mind was open to what Dr. Joe was writing about.
So I kept reading…
What I Learned
The book is a potent guide to achieving the uncommon. It delves into aspects of the body, the mind, and emotions (the intersection of body and mind) which everyone should know about. Why? Because we’re all human and we all have bodies, minds and emotions. The quality of our life is set by the quality of these three aspects of ours.
The book demystifies how our thoughts and emotions are linked together and that by unconsciously following the cycle of thought > emotion > thought > emotion, we can wind up locking ourselves into our life circumstances through our choices. Our emotions determine our choices; if we keep experiencing the same old emotions we’re going to make the same old choices. We dig our own holes without even realizing it. These holes come in many forms; illness, poverty, hurtful relationships, you name it, we can cause it.
By applying the techniques in the book we can reset the cycle; experience new emotions which create new thoughts which then create new actions, so we can create new situations in our lives rather than repeat the same ones we’re accustomed to.
The book is filled with measurements which have been performed by Dr. Joe and his team on the students who have participated in the retreats over the years. They include brain scans, heart scans, blood work, and others. These scans show how by working with their breath and attention, students are able to consistently induce states conducive to mental and physical health.
All this being said, according to mainstream medical science, the results included in the book should not be possible. Yet there they are. On top of the testimonials of the people who have benefited from practicing the techniques.
How I Applied It
The book goes into detail on several of the meditations which Dr. Joe teaches his students during the retreats. They are:
- Tuning into new potentials
- Blessing of the energy centers
- Walking meditation
Each of these meditations works on different aspects of our lives. The “Tuning into new potentials” meditation teaches you to imagine yourself in the life you want to be living. By imagining yourself as the person who is already living the life of your dreams you actually increase the chances of it happening. Basically, the meditation is a form of visualization. Visualization has been shown time and time again to improve our performance in the field we choose. The effect is real.
The second meditation, “The blessing of the energy centers” teaches us how to run our attention across the energy centers in your body (chakras) so that we can release any emotional energy which may be stagnant within them. The chakras are real. Each chakra is associated with a gland which produces hormones which influence every part of our health. When one of these glands is out of balance our emotions are out of balance. Clearing out the emotional energy caught within them has potent healing effects.
The third meditation is the “Walking meditation”. Basically, you imagine yourself walking into the life you envision for yourself. The act of walking while imagining your ideal life conditions your subconscious mind to make the choices which will lead you in the direction you want to go.
I performed all of these meditations with varying degrees of success. The one which I practiced the most was the “Tuning in to new potentials” meditation.
How Applying Dr. Joe’s Work Changed Me
It changed me for the better. I performed the “Tuning into new potentials” meditation. Every morning I took around twenty minutes to imagine myself living the life I wanted to live. I followed the instructions to the letter; imagining myself in vivid detail and engaging the corresponding emotions; gratitude, joy and love.
After a few weeks of practicing the meditation I noticed that my inner-critic was quieter, and I was making effortlessly choices which made me more productive and effective in my work. This makes perfect sense, because we make decisions based on our emotions; if we are experiencing gratitude, joy or love, we will make decisions congruent with those emotions.
The meditation basically sets your emotional baseline where you want it to be.
I continued practicing the meditation for around half a year. I kept doing it because I noticed that on the days I did so I was more relaxed and productive.
I also followed Dr. Joe on Instagram, which is an effective (and inexpensive) way to reinforce the teachings he communicates in his books and workshops. He regularly puts out empowering content. Following him on Instagram has really cemented what I learned from his book.
But I Stopped Making Progress
However… after a while I felt like I was stuck. I wasn’t progressing anymore. The meditation I was practicing is a form of visualization, and it takes skill to visualize proficiently. If you don’t have an expert to guide you in the learning process you miss things. I knew that if I attended one of Dr. Joe’s courses I would receive the guidance and support I needed to learn the skill.
But I didn’t have the money to shell out $449 dollars for a foundational course. Let alone $1,999 dollars for a week-long course. And this doesn’t even include the cost of travel nor room and board.
And after trying one of Dr. Joe’s recorded meditations, available on his website, I was disillusioned with it. It didn’t provide me the guidance I needed.
So I just continued with the “Tuning into new potentials” meditation, hoping I would make a breakthrough on my own.
Until I stumbled upon a powerful alternative, which I talk about in the conclusion.
Critics Of Dr. Joe
There is much criticism about Joe Dispenza.
The most common criticism I’ve encountered is that he is not a physicist yet he portrays himself as being an expert in quantum physics, and that he uses technical terms to lull his students (customers) into believing everything he says. He is called a conman very often. Like in this video by YouTube user ThePowerMoves.
This critique by Morten Tolboll says that Dispenza relies on classical conditioning to get people to experience relief from their illness.
He also gets criticized for not being a neuroscientist yet talking about neuroscience as if he were an expert.
And in The Encyclopedia Of American Loons Dispenza is diagnosed as: “pretentious, delusional puddinghead who is apparently convinced that what he thinks becomes reality in virtue of him thinking it. Otherwise Dispenza doesn’t care too much about reality.”
The truth is, the only way we can form our own opinion of Dispenza’s ideas is if we study them and apply them ourselves. I applied them and they worked for me. Could it be that it was my belief in the techniques working that made them work?
Possibly. But then again, isn’t that the hole point behind Dispenza’s message? That we can create change from the inside out via our thoughts and emotions?
Your best bet is to do your own research, try what works for you and what doesn’t and come to your own conclusions. But remember that there are testimonials like this one out there:
Pros Of Applying Dr. Joe’s Work
Dr. Joe is demystifying ancient spiritual practices by applying modern science to them. He is garnering worldwide attention from both students and established institutions. Learning about his work and applying it to our life can be an empowering experience. By experiencing new, positive emotions we can rewrite the conditioned stories of our past and create new future outcomes for ourselves.
Cons Of Applying Dr. Joe’s Work
Without personal guidance it’s difficult to deepen your ability in the meditative practices. While it’s possible to learn how to practice the meditations at one of his courses, they are out of reach for those with limited financial means. And I find his digital material lacking.
Conclusion And Alternatives
I hope you have found this review thorough. I based myself on my own research and my personal experience. Applying what I learned from Dispenza has helped me, I became more focused and productive. Was it a magical experience? That depends on what you define as magical. To me, life is magical, so everything in life is magical.
I’d recommend his books to people who want to develop an understanding of how our thoughts and emotions shape our lives. I’ve never taken any of his courses, but they are popular and some people seem to get a lot out of them. Others say the retreats are cult-like.
Who’s to know?
That being said, I believe Dispenza’s digital material is lackluster and that there are better, more effective and less expensive tools available to effect inner change.
I review one of those tools here. It’s a hypnotherapy program called Reprogram.ME. The moment I started using it I stopped doing the “Tuning into new potentials” meditation because Reprogram.ME was much more effective at creating the emotions I wanted to experience. It has made me more confident, relaxed and focused! Check my review out if you’re interested!
To our wealth and success.
This is an interesting article. I have never heard of Joe Dispenza, so I have no opinion on this person one way or the other. I have heard meditation has helped people with different ailments. If he helped you that is great. I am not sure I agree with the cost to take his classes. I put my faith in the Lord Jesus Christ to get me through anything. He is free. The article is good with your pros and cons and how you broke it all down.
Hey Chris, thanks for visiting and dropping a comment! Joe Dispenza is a controversial figure, but I believe his work can and is helping people. His writing certainly helped me see several things more clearly, like how our emotions and thoughts interact and how we can break cycles of emotional reactivity and thus create new lives.
I respect your faith and admire your conviction. I believe I am on the path to accepting Jesus Christ as my Lord and saviour, too.
God bless you,
Erick
Hi
I have to leave a comment.
First to say I believe Dispenza is a scam, and every new testimonial like yours gives me more evidence.
You said yourself that after 6 months the meditation stopped working. So, I guess, you didn’t become supernatural? Hm.
The thing is, Dispenza didn’t demistife old teachings, he just took them, rearrenged them, to say, really f*cked them and made it a bunch of nonsense and he’s making millions of it, and with all that he blames the victim.
Of course meditation is good, you don’t need Dispenza to tell you that, and then to spend dollars to buy that meditation. He’s not even a doctor. How can he claim that he’s a dr, that’s false introduction, and to many ailing and really sick people. Terrible. And there aren’t that many “miracle” healings at all. The most I’ve seen are people feeling a bit better, which I partly blame meditation (when you still your mind it usually feels better) and then false promise of healing whìch gives people false hope.
Nobody’s talking about energy, that is what are those old taoist and budist, and also old christian books are talking about – there’s healing energy in the universe, you don’t create it, it’s already there, and you must find a way to connect to it. That’s the answer and not blaming the victim with bullshit things – your thoughts are the enemy. No, your thoughts are exactly the way they are because of the your energy body and all the marks that life put on you. You must heal the energy body and the physical body by moving it. And if you demand from your mind, from your expression of yourself to violently deny those thoughts, then your killing your free will. There’s a reason why your soul feels the way it feels, it’s legitimate, it’s not your minds trick. It aches for recognition, for true healing, not denying of yourself.
I really hate how he twisted all of this.
I’m sorry for this big post, I had to write it. Try Qigong.
Wishing you all well and thank you for your opinion.
Hi Lena, thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment. Your comment communicates a deep awareness of your inner experience and a strong sense of compassion. You have nothing to apologize for speaking (or writing) your mind!
It’s true, after 6 months I sensed that had stopped progressing with the meditation. However, I don’t believe that invalidates the six months of meditation I did following Dispenza’s instructions during which I did experience noticeable emotional advancement.
What I know about Dispenza’s work always converges with what I know about spiritual practices. In other words, Dispenza’s teachings complement the insights I’ve experienced through meditation. In fact, contemplating on his teachings has evolved my meditations. This is why I approve of the work he’s doing. I haven’t taken any of his courses, but his work (books, Instagram content) has served me superbly.
You write “Of course meditation is good, you don’t need Dispenza to tell you that […]”, that’s from your perspective. You and I know meditation is good for us, but what about the person who has never heard of meditation? You don’t know what you don’t know. At some point, neither you nor I knew what meditation was nor how to do it. Someone or something had to plant a seed.
I believe that’s exactly what Dispenza’s doing; planting seeds. He’s drawing attention towards practices which have been known for millennia to be good to us, but which we have forgotten. Why is it a problem that he’s making money from it? Yoga teachers make money from their teaching, so do Qigong teachers. Should they do their work for free?
Do you believe the 1.6 million people who follow Dispenza on Instagram are all being taken in by a con? What about the recognized institutions which are partnering with him to study the work he’s doing? Are they being taken in as well? And what about the other individuals who partner with him such as Gregg Braden? Is he a con-artist, too? And what about all the emotional testimonials of people who have healed by doing the work? Are they all paid actors? I find all of this hard to believe.
You also write that Dispenza blames the victim. That is false. At no point have I ever heard/read anything from Dispenza that says “It’s the victim’s fault.” What Dispenza does do is put the responsibility for healing in the hands of the victims. Only the victim can choose to heal their hurts, no one else can do it for them. You are confusing “blame” with “responsibility.”
Additionally, Dispenza holds a degree in doctor in chiropractic from Life University. So he is a doctor. Is that degree equal to one from Harvard or Johns Hopkins? No. But I take that to be a good thing, because these institutions have a vested interest in pumping out doctors who hold to the old paradigm that health can be purchased with the next pill or surgery. They perpetuate the sick care system which only bankrupts people without addressing any of the deeper causes of disease. These institutions receive millions in funding from big pharma. That’s where the real twistedness is! The institutions in charge of pursuing truth are owned by the companies which stand to benefit from having the “truth” be what they say it is.
I agree with everything you say about the universal healing energy which we can all connect to. The universe is alive and intelligent, when we connect with the self-organizing energy from which all life emanates we heal our bodies and minds. I also agree with everything you say about thoughts depending on the energy body. We experience hurtful thoughts and emotions because of the hurts we have experience in life. It’s up to us to delve within ourselves so we can heal the marks life has put on us.
At best, Dispenza is drawing attention to spiritual practices and encouraging people to believe they can heal themselves. Believing we can do things is the first step in accomplishing them!
At worst, Dispenza is making millions while providing false information; in which case the market will eventually turn on him and he will get what he deserves. Every conman gets found out eventually. But that hasn’t happened yet and Dispenza’s been doing this for many years.
Time will tell.
Thanks again for taking the time to read the article and leaving a comment, Lena. I’m open to continue this discussion if you are.
All the best,
Erick
Is Joe Dispenza a phoney? Who’s to say. What makes me skeptical of people that want to help others is when they charge an arm and a leg to do it. Ranging from $1,000-$3,500 per person with buffet style continental breakfast and not including lodging is INSANE.
Hi GL, thanks for stopping by and writing a comment! Profiting off of helping others, is it wrong or right? The medical establishment profits hugely from treating people’s diseases. Does that make the medical establishment wrong or right? It’s a tough question. I would say that it isn’t wrong to make a profit from helping others as long as you’re honest with what you’re doing and you’re actually helping. Oftentimes, the medical establishment leaves people broke and without even having helped them. Medical error is the third leading cause of death in the US.
One thing I can say about Joe Dispenza’s work; It opened me up to the idea of an intelligent energy which directs everything in our universe. He never calls the intelligent energy what it is: God. But what he teaches about aligning with this energy’s direction and how doing so heals us is accurate.
As a Christian, I pray to God in the name of Jesus Christ every day for guidance and He gives it to me. Prayer is how we communicate with God; we don’t need a $1,000-$3,500 course to do that, I agree. But Dipenza does talk about some interesting ideas nonetheless, which contradict what we’ve been conditioned to believe about our ability to heal with the help of God. I believe his work is already playing a role in leading people to God and Jesus, as it did for me. That being said, Dispenza’s work might also lead some people astray (away from Jesus and towards lies), so it is a double edged sword for sure. These days I stick to reading the Bible for my spiritual teachings.
In the end, it’s up to each of us to use our discernment when observing the world so we may come to our own conclusions. Always question!
All the best GL,
Erick
Erick,
I just want to say thank you for being an actual level-headed blogger and giving both sides. I appreciate that you took the time to research and give your very well thought out opinion.
After the couple of years we have had with the pandemic, it is very easy to see that the medical establishment doesn’t have it all figured out (not even by a mile). I appreciate Dr. Joe’s perspectives and teachings. It expands our minds past what we have been programed to think. It is also rooted in positivity and love. I for one think we need a whole lot more of that.
God is an absolute genius! The longer I live the more it becomes so apparent.
Keep up the good work!
Hi Andrea, thanks for taking the time to comment and for the compliment! Happy that my writing served you.
Andrea, I agree with you, Joe Dispenza does have some valuable teachings. I’ve learned that where he gets into trouble is when he promotes mystical experiences. I believe his teachings on the subject can lead people terribly astray. There is a dimension of existence which we cannot perceive with our senses – it is filled with intelligent beings – beings who are way more intelligent than we are. Entering this dimension is folley, you never know what you could be contacting. I know this because I’ve been there.
There is one way to get to God and that is through his Son, Jesus Christ – everything else is misleading. I didn’t always believe this. I thought I could get close to God on my own. But after years of following false teachings (and paying the price), I learned that Jesus is the only way.
Andrea, even if you’re not a Christian, I highly recommend you read the Bible. BIBLE stands for Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth.
God bless you,
Erick
Hello Erick,
I’m glad that you found this material useful. At the same time, I find Dispenza’s ideas to be untenable. Over the years as a neuropsyochoanaytic-based therapist, mindfulness teacher, and long-time student of affective neuroscience,
I have found that the cognitivist paradigm that thoughts create emotions to be wanting. Intentions, based in organismic needs and valuing are the basis of what drives higher cognitive activity such as symbolizing experiences in language, employing reason, logic, analytical activity, abstractions and higher order concepts. Yet thoughts do not matter, unless they matter, and what makes them matter is a felt-sense of meaning we experience in our affective states and emotions as we move through our environment. Our affective states and emotions are the felt sense of how we are doing in our environment. They inform us about whether our needs for safety, security, and connection are met or not, motivating us to act, with intention. Such things are so central to our survival that we have developed amazing cognitive abilities to fine tune our navigation through our environment. Predictions, associations, pattern recognition, conceptualizations are all in service of the organism and its intention to survive and thrive. And our environment is really social, it is relationships. Being a social creature has evolutionary advantages for us. Relationships, and the emotional exchanges within relationships are how our nervous systems are regulated via co-regulation with other nervous systems and thus help us dance in the synchronicity of the group. Affect and emotions are the bed rock of signals between humans as we strive for connection, the resonance and attunement that are so central to our well-being, and humanness. Look into attachment theory if you have any doubts. In any case, all of this affective and emotional energy and information, our passions, are the constant context within which our higher cognitive functions operate. Thinking is in the service of the organism, it is used by the organism, and the organism’s passions. Cognitivism, and Dispenza, have it backwards. Finally, as a mindfulness meditator, I have never found power in thought other than its alignment and service to intentions rooted in the organism. Otherwise, thoughts, and even affects and emotions often, are just thoughts and feelings…symbols that fly by and felt-senses of things than may need attention to, and expressed to the other, but may not and can just be allowed to come and go as they do. Yet it is within my awareness of all this, within my very moment of being aware, and allowing, that I find that am the peace I have hither to sought. I need to no longer seek, I bring it in my pause, my noticing, my being there as it is and allowing it to be as it is. I am my place of rest. So, my friend I have never met, I have no need to use thoughts to manifest things to an end; I just allow. Everything arises on its own. And when my intention marshalls thoughts to make things this way or that, that is ok too because I like to create.
So sorry for all the typos.
Hello Erick,
I made some corrections to the typos.
I’m glad that you found this material useful. At the same time, I find Dispenza’s ideas to be untenable. Over the years as a neuropsyochoanaytic-based therapist, mindfulness teacher, and long-time student of affective neuroscience, I have found that the cognitivist paradigm that thoughts create emotions to be wanting. Intentions, based in organismic needs and valuing are the basis of what drives higher cognitive activity such as symbolizing experiences in language, employing reason, logic, analytical activity, abstractions and higher order concepts. Yet thoughts do not matter, unless they matter, and what makes them matter is a felt-sense of meaning we experience in our affective states and emotions as we move through our environment. Our affective states and emotions are the felt sense of how we are doing in our environment. They inform us about whether our needs for safety, security, and connection are met or not, motivating us to act, with intention. Such things are so central to our survival that we have developed amazing cognitive abilities to fine tune our navigation through our environment. Predictions, associations, pattern recognition, conceptualizations are all in service of the organism and its intention to survive and thrive. And our environment is really social, it is relationships. Being a social creature has evolutionary advantages for us. Relationships, and the emotional exchanges within relationships are how our nervous systems are regulated via co-regulation with other nervous systems and thus help us dance in the synchronicity of the group. Affect and emotions are the bed rock of signals between humans as we strive for connection, the resonance and attunement that are so central to our well-being, and humanness. Look into attachment theory if you have any doubts. In any case, all of this affective and emotional energy and information, our passions, are the constant context within which our higher cognitive functions operate. Thinking is in the service of the organism, it is used by the organism, and the organism’s passions. Cognitivism, and Dispenza, have it backwards. Finally, as a mindfulness meditator, I have never found power in thought other than its alignment and service to intentions rooted in the organism. Otherwise, thoughts, and even affects and emotions often are just thoughts and feelings…symbols that fly by or felt-senses of things that may need some attention and be expressed to an important other…or not. I can just let them be allowed to come and go as they do. Yet it is within my awareness of all this, within my very moment of being aware, and allowing things to come and go, that I find that I am the peace I have hither to sought. I need to no longer seek, I bring it in my pause, my noticing, my being there as it is and allowing it to be as it is. I am my place of rest. So, my friend I have never met, I have no need to use thoughts to manifest things to an end; I just allow. Everything arises on its own. And when my intention marshals thoughts to make things this way or that, that is ok too because I like to create.
Hello Michael! Thank you for taking the time to write such a well-articulated and descriptive comment! It shows a deep understanding of the subject matter.
I agree with you on the untenability of some of Joe Dispenza’s ideas. Especially when it comes to having “mystical experiences” – which is another way of saying “engaging in occult practices” which, as a Christian, I condenm as evil.
But not all of Dispenza’s ideas are untenable or evil. For example, Dispenza writes that it is only in the present moment when we can tell what relationships are zapping us of emotional energy and so it’s only in the present when we can take action to change how we relate to our environment.
I also agree that human beings are enmeshed in a web of relationships and that affect and emotion are the prime means of atunement with other human beings. Humans were made to be in relationships – we are utterly incapable of achieving optimal health without co-regulation through our relationships with other people. Something I learned from the books “A General Theory of Love” and “Born for Love” – both of which I highly recommend.
Regarding your point on attachment theory, yes, well-attached human beings thrive. But I’ve come to believe through extensive personal experience that the prime attachment we all require, and without which we whither, is an attachment to God. According to the Bible, God made us to be in a relationship with Him. Without a relationship with God we will always feel like we’re missing something. There is a God-shaped vacuum within each of us, which can only be perfectly filled by Him. Attempting to fill it with anything else eventually leads us to perdition.
I am an intermediate meditator, having meditated around 2000 hours over the last several years. I understand what it is to abide in peace as thoughts come and go. Recently, I discovered that without a standard of truth against which our thoughts, emotions and actions are measured we are left adrift in a sea of moral relativism, wherein what’s “right” and “true” and “good” is based solely on human opinions. We can meditate all we want, but without an objective standard of morality, without God, we cannot hope to have morality. No amount of meditation can give us that standard. In other words, meditation can sharpen our awareness so we can obseve our emotions and affections, but to walk in objective righteousness we need to follow God and His Word.
When we have a relationship with God, through His Son Jesus Christ, we open ourselves to be directed not by our own emotions, but by the will of the most High. It’s here where true love emerges; genuinely self-less acts which reflect the greatest act of self-lessness ever, Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross. We can only truly love when we have loved God.
God is calling you through this comment, Michael. He wants to have a relationship with you, He’s knocking at your door. Will you open it?
Thanks again for your comment. I look forward to reading your response.
God bless you,
Erick
I enjoy reading Dr. Joe Dispenza’s books as a way to explore others’ views of life and the view of how they see the spiritual nature of our world.
I have felt really good from his meditations and I do feel motivated by his speeches, however, I do know that here something is going on behind the scenes.
Dr. Joe Dispenza keeps on telling his story of his healing journey after his incident.
It seems to be only a story with no factual data and information.
So many people who have gone through some heavy incidents, injuries, and have healed, to inspire others, they have shown a picture or two, or a document, or a medical person to talk about their healing victory. Dr. Joe Dispenza has shown nothing related to his incident. Seems to be a big successful verbal story and not a real-life healing event.
I agree he has shown that he has healed so many patients just from the meditation but one qiestion is for sure: How is he still alive????
We all know that the world is one Big government that controls everything including the health and pharmaceutical industry. There have been so many healers and alternative medicine Doctors who have healed so many patients from terminal illnesses who have ended up dead under very suspicious circumstances.
One such person was Dr. Sebi that was well known for healing people from cancer and HIV and many other terminal illnesses. Didn’t need a long time Dr. Sebi to end up in jail and to be found dead from food poisoning.
Knowing this and getting to see the success of Dr. Joe Dispenza overtaking the globe without any proof of his healing story and sharing of New-age theories to heal thousands does seem so suspicious.
I do love him and I will continue watching his teachings but I know he does belong to the group of those “MANY”.
Hello Janka. Thanks for visiting Explode Your Wealth and taking the time to leave a comment.
You bring up an excellent point about Joe Dispenza’s lack of evidence for the healing he underwent. In the documentary “Heal”, Dispenza talks about his accident. He describes how he was hit by a car while cycling and was left unable to walk due to a spinal injury, with a bleak prognosis stating he would never walk again. He describes that after months of meditating on his injury healing, he finally had a breakthrough – it happened. In the documentary, he provides no witness testimony of this. It has been a while since I last saw the documentary, but I believe he also fails to provide an image documenting his healing. It is reasonable to expect some form of verifiable evidence after such an amazing story of healing.
Your second point, on Joe Dipenza still being alive after years of successfully helping people heal is also good. I have wondered the same myself. There are plenty of cases of western doctors diverging from western medical dogma in order to actually heal their patients, only for their careers to be ruined, their names slandered and their safety threatened, or worse. Modern medicine is a business, after all; it needs repeat customers in order to exist.
His promotion of “mystical experiences” and the individual as being master of his/her reality smacks of New Age mysticism, which I have learned to steer away from.
All in all, some of Dispenza’s ideas are worthwhile, but for genuine salvation in this life and the next, which is eternal, the gospel of Jesus Christ is the only way.
Thanks again for visiting Explode Your Wealth, Janka.
God bless you,
Erick