DA Cllr Vernon Pillay of KwaDukuza writes:
Self-help books like 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen Covey), The Purpose Driven Life (Rick Warren), Self-Matters (Dr Phil) and Unlimited Power (Anthony Robbins) came at time from the late 80s to the 2000s when this genre was in its infancy.
The content was mostly available at a library only (ebooks was a no show in South Africa at the time).
The books used a psychological approach and appealed to the person without the information overload available via the smartphone internet at the time.
The evolving characteristic of this genre may also be the devolving phenomenon growing parallel to each other.
We have a lot of concepts speaking to quantum energy in the consciousness sense of mantras stemming from the latest books, that will attract wealth, love and prosperity.
The danger of this lies in forgetting that GOD is omnipresent and omnipotent.
Human beings manifesting desires successfully due to reading “The Secret” for example, must also subdue the ego when they may feel god-like.
Religion must overshadow the resulting narcissism via the truisms of humility, forbearance and knowing there is a Supreme Being.
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