Posted on 09/02/2017 3:05:56 PM PDT by TBP
Louise Hay, a self-help guru and AIDS advocate whose book, “You Can Heal Your Life,” preached the power of love and affirmation, sold tens of millions of copies and made her a leading voice of the New Age movement in the 1980s, died — or “transitioned” — on Aug. 30 at her home in San Diego. She was 90.
Hay House, the publishing company she founded in 1987, confirmed her death but did not disclose the cause.
Described in a 2008 New York Times profile as “the queen of the New Age,” Ms. Hay was a child-abuse victim who had dropped out of high school, given a baby up for adoption, worked as a model and divorced an international-trade expert by the time she discovered “the power of positive thinking” in her 40s.
She read the works of Norman Vincent Peale and early 20th-century mystics, attended the Church of Religious Science in Manhattan, and studied with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the onetime guru to the Beatles, at his “Vedic city” in Iowa.
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Nice that she would advocate the spread of AIDS? Was she homophilic or what?
Hillary has a new book.
Ignorance is bliss, you must have an overabundance. Louis Hay ministered to those in need.
She just found a “niche”...
All sickness was of the “mind.”
>>All sickness was of the “mind.”<<
And caused by parents.
She made a fortune off of twaddle like “affirmations.”
Yep. She helped thousands in need at a really tough time.
Then went on to preach (informally) what is really a lot of the can-do, self-help, American gospel.
You don’t have to buy into every angel-channeling author that her company published to realize that she made a positive difference for many, many people.
Hay House is a powerhouse.
Louise Hay fleeced those in need. Maybe that is “ministering” in your lexicon, but she was a fraud and a quack.
The little engine that could. I think I can. I think I can.
She advocated AIDS? Strange.....
What an incredible woman. Our world is much richer for her.
RIP.
Sure sounds like sloppy verbiage to me. AIDS-sufferer advocate, I take it.
I do wag a finger a little at Christendom about this. It mostly found itself unprepared to address Jesus’ love to unorthodox audiences. That’s probably a large part of why she went so eclectic in her spiritual searches. When a guru knows more about the love of God than churches do, that means churches have sunk pretty jolly low.
Yes, it is.
Fleeced? She has helped a lot of people through her groups, her books, and her other work.
If you’re going to charge her with fleecing people, you’ll need to provide evidence.
WHO?
So, she ministered to homos that freely vectored HIV through the fecal-oral and anal route? HIV Is easily stopped from spreading by simple changes in behavior. I hope she had the sense to address the male queer obsession with human waste.
When a guru knows more about the love of God than churches do, that means churches have sunk pretty jolly low.””
Perhaps some of us are more than a little skeptical of the subject on getting rich with quackery. Remember the Hale Bopp guru that led the cult in Ca to their suicide pact? Only one of many.
And yet the existence of quacks doesn’t keep sensible people from looking for a doctor when they have become ill.
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