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...meet you. But this happens fifty times a day, and I just can't come through on every one, see? I mean, I'm sorry. I really am. Maybe I'll run into you and it will be love at first sight. Let's put our money on that, OK?" And he'd laugh and say OK and God would I feel guilty...
Much of the book's success is due to its remarkable popularity among religious groups. The apparent reason: I'm OK reveals Harris-a practicing Presbyterian - as a cross between Norman Vincent Peale and Billy Graham. A cheerful mass evangelist, he preaches a gospel of original sin and carries, as he himself puts it, a "message of hope" to an ever increasing flock of converts. "We simply cannot argue with the endemic 'cussedness' of man," he says, in a characteristic mixture of everyday and evangelical language...
...truth" of transactional analysis can win the battle against neurosis. "You have to have absolute faith that T.A. is true; otherwise you'll lose," Harris once told a group he was leading. Speaking more than half seriously, he told one patient who had not read I'm OK - You're OK that "the only thing standing between you and a cure is my book." The book itself goes so far as to suggest that it may be able to save man and civilization from extinction. Harris writes: "We trust it may be a volume of Hope...
Eugene Carson Blake, former general secretary of the World Council of Churches, finds the values and assumptions of I'm OK to be "basically Christian ideas," and an increasing number of mainline Protestant denominations are using T.A. for individual and group counseling. Educators are trying it, too. Last spring Harris and his staff taught 1,000 teachers at the N.E.A. convention in Portland, Ore., how to create "the OK classroom." Business firms (General Foods and Digital Equipment Corp., among others) have experimented with the method, and so have NASA, the Civil Service Commission and the U.S. Naval depot...