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1. […] Andrew Johnson’s Web Publishing Blog - The Secret/The Law of Attraction Scam […]

   Pingback by Today is that Day » Blog Archive » Law of Attraction Naysayers and Rampant Capitalism — February 23, 2007 @ 10:37 am

2. This is actually the first time I’ve heard of this movie/book — however I certainly agree with what you’ve said. Media like this doesn’t really help people at all it simply makes them feel better. While you would usually think that’s good, in the end it’s going to backfire and the people aren’t going to get anywhere.

   Comment by Ron Johnson — February 23, 2007 @ 12:29 pm

3. Ah, Andrew.

   Such a negative opinion of something you truly know nothing about. Hopefully, you don’t pass on this level of ‘knowledge’ in the rest of your blog articles.

   This ’secret’ is ancient knowledge. It is, simply, ‘you become what you think about’. It’s not just ‘happy thoughts’, although that can drive the process faster.

   It’s knowing what you want, believing that what you want will happen, watching and waiting for the opportunities that will show up, and acting on those opportunities–all the while with a determination that you will have what you want.

   Does that sound like hocus-pocus? Hardly. It’s the very thing you described yourself. Hard work. But read biographies of the great men, read books by people who have studied them, like Napoleon Hill. You’ll find that they’ve all applied the same basic principle, call it what you will.

   Comment by Steve Johnson — February 23, 2007 @ 4:39 pm

4. Steve, what is hocus pocus is the marketing behind The Secret. “You become what you think about” is wrong. “You become what you think about if you are willing to put in the *work* to get there” is reality. Hard work isn’t a selling point. People want to believe in magical wands.

   Thats why more people will happily pay $500 to join a MLM that promises to make them $5000 a month (but makes them nothing) instead of working their ass off for 3 years for pennies to become a self-made millionaire.

   Comment by Andrew — February 23, 2007 @ 7:43 pm

5. Secret
   it worked for me $20,000.00 plus my eye operation canceled,so much benifit in 6 mo.but there are others.
   write shermsteve@gmail.
   steve

   Comment by steve sherman — February 23, 2007 @ 10:36 pm

6. Andrew, when ‘you become what you think about’ you DO do the work for it, and although it doesn’t have to be ‘hard’, it does have to be determined.

   Yes, people want to believe in magic wands. When they find out the magic wand takes a little effort, they jump off the wagon. This kind of thinking is not for the dreamer, but the determined person, the one who will do what it takes. That’s the mentality that’s developed when you understand ‘the secret’.

   There are so many people who believe, because they’ve been taught by people who know no better, that they’re ’stuck’. Stuck where they are, stuck with who they are and how they are. If it takes a little marketing hocus-pocus to wake these people up to the possibilities, then I’m all for it. I don’t care. What’s $30? I spend more than that on a good dinner.

   I encourage you to expand your view by reading some of the materials that you can find on this subject. You don’t have to believe them or apply what’s in them, of course. But I think you’ll find, if you look back at your past successes and failures, that what you did in each case conforms to the basic principles that are taught.

   We don’t need to get all new-agey, like Esther Hicks and others. Who cares HOW it works, just that it does? Who cares WHY it works, just that it DOES work when you carry the right mindset and do what needs to be done?

   It works for me. I don’t know why or really how, nor do I care, nor am I an expert at it. I do know, from observation, that when I accomplish a thing, it’s because I’ve followed the principles whether by accident or design. When I don’t accomplish something I want, I can also look back and see the mistakes I made and learn from them. That is valuable knowledge and can only help you attain greater heights in whatever endeavour you wish to apply yourself.

   Comment by Steve Johnson — February 24, 2007 @ 12:17 am

7. I’ve seen more than enough for me to even consider touching their books or videos ever again. Quite frankly, I wouldn’t have the time anyways.

   Yes, if you want to accomplish something, focusing on it not working isn’t going to help you at all in accomplishing it — thats common sense. Some of the basic principles of “The Law of Attraction” are correct.

   Everything else, and the people surrounded with the video, reek of snake oil. Metaphysician? Feng shui specialist? How about listening to some people who have actually achieved something in their lives other than being self-proclaimed gurus? And no, I don’t mean reading out of context quotes (like those filling the video.)

   Comment by Andrew — February 24, 2007 @ 1:22 am

8. I think you are missing the point here Andrew, nobody is saying that by dreaming and doing nothing will cause the thing you dream to manifest out of thin air.

   The principle is to believe in yourself. As long as you BELIEVE you can be/get who/what you want to be/get, you can be it.

   Most people look at those great men and women that achieved great things with envy, but not at the slightest moment they even believe they can do the same.

   Most people think others can do great things, but not themselves. That is called Law of Attraction, if you believe you suck, then that is really who you are, suck!

   To do great things one must believe in oneself, therefore feeling good all the time (also called positive vibration), will greatly help you towards achieving your goals. If you feel good, there will be less chance for you to do bad things. I give you one example, lets say you spouse/kids are in bad mood, but you consciously keeping yourself in positive vibration (good mood), what will be your reaction? You might smile, you might prepare a cup of tea/coffee to your spouse, the good things. This ’small things’ will lead to better mood to everybody, and indirectly to more prosperous and productive you!

   Think what might happen if you are also in bad mood?, you might just ignore her and watch the tv! or stay glued to your computer, or even nastier things might happened. Those will lead to more bad things!

   That is why those so called ‘gurus’ are touting everyone to feel good, believe in oneself, gratitude, etc. Like attracts like! The rewards are enormous!

   If you want to know more, feel free to email me at rosdikasim gmail.

   Cheers, have a wonderfull day!

   Comment by Rosdi — February 24, 2007 @ 11:28 pm

9. Well, this is fine state of affairs.
   At least some people are waking Up!
   The movie the Secret and the Bo-peep PCers, afraid to “tell it like is” are at least opening some dialogue.
   Hill’s Chapter 2 lays out the absolute Blueprint for Success.
   I know it Works, implemented it 47 years ago as a College freshman, had 2 Profs on my payroll by my senior year.
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   Comment by Chuck Bartok — February 25, 2007 @ 1:11 pm

10. this ancient knowledge led to me needing eye surgery - i kept looking for opportunities and went blind in the process. my dog is typing this message but has been diagnosed with diabetes so i don’t know if i’ll be able to respond to any more comments. i hate this secret!

    Comment by jened — February 25, 2007 @ 10:49 pm

11. You are exactly right. And you will get exactly what you think you will get. Good for you.

    Now for you others, you can have anything you want. Just ask for it. Sure you have to work hard, but that does not mean you can do anything you want to do. Put a thought out there and see what happens. I see it on a daily basis.

    “Whether you think you can, or think you can’t, you are right.” - Henry Ford

    Comment by Seif — February 27, 2007 @ 8:42 pm

12. […] A search on Google for the term “law of attraction” brought back well over 2 million websites, although it also won’t take you long to find plenty of people who who think it’s all a bunch of nonsense. Check here, here, and here if you would like some examples. […]

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13. The information in The Secret is nothing new. It’s been around for thousands of years. It’s in the bible!
    The part that most people have a problem with is the concept that WE can create the circumstances of our lives with our thoughts, words and feelings. Religions have kept everyone believing that they are “less than” (sinners) and whatever happens to them must be “God’s Will”. If you are “BAD” then you get punished and if good we get rewarded (by God) God isn’t Santa people!! God’s will for us is for us to be joyful and at peace and everything we want right here and now. Not wait until we fly up to this place we call “heaven”. We create our own heaven and hell every minute of every day. If you believe something will take “hard work” then it will. If you believe it will be fun and effortless then the subconscious mind will go after those circumstances, the right people etc. to you to make that happen in a way YOU have no control over. You ask for what you want, you believe that it has already been given to you by FEELING that feeling of what it feels like to already have it and you DETACH from the HOW it will come to you. If it’s for your highest and greatest good then it will. If not, then you will receive it’s equivalant or better. Yes, if you are asking for a new job opportunity you still send out your resume and and go on interviews. Yes, you take the ACTION steps towards what you have asked for. It’s not hocus-pocus or magic. The Law of Attraction is a spiritual law just like gravity is a scientific law. Like thoughts and feelings attracts it’s like. So you create the thoughts connected to what you want, you attach a positive FEELING to it, You ask and you LET IT GO.

    Personally, I’ve been teaching The Laws of Attraction for over 20 years. It’s been out there. Now this movie comes out and it’s all the rage. Part of me is happy that it’s finanaly reach the general public. I guess it’s time has come as we all grow and expand spiritually.
    I’m kind of “Secreted-Out” myself at this point too. Everyone who teaches ANYTHING is finding a way to jump on the bandwagon by attaching The Secret to what they are talking about or selling. The movie aside, if you have any doubts about the concepts of LOA, please take some time to check out other information about The Law of Attraction. At least then you can make an educated decision about it.

    Rev. Joan L. King
    Dallas, Texas

    Comment by JOAN — February 28, 2007 @ 12:42 pm

14. things…

    1. If I had to sum the entire thing up, it’s that the Law of Attraction
    is all about alignment. You’ve got to do the “work” if you want to
    bring something info your life.

    This is where I think people mess up, which gives the entire thing the
    “MLM/Amway” kind of vibe. You can’t just sit around eating junk food
    and watching reruns and expect to live on the beach…regardless of what
    the infomercials say.

    People like Joe Vitale are out working. Bob Proctor is out working.
    James Ray is out working.

    2. I found a FREE book (yes, FREE) that helped me figure out all of
    this. http://www.receivethebook.com/ has it and it’s well worth the read.

    And like I said, it’s FREE. So you can’t argue that the guy is trying
    to take advantage of people looking for a “magic pill” or whatever else
    I’ve been hearing over the last 2-3 weeks since this thing hit Oprah.

    http://www.receivethebook.com/

    Comment by tory — March 7, 2007 @ 1:24 pm

15. […] I’d be lieing if I said I did not enjoy making fun of The Secret two weeks ago. It got me a backlink on ABCNews.com besides attracting some really wacky comments (e.g. I avoided laser eye surgery and healed my own vision) […]

    Pingback by » The Secret / The Law of Attraction Affiliate Program — MLM Pyramid Scheme? - Web Publishing Blog — March 8, 2007 @ 12:04 am

16. Well, I’ll tell you something. As a teenager, I had a perpetually bad attitude. Nothing ever good seemed to happen (despite having an ideal nuclear family, really), so why should I have any kind of positive attitude.

    My father, who was a no-nonsense newspaper editor, told me something. He told me about “The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy.” If you believe you’ll fail, you will, and vice-versa. It’s not magic, it’s not a secret to cost you any money, and it simply *is*. It doesn’t mean there’s no work involved, but if you’re true to yourself, you’ll take pride in what you do, and excel. You may not be rich, but you might be happy.

    Comment by steelcaress — March 8, 2007 @ 6:51 am

17. Two things…

    1. If I had to sum the entire thing up, it’s that the Law of Attraction
    is all about alignment. You’ve got to do the “work” if you want to
    bring something info your life.

    This is where I think people mess up, which gives the entire thing the
    “MLM/Amway” kind of vibe. You can’t just sit around eating junk food
    and watching reruns and expect to live on the beach…regardless of what
    the infomercials say.

    People like Joe Vitale are out working. Bob Proctor is out working.
    James Ray is out working.

    2. I found a FREE book (yes, FREE) that helped me figure out all of
    this. http://www.receivethebook.com/ has it and it’s well worth the read.

    And like I said, it’s FREE. So you can’t argue that the guy is trying
    to take advantage of people looking for a “magic pill” or whatever else
    I’ve been hearing over the last 2-3 weeks since this thing hit Oprah.

    http://www.receivethebook.com/

    Comment by Mr. Robbert — March 8, 2007 @ 11:55 pm

18. So sad, so sad. That’s why we are where we are today because of naysayers like you. Obviosuly you don’t get it and that is a shame. You must be a miserable person and it works for you.

    Comment by tammy — March 9, 2007 @ 8:09 pm

19. OH MY GOD! Will you people STFU already???

    THE SECRET is a SCAM. It is marvelous Bullshit and I wish I had thought of it first because anyone gullible enough to think dropping 30 bucks on a DVD that tells you something so obvious will change their lives (which apparrently, until now have not been good…of course through everyone’s fault but their own) deserves to have thier money stolen.

    OF COURSE if you don’t belive in what you are doing, you will not succeed.

    Love of your work makes it easy even if from the outside it seems hard. A belief that you are going to succeed drives you towards almost any goal and that belief is needed to generate the vast amounts of energy needed to see any project to a successful end.

    Thinking positive is essential to both motivate yourself and anyone esle involved in your project. constant bitching and moaning instead of quick resolution of problems leads to failure.

    There… “the secret” in a nutshell. Anyone who read this owes me 30 bucks!

    Comment by Fed Up — March 12, 2007 @ 11:26 am

20. Great info.

    I watched the Secret DVD a few months ago and got another book on Law of Attraction,
    but it didn’t really start happening for me until I wrote down my intentions. I found that to be
    VERY powerful.

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0975436171/ is a book I just got, which makes
    planning out your Law of Attraction goals easy. Just fill in the blanks and you’ve got a road
    map to follow. Has been working well so far.

    Comment by MAT — March 13, 2007 @ 8:40 am

21. after reading the book and whatching the movie I thought, “I could win the lotto if I just ask, believe, receive.” What was I thinking, its like some kinda of twilight zone I was in, I felt as if it might actually happen. I hope that others wont be as gullible.

    Comment by Sara — March 15, 2007 @ 9:38 am

22. I have reservations about the way the law of attraction is currently being promoted as the best thing since sliced bread and for very good reasons. It takes a lot more than just thinking about this stuff to make it happen. I have worked with the law of attraction quite extensively over the years as a practicing 1st Degree Wiccan, something that I would not have shared at one time for fear of being burnt at the stake. Sometimes it works beautifully, at other times it falls flat on its face because there are so many more elements involved.

    I no longer practise Wicca, I kind of grew out of it and went on to study Reiki and Kundalini Maha Yoga as well as training as a stress therapist and lifestyle coach. Recently a friend sent me a mail with a very long document regarding the law of attraction in relation to the film the Secret. I questioned it heavily. One part of this stated quite clearly that we attract everything to us by our own thinking and so on. It then went on to state that if we are attacked in the street we are to blame because we drew it towards us. In itself some of us and I stress some of us can see the logic in that. However having worked extensively with mental health clients and in particular those with depression who have a tendency to home in on the negative and catastrophize events, they pick this up and run with it without taking the positive message on board. This is more common than people actually think. We then get people who go with the mindset that they are to blame for everything that has befallen them. Dishing this out to all and sundry can do more harm than good. Is this self empowering? No it is exactly the opposite! I questioned the article with my friend on these grounds and suggested that in some cases the law of attraction given out as such was not always a good idea and that we needed to be responsible when and who we shared this with. He did not agree.

    The common feeling at the moment from many who have seen ‘the Secret’ is that this information should be made available to everyone because it has been kept a secret for far too long. Interestingly it is and always has been available from some of us who have the good sense to know when and how to give this information out. When the student is ready the teacher will appear. There is a responsibility that comes with that.

    What I am seeing right now is another money making scheme from those who come across as having some previously unforetold knowledge that will change mankind. I hate to burst their bubble but its not going to happen. This information is not new and is not a secret, it was passed down in the way it was by many of us for very good reasons and most people who know this stuff don’t charge. That’s right its free, we make no money off a film, a book, a DVD or anything else because we don’t feel we need to.

    Just to put this into perspective regarding myself. In 1994 I hit rock bottom and was diagnosed with severe ME and was 80% disabled and spent most of my time in bed. After two years virtually confined to bed I got myself out of it. Yes I used the law of attraction to manifest what I wanted but I also used a lot of other things, cognitive therapy, self applied from books, chi kung, meditation, ultimately it was self belief and perseverance. However if things were so simple and the law of attraction really was the bees knees that its made out to be by now I would have a different life than the one I have. Things really are not that simple. Yes I did all the powerful visualisations and they can work and do work but not without effort and action in other areas of your life and a major reality check!

    We all want to think that there is some power greater than ourselves that will pick us up and make everything ok. We all want to believe that there is something greater than ourselves. There is, it is ourselves, but only when we have grown up enough to let go of the magical thinking and the great mother/father figure and take real responsibility for ourselves and our lives. Until then I guess films like the Secret will continue to dish out stuff that are only a small piece in the great web of life and will make a lot of money off it to boot! I call it a lack of professionalism but then maybe that’s my own issue!

    Kind Regards
    Denise Robson

    Comment by Denise Robson — March 16, 2007 @ 7:09 am

23. Hmm… doesn’t work eh? I have not learned enough about it yet (like to look at both sides of the issues). However, I do see from the posts that even though Andrew doesn’t “believe”, and thinks it is total “BS”, it sures looks like it has worked for him, albeit unconciously.
    To quote: “Ask, Believe, Receive.”
    1. He asked himself, “What do I think of The Secret?”
    2. He formed his belief and an action plan to promote it (posting it on this blog). NOw there seems to be a serious discussion going on for about a month. How many hits does that translate to?
    3. He recieved the benefits - a #1 ranking in Google out of 1.2 Million listings for “The Secret DVD movie Scam”. I am sure that while so many people are reading through these posts, they will see the ads and services listed here.

    I may have to find out more about this DVD movie. Looks like the concept works pretty well and yes, I also have a website, and listed it.

    I asked, “What would happen if I posted a comment? I believe I might get some benefit from it. Now I shall wait to see if I recieve anything from it. If my daily hits go through the roof, I will comeback and update you all.

    - BillD

    Comment by Beale — March 16, 2007 @ 2:14 pm

24. Oh, pardon the grammer, this is my first post to a blog and the site is
    http://livinghealthy.limupro.com

    Beale

    Comment by Beale — March 16, 2007 @ 2:23 pm

25. hmmmm….sounds like a bunch of scientology crap

    Comment by shawn — March 17, 2007 @ 12:43 pm

26. ever heard of noveau tech society? same bullsh*t. and the founders of noveau tech are scientologists

    Comment by shawn — March 17, 2007 @ 12:45 pm

27. The Secret is Satanic. It carries Satan’s message of “do what thou wilt” and “you can be as gods”. What if someone wishes for that $25,000 windfall and the universe delivers it to you by killing your parents and thus you get an inheritance? Who’s to say that people practicing this “secret” aren’t delivering evil upon others for their good forune?

    Comment by Mike — March 17, 2007 @ 1:06 pm

28. I totally agree it is satanic. Although, you can make things happen God is our ultimate source. God is our healer, deliver, and everything you need. If you could do everything on your own, where’s the need for God? I guess you wouldn’t need him. Don’t be fooled and please don’t sell your souls.

    P.s
    It is proven fact that people who pray heal faster check your medical journals.

    Comment by nik — March 17, 2007 @ 11:04 pm

29. There is a lot of discussion on the MLM course offered by the teachers featured on “The Secret” I have been in financial services for over 25 years. Due diligence is a big part of financial services. The Secret is brilliant marketing and I give them a lot of credit for their marketing skills. The problem with the MLM plan is in the marketing plan. See info below. It is easy to find info by googling mlm pyramid. The marketing plan focuses on recruiting and not product sales. That is where the problem lies. Over the years I have seen many good people arrested, fined and even jailed due to ignorance, not malice.

    Here is my reasoning

    Legitimate multi-level-marketing plans are a way to sell real goods or services through distributors. These plans usually show that if you sign up to be a distributor, you will receive commissions - not only on your sales of the plan’s goods or services, but also on the sales of the people you recruit to join the distributors. One of the keys is that there are actually tangible products and services moving through the network, rather than just the building of the network or “building mailing lists” or “sending recipes” or “sending jokes,” etc., such as chain letters usually have you do.

    Pyramid schemes have a similar structure, but a completely different focus. They concentrate on the commissions you could earn just for recruiting new distributors, and generally ignore the marketing and selling of products or services. The Federal Trade Commission requires a minimum of 10 non-distributor customers per month to be serviced by each distributor after a certain period - without these customers, it is an illegal pyramid.

    John

    Comment by John — March 18, 2007 @ 1:54 pm

30. I watched the movie on Google for free before it got pulled away and it blew me away. It put everything in perspective for me. Now, I did a search on the “Secret” seminar and their pyramid-like investment opportunity and I feel like a moron.

    Comment by Rick — March 18, 2007 @ 4:34 pm

31. I agree… this is a bunch of nothingness. Another scam to suck the life out of your pocketbook. Hard work, common sense and edcucation is the keys to success. I can think positive about a million dollars but I’m not going to receive a check in the mail for it - Crazy Oprah….shut up!!!

    Comment by Carmen Ravenall — March 19, 2007 @ 7:15 am

32. I have to agree with you Andrew. If you want to be successful in life then you have to do something about it. You can dream and think about all the great things you want in life, but if you don’t have the motivation to get off your rear and get to work then it’s not going to happen. I also agree with Carmen, it’s all about hard, work, common sense and keeping a close eye on your checkbook - otherwise you’ll end up broke trying to make yourself happy…

    Comment by Valerie — March 19, 2007 @ 10:48 am

33. I am one of those who actually bit the hook and bought the DVD (extended edition). However, I keep wondering, where in the world “the movie” is! I go to the main menu and hit “Reveal the Secret” and it takes me to exactly where hitting “Secret Chapters” takes me, that is, Title 5, Chapter 1 and then the only “movie” I’m able to see is these skillful speakers talking one after another about “The Secret”. But WHERE is THE MOVIE?! Is this probably a metaphor of MLM where they keep talking about “something”, “the product”, but you never actually get to see “the product”?
    Has anybody had the same experience playing the DVD?
    Not to mention, that in fact there’s nothing new or anything secret here…!

    Comment by Gene — March 19, 2007 @ 12:53 pm

34. Ah, if only the tsunami victims in Indonesia had known … the Secret! If only the workers and firefighters on 9/11 had known … the Secret! If only the victims of the Holocaust had known … the Secret!
    Gosh, who knew all those bad things that happened to them - drowning, immolation, torture - were their own fault?
    Hope the sarcasm is coming through here. What a wonderful “philosophy,” - you don’t have to do any work to understand its simplistic tenets, and you get to feel smug when bad things happen to other people. An added bonus: you don’t need to help them, cuz they should just “think good thoughts.” Hey - jet fuel only burns if you think it does, right?

    Comment by Mex — March 20, 2007 @ 3:37 pm

35. As I continue to study the law of attraction (not driven from the book The Secret) I often wonder how it is that all people do not understand this? Thanks for your site, I guess I now see that some people simply rebuke things out of ignorance, or for the sake of rebuking.

    I know many people who have worked hard their whole life and have very little to show for it. Just ask those people who pave the roads you drive on every day.

    Then again, I know people like Paris Hilton who have done absolutely nothing and have everything. I guess it is all chance though. Everything is chance. It is chance that I hap by this obscure infrequently visited website.

    But oddly enough, I did happen to think “I will see what Google has to say about The Secret” and made it here. So you decide: my thoughts brought me here, or hard work?

    Life is about perception. Go back to sleep if you are going to deny that. A person in poverty would love to have that old pair of pants you throw away. Perception is nothing more than thought and feelings. Thoughts are gauged by feelings and thus create the reality you live in.

    I have seen much smarter people than the person who wrote the blog (not an attack; hopefully you know there are people smarter than you) working for $10 an hour. That is where their thoughts place them. Not chance, not will and sure as hell not a lack of schooling or the sort.

    Chance may make the lottery ticket win, in your eyes, but thoughts make the person buy it.

    Control your thoughts, control your world. No scam.

    Comment by Jeremy Clifton — March 21, 2007 @ 1:31 pm

36. A friend of mine turned me onto this ‘THE SECRET’ and after viewing the disc I was really angry at how absolutely silly people can be looking for a free ride in life. This movie is a flashy hollywood filmed P.R. for one of the oldest get rich quick schemes imaginable. I went to the book store and saw 19 different book titles hocking the same exact thing. I at one time followed the NAME IT AND CLAIM IT,POSITIVE CONFESSION MINISTRIES based on FAITH to be prosperous materially as well as spiritually. This was taught from the bible using a number of verses to solidify this teaching. I believed in and sat back waiting and claiming jobs, a home and relationships. After a few years of this, This FAITH(Hebrews 11:1) believing was not work for me materially. It was spiritually however. This (faith is being sure of what we hope for…)even though we don’t physically have it, was a waste of time. Until I understood (JAMES 2:20)years later.’Faith without work or effort affords you nothing.’ I began by moving to Los Angeles, Got 2 fulltime jobs, got a car after a month, a nice apartment, began auditioning and started getting singing gigs. Met and dated a former model,singer,actress I had met at one of those singing gigs. All because I stepped out of my previous situation and put myself in a place where i could accomplish my wants. I put faith into action. What good is having faith that you will get what you wish for unless you are willing to do whatever it takes to acquire it. Put forth some sort of effort to attain your desires and it may come to you.
    If there is something we want out of life we have to be in the position or find a way to get in a position to aquire our desires. Sitting on our butts waiting for some Jenie to drop it in our laps will only happen out of blind luck or being in the right place at the right time. You want a big house in the hamptons. Go to the Hamptons and buy the house. If you can’t get there because you are poor living on a pig farm in the former Soviet Union, hitch a ride on a train out of there, sneak over the border, find a job in Greece or wherever, sweeping floors until you get enough money for a bus ride to a freightor across the Atlantic to an american port. After you get here find a job doing whatever to make enough money to pay for a bed or an apartment. After awhile or so go to school studying plastic surgery. After 6-8 years of school, internship, practice, your money will come in big time and you can get that house in the Hamptons…Or you can just marry someone who already has a home there.
    Not every singer will be an AMERICAN IDOL, Not every candidate will be President. Not every man will date Beonce Knowles or Scarlett. A woman who has had a historectomy cannot get pregnant no matter how positive she is or how much faith she has.(I know of a case like this)
    These are extreme examples I know, but this had to be said to display how rediculous this “THE SECRET” is. Material and social desires as well as positive thinking are wonderful, but 9 times out of 10 you will have to be in or get in a position for all your desires to manifest. The ATTRACTION is you making it happen.

    Comment by Rob Wilson — March 22, 2007 @ 9:28 pm

37. Well i guess much of what i would have wanted to say about this pointless waste of 91 minutes of my life has been already reiterated several times here, althought i still would like to throw in my two cents.

    I learnt about this book almost by mistake, i was browsing for jobs on Craigslist this morning and i found that those clowns are actually looking for some “motivated” sales people to promote the book. Now this is the funny bit, my wife comes home and tells me that a coworker lent to her a dvd that her collegue says “changed her life”… of course my wife wasn’t too surprised when she got the reaction that she got after i learnt the title of the dvd!!

    She knows how anal i am about digging into things and how much i love to search for MLM and related information primarily for self amusement… based on this, such nonsense should have just glided over me in favor of those other amusing 419 emails (i received 13 messages only today, a record!!), but it didn’t and here is why:

    This dvd and presumably the book (hell, no i didn’t read it, i won’t spend a cent for that trash), is not only a scam, but an insult to all the people who have dreams, goals and real life plans. I came to the US more than a year ago to be with my wife and as soon as i got here i realized my wife had been literally robbed of tens of thousands of dollars from a fraud. I won’t get into detail but she was in deep and i, as the husband i was too, at least morally. That’s one of those times when you learn that “wishing upon a star” DOESN’T DO SQUAT.

    We sat together, and we put thoughts together. there was mental anguish and financial hurdles to be dealt with. First thing we did was to go out and buy a whiteboard and attached it on the fridge, there we listed all the steps we needed to go through in order to stop the collector calls, how to pay off debts, how to deal with family and friends with a straight face again. I told my wife “Before 6 months we are out of debt”.

    One afternoon we decided to take our chances and see Superman Returnes… big disappointment, that guy is such a wimp! But i digress… for some reason we parked the car in one of those free parkings… you know the ones i mean. Yeah, those. We went to the movies, nice FX, nice performance by Kevin Spacey, everything else sucked. We got back to the parking lot and WOW! the car is gone.

    The only cars in the parking lot belonged to a bunch of hispanic guys playing some loud rap-hip-hop-whatever and wearing colors i can’t remember. No other cars in sight, i wonder why.

    Guess what? We got 4400 dollars out of the car from the insurance. I still feel like they ripped us off but still we realized that it was a start towards recovery: the same night we got the money from the insurance we put it all towards the credit card debts and collections, and everything else was pretty much friends and family who are being paid off still but at least the credit report is sort of healthy again.

    I came here and there was literally no furniture in the house, we put our heads together and we got motivation… and now we have a full and alive beautiful little apartment, we can pay rent every month and afford comcast subscription (basic package of course… but who needs all the of the other crap?) two computers (one of which a laptop) and peace of mind!

    It was all motivation, planning and HARD WORK.

    Don’t give your money to those people. Buy a whiteboard instead and put there all your wishes. If you have the will you are the one who will make them true. If you are willing to work for them, that is.

    There, my two cents.

    Comment by Fabio — March 23, 2007 @ 1:27 am

38. Wow! This blog has been real funny bone tickler.

    I am a New Thought minister, have been for many years. I have heard all the mumbo jumbo from the New Agers, the Christian Right, the Atheists, so-called Quantum Believers, the JWs, Mormons, Krishnas and all the rest. Why? New Thought is an open philosophy that listens (get that word) to all perspectives and points of view, but buys into none of them without deep scrutiny. And few are worth contemplating further.

    Now, mind you, there are a lot of folks who call themselves New Thoughters that have gotten into this whole Secret thing. They have come to accept that the Law of Attraction is a real universal law like, say, the law of gravity, or the laws of thermodynamics. Wrong. The Law of Attraction is strictly, repeat STRICTLY a spiritual concept. Neither proveable nor unproveable in the scientific sense. Hence, non-scientific. Once we get past that, drop the science aspect, and move back into the spiritual realm, then we can discuss this so-called law, like the Law of Moses and such.

    So, with that out of the way, a word about the Law of Attraction. It is not a law in the strictest sense but rather, a possibility. Everything that will ever be in the universe is mostlikely already here in one form or another. Your mind cannot make new stuff. It can recognize new stuff but it cannot create new stuff from nothing. When, as has been stated on many different occasions in this blog, you change your thinking and actions, your world will change. But doing that is not so simple. Why? Habitual patterns of thinking i.e. fear, anger, revenge, self-pity, and acting out get in the way. Think those habits are easy to break? Hardly. That’s why those who say all you have to do is ask, believe,then have don’t realize the intensity in changing even one opinion, let alone a lifetime of thinking habits.

    New Thought stresses the essentialness of changing the mind in order to change your world, your inner world first. And it lays down many principles, suggestions, even rules that can assist in that process. But, it is not easy. Simple, yes. Easy, an unequivocal no.

    Don’t underestimate the power of the mind to stop you at every turn!

    For those who want to find out more about this New Thought journey, visit your local Religious Science, Unity, or Divine Science church or center. No one will try to convert you to anything. We’re here to assist. You’ll make your own decisions.

    Or email me at RichardSpeaks@minister.com

    PS There actually is a powerful secret, not so secret, that can get you started on a new and incredible journey. That secret is the power in changing your language, how you talk to yourself and the world. Watch your words. You’re talking yourself into or out of staying where you are right now. Here’s a challenge: for the next six weeks, count your blessings OUT LOUD. Proclaim your rarity and uniqueness OUT LOUD. Go the extra mile with your time, efforts, and dollars. Consciously choose to be of greater service. Tell yourself OUT LOUD that you have made this decision. Now, if this doesn’t work for you after six weeks, call me a quack. But, if it does, well. . .

    Comment by Rev. Richard M. — March 24, 2007 @ 6:56 pm

39. Oh, one more thing: thanks, Andrew and all your submitters for this blog. The more skeptics who rant on about the Law of Attraction, the more those of us who are spiritually inclined can look more deeply into what we think we believe. Spiritual growth is a journey, not a done deal. Some ideas are really bogus. Skeptics give us the opportunity to root those ideas out.

    Thanks again.

    Comment by Rev. Richard M. — March 24, 2007 @ 7:10 pm

40. I see what you mean in phylosophical terms and by meaning of self help and motivation. Definitely not in terms of real world physical reality… which is incidentally where we live.

    One neat thing on which i agree with you is the fact that nothing can be destroyed or created in the universe, hence everything that will ever be is already here, but i don’t believe that we can influence and rearrange already predefined universal equilibrii with our minds. Our degree of interaction is defined within the physical plane of existance and therefore we still need to stretch our arm to reach the nachos on the coffee table and drop the remote on the floor in the process while we hold the glass of wine with two fingers because it’s such a cool way to hold the glass… like everyone else.

    Comment by Fabio — March 25, 2007 @ 1:35 am

41. “Our degree of interaction is defined within the physical plane of existance and therefore we still need to stretch our arm to reach the nachos on the coffee table and drop the remote on the floor in the process while we hold the glass of wine with two fingers because it’s such a cool way to hold the glass… like everyone else.”

    Of course. It’s only common sense. We’re not suggesting that one can rearrange molecules just with the mind. It’s not even necessary to do so.

    Most of the great philosophers of history have suggested that changing the mind will inevitably result in changes in surroundings. Now, just how that works, I don’t know. But I know that it does. It’s been my personal experience. For instance, the practice of tithing has always been known to produce increase for the tither. It has for me. Again, why? I don’t know. . .for certain. But I suspect that the universe is more fluid than the Objectivists may imagine, that there is some flexibility in the way mind and matter interact. It comes down to this: do I want to give it a go, or do I want to maintain the idea that all is fixed, nothing can change through my influence, and that I am simply a piece of accidental flotsam in the midst of an uncaring sea of unimaginable space and time? What is the possibility that I may indeed have some power in all this? Am I so unwilling to think it possible that I will go down in flames before allowing the possibility of my own power?

    As I reach for the remote, I am reminded of how powerful my brain/body connection is. Without that interaction, the remote out of reach.

    Don’t sell the interaction of all things short. You have more power than you give yourself credit for. And even if you don’t believe that, I’ll believe it for you. Because I know it’s true.

    Comment by Rev. Richard M. — March 25, 2007 @ 9:29 am

42. 21/2 years ago I left a miserable marriage full of control, bitterness, hate and two beautiful children who we both adored. I walked out with enough money for a rental for one month not knowing when I would get another paycheck as I work as a realtor.

    I had noone to rely upon but myself, my husband was not working (his choice) and not only was I responsible for my bills but his. He blamed me for everything.

    With sheer hard work, determination and BELIEF in what I was doing and what I could do I now live in a $2 million home, I have a brand new Lincoln SUV, I will earn over $2 million this year. I still take care of my ex husband pay for his house and all his bills BUT we are friends. My one goal was to protect my kids. My ex husband is not capable of being positive or nice on his own. Money was the only way to make things right so he would be nice so that is what I did.

    Visualising what I wanted was the key element. I did not sit on my butt, ask for everything and wait for it to happen. I visualised what it was that I wanted and needed then set out on a plan to accomplish the goal. Did I meet the right people who put me in touch with more people who I needed to make contact with - you bet!!!! Did things just show up - you bet!!! Do things still continue to - you bet.

    Positive thinking and belief by their very nature will accomplish results. If you are not ready to be aware of these concepts you are not ready. When you are - hold on for the ride. It is FUN

    Comment by Cathy W — March 25, 2007 @ 6:08 pm

43. Ive did a little research of my own on the secret, and every person who was in that movie have direct links to the other ones product and services and testaments from one and other on there websites, a lot of ppl are making money through this, its a whole web.

    Comment by Lee — March 26, 2007 @ 9:06 am

44. There isnt one thing wrong with positive thinking. “Most” of what is in the movie and book is worth every penny. Waking up everyday grateful and positive could benefit anyone in any situation. People are taking the “wishing for a million dollar” thing a little too literally. But they are telling you to think big if that is what your after. Not everyone wants to be a millionare. Some people want contentment. And that feeling is different for everyone. What makes one person content is not what makes the others feel that way. If you look at the people who have used this theory, (Jesus, Einstein, Churchill, Aerostatle) It would be pretty hard to deny it all.

    Comment by Lisa — March 26, 2007 @ 3:39 pm

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    Pingback by » What the hell should I do with this blog? - Web Publishing Blog — March 30, 2007 @ 3:12 am

46. You are really stupid that’s all I have to say. Either you didn’t understand the movie correctly. No you just can’t sit on your ass and think then it will come true. When they said ask that means ask yourself what can I do to get this or that in life. Of course people like you may want to sit on their ass to think straight cuz that’s all you do. Hey fat ass here is a secret. You know what a gym is it’s like you walk your ass in there and not sit on a computer, then you buy a membership and workout. Take a hike or starve yourself please then die.

    Comment by Crissy Snow — April 2, 2007 @ 6:05 pm

47. The basis for the secret is spiritual delusion. Thinking that you will become a God or like a God (Also Mormon and in Some Jehovah Witness Circles beleif).

    Thus harnessing this power you will get whatever you want.

    The Basis of this is Theosophy. The modern movement was started by helena blavatsky. Hitler and the Thule society adhered to this as well. Harnessing their minds and actions to destroy and control and onquer others they deemed inferior.

    True it is in the bible where Jesus says pray for the sick 2 or more of you and i will be there.

    Seek and you shall find ask and you shall receive with hard work, with a positive mindset in whatever circumstances you are in.

    Not as easy as i think therefore i am. I think therefore the secret is straight bullshit..haha..but yeah..watch the movie the pursuit of happiness..truly that is the secret..dedication, disicipline, hard work, positive thinking with positive action and a positive faith that through all the shit u go through with a good conscious a good heart you will find happiness…and on that road you will find God as well.

    God Bless

    Comment by Mike Nicholas — April 3, 2007 @ 4:11 pm

48. “The Secret” is a way to use media and drama to reach out and show people that there is hope in this rapidly sinking world of disparity and evil. My God Andrew, I just heard on the news about 5th graders having sex in a school classroom, and you want to complain that someone is spreading happy thoughts. Maybe your the one who could use some life prospective. I don’t really go for the entire spill about “think it and receive it”, but I do believe that positive thoughts while working to obtain it will lead to success, and negative thoughts draw negative actions. I am my own best example. Every 5 years I subscribe to think that in another 5 years I will earn twice as much. And every 5 years I do. Of course I work my @ss off to get it, but without thinking of what I wanted I’d probably be a very good poor unemployed programmer. Now I run my own business and have a high paying career, the money just rolls in.

    Imagine it, live it and be it, work to obtain it, believe you deserve it and can have it, then be brave enough to receive and accept it. That’s my secret.

    Frankly I think there’s 3 people: Those who are contempt or unconcerned with materials and accept things as is, they are just here and have no ambition except to have fun, couch potatoes. Those who wish but believe they can’t, they are negative in thought and in action. And those who want it and know they can have it, they think positively and every action benefits their goals. If Monday night Football doesn’t benefit this person, he doesn’t watch it, total devotion, emersion, focus, dedication, and discipline.

    Comment by Clint — April 4, 2007 @ 8:32 am

49. Well, The Secret has help me in many ways. If you are curious as to how, then I shall enlighten you with the following link: The Secret

    Comment by Matthew James — April 4, 2007 @ 6:49 pm

50. You seems to be very negative upon The Secrets aka the law of attraction.
    Time and time again the Principle works, i can even named you names that has been practicing the law of attraction.
    True, Handworks does play a part in Success, but more important Hardworks without the right mind will not go else where too.

    Go to http://www.scienceofgettingprosperous.com/ get yourself a copy of the highly exclusive interview with Bob Proctor and see it yourself.

    Comment by Sern Yi — April 17, 2007 @ 1:51 am

51. ya know what the law of attraction is initially people???????????? ITS SEX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    thats what gets people together(being sexually attracted to each other).It doesnt keep them together in the long term because having sex with the same person after a while becomes boring.Thats when your personallities come into it.But rest be assured robbie williams aint gonna get it on with a chick hes not sexually attracted to(unless hes in it for something else than sexual gratification)and neithers angelina jolie gonna get it on with some bloke shes not sexually attracted to NO MATTER HOW MUCH THEY WISH IT AND THINK THEY KNOW THE SECRET.This is another one of those new age american sourced money making crap pyramid multi marketing shit.The secret to success and making money is using your natural apptitudes in areas yor good at(talents)and the secret to getting laid is to be sexually attractive(even if it requires plastic surgery) and the only people spending money on this fucking dvd will be the gullible stupid vulnerable easily led dumbbells.

    Comment by peter — April 17, 2007 @ 11:40 am

52. Hi Andrew,

    This is the first time I read about someone who dislikes The Secret and the Law of Attraction…

    The Law of Attraction really works! It works well for me.

    You should read free report about Law of Attraction by Bob Proctor and Stephen Pierce, Attraction Accelerator.

    You’ll see that Law of Attraction really works.
    You just need to:
    1. Ask
    2. Believe
    3. Receive

    Cheers,

    Aldian

    Comment by Aldian Prakoso — April 17, 2007 @ 10:27 pm

53. Is it just me, or do some of the pro-Secret messages in this thread sound a tad contrived? The people behind the film are slick marketers, but do they actually have staffers who cruise the net, spreading glowing testimonials wherever they go?

    At any rate, anybody who has listened to a motivational speaker at a professional conference knows that there is nothing secret about “The Secret.” It’s the same old self-help message, now garnished with some pseudoscientific and New Agey trappings. You have to admire how they have milked a fortune out of such a hackneyed idea, though.

    Comment by Shawn — April 22, 2007 @ 7:34 pm

54. I happened to hear about ‘The Secret’ buzz on a local radio station recently and rented a DVD copy from Netflix to see what this was all about. I’ve always been interested in new age concepts and thought this could be intriguing.

    My wife and I started watching and within 5 minutes couldn’t stop giggling and downright laughing at the sheer lunacy of this marketing scam! The quality of the video is like a Saturday Night Live skit - in fact, I wish SNL would do a parody of ‘The Secret’ - it would be hilarious.

    Let’s start with Andrew’s comment on MSC.D - I quote “• Doctor of Metaphysical Science, Msc.D. Good for anyone who wishes to deal with all areas of Metaphysics, i.e. teaching, counseling, healing, and ministry.”

    But, wait!

    “*The title “Doctor of Metaphysical Science,” and the degree letters “Msc.D.” and “Doctor of Metaphysical Counseling,” and the degree letters “Mc.D” are copyrighted and may not be used by any other school or organization. ”

    Copyrighted?! Yes, Joe Vitale might be a very good speaker (I refuse to call him a Dr.), nice guy and great marketer. However, a Metaphysician? There is no academic degree called Metaphysician, folks. Yes, you can buy a degree with any name - however, the only recognized academic degree would be an accredited Masters or PhD in Philosophy or a Doctor of Divinity from a Seminary.

    As you keep watching it - more marketers appear than experts. Oh oh! Shouldn’t that tell you something? Hey, we have a bunch of rich, materialistic, successful marketers who say - believe and you shall receive. Dream/visualize about a new bike, car, home, money and you will get it. Guess what, they already have it and understand how to market to the masses to get more of it.

    I kept waiting for Tony Robbins, Carleton Sheets, and Don Lapre to chime in. Lapre would be great - ‘…just by placing tiny want ads with your dreams you can achieve anything…’ I’m sure Robbins is smarting that he didn’t think of this.

    Look, I do think there is something to the power of positive thinking, creative visualization and creating your own reality. But folks, come-on! This is pure 101 marketing - just go to Bob Protor’s site and see all the goodies you can buy!

    Enough said. Now, back to my visualization of my future date with Halle Berry….

    Comment by Don — April 23, 2007 @ 12:14 pm

55. The Secret is a crock alright. I do believe that there is a group of people that have devised a scheme to milk people of their money not just once,but over and over again.Robert Scheinfeld is part of this group also. He wrote “Busting Loose From the Money Game”. When you compare all of these different programs that are presented as self help, you will see that there is a definite similarity between them all. Basically what they’re saying is get in on this B.S. and market it in your own words and make a million bucks by being the suckee, and not the sucker.

    Comment by Rene — April 23, 2007 @ 2:35 pm

56. Don, I totally agree with you about the fact that The Secret is a marketing ploy. Which is really annoying because I very strongly believe in the principle of positive thinking and mind over matter - very strongly. I believe you can make anything in life happen if you focus on it and work towards it. But i am irritated by the fact that they claim it is a new discovery that no one knew about. It feels to me like a hyped up marketing ploy to sell a few extra books. Almost like a get rich quick scheme or the booha around the davinci code - all just a marketing ploy. I guess what I am saying is that it is a pity that they didn’t let the power of The law of attraction speak for itself an do its “magic”. It detracts from what it could have been.

    Comment by V — April 27, 2007 @ 4:47 pm

57. The law of attraction is absoluty for real. It only works if you focus your mind on one thing at a time. And you must be an absolute positive thinker 24/7.
    That means no negetivity in your inner world what so ever. You ask and receive! It is a steping process of change. You mind has to adjust in reprograming your thoughts in order to create good. Once you aquire that technigue, then things will come. Their are several steps of the taken. Right down what you are asking for, beleive that you have it now. Make a graitude list. Act and do things for others, or give.
    Meditation is a key factor in it as well, also the divine grace of God.
    Go out and purchase the book written by Ester and Abraham Hicks- Ask and he shall receive. He is well known. Their is no magic in it what so ever, it is faith, in God and the Universe. There are several thousands of people with great expericances and testimoinal. When you train your mind to become absoluty positive and no negetive. And take the small steps that are required. The challange that you go through in changing for the better is called resisistance. Hope this is benifical for the who are in doubt. It takes time to re route your thinking. When you do this, you will expericance joy , and inner being of selfawareness of who you are. Positive attracts good, negetive attracts bad things in your life.

    Comment by N. — April 28, 2007 @ 8:51 am

58. Most religion practice some form of the Law Of Attraction. Its an ancient philisophy, Throught prayer or chanting, the mind is brought to a focus on the desired outcome.

    Comment by Thomas — April 28, 2007 @ 9:18 pm

59. Whether you are into the “Secret” or not… Positive thinking is always a good thing. I don’t think one person here disputes that. But where’s the secret? Is it in the Laws of Attraction? Har har. Life and the pursuit of happiness is much more complicated than just Laws of Attraction and positive thinking. Some of the negative things that happen in life are also one of the greatest experiences and lessons in life. If the “secret” is so great why is the information so limited until you actually purchase into something? Why does Google and Yahoo searches lead to requiring my email and name to receive more information? It’s the same tactics used in money making programs or late night infomercials. If this is such an amazing wowweee super duper secret - why doesn’t Oprah spend her billions of dollars to get this information spread around the world?

    I used to respect Oprah but after researching about her over the top wealth building media company, spending habits, relationship problems, hypocritcal environmental issues, and the payment scheme for endorsing/mentioning books in her book club… it’s disappointing that a person with all of the money in the world would want to peddle and endorse junk like “the Secret”. Shame on you Oprah. Maybe that’s why you go up and down with your weight… Feeling guilty?

    Comment by Nicholas — April 29, 2007 @ 12:56 am

60. This movie and its underlying philosophy are about the biggest crocks of [expletive deleted] I have ever seen. Anyone who buys into this deserves to be treated as the idiot he is. Just remember: a positive thought and 50 cents will get you a phone call.

    Comment by KAR — May 1, 2007 @ 11:25 pm

61. 60 comments above me, most of it says “The Secret” is crap. Ask, Believe, Receive?? okay.. We “Ask” for this crap to stop! We “Believe” this crap would stop! Hey?? wheres the “receiving” part? When is this crap going to stop? uh-oh.. looks like we’ve channelled all our negative energy towards “The Secret”, and it aint gonna stop! Ppl will keep talking about it! Ppl will still come here and give comments about it! And “The Secret” is still here!! OMG! Does this means that it does work?? heh heh heh heh…

    Comment by I visualize the end of earth — May 10, 2007 @ 3:46 am

62. Some say it works, some say it does not!
    I for one knows it can work both way. Apply the Law correctly, and you get positive results, apply it wrongly and you get all the thing you never wanted.

    Bob Proctor has release a new report that let us in on that missing ingredient. If you want the Law to work properly, you simply have to read it.
    Greatest lesson life has taught me. Take it from here.

    http://www.gettingrichsciencesecret.com/freereport

    Comment by John L — May 10, 2007 @ 10:21 am

63. Yeah, the guys who slug that crap at you are full on marketering freaks…..one hell of a way to make a dollar, and make people feel happy for a while.

    Positive thinking is bliss, does work wonders, how many booze hounds down at the local pub just whine about the school of hard knocks, rather then what they can, physically achieve, definitely changed my life a quite a bit…….

    As for the whole meta crazy acid freak spirituality scenario, take a look at a movie called “How far down the rabbit hole”……if you can swallow it…….

    Stay cool all

    smile

    Stegs

    Comment by Steve — May 13, 2007 @ 6:59 am

64. Wow. I feel sorry for so many of you… totally missing out and stuck in a place of pessimism. Everyone creates their own reality whether you believe it or are aware of it or not. Every religion and philosophy has taught this from the beginning of time. I’ve been into the law of attraction for several years and have applied the principles to almost every aspect of my life. I have written down exactly what I’ve wanted in great detail and watched it come to fruition… EVERY TIME including the complete healing of my newborn son who they said the day after he was born wouldn’t survive longer than an hour. He is not only alive and well, but suffered absolutely no brain damage regardless of the fact that his blood saturation level was less than 30% for 36 hours… no developmental delays–nothing wrong with him. My sister in law is a neonatologist and said that he had no chance of survival–his miraculous recovery not only baffled the minds of her and all the doctors in this hospital, no medical explanation can be made by anyone other than a miracle. I described his homecoming to a tee… when it would happen, how it would happen, who the discharge staff would be, what music would be on the radio on the way home, etc. It all happened just as I created. I think that there are just some people–many of you– who are so addicted to the drama of the human experience and don’t want to acknowledge that they are the sole creator of their life experience… because blaming society or government or their abusive parents or alcoholic spouses or the fact that they were sexually abused, etc for their problems is a whole lot easier–or lazier–than taking full responsibility for their lives. Stop being addicted to being a victim. I’ve lived both lives– the victim (which is really an illusion…there’s no such thing as a victim) and the conscious creator. From now on, I choose to be a conscious creator rather one who creates crap by default. What would it hurt to try a new way of looking at life? So many of you are just pissed off that these teachers have mastered their thinking and have created abundance in their lives (all of them far before The Secret was created), and you’re too lazy or stubborn to attempt to change your mindset in order to do the same for yourself. Wake up. Quit feeling sorry for yourselves. You’re doing such a disservice to yourself. What a wasted life to be so negative and pessimistic. If you’d spend as much time focusing on the incredible gifts life has to offer as you do on bashing The Secret and its teachers, you’d be amazed at the perfect life you could create.

    Comment by KJ — May 15, 2007 @ 1:23 am

65. I say “good on them”. I wished I could come up with a scam like this. It’s actually quite amazing how many people are more than willing to believe in crap like this…
    How long is it gonna take me to complete my degree just by wishing?
    How long is it gonna take for me to score with Paris Hilton, just by believing?
    But on the other hand, this shouldn’t be surprising to us, just consider how many religious people are there… It’s the same shit really…

    Comment by The Believer — May 17, 2007 @ 6:31 am

66. God is King. He rules and those who reject his love reject all that is good within and without the universe. No secret, no mind power, no focus, desire, thought or universe or energy exists without God having first breathed life into it. Rather than thinking, wanting and taking ‘inspired’ action to get a million dollars and a BMW, accept Jesus, meditate on him and all other things will be added after that. Look for him and you shall find a treasure chest worth more than any precious thing on this earth. God bless you all.

    Comment by Ray — May 17, 2007 @ 9:26 am

67. I have practiced the Law of Attraction for more than 40 years, I’ve coached hundreds of people to use it, and I’ve personally seen amazing results over and over. I have no need to defend its power. Besides, too many other people here have already done a great job clearing up the misconceptions.

    The one thing I would like to comment on is your belief that the secret to success is hard work. If you continue that belief, you will continue to work hard all of your life. Working hard is the “worst” way to make money or be successful. Look at the highly successful people. Do they look like they are working hard? I don’t think so. They do work they are passionate about (so it’s not work), they work smart, and they have the right mindset to guarantee success.

    Aim High!
    LaVera
    www.laveragaston.com

    Comment by LaVera Gaston — May 18, 2007 @ 10:53 am

68. Personally, I believe success boils down to the following:

    1-Positive thinking
    Allows you to spot opportunities that would have otherwise gone unnoticed if you had a negative, I can’t mentality.

    I’m sure you’ve had this happen to you: You learn a new word that you never know before. Suddenly, you keep finding that word in an ad, newspaper, book..etc even though you never noticed it before.

    Opportunities are the same thing. If you’re open up to see opportunities with an “I can” attitude, you will see them, otherwise they will go unnoticed.

    Positive thinking also programs the subconscious to come up with creative solutions. Being an architect, the creative design process involves defining the problem, thinking about all possible solutions very hard, then letting go and doing something completely different while the subconcious mind begins manifesting a solution. This is when you get a sudden spark or great idea you never considered before. That is the subconscious at work.

    2-Incremental improvement
    If you’re making 50k/year, strive for 75 then 100 then 125 and so on. Breaking up ambitions in small increments allows them to happen.

    3-Persistance
    Success follws 3 steps. Problem then struggle then enlightment. Enlightment comes after you’ve hit rock bottom! after you think you’ve exhausted all possible means. After you’re energy is completely drained! It just works that way. If you give up during the struggle phase, you won’t reach enlightment. Persist, learn from mistakes, try again and again.

    4-Total flexibility
    Keep trying different solutions, approaches, angles..etc. Don’t get stuck ! Always keep moving and you will eventually get there.

    Comment by Hosam — May 24, 2007 @ 2:01 pm

69. As a 15yr old girl, researching The Secret for a school assignment I have come to a conclusion. According to The Secret I am responcible for my crappy home situation. Would you like to hear? My Dad, who has bipolar, abused me in front of my entire family and 2 weeks later told me it was my fault.
    That was last year. I have had to live with him, pretending he didn’t leave a bruise the size of a pillow on my back and pretending I haven’t noticed that he still hasn’t apologized.
    Mum keeps making excuses for him and my older sister blames me for the hate between Mum and Dad. Now, if I listened to The Secret then apparently my negative vibes are responsible for my home life and if I had just been thinking positive then all would be good.
    Well guess what! All you adults, with your perfect lives and well fed bank accounts are believing in a loud of crap and you don’t even have the conscience to know what’s right instead of being told by a multi-million dollar empire. Next time some one tells you that you’re responsible for what other people do to you just tell them to shut up and think of all the kids who have no power over their lives and don’t have the $30 dollars to go buy some fucked up dvd.

    Comment by surfin — May 27, 2007 @ 10:27 pm

70. The Secret is a perfect formula of “Just World Hypothesis” blended with self-centered, self serving materialism and the narcissism that the whole YOUniverse revolves each and every one of us and we can have anything and everything we want because we are like little gods.

    Right, whatever… Coming from a rich white woman that might sound appealing and make sense, BUT there is this thing called REALITY.

    It is no surprise this garbage is spreading like wild fire in a fat, over-indulgent, extremely prosperous country like America after being pimped by Oprah and other new age flake celebs.

    Try selling this “name it and claim” stupidity in Sudan or Iraq or India or the slums of Brazil.

    Nothing new here folks.

    Just better marketing, celebrity endorsement and decadent western society is more gullible and selfish than ever and runs to any quack that can make them feel good about their lack of compassion, contentment and insane selfishness.

    To think that positive thinking is what brings you riches is asinine.
    Hard work, creativity, intelligence, diligence, education helps ALONG with positive, realistic thinking for those who have morals and a sense of right and wrong.

    You can will that new Ferrari, house, boat into “manifesting” all you want but if you don’t have the means or the credit score it is not going to drop into your life like the author wants you to believe.

    You are not going to win the lottery by concentrating really, really, hard and eliminating negative thoughts. This is just plain dumb.

    Many evil people use “the Secret” style of thinking in areas like drug dealing, theft, rape, war etc. They are visualizing their needs and wants and taking them with force no matter who it hurts. Corporations do it every day, now we want the average individual to become as soulless and self-serving as the criminals in society?

    Also, to think that all tragedy is somehow the victims
    fault is tragic and ignorance at it’s ugliest.

    Ask child born with birth defects if was their parent’s negative or their negativity while forming in the womb. Who is to blame?
    Primitive religions blamed the devil, now we blame negative thoughts?

    Also, rape and molestation victims, genocide victims, theft victims, accident victims, cancer victims, natural disaster are all to blame for their situations?

    Blame seems to be a common theme in the Secret. No thanks, had enough of that with bible which is why I am a free thinking, critical thinking atheist now.

    This moron author thinks she can control the weather with her mind!!!

    Positive thinking and new age super faith could
    have stopped Katrina or the 9/11 attacks?

    IDIOCY.

    Unless you want to be infected with a mind virus that is very dangerous for society, stay far away from this garbage.

    Comment by GrafxGuru — May 28, 2007 @ 7:23 am

71. You are 100% spot on. THE SECRET IS THE BIGGEST LOAD OF BULLSHIT I HAVE EVER HEARD OF. IN LIFE YOU WILL ALWAYS HAVE GOOD LUCK AND BAD LUCK, WINNERS AND LOSERS. I DO BELIEVE IN POSITIVE THINKING BUT SOME PEOPLE ARE JUST LOOKING FOR AN EXCUSE TO JUSTIFY THEIR PATHETIC LIVES. IT IS NO DIFFERENT FROM A RELIGIOUS CULT. THE ONLY REAL WINNERS OF THE SECRET ARE THE SO CALLED PROFESSORS PROMOTING THIS CRAP.

    Comment by steve — May 28, 2007 @ 10:06 pm

72. If you honestly believe in The Secret then I’m not angry at you.

    I pity you

    Comment by NONbeliever — May 29, 2007 @ 1:52 am

73. If you honestly believe in The Secret then I’m not angry at you.

    I pity you…

    Comment by NONbeliever — May 29, 2007 @ 1:53 am

74. It’s been a couple of months since I last joined in this discussion. Nothing has changed. The believers believe, the non-believers disbelieve. Since I last participated, much has happened in my life. Money came in from unexpected sources; opportunities to guest speak at a number of churches and organizations; exciting new people. And of course, a broken CD burner/workstation, summer window shades blowing down, slicing my finger with a sharp knife-twice, two friend died. You know, the usual stuff. That’s how life works. Some good, some not so good. But how do I continue to view my life? Simple. As a gift, as a blessing. Hence, very few if any regrets. Mistakes? Plenty. Regrets? Hardly. Why? They don’t serve my purposes. I got tired of holding onto my self-pity. Just like most of you are doing at this very moment. I got tired of being angry for “absolutely justifiable reasons” as I’ve heard so many of you say. I gave up the need to be right all the time, to be offended or hurt if not noticed, to feel venegeful even if I didn’t practice revenge.

    Letting all that crap go changes your mind. It opens up new possibilities, new ideas, new avenues of expression. You become a better person. You make the world a bit better by your presence than it was before you got here.

    No outside god, no law of attraction, no secret can cause all that. It comes with a change of mind, of heart, of action. It’s the most difficult decision you’ll ever make. . .and the most important.

    This is the only place, time, and purpose there is. Quit being so damn selfish. Come and save the world. You’re the only one who can.

    Sermon done. Have a great life.

    Comment by Rev. Richard — May 29, 2007 @ 12:51 pm

75. This so called ‘Secret’ reminds me of the scam still being pulled by Robert Kiyosaki with his Rich Dad, Poor Dad fictional series. (For those of you who didn’t research it - RICH DAD NEVER EXISTED!!!) In both scams, people expect great rewards for very little effort and the whole premise is built on ‘proof’ that falls apart under even mild scrutiny. There will always be desperate suckers hoping for that free lunch. Most of them won’t admit to being duped because that would be admitting they were silly enough to be duped. So they’ll go on believing this tripe long after their cash is gone and nothing has ever been achieved and they’ll pass it off by telling themselves that they probably didn’t ‘believe’ hard enough so they better just keep on trying until is does. It’s the same dilemma with praying… you pray hard for something but it doesn’t happen, so you think you didn’t pray hard enough or that it’s God’s will you didn’t get it… It’s a NO WIN situation and impossible to prove. It’s the delusional wishful thinking of an unhappy mind is what it is.

    In this age of the Internet and instantaneous information, I still can’t believe that there are people who would jump into a scam without at least researching it first. It’s pretty easy… you just fire up your search engine and type in the name of whatever the latest cure-all is and the word ‘SCAM’. There were more bad hits for Kiyosaki and this Secret that I could ever hope to get through.

    The REAL Secret is to keep working hard, saving as much as you can and raising a respectful family. Your dreams won’t fall into your lap just by straining a few braincells over it.

    There are so many gullible people in the world. Sadly, they’ll still be sitting there, meditating in their happy place and visualizing wealth and world peace as terrorists slowly gain a foothold and destroy everything around them. Grow a brain, people! Just because Oprah says something is real, doesn’t mean it really IS. SHE’S a billionaire and she got that way by playing on people’s hopes and emotions - much like the perpetrators of these scams are doing.

    Comment by Jeff — July 18, 2007 @ 10:15 am

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77. So your conclusion is “thinking positive” doesn’t work? What about planning? I guess thinking, dreaming and planning are all just a waste of time?

    Yeah, it’s true none of that matters if you don’t get off the couch. But you’re a genius, you already knew that.

    Congratulations on being a freakin moron.

    No really.

    Comment by Jeff Hendrickson — July 31, 2007 @ 6:50 am

78. What is the definition of a secret? Isn’t a secret something that no one else knows? Then how come everyone is promoting this secret? It obviously isn’t a secret because if it was no one would know about it. I think if you look at the root of all of this you will find that it is money. Someone will give you a secret or formula or program if you give them 29.99. These people like others promoting similar things are preying on the weaknesses of human nature in order to make money.

    This kind of reminds me of so called wealthy gurus willing to give you the secret to success for 29.99. If they really were wealthy why would they need to sell books, etc. for 29.99. Wouldn’t they be busy building their empires instead of peddling their wares on the internet. Or maybe, that is how they make their money. Buy selling information and programs to teach other people how to make money.

    I’m sure any intelligent person can reason this all out and see how ridiculous it really is. The more people that they can get to believe this nonsense the bigger money bags they will be able to deposit at the bank.

    Secrets aren’t secrets if everyone knows about it.

    I have a secret about the secret. There isn’t one!

    Comment by Linda — August 1, 2007 @ 8:09 am

79. Its not the messenger, its the message!

    Science presupposes the existence of an objective reality ONLY. In other words, the observer and the observed are independent of each other. So Science can only work in a field that you believe in… ie Objective Reality.

    But I suggest otherwise. Science and Objective Reality exist WITHIN Subjective Reality. The Observed cannot be observed without the Observer entering into the equation. Your bias and beliefs shape the thing, situation or event you are perceiving. Einstein said this, look it up. And so did Jesus. Look it up or I’ll quote it for you…

    And the Lord said, ‘Behold, the people are one, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
    Genesis 11:6

    “It is done Unto you, as you have believed.”

    That was 2,000 years ago. Long before you and I were born. Since then, every great person who has accomplished something has talked about it including Albert Einstein, Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, Napolean Hill.

    What the Secret Left out is that We are spiritual beings far more than we are body or mind beings. This is very important.

    Remember Action is an integral part of achieving your goals, but it never has to be a struggle. After all, every action and word arise from thought.

    The Feeling good part keeps you in touch with inspired action. The exact action required to accomplish whatever it is you want at the exact time so that you don’t have to struggle.

    Feeling good also keeps away negative thought, so you won’t be creating unwanted scenarios.

    It maybe hard for you to accept that thought creates because all this time you have struggled and worked hard so now it seems like it didn’t have to be that way.

    Wake up and smell the coffee! Don’t use your own power to make yourselves Impotent Gods.

    Comment by Michael — August 1, 2007 @ 8:15 pm

80. Excuse me Michael. But you don’t know Jesus based on what you have written. You have taken select scriptures and referenced them out of context.

    Subjective reality? Does not the Bible say the heart is deceitful above all things, who can know it? Does this not show that you can deceive yourself? And since you have deceived yourself you wouldn’t think that you were deceived but that doesn’t mean that you aren’t. It doesn’t matter what a person thinks if it is not in line with reality. Perceptions can vary but reality is constant.

    The reference in Genesis you gave is regarding the Tower of Babel. God confused the languages to prevent them from continuing to build the tower. Why? Because God already knew the destructive force of sinful man multiplied and the negative consequences.

    It is done unto you as you have believed? I believe that you are referring to the faith of the centurion here. Again, taken out of context. This verse is referring to the centurion having faith in Christ to heal his servant it is not referring to faith in himself.

    Don’t use your own power to make yourselves Impotent Gods? What on earth are you implying here? Are you saying that you are God? This is blasphemy! I think that you need to take a more realistic and accurate assessment of who you are and who God is and who you are in relation to who God is. Lucifer wanted to be like the most high too. Look what happened to him? This thinking that you are God when you are not only serves to feed your foolish pride and by doing so you are damning your own soul. So even though you think that you are evolving you are actually going backwards and you don’t even know it since you have let yourself believe falsehoods.

    This lie was first perpetuated by the serpent aka the devil in the garden of eden with eve. And the same old trick is still being used today under the guise of New Age philosophy which is not really new at all but just the same old recycled garbage.

    P.S. As for feeling good. Christ was also a man of many sorrows. I don’t think Christ felt good when he was hanging on the cross and taking upon himself the sins of the world, do you?

    Comment by Linda — August 2, 2007 @ 2:06 am

81. Hi,
    We could discuss this to no end. In the end it comes down to what you and I believe.

    I don’t believe anybody can tell me what God is, or what God said. I choose to believe certain parts of the Bible and not others. This was written by people who wouldn’t know Christ from a man walking on the street. They wrote it for that time period and for what was passed down by word. Not only that, they could have been very well edited and I believe have been, to suit the needs of powerful men in powerful positions.

    I cannot believe that I am a born sinner. This fear- based Ideology is required by the Church to survive. Every institution looks for survival, as does the Church.

    I cannot believe that I was created with free will, yet bound by commandments. I cannot believe that there is a hell… but for my own created hell here on earth of unwanted circumstances.

    I can believe that Jesus was just like me and evolved much faster and became God-Realized… from where he said “I and my father are One”.

    I can believe God is a compassionate God and not a vengeful God for what about God can be hurt?

    I believe Sex was created by God to enjoy and celebrate our bodies. For how can something that feels so good, be so bad?

    If you think with common sense, you have all your answers.

    In the end, you may call me misguided and I may think of you as the same… but I wish you Good Luck wherever you ‘choose’ to go.

    P.S. Also in subjective reality, you love everyone and everything as You. You not the body, but you the Consciousness, incase anybody else was curious.

    I am out,
    Michael.

    I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
    Psalm 82:6

    Comment by Michael — August 2, 2007 @ 9:50 am

82. You know, I want to think I have an open mind. I was with the secret for about 5 seconds on positive thinking. It makes sense to my brain that if you mentally focus on the positive, life is better for you. I am with them there.

    They lose me when its all “material things with your mind” and “stay away from your friend with cancer because their negative thoughts will bring you down.”

    That and, holy god, was the book poorly written. It could have been a good 1/3 shorter if they had tightened up the writing and stopped repeating themselves.

    I could rant all day. I will spare you my rant. If you really want to know how I felt about it, visit my url above, I feel it captures it rather well.

    Comment by HE — August 22, 2007 @ 11:15 am

83. “This ’secret’ is ancient knowledge. It is, simply, ‘you become what you think about’.”

    Bullshit, what a way to ensnare legions of gullible fools — by appeasing to their sense of material want.

    At any rate, if the Buddhists contend that thought puts distance between you and the universe, which I’d rather tend to think is more accurate, precisely upon what angle of reasoning does the above come about?

    You want “ancient knowledge”? How about the Hindu declaration that there is no answer to the “you” problem? If “I” am unquantifyable, upon what does The Secret revolve exactly, since its core effect is to materialize that which “I” think about? What am I? What are YOU? Answer that.

    - U

    Comment by The Uncreated — September 13, 2007 @ 3:13 pm

84. “This ’secret’ is ancient knowledge. It is, simply, ‘you become what you think about’.”

    Bullshit, what a way to ensnare legions of gullible fools — by appeasing to their sense of material want.

    At any rate, if the Buddhists contend that thought puts distance between you and the universe, which I’d rather tend to think is more accurate, precisely upon what angle of reasoning does the above come about?

    You want “ancient knowledge”? How about the Hindu declaration that there is no answer to the “you” problem? If “I” is ultimately unquantifyable, upon what does The Secret revolve exactly, since its core effect is to materialize that which “I” think about? What am I? What are YOU? Answer that.

    - U

    Comment by The Uncreated — September 13, 2007 @ 3:14 pm

85. Hey REV.

    WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU WANTING FOR MONEY ANYWAY?
    YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF.
    ALL OF YOU BELIEVERS SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF.
    IF ANY OF YOU WERE TRULY ENLIGHTENED YOU WOULD REALIZE THE SECRET IS ONE THING…LOVE.
    WITHOUT IT MONEY OR ANYTHING ELSE FOR THAT MATTER IS WORTHLESS.
    YOU ALL ARE A BUNCH OF FOOLS.

    Comment by kevin — October 28, 2007 @ 7:35 pm

86. I just watched The Secret the other day. I found it very interesting to be quite honest. Since I’m fairly confident that neither yourself or any of the other hard workers here know where life began, what it is, what is beyond the stars, where does space end, etc.etc., I dont know that you are in a position to write this off as total garbage. I know the power of positive thinking, especially in sports. Sometimes you can go and and golf in the low 70’s and have all the confidence in the world, and other times you can’t hit a shot all day. Same body, different mind set. Is it at all possible that this isn’t about making wishes and waiting for them to come true, but a whole way of changing your outlook on life and allowing good things to happen, or come to you? Quanum Physics I find fascinating, and while I’m not sold on this idea just yet, I’m not totally ruling out the concept. There’s some reason Rosie O’Donnell is rich and we’re not, and it’s not talent.

    Comment by Ken — October 30, 2007 @ 5:55 pm

87. This guy is just some d*pshit using advertising methods designed to create fear and then point you in the direction of his product for salvation. he has no idea was the secret is, but he knows if you look it up you’ll come across his link. he creates fear you’ll get scammed by the secret so then you purchase his P.O.S product

    Comment by tal — November 6, 2007 @ 2:29 pm

88. ‘The Secret’ is the absolute dumbest thing I’ve ever heard of and read! What about the people who have been thinking positive on winning the lotto all these years and have not won? Shouldn’t The Secret apply to them as well? Parents whose children are dying of cancer…did they dwell on this thought and hope for it to happen to their innocent children? People who read self-help books are simply not in charge of their lives and always looking for someone to lead them into the ‘promised land’. They have no clue about getting things done on their own so, they turn to these books for things they cannot do and have no confidence in themselves! My ex-girlfriend Jenny has a shelf full of ’self-help’ books. she is a prime example of these pathetic people.

    Comment by Kevin — November 10, 2007 @ 9:49 am

89. Yeah!!!this Jerry & Esther Hicks okay i will quit my job stay home ask for my morgage or rent my bills and it will come to me full of crap only simple mind people fall into this scam why is the goverment is allowing this how can you sit home and receive money out of the air they are just making money selling this crap to these people this is like gambling the goverment should step into this crap and get rid of it wait wait i’ll buy a lotto ticket and win hahahahaha yeah listen you have to work to get rich as they say no pain no gain i thing we should sue the goverment for this insanity so a 3 year old has cancer did he ask for it???? 3month old baby did she ask to die???? ester and hick we are going to sue your ass for millions for deceiving so many poor people what goes around comes around look at you you are old ask to be young again like yo are going to get you and your husband are f**k**d you are a cult i think FBI shold get involved in this money making fraud this is pure fraud. okay send me $1,000.000.00 dollars if you beileive this is to be true i dare you ester and hicks show me how true you are

    Comment by Richard — November 19, 2007 @ 3:54 am

90. What works is being positive & believing in yourself. If the Secret awakens people & inspires them, then what’s so wrong about that?

    I was given The Secret by a friend & shelved it for a couple of months til another friend told me I should watch it. I am a very skeptical person & watched the DVD with, well, skepticism. However, it really had me thinking because there was no avoiding the reality that everything I own, do and/or have in my life I thought about it, worked for it, acquired it, brought it into my life and gravitated to it …on my own.

    Anyway, at the time I was having some relationship issues and was willing to try anything, so I went out bought a slew of magazines & cut & pasted photos & words pertaining to what I wanted to draw towards myself. It worked. I got everything I wanted.

    I then bought 5 copies for my friends. Two of them are avid Secreters now & they too are having results.

    A few things about the Secret is that you cannot “dream”, “want”, “wish”, “hope”, or “doubt.”

    Some things take time, even months, others are instant. The mind also thinks in “absolutes” & its best to never to Secret words or ideas with two meanings (no idioms.) When I started Secreting I started with a few small material items, which came to me within days. This gave me confidence & I was inspired & motivated.

    The main thing to me was my relationship, albiet, I took into account that I may not attract the person I had my heart set on, so I stayed open to the fact that so long as I aligned myself with the “truth” and Secreted the “right person for me”, then I’d be happy with that as well. Also, you have to remember that when Secreting relationships, it’s a completely different vibration & energy, so you have to constantly Secret & shape the ways it will work for you.

    Also, people who Secret things which seem way too out of reach for them, should start by Secreting the way in which they will attain their goals. I heard of one woman complaining she Secreted her “dream car” & “a dream home in Italy”, then she lost her job & lost all hope. Maybe she lost her job because the universe was guiding her to a new job which paid better so she could afford the car, or maybe it was her opportunity to move to Italy. Also, she used the word “dream” in front of each goal. The mind will translate “dream car” into precisely that, a dream.

    Also, never Secret using the word “you”, instead use “me” and “my” and “I.” It’s tricky stuff but through trial & error I am still perfecting it and am now moving onto other things which I will soon have, do and enjoy. Hope this helps. Happy holidays. Janet

    Comment by Janet G — December 24, 2007 @ 5:57 pm

91. I viewed what little that I saw on youtube about The Secret, as just greed, nothing in regards to creating a nice enviroment for others. This might be represented as something perhaps as evil, self indulgent.
    What sells Best?

    What really seemed strange is the ongoing suggestion, as in quantom physics that we are creating our own reality, therefore you can wish and dream up your own version of the “things” that you would like to have “appear” in your own world like some Sci- Fi.
    I would happily accept this if there was some proof, even though from what we know as of today that we can be broken down to energy
    but that will change and they should not be creating this and marketing it to the general public without some source of confirmation.
    Boaderline Cult Makings

    Comment by april — December 30, 2007 @ 6:51 pm

92. oh yah the Visionary Dude in the movie contradicted himself on a CTV interview quoting that “thing such as a red car do not just appear as suggested”

    Comment by april — December 30, 2007 @ 6:55 pm

93. Hi all,

    I was diagnosed with Major Deppressive Illness 3 years ago and have gone through some of the hardest battles I’ve ever faced. Apparently I’ve brought it all upon myself eh? Nothing medical about it by any chance?

    Let me just say that I watched the Secret dvd and it truly scared the absolute crap out of me. I was left thinking I was gonna die just because I thought I could, then what is the point of living if my life is doomed?

    I don’t know how to control my thoughts, I try my hardest to be positive and sometimes I am, but trying to block out negative thoughts is an excercise in futility!

    Anyone who believes in “The Secret”, I ask you to please explain how it relates to murder, rape, famine, war etc…

    So 6 million jews should have been more positive?

    The starving in Africa are just too negative?

    People in war torn countries just need to think happier thoughts?

    Children abducted and tortured just brought it upon themselves?

    Everyone with terminal illness just has the wrong mindset?

    What are your thoughts on that all you secret believers???

    Maybe one of the worst diseases in the world is the credulity of the masses…

    Comment by Jay — February 9, 2008 @ 4:31 pm

94. One glaring fallacy in this that the law gravity is a law but the ‘law’ of attraction is not. The law of gravity can be duplicated each and very time and can be demonstrated every time. The ‘law’ of attaction cannot be demonstrated. It should be called ‘the rule of attraction’.

    Comment by Wired Guy — February 13, 2008 @ 12:26 pm

95. Hi. I’ve worked as a ghostwriter with a number of LOA people, including some that have been mentioned here aleady (I’m not going to mention which ones). I’m not going to claim that I know more about this than anyone else here (despite the username I’ve chosen here :). I will, however, suggest that because of my professional experience I have some insights here that are probably rare. Whether this helps you understand something or helps you challenge something you thought you understood — I don’t know. Here’s the thing that I’ve seen and experienced: the LOA People actually don’t understand LOA (and no, I’m not going to claim that *I* understand it — I don’t understand it either). The people “driving” LOA — the people that show up Oprah et al — are born marketers. They are hyper-efficent people who have, in some hazy way, relied o