The Secret
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[ Byrne, The Secret (New York: Atria Books, 2006). In the book Byrne has extensive quotes from many other people and she calls them co-authors. So I also call them authors of the book.]
Many people unfortunately find themselves without enough money or being sick or overweight or without a loved one. The Secret offers hope to these people; the book says that we can use the power of our positive thoughts to get these things. Considering how sad it is to be without money or love, the universe would be so wonderful if this method worked! Unfortunately, even the authors themselves don’t really believe their ideas work as well as they claim they do.
The authors relate stories of positive things happening when people used the law of attraction. So one person visualized his dream house into existence, another visualized meeting an important person, a third attracted a hundred thousand dollar check. (p. 89-91, 87-88, & 95-97) Another person says that he “would visualize a parking space exactly where I wanted it, and 95 percent of the time it would be there for me and I would just pull straight in.” The other times he would have to wait only a minute or two. (p. 65) My favorite story, though, because I hate waiting in line, was of a boy who had to wait in long lines while at a week long vacation at Disney World. One night the boy, who had read The Secret, used the law of attraction and visualized the next day he would not have to wait in line at all for any of the rides. The next day this happened to him because his family was given VIP status! (p. 88)
I do not doubt these stories actually happened. Some people can visualize some things and have it work out for them. The much larger question is if it works for everyone all the time or does it work just for some people sometimes because they are special or lucky or just especially talented visualizers? Rhonda Byrne claims that “the law of attraction is a law of nature. It is as impartial and impersonal as the law of gravity is.” (p. 27) The law of gravity works all the time for all everyone in all places. The authors are making the same claim for their idea.
Unfortunately one of the best-known authors says it does not work all the time. Neale Donald Walsch, author of the very popular Conversations with God series of books, says that when you visualize things coming into your life, you first get its exact opposite. He says that “no sooner will you call something into your reality than its exact opposite will also appear- and always first.” [i] He says this happens because we need the opposite of what we want to appear so that we can fully experience and appreciate the positive things that will soon be drawn to us.[ii] But this is silly. People who start visualizing have already experienced the lack of the thing they are visualizing; that is the reason they are visualizing this thing. Thus they have no need to experience the opposite of what they are visualizing. Imagine if Isaac Newton said that gravity is a law except, sometimes, especially when you first test it, the opposite works. No one would believe that his supposed law of gravity is a real law.
There is a second reason to doubt that the authors themselves think it works. The authors don’t claim the law of attraction works for some things, they very explicitly claim it works for everything without limits. The basis of law of attraction is that we are one with the universal mind or God, so we have all its powers. Because we have all its powers, there are no limits to what we can create. Michael Bernard Beckwith states in the book, “Are there any limits to this? Absolutely not. We are unlimited beings. We have no ceiling. The capabilities and the talents and the gifts and the power that is within every single individual that is on the planet, is unlimited.” (p. 170) John Hagelin says, “We could go anywhere. We could do anything. Achieve anything.” (p. 181) In case the reader missed the general idea of how powerful her thoughts were, Rhonda Byrne says, “You are the Master of the Universe,” and “You are God in a physical body…You are all power. You are all wisdom. You are all intelligence. You are all perfection.” (p. 46 & 164)
These are amazing claims. Do they really mean them? One of the most basic facts of human life that shows our limitations is that we have to die. One of the featured authors of the book, Robert Collier, has two chapters in his own book about how we don’t have to grow old if we have the right thoughts. He says, “the fact is that there is no natural reason for man to grow old as soon as he does, no biological reason for him to grow old at all!”[iii] In the next chapter he says: “Universal Mind knows no imperfection — no decay – no death. It does not produce sickness and death. It is your conscious mind that has decreed these evils. Banish the thought — and you can banish the effect [death].”[iv]
Another basic fact of life is that other animals get sick and so it seems natural for us to get sick too. But a person the authors respect and look up to, Nona Brooks, says that is not natural for other animals to get sick, they get sick because of our thoughts: “The question may be asked, ‘If disease is a mental condition, why should animals be ill?’ It is a case of the higher influencing the lower; animals respond to the thoughts of men; they do not originate mental images of imperfection, but they follow ours.”[v] Many other people these authors look up to say similar things indicating that they mean, in a literal way, these statements about there are no limits to our powers.
On the other hand, there is overwhelming evidence these thinkers do not take these statements of unlimited power literally; not even the authors of The Secret really seem to believe in our unlimited power. The Secret has many reports of the authors using these ideas to get things such as a million dollars or parking spaces. It is wonderful to visualize and have the money show up. It is wonderful if you are sick and thoughts help you to get better. Thoughts are important and may effect our reality to a much greater degree than society’s conventional paradigm allows. But it is a big jump from saying thoughts are more powerful than most people think to saying that people’s thoughts have unlimited power. If the authors of The Secret really believe they are the Master of the Universe, why aren’t they doing something that manifests this total power? I would believe their ideas if these people showed their unlimited power and did something really cool like turn themselves into dolphins for a day.
Instead of believing our thoughts create everything, the authors of the book actually seem to believe the more limited idea that our thoughts help us live better within the limits of human life. So the person who visualizes parking spots is living in the normal, human world where people drive cars, but he has the added ability of getting parking spaces. Whereas if someone actually was a “God in a physical body,” it would seem he would never use a car, he would just teleport himself everywhere like on Star Trek.
So if this law of attraction does not work as well as the authors claim it does, and even they admit it sometimes, why do they make the exaggerated claim that it has no limits? I think the key reason is faulty metaphysics. By that I mean they have an inaccurate view of the relationship between humans and the divine (whether the divine is called God, the Ultimate Reality, the Universal Mind or another word).
The Secret is part of a larger tradition known as New Thought. (While the claims the great teachers of history always knew its teaching, this is a misstatement. This way of thinking was developed in the 1850s by Phineas Quimby. The origins of New Thought is discussed on this site here.) The key to New Thought’s worldview is the deep oneness between spiritual reality, often called Universal Mind, and a person’s subconscious. One of the book’s authors, Robert Collier, explained this relationship in his own book Secret of the Ages. Collier says, “the Universal Mind is omnipotent. And since the subconscious mind is part of the Universal Mind, there is no limit to the things, which it can do.”[vi] Collier continues by saying that since the Universal Mind and our subconscious mind is one, the only difference is one of degree: “if you take a drop of water from the ocean, you know that it has the same properties as all the rest of the water in the ocean, the same percentage of sodium chloride. The only difference between it and the ocean is in volume. If you take a spark of electricity, you know that it has the same properties as the thunderbolt, the same power that moves trains or runs giant machines in factories. Again the only difference is in volume. It is the same with your mind and Universal Mind. The only difference between them is in volume. Your mind has the same properties as the Universal Mind, the same creative genius, the same power all over the earth, same access to all knowledge. Know this, believe it, use it, and ‘yours is the earth and the fullness thereof.’ In the exact proportion that you believe yourself to be part of the Universal Mind, sharing in its all-power, in that proportion can you demonstrate the mastery over your own body and over the world about you.”[vii]
New Thought proponents continually say there is this deep connection between us and God that we have all the power of God.
I think that overstates the kind of connection we have to God. We are more connected to God than scientists and orthodox Christians think, but New Thought goes to other extreme and claims Oneness with God. They have a mistaken metaphysic that is popular among contemporary spiritual people. The fact that this view is popular, though, does not make it right.
Another problem with New Thought’s view of the divine is what this divine demands of us. Many people think of spirituality as being about a higher power that has some purpose or that you submit your will to. The Secret explicitly denies the higher power has any definite purpose for individuals and, instead, it totally emphasizes getting whatever you want through your thoughts. Neale Donald Walsch says, “there is no blackboard in the sky on which God has written your purpose, your mission in life. There’s no blackboard in the sky that says ‘Neale Donald Walsch. Handsome guy who lived in the first part of the twenty-first century who…’ And then there’s a blank. And all I have to do to really understand what I am doing here, why I’m here, is to find that blackboard and find out what God really has in mind for me. But the blackboard does not exist. So your purpose is what you say it is. Your mission is the mission you give yourself.” (p. 177) Rhonda Byrne says, “Whatever you choose for You is right.” (p. 179) The other authors agree and say that you should choose what gives you joy or bliss. (p. 178-180) Byrne wraps up this line of thought saying, “Be happy now. Feel good now. That’s the only thing you have to do.” (p. 179)
The New Thought paradigm is a reaction to an older traditional Christianity, which focused on certain biblical passages which emphasized God’s will and power and sovereignty over creation to do whatever He wanted. This God chose only certain people to hear His message and consigned the rest to hell because they never heard about Jesus. This God predestined some to heaven or hell for no good reason, and His actions could not be judged by human standards of fairness. He also cursed all humans for the actions of Adam and Eve, and He did not seem to care whether people suffered on this earth or not. The Deists of the Enlightenment period rejected this concept of God and replaced it with a concept of God, which emphasized his fairness, loving kindness and benevolence. New Thought follows this Deist view of God (as does much of Christian theology since the Enlightenment period).
The question is if the New Thought/Secret thinkers have reacted to older views of God by going to the other extreme. While pre-Enlightenment Christians overemphasized how much God demanded and how little we had a right to expect from him on earth, much of New Thought theology and The Secret goes to the opposite extreme. It says God gives us everything and satisfies all our desires. God wants nothing from us in return; all we have to do is accept his total abundance and rise above our doubts.
New Thought is very much right in emphasizing that our relationship to God/Universal Mind is the most important thing in our lives. It is also right in thinking too many people focus only on their outer material aspect instead of this spiritual aspect. But The Secret misrepresents what it takes to get attuned to the divine. It takes more than just right thoughts. One also needs to give one’s will over to God/the Universe/Flow, and let God work through you to accomplish something in the world. It seems to me that we are God’s hands doing something in the world. If you are doing something the Universe wants done, then It will be on your side helping you. You are like an employee of the Universe doing Its work, and so It pays you by having Its amazing energy flow through you, giving you wonderful blessings and synchronicities. But it does not seem realistic that the Universe wants nothing more from us besides clearing away our blocks to Ferraris or expensive dinners in fancy restaurants. This seems like a one-sided relationship with humans doing all the getting and the divine doing all the giving.
Obviously these authors have a different sense of our connection to the divine and what the divine wants from us than I do; they would probably think I have personal problems that block me from accepting the Universe’s non-demanding abundance. On the other hand, I think all relationships, both between humans and other humans, and humans and the Divine, are based on reciprocity where each side gives something to the other or does something for the other. So I would say they are motivated too much by selfishness and lower material desires to clearly see the real relationship between humans and the Divine.
The ironic thing is not all the authors of the book agree with this non-demanding view of the divine. So Michael Bernard Beckwith agrees with my basic point about the need to surrender to the divine and separate our real needs from our lower desires. In one of his books, he tells his life story and the troubles he went through until he had an experience of Oneness with the divine (which he calls Love-Beauty). He says, “I vowed to myself: From this moment forward my life is dedicated to serving Love-Beauty in the world…I surrendered my life completely to its luminous, transforming touch….I consecrated my life to this Love-Beauty, trusting its goodness to guide the course of my life.”[viii] Throughout his book, Beckwith continually emphasizes surrendering to this higher power, and the need to get through the ego’s lower desires to the higher purpose of life. He emphasizes that we have to distinguish between immature wants of the lower ego and mature wants of our true self.[ix] Another featured author in the book, Prentice Mulford, says a similar thing. Mulford says, “Always in your individual aims and purposes defer to the Higher Power and Infinite Wisdom. The thing you most desire may prove a curse. Be always, then, in the mood of saying, ‘There is a Power which knows what will bring me the most permanent happiness better than I do. If my desire is not good, let it not come…”[x]
Beckwith and Mulford are far from the only people in the New Thought tradition who thinks this way. Emmet Fox says “We must never for a moment try to live for ourselves, or make plans or arrangements without reference to God, or suppose that we be either happy or successful if we are seeking any other end than to do His Will.”[xi] H. Emilie Cady says, “Let go your narrow thoughts of the Divine, cease to desire anything less than the fulfillment of God’s will in you…burst the bonds of personal desire and rise to a willingness that the Father’s will be done through us every moment.” [xii] Just to cite one more important New Thought proponent who thinks the same way, Ernest Holmes says “we must realize that there is One Infinite Mind, which is consciously directing our destiny …which governs, guides and guards, tells me what to do, when to act, and how to act.” [xiii]
There is a split in the New Thought tradition between those like Beckwith, Fox, Holmes and Cady who think we have to surrender our wills to a higher power and those who agree with The Secret that the divine has no will other than to fulfill our desires. I am not in the New Thought tradition, but I agree with Beckwith: true spirituality involves surrendering your personal will to a higher power and an essential part of this process is separating mature and immature wants.
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This essay was written by Joseph Waligore. He dedicated his life to following the will of the Universe when he was 20. Seven months later he received a message from his Higher Self or inner connection to the divine to quit Dartmouth College. Through following a deep intuition in a dream and after many synchronistic experiences, he met his soulmate and married her. He and his wife followed their spiritual intuitions in their daily lives, including receiving messages to have children. For twelve years he stayed at home and raised his three children while his wife worked. Then, his wife told him he needed to make some money, so he got a Ph. D. in philosophy from Syracuse University. He currently has a part-time job teaching philosophy and religious studies at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. More information about him can be found at his MySpace profile. He also has a website with information about his own spiritual journey and his spiritual philosophy.
There is a Facebook group called Flowing. People interested in meeting other people who are interested in these ideas and/or participating in discussions about these ideas are invited to join the group.
Many people reach this site through keyword advertisements. It might be of interest that Joseph got the money for these ads through his daytrading profits.
[i] Neale Donald Walsch, Happier than God: Turn Ordinary Life Into Extraordinary Experience (Ashland, Oregon: Emnin Books, 2008), p. 73.
[ii] Walsch, p. 74-7.
[iii] Robert Collier, Secret of the Ages: The Master Key to Success and Fulfilment, (Radford, VA; Wilder Publications, 2007), Collier, p. 133.
[iv] Collier, p. 137.
[v] Nona Brooks, Mysteries, (Denver, n.p., 1924), p. 44-45. (The book is online at the New Thought Library and they say their version has the original pagination.)
[vi] Robert Collier, Secret of the Ages: The Master Key to Success and Fulfilment, (Radford, VA; Wilder Publications, 2007), p. 21.
[vii] Collier, p. 35.
[viii] Michael Bernard Beckwith, Spiritual Liberation: Fulfilling Your Soul’s Potential (NY: Atria Books, 2008), p. 7-8.
[ix] Beckwith, p. 54 & 70-1.
[x] Prentice Mulford, The God in You, in Thoughts Are Things & The God in You (Radford, VA; Wilder Publications, 2007), p. 113-4.
[xi] Emmet Fox, Power Through Constructive Thinking (New York: HarperCollins, 1989), p. 22.
[xii] H. Emilie Cady, How I used Truth in The Complete Works of H. Emilie Cady (Unity Village, Mo: Unity House, 2009), p. 211-2.
[xiii] Ernest Shurtleff Holmes, TheScience of Mind (Radford, Va: Wilder Publications), 2008), p. 136.
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My name is Joseph Waligore. I currently have a part-time job teaching philosophy and religious studies at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. More information about me can be found at my MySpace profile or my Facebook profile.
This website is one of four websites I have. At makingyourconnections.com I have a posted a significant portion of a self-help book I am currently writing. This book helps people succeed in the world by making their connections, the special people in their lives. Another website, www.followingtheflow.com is for spiritually oriented people and discusses very similar ideas from a more spiritually oriented perspective. Another one, www.josephwaligore.com is for academically or intellectually oriented people. It has my writings about spiritual philosophies such as Stoicism, Socrates, the Deists, the Enlightenment period, and the rise of modern science.
There is a Facebook group called Flowing. People interested in meeting other people who are interested in these ideas and/or participating in discussions about these ideas are invited to join the group.
Many people reach this site through keyword advertisements. It might be of interest that Joseph got the money for these ads through his daytrading profits.
The Secret is the version of the Biblical Ask and It Shall be Given. There is nothing wrong with asking, attracting, wanting, visualizing. Yet billions of people in every generation have asked and begged and did not receive what they wanted and that includes countless people of deep faith. Yet when people put together a well marketed feel-good book they got what they seeked. So as the saying goes – life talks, philosophy walks.
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it’s too bad that we all can’t just get along without tearing each other apart, it’s sad I believe that we couldn’t just uplift and let those who believe what they believe, believe, after all everything is perception, I hope I don’t get criticized for speaking but life has taught me the opposite, even I for saying what I’m saying on this post…may get daggers thrown at me…but, I guess I just had to because I was hoping to inspire and uplift and bring us together and not tear down, and If I did not succeed then I apologize to those I have moved in the wrong direction, those were never my intention.
Peace be with you all, let kindness, appreciation and love fill your hearts.
Your Brother, James
My sister always tells me “You think positively, but I think reality”. I’m not sure if this has a negative connotation to it. But, well, I do know that if you focus on your goals and you work hard for it, you will achieve it. You have to pray too.
I have spent thousands of dollars and hours on trying to make the law of attraction work for me. It is clear that my life is in a different program. One size doesn’t fit all. The law of attraction writers spread false hope to a lot of people. If it works for you fine. Please don’t say that if it doesn’t work it’s your fault. I hate that self-righteous judgementalism.
I am GOD. Do you believe that? …I dont think so..
I can manifest in your thoughts, your consciousness and i am the great voice inside you.
I can be in your imagination, i can be in your intrance moments, i can be in your inspired moments. Do you believe that? …
Call me whatever you want..
We are one! You are me, I am you.
lets stop criticizing each other lets just proceed to the journey home, okey?
see previouse comment
I am so shocked that there is even a website against “the secret”. The most basic, unoffensive literature I have everread! It is so basic and uncompliated that even a child could follow it if you implement it into your every day lifestyle. What is the hype? It is politically correct in every way, in no way critical or derogatory. It makes me sick how people misuse the name of God!!! Who of us really know the truth except that being positive and attractiv3 to the good things, really does work. I have been through hell, I have tried a million ways to conquer addiction!!!! The secret has been my only aid!!!! Do you want to take that away from the world? PLEASE!!!! lets stop the nitty gritty. God is ONE LOVE
i do believe The Secret, there are lots of questions on my mind before which answered by when i had read this book, i proved it works all the time…And as it revealed to me i turn my life into positive way. The same as the Bible it was made also for the common good of the believers…
Hi,
I really believe The secret, and I see it in my life, as well.
But I have a favor to ask. Indeed, I would like to be accepted in the master enterance exam this year which I’ve pass it already. Actually I visualize it clearly, without any doubt! THE SECRET helpes me, doesn’t it? And about a very very beloved person, will the universe tell my heart beat to …, Again I know our God will support EVERYBODY AND ME TOO, then please say something to relax me. please help me .
como puedo aplicar mas el secreto
The secret is fact of being what you have got out of Bible.At this climax Joseph is a Bible being at all and may God bless him always for furhter commentary he passed out as a secret to the entire world. It is all in the Holy Bible. If only we could have total Faith and Trust in our Creator. He Himself calls us His children, and therefore. He gives us Dominion and Authority over the Earth and its contents.
Bless you all
Anthony in great lakes region og Africa Uganda,Rwanda,Bujumbura and Congo are my hide outs of this world,and would you want me to be part of you? pass me amail and we share the goodness of the Lord as Joseph did.
Be blessed all;
why are people so fast to put something down if it works for certain humans then be happy for them life is hard too much hate and greed around everybody should be held accountible for their actions i better stop now or ill start wrighting a book on this site excuse the spelling and yes there was a man named jesus that walked this earth im still studing this too theres so much to do learn see find experence its endless its up to you till you are happy with your truth celtic fireman tim
or to be more clear frequinces the whole earth and universe run on them im still learning working on this and its not easy you have to dig deep when i get better at this i will share it but i have been aware of this since a small boy and before the book the secret came out just like if you could talk to a whale what could they tell you celtic fireman tim
i agree with anna its also tapping into vibrations to send and recieve this is the key this is what you have to master celtic fireman tim
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Nice site. Thank you.,
“The Secret” helps me to Move on…. it is the power from the Univers, you can received all good things from em, if you choose to accept. Amituofo!
i want to be great manager ,so do you have any strong supporter idea that lead me to do so.
Only people who are ready to hear the message in the secret are going to actually get it. The rest is not ready… You will get from the secret what you are ready to hear (what you are attracting)… so don’t worry about anything. Enjoy your life. Look for the best feeling thoughts you can find about everything… Life is good… All is really well
I do believe in The Secret.It works for me all the time. I agree with Sam, God bless the non-believers. The ones with positive thinking and strong will.
I think all that I have read from the various contributors has merit. However life is not painted in black and white. Our greatest strength is our right to choose whatever we wish to believe, and to change that choice at any moment in an effort to produce a required result. My friends let us endeavour to accept and bless every experience life brings and to love unconditionally all of creation. What may work for one individual does not have bring about the same result for all, but we can all enjoy our journey for complete satisfaction and happiness without becoming angry at each other because we travel different roads to the same goal. Bless you all.
I shall not pretend to know it all, and while I agree that it is much better to think positive than to think negative, even if >>Secret<>Secret<>Let there be….<>Secret<>free will<>my<>control group<>Why?<>Global Warming<>what have You invented before<>which Patents You have, are they succesfuly implemented and produced<>Yes, really horrible situation<<, and continue to feed stray cats from cans of cat food that cost so much that I could have enough food to last for a week….
I only hope that He did not intend that I should also become homeless, since my Business Bank went broke and took all liquid assets of my company down the drain, and several of big client companies had to declare insolvency and liquidate themself, leaving unpaid big bills for goods and services, so I am in debt and cannot pay mortgage loan I took to be able to do business..
How I survive is another small chain of miracles, unfortunately geting less and less as I am closer to realization of my inventions, and house bills mount up, so it is just question what would be switched off first: electricity, gas or telephone…….
Well, let His will be done!
Perhaps I had to chance on this Blog, and there would be someone willing to invest money or at least inspired to help me to save the World…
Still, I thank God for everything I receive, even old and moldy bread that neigbours throw, and for bottles I collect to be able to buy some food, and ocasional odd jobs I could do to earn money to pay bills…..
Regards from Croatia, the homeland of one of greatest inventors: Enginer Nikola Tesla!
Marijan Pollak, IT SA/SE 1st. Class, Instructor and Team Leader, (retired)
If anyone is interested to contact me, my email is [email protected]
For me the secret is not really a “secret” and i definitely do not see wrong with the positions taken by the authors.
The Bible (especially via Jesus’teachings)has taught that man is able to achieve anything if he his able to imagine it (see account in Genesis 11, when God had to “disrupt” the program of man in order to stop their “progress”).
It is interesting and instructive that “even” God acknowledge the fact that man is able to achieve literally anything that he is able to conceive in his imagination.
having said the above, it is important at this juncture too state that ultimately any power (and the use of such) that does not bring Glory to God will ultimately fail.
That is why Christians who come into contact with the “secret” should be careful (and bullish) at the same time. Careful cos it is easy to get sucked into the new-age thinking that and assumed that you can become “GOD” (falling into the original sin of the devil. Bullish because the main message of the secret in actually not a secret because according to the Bible “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he” and Jesus said that ” All things are possible … to them that believe”.
Finally, i want to advise anyone coming in contact with this write up to seriously consider giving their life to Jesus by accepting Him as Lord and Saviour. This is the whole essence of creation. He loves you and he died for you as a demonstration of his love. Living on earth is not the end of life you need him to secure your entry into the “life that begins after dead”
Thanks for reading.
Abiodun Sobowale
Take it or leave it. The secret changed every aspect of my life.
The secret is actually no secret at all. It is all in the Holy Bible. If only we could have total Faith and Trust in our Creator. He Himself calls us His children, and therefore, gods. He gives us Dominion and Authority over the Earth and its contents.
If you care read the Book of Genesis Chapter 1 and the Book of Saint Mark, Chaptert 11, Verse 24.
David, Nairobi, Kenya.
You will see it if you believe it! This is all i have to say….God Bless the non-believers. The secrest has worked for me on personal relations that cannot be published. But believe me they have worked wonders for my relationship.
سلام.ايا فايزه در کنکور قبول مي شود
Sorry…
I have now read more of your posts and see that you’r purpose is not debonking the secret or any other. But to ask us all to be more critical of our information sources.
And rightfully so!
Please see my first post as my clumsy atempt to help keep the mind open for new input and inspirations.
But surely we need to use both hemispheres of our great mind (Right and left brain)
I will take my foot out of your wise mouth and end on a parafrased quote by Einstein.
“Sicence without god is as useless as God without science”
Thank you for a well written and informative site
Kindly
Martin
Comment on the original post!
You spend ages writing your analysis.
Too bad that time was not spend searching for truth, proff and evidence of the law of attraction.
That way you would have had a better time – as your endeavor would have been one of possibillities and posetive emotions.
And you might have learned somthing along the way
A short story from one of this worlds finest belivers – Mother Teresa.
At some point in time a group of activists contacted Mother Teresa
and asked if she would join their cause and walk with them in a march AGAINST war.
Her answer was ‘No! – But when you have a march FOR peace, I’ll be there’
And as I will not say that I know more about belief and beliving than Mother Teresa. I bow down to the wisdom of her choices – and try my very best to stay focused on that wich I WANT and that I am FOR – Ranther than spending my time on all that I’m against and that wich I’m not wanting.
That being said…
Sience knows a bit or 2 about our brains, bodies and how we operate. And we now know, with military based scientific proff, that our DNA structure affects the world around it. And our DNA structure is closely tied to the kind of thourghts we entertain in our mind.
Or as the Buddha said: “You are not punished FOR your thoughts – You are punished BY your thoughts”
Short experiment if you don’t mind…
Read the words: “Blue Car” good.
Now read them again and notice that the picture of a blue car flash briefly in your minds eye.
Same happens if I say “Blue Monkey” – A blue monkey pops in your minds eye.
Now try “Fear” – Waht happend in your body?
Try again…
You get a very short ‘sampling’ of fear.
Why?
Because that is how our brain works in order to undestand and experience the world we live in.
A ‘Database’ with samplings of experiences.
But what most don’t realise is that 85-95% of all this goes on in our sub-concies mind.
And we, for the most part, like it that way.
otherwise we would still need all the capacities of our concious mind just to crawl (That’s what babies need)
So it’s a god thing that when we have learned someting usefull we can put it on autopilot and get on with more important things.
Now rewind the movie of your life to an earlier day.
And have a look at some of the things you learned to run on autopilot back then. Are all of the usefull and beneficial to you life today?
Or do you have habits of deed or thought that is not excactly getting you the results, experiences that you want?
- Hey so have I, everybody does.
But what if you could re-programe your autopilot and get new results and experiences?
That is bacicly what the screct is about – hear me out
Real small scale – law of attraction example.
When we where kids we knew nothing better than our own birthday.
All the attention given us and all the pressents.
SO, in the days before, we ran around in circles and was bursting with exitement and could not wait for it to become our birthday.
The night before we where SO exiteted we COULD NOT SLEEP.
And when morning came we flew out of bed hyperventilating and eyes wide open – no ‘I’m to tired, mom’
Why?
Because we had seen in our mindseye a day of joy, attention, play, fun, love and exitement.
And all of our littel being was pumped up for the challange.
Now years later we don’t view our birthday taht way and hence we feel no different on that day than any other.
What would happen if you found something that got you childishly exited again… do you think your body would respond by pumping up to the challange? You bet it does.
Try it out tonight as you got to bed.
See in your minds eye your alarm clock and it should read (in yor minds eye) you normal time of getting up – Minus 1 hour (eg. if you get up at 7 – see it as 6 o’clock)
And now pretend, still seeing the clock in your minds eye.
That it would make you childlike birthday happy to wake up at that excate time – see the clock and feel the feeling of absolute joy in your body. Smile hvile you sit there on the eged of your bed seeing this picture and feeling the super joy of getting up at that time.
Now go to bed at let you sub-coincies mind take care of the rest.
- And enjoy your morning tomorrow
So not only will new positive thoughts provoke your body into a new state of alertness, readyness and resolve. But you DNA will likewise have made a new and more positive imprint on the subatomic praticles in the space around you.
Experiments done by the Heart Math institute.
Discovered that our electromagnetic field (The one responsible for ordering of the surounding sub-atomic particles into a matching state of our positive or negative thoughts)
Is so strong that it can be detected from space with a geo-surveay satilite. When it is very positivly or negativly charged!
Let’s get back to earth again for one last excample.
Do you prefere to be meet by I smile or a frown?
Do you prefere people that are happy or people that are depressed? (Unless your depressed yourself – then you probably hate the happy idiots)
Do you prefere people that speak with warmth and passion about their topic? Or dull, dimm and gloomy people with nothing but complaints on their mind?
Who would you rather do business with… the smiling, happy, warm and pasionatly people of the world or the Frowning, depressed, dimm, gloomy complainers of the world?
Who would you rather help?
Who would you lend money?
Who would you hang out with?
Who would you say is most likely to succed in their life?
Who would you… like to be?
Start dreaming of who you would love to be – and find pictures of this kind of person on the internet.
Find stories of people who inspire you.
Dive in and don’t look back – all that is back there is who you where now – Liberate your mind with joy (Like the alarm clock example) and then start to notice the littel changes as they start to appear.
If you got interested… or just want to waste time debonking me
Here’s a short list to start with – If one should care
Books:
Greg Braden – The Devine Matrix
Wayne Dyer – The Power of Intention
Abraham-Hicks – The Vortex
Movies:
The Science of miracles
What the BLEEP do we know
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What do you mean by The secret being a Compilation? Sure it was not re-creating a wheel, still Rhonda has put loads of creativity and imagination to flurish the Secret. Its more then Compilation.
Hi,
what do you mean by the secret being a Compilation?
The Secret is one of the best compilatins of Law of Attraction. The secret has now been revealed.
Thanks
I am sure focusing on money alone will not get anyone very far. I am sure we all realise we can only serve one another in a positive way. Thinking of one’s betterment is ok, but has to be to the good of others too.
Spirituality comes from knowing there is a higher divine spirit(there is ONLY one which flows through the world Universe). The name is God, however again the name is a name. I am not so sure God was his real name. Can you prove except from the bible written by man.
We are all energy, its been proven by Quantum physics.
I discovered the power in the Word of God this August and it is working wonders in my family and my life. Praising and Thanking the Almighty for whatever you want and finding the joy flowing within. Just today a Believer lent me ‘the Secret’ – it’s message is very powerful too- in every testimony I saw the ‘ENERGY’ they referred to was God and the Son of Man – JESUS who died for you and me on the Cross. The Pastor also quoted many times from Scripture; and a very powerful and imp one was; THE ENERGY (HE) THAT IS WITHIN ME IS GREATER THAN THE ENERGY (the one) IN THE WORLD. This scripture is so powerful that every demon stronghold in man’s mind is broken instantly. They have dwelled a lot on Wealth; which is rather misleading. However, they have also spoken on relationships, change of heart and above all cheer and laughter. Quite positive for this materialistic world. But I am happy for your critical analysis coz I’ll be discussing this with our prayer group next week. PRAISE AND THANK YOU JESUS.
ADORE LORD, WHEN HE IS READY TO CALL YOU, WHILE YOU WILL HAVE NO POWER TO POSTPONE THE DECIDED. ADORE LORD, ADORE LORD.
nice analysis. when i read the book (The secret), i thought it was an inspirational book meant for the sixth graders. what they wrote defies the quantum aspect of nature itself. what they wrote is not permitted by the quantum laws. i do not know why they would name it the secret, but if the secret was their secret to acquire a bit of cash and fame, i dont blame them in attempting to fool the readers. human nature is all about relativistic power play. you should fight club and revolver to get a better idea why their book was pathetic. but you were very kind with your analysis.