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Nothing Secret About “The Secret”?

Posted by: John

It would seem that most of the world has seen “The Secret” by now, or read the book, or seen the stars on Oprah or Larry King. If you haven’t, I recommend getting a copy of either the book or the DVD and checking it out. I’m fascinated by peoples’ reactions to it, especially those who have been on a spiritual quest for some time and blow “The Secret” off as superficial and “nothing new.”

I believe that they miss the point of “The Secret” on several levels. First, if you haven’t heard something before, despite its being known to others, it could be considered a secret to you. At least it was a secret up until you heard about it! I completely agree that calling the Law of Attraction (which is what “The Secret” is ultimately about) a secret is like calling the Law of Gravity a secret. Things don’t fall up just because you haven’t heard it called the Law of Gravity before. By the same token, whether we know it as Law of Attraction or not, we’re affected by the Law of Attraction all day every day.

Second, “The Secret” isn’t intended to be an in-depth examination of the Law of Attraction because its target audience is the mass of humanity who has no idea that such a law exists, nor how it affects them on a daily basis. The purpose of “The Secret” is to make people aware that the Law of Attraction exists and to offer evidence, however anecdotal it may be, that it works. It does a brilliant job of that, IMO.

Third, there seems to be the assumption among those who are already aware of the Law of Attraction that they’ve “been there, done that” and they have no more to learn about Law of Attraction and no reason to be inspired by the fact that it is being presented to and embraced by so many people. Some even shrug off Law of Attraction as simply Positive Thinking in yet another guise. During a discussion on the Yahoo! group AnimalReikiSource, a member pointed out that Sikh yogis say that as soon as I say “I know that” I cut myself off from the flow. IMO, that says it all. The most that we know is that there is more to everything than we know.

The cynics among us will likely say that all those millions of people currently viewing and reading “The Secret” will maintain their excitement about it for a week or two or three and then fall back into the same patterns of life they had before. While I agree with that view somewhat, I don’t believe anyone can view “The Secret” and be inspired at all by it and remain unchanged. Whether they ultimately study Law of Attraction and apply it fully in their lives remains to be seen, but if only a small percentage of people do so, that’s enough to make a huge positive difference in the world.

John Sawyer

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