http://thesecretstory.com/blog/2007/nicole-kidman-keith-urban-using-self-help-guide-the-secret/ The Secret Movie, The Teachers, and the Law of Attraction Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:06:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://thesecretstory.com/blog/2007/nicole-kidman-keith-urban-using-self-help-guide-the-secret/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Jon Lowe Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:42:40 +0000 http://thesecretstory.com/blog/2007/nicole-kidman-keith-urban-using-self-help-guide-the-secret/#comment-35 THE SECRET is mostly hype without substance, and claims to reveal the great secret of wealth and fulfillment, employed by geniuses throughout the ages. What is this incredible secret? Think about what you want, and it will be attracted to you. Author Rhonda Byrne narrates, along with a host of motivational speakers, and even a wacky quantum physicist who has signed on to the idea that there's something mystical going on here. We are all like massive radio towers, Byrne says, broadcasting our thoughts to the universe, which senses the vibrational energy emitted, and responds accordingly. Aided by endless commentary of the "I agree, I agree" sort, the few points made by the book are repeated like indoctrination, while a moody yet beatific sound track lends it all the air of revelation. Want a Hummer or a private jet? That could be in your future, too, if you concentrate hard enough on it. Never mind global warming, or whether you SHOULD want more and more. Never mind the Biblical admonition that the love of money is the root of all evil, either, or any Eastern values concerned with accepting what is. Byrne, the Anti- Christ of popcorn psychology, would have you focus your thoughts on riches instead of seeking one's identity beyond thoughts--the traditional goal of meditation. This is why she picked people like Jack Canfield, author of the Chicken Soup books, instead of Eckhart Tolle or Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche as one of her "seers." While it is true that one's thoughts influence one's direction or destiny, it is also true that thoughts are fleeting, obsessive, compulsive vapors of the mind, and shouldn't be believed without question. The secret to happiness is therefore not in acquiring and possessing as many symbols of wealth as possible via thought control, but in realizing that once you are no longer a prisoner of your thoughts--or others-- you will not need those things in the first place. THE SECRET is mostly hype without substance, and claims to reveal the great secret of wealth and fulfillment, employed by geniuses throughout the ages. What is this incredible secret? Think about what you want, and it will be attracted to you. Author Rhonda Byrne narrates, along with a host of motivational speakers, and even a wacky quantum physicist who has signed on to the idea that there’s something mystical going on here. We are all like massive radio towers, Byrne says, broadcasting our thoughts to the universe, which senses the vibrational energy emitted, and responds accordingly. Aided by endless commentary of the “I agree, I agree” sort, the few points made by the book are repeated like indoctrination, while a moody yet beatific sound track lends it all the air of revelation. Want a Hummer or a private jet? That could be in your future, too, if you concentrate hard enough on it. Never mind global warming, or whether you SHOULD want more and more. Never mind the Biblical admonition that the love of money is the root of all evil, either, or any Eastern values concerned with accepting what is. Byrne, the Anti- Christ of popcorn psychology, would have you focus your thoughts on riches instead of seeking one’s identity beyond thoughts–the traditional goal of meditation. This is why she picked people like Jack Canfield, author of the Chicken Soup books, instead of Eckhart Tolle or Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche as one of her “seers.” While it is true that one’s thoughts influence one’s direction or destiny, it is also true that thoughts are fleeting, obsessive, compulsive vapors of the mind, and shouldn’t be believed without question. The secret to happiness is therefore not in acquiring and possessing as many symbols of wealth as possible via thought control, but in realizing that once you are no longer a prisoner of your thoughts–or others– you will not need those things in the first place.

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