If you don't believe me, try it. Shoot yourself in the face with a shotgun, I guarantee bad shit will happen.

The Secret is bullshit, is exactly the same as the so called Law of Attraction, which is also bullshit, and is a dangerous thing to believe. Firstly, it tells you that you don't need to take action to get what you want just believing you will get it, focusing on getting it and asking the universe for it will ensure its delivery (I'd like a red bike please universe). That is a fail because you also need to take action. Secondly, it is totally contrary to evidence backed scientific fact. Which is dangerous too as they are the enemies of reason (read some Dawkins if you don't already know why this is damaging). Thirdly, believing the universe works this way also means that people who are tortured brought that into their own lives too. Go have a read around on a Secret or Law of Attraction forum and there is a lot of bullshit discussion on this kind of thing.

James Randi will give a million dollars to anyone who can prove that any supernatural stuff like this is real under controlled experimentation. No one can, has or will.

It is not true, it is dangerous and it is silly.

The onus of proof remains with the believers. I await the evidence and hope the one who proves it is real enjoys their million dollar prize money and international fame. But, I won't hold my breath.


Peace,

kowalski

The whole law of attraction thing comes from a nineteenth century healing technique and is a reaction to Calvinism and "The secret" is basically other peoples ideas repackaged and made popular by business and now Oprah.

sociologist Micki McGee writes
"continuous and never-ending work on the self is offered not only as a road to success but also to a kind of secular salvation." The self becomes an antagonist with which one wrestles endlessly the Calvinist attacking it for sinful inclinations, the positive thinker for "negativity.'"

It can make people feel guilty for their lack of positivity or shift blame from the real underlying reasons.

Take the credit crunch and the sub prime morgages. Do you think that if business taught to invest within there means instead of that one only has to think a thing or desire it to make it happen we'd be in all this financial mess?

There's a book about positive thinking it by Barbara Ehrenreich Called "Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World"

But! She does... "not write in a spirit of sourness or personal disappointment, nor do I have any romantic attachment to suffering as a source of insight or virtue. On the contrary, I would like to see more smiles, more laughter, more hugs, more happiness… and the first step is to recover from the mass delusion that is positive thinking".

I'm not saying be a miserable bastard but have some realism otherwise you're just lying to yourself instead of dealing with your problems. You need to be able to identify problems with yourself so you can grow and take right action to address these problems but just wishing for stuff won't make it a reality.

Here's an interview with Barbara Ehrenreich that lays down her argument quite nicely

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/...e_bright_side/

anyone who thinks this is good is a fag

It didn't make me feel motivated I skipped through it once I got half way got kind of boring.

It reminds me of those mr money motivation tapes on king of the hill