The Real Secret of The Secret

[solve_et_coagula]

The Real Secret of The Secret

By Richard Smoley

The latest in the blockbusters of alternative spirituality is The Secret, now both a film and a book. Both have been huge successes. The film version has sold 1.5 million copies in DVD format, while at this writing in early June 2007, the book version of The Secret has been on The New York Times’s best-seller list in the US for “advice nonfiction” for twenty weeks, and currently sits on the top.

No wonder. In breathless, gee-whiz language, The Secret’s Web site promises the key to human existence: “The Secret has existed throughout the history of humankind. It has been discovered, coveted, suppressed, hidden, lost and recovered. It has been hunted down, stolen, and bought for vast sums of money. Now for the first time in history, The Secret is being revealed to the world over two breathtaking hours.”

Continue to read:
http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/Article/The_Real_Secret_of_The_Secret.html

[Anders Lindman]

From the article:

"That, in essence, is the Secret. Whether it was “hunted down, stolen,” or “bought for vast sums of money” and whether Plato, Aristotle, and other great men had any knowledge of it remains highly open to question, but there’s nothing particularly astonishing about the Secret itself. As the film’s promoters concede, the idea has been a part of occult philosophy for centuries, although it entered the mainstream only about 150 years ago."

If the secret would make people able to create what they thought, why would they need to keep it secret??!! Isn't that a sign of the secret actually NOT working?

[i_am]

The Real Secret of The Secret


Continue to read:
http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/Article/The_Real_Secret_of_The_Secret.html

For the most part a very good article :)

[Anders Lindman]

This part was funny (in a slightly sinister way):

"...But the problem doesn’t stop there. You could have your wish fulfilled in a way that you don’t want. A friend of mine once used Secret-like techniques to get $10,000 to help her boyfriend start a business. Her car was robbed on the day she was moving, with all her belongings in it. The insurance settlement amounted to $10,000. As the proverb says, “Be careful what you wish for. You might just get it.”"

:D