The Secret ?

Question

Has anyone watched the DVD "The Secret" and have you applied it. Tell me what you have asked for and how did you ask for it. Did it work?

Answer 1

I've decided to delete my answer. I'm not going to argue with critics or negative people.

Oh yeah, I asked for a coffee and unexpected $$ and got both ($40 lol)

Watch the dvd, I recommend it.

:)

Answer 2

I have not seen it or heard about it. I just read the second answer above me, so now I know. It is the worst kind of wizard-craft if this be true. We can have all things through Christ. We must acknowledge that the power is not US, it is God. With God all things are possible, but the great temptation is to claim the power as ones own. And it is not.

There is a book by a minister, an old book now, call "the power of Positive Thinking". And this is true. The human mind have the power within itself to make our lives good or bad, but this has nothing to do with the supernatural. It is always best to think positive.

By the way, in answer to the person just above me. I hate to tell you this... but I always get a parking space. ALWAYS. I have had priest say to people that they wish that they knew my prayer. And I have plenty of witnesses too. Always, always, no matter where, how many thousands of people are there... there is always a parking place for me by the door. And this was before I had a handicap permit too.

Answer 3

After reviewing I can only conclude that The Secret is heretical New Age mysticism. The essence of Rhonda Byrne’s The Secret is the law of attraction. According to Byrne and her twenty-nine co-contributors, all things in the universe (which is always capitalized and usually synonymous for "God" in the book) vibrate on a particular frequency. When a person thinks in harmony with the frequency of something, that person attracts it to themselves. If a person thinks about wealth, that person will receive wealth. If a person thinks instead about their debt, the person will receive more debt. You attract what you think about; your thoughts determine your destiny.

The law of attraction is restated by Byrne in various ways:
- "Nothing [good or bad] can come into your experience unless you summon it through persistent thoughts" (p. 28).
- "Your thoughts are the primary cause of everything" (p. 33).
- "Your current reality or your current life is a result of the thoughts you have been thinking" (p. 71).

Other quotes:
- “You are God in a physical body. You are Spirit in the flesh. You are Eternal Life expressing itself as You. You are a cosmic being. You are all power. You are all wisdom. You are all intelligence. You are perfection. You are magnificence. You are the creator, and you are creating the creation of You on this planet" (p. 164).

- "The earth turns on its orbit for You. The oceans ebb and flow for You. The birds sing for You. The sun rises and it sets for You. The stars come out for You. Every beautiful thing you see, every wondrous thing you experience, is all there for You. Take a look around. None of it can exist, without You. No matter who you thought you were, now you know the Truth of Who You Really Are. You are the master of the Universe. You are the heir to the kingdom. You are the perfection of Life. And now you know The Secret" (p. 183). [Here the author thinks all of this should be said to the person in the mirror. It is the heresy of heresies. Her big "Secret" is nothing less than Satan's original lie in the Garden of Eden, "You will be like God" (Genesis 3:5).]

- "no one will stand in judgment of [your life], now or ever" (p. 177).

The author absolutely promises: "There isn't a single thing that you cannot do with this knowledge.... The Secret can give you whatever you want" (p. xi). By it "you will come to know how you can have, be, or do anything you want" (p. xii).

The Secret is nothing more than heretical so-called Name It-Claim It, Positive-Confession, Prosperity Theology (minus God and the Bible), built on a metaphysical foundation of New Age self-deification. All with an important twist: your thoughts can bring anything into your life because you are god.

Answer 4

Jesus promised the same thing… “Ask anything in my name and it will be given." [gospel of John]. Sadly it's not very reliable, and usually just doesn't work.

I think there’s something in it but it has more to do with self discipline and motivation than the universe zapping out things for you. The thing that pissed me off the most was the part where that guy always gets parking spaces. That is a lie for sure, one hundred percent lie. But as I said, there’s something in it and quantum theory does suggest something in that direction.

Answer 5

my mother has been bugging me to watch it...so far i've been able to "forget" the dvd at her house three times, lol...she said it's similar to "what the bleep do we know" and to be honest, I only watched about 5 wretched minutes of that one...not my thing...

Answer 6

I haven't seen it, but I read about it. It sounds lame and hokey, what I like to call "wishcraft".