Hi, What's your thought about The Secret: Law of attraction?

Question

I've heard about it through the media and it's getting popular. I dont want to buy though, do you think it's another Marketing idea?

Answer 1

It's just the "Prosperity Gospel" dressed up in secular garb. God/Reality is just one huge piggy bank just waiting for people to pray/believe enough that good things should come to them (regardless of merit) and it's open sesame. No need to bother with tedious work or worry about having to use such blessings in an unselfish manner. You deserve the good things in life simply because you're you (and you donated money to the ministry/bought the author's merchandise).

Answer 2

This is going to make me sound like some sort of hardcore christian freak (ftr, I am not a christian, although the freak part is debatable) and I don't mean it to sound that way... but.

I believe that there are other planes/spirits around, some of which are inaccessible after death, that interact with and coexist with our own. The first time the so-called "Law of Attraction" was mentioned near me was in a book by a medium. Who knows WHAT entities etc these people were talking to, and it sounds highly suspect to me.

And even if you don't believe in other beings, (in which case I sound like I belong in an institution, but oh well) then it's just amusing. "Ordering" what you want from the Universe like it's one great big McDonalds? HAH.

And HAH HAHAHAHAHAH for good measure.

Answer 3

The book itself is crap. If you want a better education on the Law of Attraction I would suggest The Kybalion - Hermetic Philosophy.

Answer 4

Heresy, like the false "name it and claim it" prosperity gospel.

Answer 5

It's one of those "think it and speak it and it will come to you" kinds of "word of faith" theologies....

I.E., crap on a stick, with mustard.