I've just started to read The Secret by Rhonda Byrne, and I basically just read the first 10 or something pages and I realized that, the way the book explains it, it's basically impossible for the Law of Attraction to work.
If everything that you think happens, what keeps me from constantly thinking that the Law of Attraction doesn't exist? If it disappears, my thoughts would no longer have to be reality and it will exist again, but then that will mean that it doesn't work, because my thoughts aren't reality anymore...
What do you think?
2007-11-06 19:32:02 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Of course, if you think the law of attraction doesnt work, you are going to attract ppl and circumstances that confirm that belief, meaning you will continually deny yourself any oppurtunity to better yourself through your way of thinking.
The law doesnt care if you believe it or not, it will carry on doing what it does in the background.
I havent read the Secret but ive known about the law of attraction, at least subconsciously, for awhile now. The law of attraction is only one law amongst many others; I think the worse thing about the secret is that its making all this noise about 1 law, and as it turns out, its the one law that our money making society seems to be the most intrested in. If the secret was the law of reflection or the law of clarity, it wouldnt make as much money now would it?
2007-11-06 19:56:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
"The Secret" is not only nonsense, it's DANGEROUS nonsense.
It's main idea is that thoughts ALONE can create reality. Action is irrelevant... even the given reality is irrelevant. And that's just the first of many problems... one that has caused many of the people who signed on to do the initial video version to disclaim the carefully edited segments of their interviews that were shown.
It stirs up mystery with the suggestion that people have been trying to keep you from knowing about it for millennia. A claim that no historian I know would back up. It struggles for legitimacy by implying that scientific understanding agrees that thought creates reality. Something that no scientist I know would agree with.
Worst of all, it's not just good things that are supposedly attracted to you, but ALL things. Raped as a child? It was your fault. You somehow attracted it. Country overrun by invaders? If only you had been thinking positive thoughts! The author of the Secret overtly says things like this in her book. Blaming the victim is hardly new or secret... many psychologists have already gone on record decrying the negative impact this 'idea' has had on people's lives.
And if you don't get any results, supposedly it's not the Law of Attraction that is a fraud... it's just that you can't control your own thoughts. You can't even see results that other people get if you have doubt, because you supposedly attract things that will make you doubt. In that sense it's like a lot of brainwashing cults - if you believe, only then will you have evidence... but you won't need it because you'll believe so you won't get any evidence.
The word for something that is impossible to detect by doubters by any means is 'fraud'.
Don't get me wrong, though. Having a good attitude CAN have a positive effect on your life. This is called the 'Pygmalion Effect' and 'expectation' by psychologists. If you treat other people nice, they will tend to treat you nice back. If you are looking for good things you will tend to see them. It's not rocket science and it's no secret!
2007-11-07 14:16:54 · answer #2 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The law of attraction exists but it is only one small part of this universe, there are so many other opposite laws so it is balanced .but personally I think the secret was a good idea to be broadcast because at least it makes people's life better by just giving them the belief they can take whatever they want
2007-11-07 04:59:51 · answer #3 · answered by Sherry 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
As a man thinks so shall he be. If that is the way you are thinking then that is as you shall be.
But I have to agree with some of the answers here. The book is recycled from a lot of other books on the same subject. Not worth much.
2007-11-07 04:47:23 · answer #4 · answered by the old dog 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You might enjoy/benefit by reading "Climb the Highest Mountain," Mark Prophet, "Watch Your Dreams," Ann Ree Colton, "Man, Master of His Destiny," O. M. Aivanhov, and "The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce?", Free and Wilcock.
cordially,
j.
2007-11-07 04:18:02 · answer #5 · answered by j153e 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Secret is the biggest load of rubbish I have ever read.
I think that the Chaser, an Australian comedy show, sum up the truthfulness of this book. Check it out below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usbNJMUZSwo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbL3db2z_Ic
2007-11-07 03:38:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think only opposites attract. The same but different is best.
2007-11-07 05:27:20 · answer #7 · answered by Q M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think "The Secret" is a big hot pile of steaming BS.
But that's just me.
2007-11-07 03:39:23 · answer #8 · answered by R[̲̅ə̲̅٨̲̅٥̲̅٦̲̅]ution 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋