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The Secret | 
| Author: Rhonda Byrne
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  185 reviews
Sales Rank: 17
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 1847370292
EAN: 9781847370297
ASIN: 1847370292
Publication Date: December 4, 2006
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 Dangerous August 28, 2008
This books claims that if you truly believe then the universe will provide everything you need. It is based on some pseudo theory that positive thoughts create a kind of positive feedback that will benefit everyone. That's basically the message but the book repeats it over and over in a hundred different ways.
I think the book is dangerous and I wonder how many people who bought it went on to over-commit themselves financially in the belief that the universe would provide...
We live in a world of SCARCITY, not unlimited abundance... August 28, 2008
There is much merit in anything self-helpy.
If you have taken the time to pick up a book like "The Secret" at least you are taking positive steps to improve your life.
This alone marks you out as part of a tiny minority of people who are more likely than the crowd to achieve their dreams.
The Secret is moderately useful in reminding you to use positive thinking but there are much better books out there for same.
That said, one thing this whole movement gets TOTALLY wrong, however, is the notion that "the universe" is limitlessly abundant and, as a result, we can all manifest everything we want.
This is very dangerous and very untrue.
At the world's current population and level of Ecomomic development we are already bumping up against some very serious ecological glass ceilings.
In order for every African, Chinese, South American and Indian (for eg) to have the standard of living of an AVERAGE western European or North American we would need approximately EIGHT MORE PLANETS of Oil, Gold, Iron Ore, Agricultural land, fresh water, fish etc... etc...
If everyone in the world were to be able to manifest their multi-millionaire dream existence as this book would have you believe you'll have nine billion people by 2020 flying to their super yachts in private jets.
This is quite clearly utterly impossible. There isn't enough metal to build them, let alone enough oil to fuel them.
Those of us lucky to live an affluent first world existence do so on the backs of most of the world's population living on a $ a day and having a life expectancy of roughly half of ours.
Only a very, very tiny minority of the earth's population can ever hope to have a $4.5m house (as described gushingly in the book by one of the contributors) and no "secret" is ever going to change that I'm afraid.
This book will, however, be helpful for those of us in the first world who, by luck of birth, DO have a chance of getting all the material trappings we want (note I didn't say NEED here).
The people responsible for this book need to do some serious reading outside of their evidently narrow world view.
I would suggest they start with Jeffrey Sach's most recent "Economics of a Crowded Planet" and Jared Diamond's "Collapse".
DO NOT BUY - VERY POOR August 26, 2008
The books secret is: 'The law of attraction'. Having read other books suggest you steer clear of this one, luckily I never bought this myself. The content in this book is probably eqaul to a chapter in a Tony Robbins book, or Jack Canfield's 'Success Principles'. Very dissapointing that the publishers went ahead with this. Cant help feeling that the self help authors are only using this as a money making tool ...seeing Canfield in there made me question his motives. Suggest you buy the books above and leave it at that. DO NOT BUY YOU WILL ONLY BE DISSAPOINTED.
Rubbish August 25, 2008
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Just think about it and you can write a book worth a million. Think about it further and you can command a publishing machine than can promote your ideas while making a fortune for themselves. Don't think about your target audience who are likely to be searching for easy solutions to their probable adverse circumstances and you have a 'winner'. I feel sorry for people who are taken in by marketing scams such as this hedonistic rubbish.
 Some truth in it but based on EGO! August 23, 2008
There is some truth in what is being said here but it also misses the point.
True peace comes about through having equanimity with pleasure and pain, that is 'not to fear and avoid pain' and 'desire and chase pleasure.'
The Secret is a kind of narcissistic spirituality, based on ME, ME, ME. WANT, WANT, WANT. You get the fancy car, get pleasure, then what? Does it make you happy? So although the Law of Attraction is somewhat true, so what? Because it is not the way to true peace and will always be impermanent. If you need the car fine, if you don't fine...
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