Anti-Secret: A Cult or a Good Thing ???

Imagine a World Where Everyone Followed The Secret- A Cult or a Good Thing ?

It has become an international phenonmenon. The Secret has been on best-seller lists now for over a year. But what amazes us most: is that for all the fans and readers it has attracted the amount of skepticism and criticism it has drawn. There doesn't seem to be a happy medium- you love it or hate it. But our question is WHY?

The other day I (Joanne) asked a school psychologist I work with if she had read The Secret...Adamantly she responded, No I'm rather skeptical of it. Others (just read the reviews on Amazon) call it scary, a scam, a self-help fraud and a cult. Why are there so many naysayers?

We do beleive Rhonda Byrne’s book did something fabulous in bringing these ideas to the masses but we think she ‘dumbed down’ its principles though in the process. Her oversimplification of the Law of Attraction ( a boy wishing for a bicycle and magically it appears) and overemphasis on getting for 'Me' ... the material things ...to make her point has drawn her much criticism from people. Many critics have chosen to focus on the the Hollywood 'schtick' presentation in the DVD, the exaggerated examples and lack of a substantive explanation.

As much as we can understand these attacks, we remain grateful that she’s even introduced the Law of Attraction to the world because we beleive the world will be a better place for it and help people create better lives for themselves. We choose to focus on its positive messages. To us it is a message of hope. We, like its other 8 million or more readers and watchers have simply been attracted to the messages about taking control of your life, your own thoughts, appreciating yourself and others, being thankful for what you have and most importantly seeing that the glass half-full. In a nutshell, for us it is really about empowerment. It's about taking responsibility for your life, awakening to and living life ‘alive’ – consciously and deliberately. How can this be damaging?

We personally wish the WHOLE WORLD followed principles of The Law of Attraction- we might come close to John Lennon’s vision in his song Imagine.... a good thing.