The Secret
The self-actualization phenomenon known as The Secret pivots on the time-honored new age notion of the Laws of Attraction: That is, think positively, and positive things will come to you.
This film, originally broadcast over the Internet, has been enhanced and extended for this DVD edition; but it retains the essential elements that have captivated millions.
Most of the material here is given in a straightforward manner, with the presenters simply talking into the camera to address the audience directly, which is good because it avoids the trap of pretense.
On the other hand, the quick edits between presenters (would it hurt to let them say more than one sentence at a time?) don’t help because it reduces many of their points to palatable sound bites and aphorisms.
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Of course denial is also a thought. One of limitation. Argue for limitations, and they are yours.
The genie: “Your wish is my command” empirically.
I read a book alchemist and there was a quote in it which is i guess what describes the secret. I have experienced it numerous times and it has worked.
“If you really truely wish for something the whole universe with conspire to give it to you..”
This is a different version of the movie from the American DVD version that I bought.
Esther Hicks was NOT in the original version,
And the black woman Lisa has a much more tame hair style than she had in the original.
Also, there are new segments not seen in the original version.
I like this version better.
why is it blocked in my region??
Hey, melissakm06,
I had the same problem while trying to view this movie from the screen above.
If you want to watch The Secret, just go to YouKu.com , and watch it from there.
You’ll be able to see the entire movie.
The Secret that is shown at YouKu.com is a slightly different version than the one originally released on DVD, as mentioned in my post above. The YouKu.com version of the secret is a better version than the original cut, in my opinion.
right now the law of attraction is being consumed by a mega black hole…at least thats what is on my mind and since they say it always works…
I wonder that if the most important people through all part of human civilization know the secret, why was there wars, genocides each part of human history? Did these people, deliberatelly, want to create wars, genocide so on?
Hello everybody!
Another perspective:
1) “The Secret” is that…. Satan exists! His lie to the first people was that if they eat from the fruit they will become like God. This film is again telling us to eat from a fruit (The Secret) that has a message that is kept form us (“the law of attraction”) that will make us “god” / “creator of our life” and the universe our servant. In doing this, Satan’s purpose is that you shut The Real God out of your life to wind up in eternal condemnation. He’s just stalling people till they die and realize the real “secret”, on he made up, and God warns against in His Message (the Gospel of Jesus Christ).
2) The part about the genie and the famous “Your wish is my command!”, reminded me of Satan’s words when Christ was tempted:
Mat 4:8-10 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; 9 And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. 10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
3) The teaching of “The Secret” is a counterfeit Biblical faith, that is a faith that is not met by The Creator and with a content that neglects Him and His will for our repentance.
4) It is another form of idolatry.
5) God controls everything. He knows if we should have something, when we should have something and when not to have it. We don’t know these things, that’s why we are not given complete control as “The lie/secret” suggests.
6) Very deceptive film for gullible or ignorant “light-headed” people.
7) The “reverend” in the film, is not a Christian servant of God, even if he says he is. He is one more of the false teachers prophesied will show up.
Laugh all you want, but be aware.
God bless!!
PS. (in parenthesis my comments)
1Tim. 4:1-3 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that **in the latter times** some
shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils
(gurus, some televangelists, scientologists, etc.); 2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having
their conscience seared with a hot iron; 3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to
abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them
which believe and know the truth.
2Tim. 4:3-4 For **the time will come** when they will not endure sound doctrine;
but after their own [desires] shall they [accumulate] to themselves teachers, having
[ticklish] ears; (this means “ears” that run to hear what brings joy to them.)
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto
[myths].
(This last part about “myths”, is a prophecy fulfilled today all over the world!
People are returning to ancient myths “to find the truth”; Greek, Mayan, Indian,
Chinese, Bulgarian, etc.)
reply for Alex:
Jesus himself says “ask and it will be given tou you,seek you will find knock and it will opened for you”
the secret is all what jesus teaches us
Alex,
It sounds like you were taught to believe myths written by people 200 years after the one you call Jesus lived. Have you ever researched that book in which you put so much stock? If the bible was all the truth we needed to know there would be no desire to look elsewhere. When supposed facts don’t add up you look for the cause instead of passing off the responsibility as having faith. I’m sure your heart is in the right place but you appear to have been terribly misguided.
The universe provides for all our basic needs and is watching out for us. All other desires often are there only to boost our ego. You may ask, “but what’s with all the misery in the world, all the dying children aso, why isn’t the universe providing for them”? It did and does, but our egos are exploiting others for personal gain. If I want something, somebody has to give voluntarily or unvoluntarily, and it is not the universe but our fellow human who has to pay the price for our fullfillment.
To Tyson,though am not religious,the bible or other holy books are right but they are not to be taken literaly,one has to analyze and reason in order to understand its meaning.But that does not imply this books are the only source of wisdom.Actually every person has an inbuilt blue print of assessing wisdom.
The people who lived like 200-6000 years ago have not any differences interm of mental,emotion or physical development with the mordern man.Where we differ with them is intellectual development,which much of what we know now we did not create it from the scratch but we’ve partly build up from their knowledge.
Lastly i have learned the problem with the bible is,readers allowing a group of people called the priest to pretend that they have gone to a special school where they learned how to understand the bible,so you rely on them to tell you the “truth”,they do but its their version to serve their interests.
Jesus him self is a fulse idole. telling people. that god cant let you in to heaven only jesus. sorry god can do what he wants when he wants no being can say diff.
The power of positive thinking is great, but the law of attraction is absolute bull, sorry to spoil it for yas. Think about it, that flower analogy, you wish and wish and wish and wish for something, and then you give up on it, OH, It was just about to happen you shouldn’t have stoped wishing. Don’t you smell the bull? What if I wish, and visulize and dream of harm to another person, or for someone to fall in love with me? What happens then? If the law of attraction were true, I would be able to stop, fast forward, and rewind time. I think about it everynight, I visulize it, I feel it, but we all know that will never happen. Great money scam it is, that’s all, that’s it. The people that produced this peice of garbage are the worst kind of people in the world. And by the way, their is absolutly NO evidence to show that any of the famous historical figure’s from this doc knew anything of this “secret”. You can say that theirs no evidence to prove they didn’t know, but you can also say their’s no evidence to show their isn’t 25 ducks that frolick in my bathroom and disappear everytime I go in there.
whatever these cats are smoking, i would like to get some.
I like the positive thinking part, but the part about chasing after material **** is retarted.
I wish I was a basketball player. Just by wishing for something it’s never going happen.
with respect to all of your opninions i find this film useful in some cases, yet the secret isnt actually a secret!! its wut god taught us! to thank him for everythin, to be optimistic, and etc… and i agree that there is no blackboard but god still knows everything thats goin to happen coz we got choices and for every choice there is a chain reaction of yet other choices.
and allan i think u misunderstood the law of attraction, it works within the limits of ur capabilities u do send waves which get recieved by others and wud feel it and react upon it whatever they do is a reaction to that wave u transmited through jzt feeling an emotion or a certain mood that wud absolutely be visible by ur facial expressions or tone, keep it simple.
Slickly produced with quick edits and sound byte quotes, this is essentially a bunch of same old same old “power of positive thinking” with some new window dressing. Its a bit like a new age Christian ethos for the consumer culture.
The idea? Think about what you want hard enough, and it will eventually manifest itself for you. Whatever you are getting in life is due to what you are thinking about. Here’s the best part- if you are thinking about something, but don’t get it, that means you are not “in alignment” with what you want. So, you get what you deserve whether you know you want it. And if you are getting bad things, its because you are constantly thinking about them. Poor? Your fault. Rich? You must be thinking about success all the time. Are you a homosexual and getting *** bashed at work and on the street? You must have too many negative thoughts!
The video features an array of “experts” with titles like “Metaphysician”, “Writer”, “Philosopher”, “Author”, “Feng Shui Consultant”. My favorite is the Reverend with the certification of “D.D.” after his name. WTF? Oh yeah, and his title is “Visionary”. Comical stuff.
Of course, all of the evidence is provided in after the fact anecdotes and boiler plate Tony Robbins motivational strategies. No way to verify if the experts’ anecdotal stories are true.
I expect to very soon step into a large pile of bull excrement, since I can’t think of anything else while watching this vid…
Alright, who smoked way too much meth while writing the secret?
Positive thinking is good but overdoing it will lead you to take some selfish actions or actions that hurt people around you. You don’t need to ALWAYS have positive thinking, try to have a realistic way of thinking instead.
For example, someone has a test. You can’t walk up to the person and say “You’ll do it, i know it” You’ll just put on more pressure on that person. When the person fails you’ll say “oh no problem next time” Why not get it right from the start?
To the religious people, seriously you can turn anything into “satan did it”. Hitler took over, he got help from Satan! He obviously couldn’t have been a good speaker right?
Why did hitler lose the war? Easy! God helped! Satan was defeated once again.
That’s just ******. No wonder science doesn’t like the idea of god. You can easily answer everything with god. What’s 1+1? God, that is always the right answer. How many wood would woodchuck chuck if woodchuck could chuck wood? God!
Why are we here? Because of God. When we will die, what will happen? God knows.
People that say “oh what was before the first atom? Even before time? You don’t know that do you science? We know, it’s god” Well nice going kids. How about we research it before we label it gods work? The further back science goes the more ******** religion becomes. “What? Earth is millions of years old? How dare you! Our religion says it’s thousands of years old. You don’t have any proof, kill him/her!”
When science proved earth is quite old. The argument turned even more ******** “Well alright! Who MADE the earth then? Do you know? Well we know, God! What? you know how the earth was made? You even know how we came to be? Evolution? You can’t prove it! bla bla bla bla, i can’t hear you, i’ll pick small details and destroy your theory that has missing links. You’ll never find them! My god is right!”
Get over it.
Also, law of attraction and positive thinking. Tell that to the starving people all around the world. They don’t wish too hard about food do they? Nahhhh, they aren’t visualizing it enough. Maybe we should tell them about positive thinking? Oh hey starving kid!
alex, very sad that you would believe such foolishness.
@ pigdoor – Alex is not with us here for a long time now, & he won’t be back
To Mr.Balls
Your skepticism sooths my enraged soul after having watched this (partly) drivvle. I was actually counting the seconds for someone to drop the “karma” bomb… I was surprised it wasn’t mentioned in the 15 minute window I was inexplicably able to force on myself.
someone should export this baby to the 3rd world.. bunch of sad saps over there could use some monetary gain, and i’m sure some Ethiopian is dying to know how he could get by on a diet of wishful thinking..
Imagine the balls on the person who’s to tell starving people that they probably just don’t want food bad enough.. That’s a kodak moment right there..
I don’t know, I think that we still can’t understand most of the things around us and ourselves, including our bodies and whatever it is that makes us think, speak and learn. I am prone to believe that we are not disconnected from the Universe that is made of exactly the same elements as we are, or the other way around, and that the same laws govern all of it.
I am of the opinion that we are usually limited in terms of what we perceive as the ‘possible’ and the ‘impossible’, that we have learned and experienced in the frame of growing up in the physical world we live in. But than, we hear or read of a “miraculous” cancer self-healing, e.g. The religious ones immediately take it as god’s intervention, whereas the ‘reasonable’ ones can’t explain it reasonably. I wish someone could explain it to me.
this documentary has literally just changed my life, i believe this cause always viewed my seelf negatively and then thats why i got, people being negative towards me, now im reversing it and its working, as for relation to god, god is the universe and the universe is god.
Just a quick thought, What if you were attracted to a super model? I’m sure she won’t be attracted to you lulz, just kidding but seriously.
OK, I watched this movement grow from Wayne Dwyer’s work in the 70′s to Deepak’s “work” more recently.
I have family members involved and I worry for them… but I will just say this…
This is all non-sense and quackery.
The Universe does not love you or care about you and you deserve nothing out of life. You can not get whatever you want, that’s only what little children think. You get what you work really, really hard for.
We are supposed to be grown up, mature, responsible adults, right? Life is hard, has always been hard, will always be hard and- RANDOM, (most importantly).
Grow up. Work hard and be satisfied with whatever you can carve out of a hard world.
@Randy
You werent a hippie were you?
I should get you to lecture at my little bros AOS psychiatry class. How much?
j/k vlatko
HA! No but I look like one! My hair is half-way down my back, (I usualy braid it for business…). My hair has always been long but I really can’t stand hippies…
Makes me want to eat a steak, I hate them so much! LOL!
@Randy
Me too , I was being fececious.
Scre$ that lets eat hagis and brauts! No potatoes and cabbage , just meat and artificial bacon bits.
And some ranch.
(My brother is an atheist , by the way, Randy.)
Seriously though, I say to these guys , be human. Plain and simple. You are not energy. We are all links on the chain of evolution. Humans have no spirit or soul and if you do debate , please , facts only.
If ken to Randy , please listen to him.He knows what he is saying.
(And has long hair like you. )
Of corse its much more bouncy because he eats other animals , lower on the food chain.
No disrespect brother.On this topic you are , and me , the guy that agreed and ate his hagis .
@Randy
I know I havent been on this spot long , but you would think, w/ as much science going around people wouln’t try to be so angry and content with nothing?
gravity?!!! hahaha
Sometimes, I envy the people that buy into this..
Not for very long though… but still..
1st off i dont agree with religion for two reason’s it makes you be in fear of being judged when you die when we see the consiquences of what we do and feel everyday. Second it makes you pray to someone like if they are an outside source. First off we are all god thats why we are the creaters thats doesnt mean to go creating for your self the message here is to stop seeking happines outside and to feel it inside first.You preach about Jesus christ when his name was emanuel first of get your info straight your condition do be a repeater you repeat what you where probably bread into believing .Religion is obviously manipulated by the illuminati just like the media education and so on. Learn to meditate, read the bible, read the secret, watch what the bleep do we know. Dont follow any religion follow your inner self regardless as 2012 and on approaches the human race will feel this is possible more than ever as we finnaly end this cycle and reach the state of oneness again or “God”.I dont say this info to try to get back at you but you should be open to what everyone says its part of being at a balanced state.
The secret = karma.
karma = delusion of intent behind occurences projected by motivation for a certain perception.
The secret is how they managed to pull off so much bs with straight faces. Well, maybe they didn’t, I can’t really tell, as I stopped watching half-way through. I found their built-in religion-like blame-the-victim self-defence and half-cloaked appeals to greed and prejudice mildly amusing.
People don’t actually believe this garbage to they?
” delusion of intent ”
delusions cant be tested or observed. =) Karma can.
How does one go about testing karma, or the effects of karma then?
This is all very nice… But seriously, do you think blocking out all the problems of the world will make them go away? I think this preaches a pretty selfish and flimsy ideology. They say that Newton and Einstein all ‘knew the secret’, but if you decide to ignore the fact that bad things happen in our world and to deal with them will only draw more to you, and you only strive to get a new car, you won’t be great, you’ll be a douchebag and you’ll be causing more problems for others.
I don’t know how to put any of this into words I can express, All I can say is that this really put things into perspective for me, and showed me what I need to do to change. I’m sick of being depressed and feeling sh**** about anything and everything I do. Truly inspirational, and life-changing, recommend to anyone.
Listen Shayne, the only thing the Secret does is to disguise “discipline” as some higher power and they slap a guarantee on it which they then shroud in notions of mysticism.
Furthermore, if you consider the documentary itself to be life-changing, you have not understood the point of it. Go out and be productive, be a positive influence, you don’t need a comforting delusion to do this, you need discipline.
It’s about positive thinking dude, I tell myself these things everyday, when you stay positive and make the right choices, good things happen and it comes back to you. It’s similar to Karma, I’m not saying that this is some miracle, I just needed someone else to tell me this, I need to stop thinking negativley. I agree you need to be productive and be a positive influence, but that is hard when you look down on your own life and you hate everything you do. I have no goals and I have no outlook on my life, this helped me outline those and see what I need to become to make myself happy, all this documentary did was help me realize what I already know.
when you ask:you think about what you want to have,you vizualize the thing that you whant or you just say in words:i want that…and then you vizualize the thing that you whant?
you ask in word what you whant or you just imagine what you whant and that is step 1?
MEGA VIDEO!!!!
(this is what i yell every time they cut me off at 72 minutes)
Awesome video though!!
Here is my other problem with this silliness, it is nothing new.
In the 70′s there was a movement among the christian whackos, (and very much before and even today, but I will point out this particular era…), which I called “Magical Fundamentalism”
The preachers on TV and in the tent revivals, etc. all said the exact same things as this “Secret” BS, they just used the words, “jesus/heaven/god…” the Secret people just replace those words with “Universe”…
“The Universe/jesus is boundless and can meet all of your needs if you just believe and have faith and ask for it… blah blah blah… cr@p…”
There is a dark side to this, and it effects Secret worshippers as well as jesus worshippers. They tend to blame themselves when bad things happen to them because they just didn’t pray or believe hard enough, etc…
That is a setup full of guilt and spirals down into oblivion…
BAD BAD stuff, man! Run away!
Might as well come on for the comments.
Contrary to some never really went for this stuff, sort of did when was younger, but grew out of it I suppose, did watch some of the doc. But was hard to watch all, a person has to have some semblance of beliefs to what this doc. was saying to fully believe. To convoluted for me though.
The only thing that might be good about this doc. is the positive thinking aspect. The rest ain’t my bag.
@sabir who wrote:
“If you really truely wish for something the whole universe with conspire to give it to you..”
No it doesn’t, you silly person!
Listen, I have wished and prayed for many decades that all st*pid people in the world might be chopped up and used as food, but the Universe never “conspired” to bring that about.
And that is a good thing!
Listen, there are child molestors in the world that use The Secret to bring little kids to them, as well…
Where is the morality in your little Secret ideology? Why do you think YOU deserve everything you want, and most other people in the world starve and suffer?
Get over yourself.
Why is it that people can’t understand that some individuals need things to be put into perspective to have a change in their life to occur for the better bc things might not be good?just bc you may not believe in it doesn’t mean that others can’t benefit from it. Words are just signposts that lead you to where you need to go; it may be that your way of feeling positivity may come from other experiences that certain individuals won’t understand bc it doesn’t ring true to them, yet you can have a change in consciousness and it is as valid as his or her experience.
Positivity is good to balance the negativity that engulfs us. Humanity always needs hope or we would all be insane.
‘the secret’ is the most idiotic yet ingenious way to steal peoples money haha!
Its the same product as GOD (invisible).
of course if you only emphasize on positivity and tend to leave negativity out then therefor you will only SEE good things happening to you. your putting your brain to only recognize the good things and therefor you will give credit to ‘the secret’ XD. much like faith. But tell that to starving kids in Africa.
“Oh little Mumba, your not getting it. your not wanting it hard enough”
We are responsible for our actions and if this glottalization system tends to push you out then its our own fault for permitting this, and not taking any action. (i know it don’t talk about glottalization but that is where most of our problems come from so dont even start with that none sense. and lets go forward)
its these illusions that keep us going in circles without doing any actual MOVEMENT against our own faults (peoples faults).