Just Scratches the Surface, Still Worth a Look
This review pertains to the original DVD release version of The Secret. I enjoyed the movie shortly after it came out, but began to feel uneasy as assorted controversies began to dog some of the stars. Look it up if you don't know what I'm talking about.

Overall, this is an important movie, for we're in a period of humankind's existence where perceived scarcity of resources will force us to either evolve as a species or perish. By evolve, I mean using a much higher share of our intellectual (and spiritual) capacity than at present. Critics, including adherents to the Law of Attraction, have Swiss Cheesed The Secret for pandering to the people's materialism, wanton lusts and venality.

And many have raised the oh-so-essential point that manifesting one's intentions is not merely a sit-back-in-your-La-Z-Boy-and-dream process -- as the movie might have you believe. Success is not easy. The movie is very light on the fact that most of us have to work our tails off to succeed.

But come on, lighten up, people -- all that's just marketing to get viewers thinking about the higher-level capabilities within them.

If you watch this movie and actually study it, you'll quickly realize that you must learn more, grow more and act more if you wish to materialize the paradisic visions shown in The Secret. (And of course, the idea is for you to learn, grow and act under the watchful tutelage and support of The Secret business organization. They are more than happy to supply you with videos, seminars and other "product" that might -- might -- help you to achieve some measure of life mastery.)

Part of the "Secret to Money," it seems, is creating a huge sales and marketing apparatus to keep the money flowing in after they buy the video.

But back to the movie. It presents some quite intriguing and valid principles, including: 1) that everything, including matter, is reducible to energy; and 2) All of this energy is connected in an incomprehensibly large network (hmm, a Matrix?), meaning that everything and everyone is connected with everything else. If you accept this, it renders quite foolish the wars, struggles and competition we engage in daily. And it makes generosity and kindness seem like a no-brainer, if not downright self-serving.

And so now we're at something of a crossroads. Even as more people than ever are embracing the message of plentiful abundance and oneness (preached by Buddha, Jesus, Wallace D. Wattles, and many more), we find a world gripped in many places by greed, crisis and dysfunction. Here's hoping that The Secret, for all its flaws, can tip the scales so that humanity will move toward alleviating its own suffering. It will require "the masses" to awaken to the potential within themselves as individuals, and undergo the hard work of life mastery.

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Must get 'The Secret' DVD, even if you've read the book!
If you've read The Secret and loved it as much as I did, then you must get the DVD as well! It basically repeats the book in oral form, quotations are all the same, but it adds tons of visual detail and more story-telling done by the contributors of the book. I was already using The Secret, after reading the book, to manifest small things to sort of 'test' the law of attraction and I must say that I was very impressed at how accurate the 'law' is everytime. After watching the DVD, I'm completely motivated to manifest my dreams which once seemed impossible and too far to reach.

My item arrrived in pristine condition.
I received exactly what I requested, in a timely manner, and at very reasonable cost.

Odd happening -
The book is excellent, the video mediocre at best. I tried to send the book to my children, but the order was filled with DVDs. This seemed strange to me because I ordered "Hardcover" editions. They claim it was my mistake. Not the end of the world. Hugh Looker