What is The Secret doing for you?

Its in the news.

People are talking about it.

But what does it really mean to you? 

Its been 12 months since the movie, The Secret, has first appeared.  Quite a following has developed after major TV appearances by “the teachers” of the secret which is the law of attraction, beginning in November on Larry King.   There has been 2 followups shows on Larry King and an all time record setting appearance for feedback on Oprah with an encore one week later.  The national print media along with other TV and talk shows all across the country have picked this up and some controversy has resulted.  Critics are saying it doesn’t work or its a rehash of positive thinking or its dangerous because some may rely on this as a “cure” without seeking proper medical attention for severe health challenges, or they are in for a big let down when they don’t get the results they are desirous.

Others want to know where is God in all this?  They are concerned about bypassing God’s will or getting involved in some ungodly practice.  Some hear mention of “you are god” and “we create our own reality”  and this sounds like very dangerous thinking…wanting to be like God.  

The movie, The Secret, is like many other things that have come along as a challenge to the statue quo.  The movie proposes a new way of looking at and evaluating things in our lives – in fact everything about our lives.  In some ways we “resonate” with the message and in other ways we stop and say, “wait, a minute, it can’t be like that” or “it can’t be that easy, can it?”  For some they desperately want it to be true while for others it’s an obvious pipe dream, a scheme, a new age lie or equivalent.  For those that have been exposed to eastern thought or what are familiar with what is known as the “prosperity gospel” or have seen the movie, What the Bleep Do I know?, probably had an easy time with the movie, gravitated to its message and may have even re-focused some of their activities relative to what was said.   From a more fundamentalist Christian viewpoint there are several things that are said in the movie that may cause a mental red flag to go up or the hair on the back of your neck to raise or a sudden tightening in the pit of one’s stomach or whatever ‘early warning system’ is working for you to tell you, “something’s wrong here”.  Although each of the “teachers” have their own unique perspectives and do not agree with all the different points espoused by the other “teachers” there is some common ground.  Science has been discovering many new things many of which were dramatically shown in the movie, What the Bleep Do I Know?, and have been alluded to, mentioned or referenced in many books, periodicals, newspapers, conferences and on talk shows.  One of the most startling to me that was also highlighted in that movie, was The Message from Water by Dr. Masaru Emoto.  A similar awakening was reading the books The Biology of Belief by Dr. Bruce Lipton and The Divine Matrix  by Greg Braden.  Now one doesn’t have to agree with the conclusions made relative to the various experiments documented in these two books which are representative of scores of books, papers and reports, but one may want to consider that there are new “things”  out there being discovered and not be as many in the past who dogmatically held on to beliefs such as the world is flat or the earth is the center of the universe which dominated society to such a degree that those that challenged such beliefs were tortured and burned at the stake.  We as human beings have definite limitations in our knowledge, our understanding and just because something does not make sense today to our finite minds does not mean that 5, 10 or 50 years from now, it will not be clearly understood by the masses at a future date. 

So today what is The Secret or the Law of Attraction doing for you?

What concerns about what is being said do you have?