Customer Reviews
A good companion for the DVD - By: MC, 22 Nov 2008 
This book is simple & tells 'the secret' very basically. Really you would need the DVD to go along with the book to get the full flavour of what is being talked about The Secret DVD I've tried out the practice they suggest & it does actually seem to work to some degree. I was hoping for more of the spiritual element but I was pleased with it anyway. K.Loys book Finding Reality 'Awakening to Spiritual Freedom' would be good with this to get a more deeper understanding of thought & spiritual experience.
Terrible. Terrible. Terrible. - By: Karl, 03 Nov 2008 
This suffers from the same problems as the DVD.
It's derivative. There is absolutely nothing that hasn't been said over & over again.
It's simplistic. Life can be simple, but that doesn't mean you should treat your audience as if they are too.
It's repetitive. Get a variety of different figuresin your niche to all say the same things using slightly different words.
It's nasty. Follow the philosophy through to it's logical conclusion & you are left with the concept that those who suffer have brought it upon themselves. There may be a grain of truth for some of the many unfortunates out there, but try telling a starving familyin a poverty- & drought-stricken wilderness that really they ought to just change their attitudes & it'll all work out, then see which religion's version of hell you belong in.
It's insidious. They stack what I am sure they see as reasonable arguments one on top of the other, leading from premise to unfounded conclusion at such speed &in such a fashion that they gradually start to getin just through the continual exposure to the same old message.
The whole thing is trite, simple & hackneyed.
Still, it proves what good underground marketing can do. Don't be a sheep. Borrow it first, read it carefully, think on it, then have a good laugh, give it back & forget you ever heard of this tosh.
Promises what it cannot deliver. - By: Paul Raymond Stanton, 31 Oct 2008 Should you wish to read this book with the sole intention of feeling both good about yourself & the worldin general, then you will undoubtedly find that it lifts the spirits & enables you to view everything through the proverbial 'rose coloured spectacles'. If this is all you want to obtain from this book then my heartfelt good wishes to you. If, on the otherhand, you are desirous of creating miracles (as the blurb promises) then you will be sadly disappointed. To preclude all doubt to the point where you are able to effectively change the world around you, or your future for that matter, takes something that the majority of us simply cannot command. Jesus could do it - but then he was something a bit special. The rest of us, unfortunately, will have to be satisfied with the rose coloured spectacles. Miracles are not intended for the mundane.
Is the world controlled by a 1% elite? - By: Jacques COULARDEAU, 21 Oct 2008 The book & the video are the two sides of the same coin & I would advise you to follow the one or the other. I will suggest though that you concentrate on the video because the commentary between the quotations are nothing but the proof that some people need a lot more explanations & a lot of paraphrase to understand the basic meaning. Are we all without limits? And that is going to be my very first remark. From my long experience I know that some people are physically handicapped, or mentally handicapped, or psychologically handicapped, or with many hurdles on their road & around them. You should see the state of some of those children born to deep alcoholics or drug addicts. Or what about children with a severe genetic disparagement? And I refuse to say they are just disabled, or differently-abled. They are handicapped by being materialisticallyin their very body or mind at a disadvantage that will prevent them from doing what most people around them will be able to do. If the mind is intact, & working on positive thinking is the only way for these people, then they can compensate their physical limitations with their spiritual achievements. But you can't runin the standard Olympics without legs just like a bicycle will not run without wheels. And this time,in most of these situations, one will not be able to excel, full stop & period, & if one can excelin one particular fieldin which he is not or is less limited, it won't be without the help of other people around them. You cannot think positive if there is no signs along that road. The second remark is positive. Apart from these special cases, everyone, absolutely everyone can excel somewhere & that excellence can only be reached if it is targeted, looked for & built. Positive thinking, education, understanding that the pleasure of such achievements isin the goal when reached & notin the effort you have to accomplish, even if for those who will reach the highest points this very effort is a pleasure, the pleasure of the effort itself. A runner has to train dayin & day out & that is never, absolutely never a plain entertaining phase of relaxation & abandon. Physical pleasure requires sweat & heart speed. But if one does not set their minds on the aim they are going to strive towards, they will never reach it. Success is enormouslyin the mind,in the conscious & subconscious motivation of the candidate. Yet it is absolutely false to say that man has no limits. Humanity, & every member of it, has always been limited historically & no one could think plasma physics or quantum computers under Julius Caesar. Each historical period produces its possible fields of investigation that are limited becausein a later historical period those fields of investigation will always be vaster, larger, deeper, more intense. Or then the author is speaking metaphorically of man as the representative of humanityin its cosmic history. But that is not helping any individual who is striving to achieve somethingin his own life. Icarus did try to fly but wax wings were kind of primitive. Then my third & last remark will be a question: why only ONE percent of humanity controls NINETY-SIX percent of wealth? If this is a fact, & it is, it is the proof that all men are not equalin facts but onlyin rights, & that is so by our collective decision to say so. But one thing is sure: thinking negatively is never good. Think of McCain & Palin & their negative campaigning. Think of all the anarchists of the world who have never achieved the slightest beginning of their dream which is only a negative picture of the world the way it is. If you criticize the world systematically, then your dream becomes the inverted image of this world, hence a negative picture of reality, & that will never guide or inspire people into desiring such a future. When I don't like something I do not ask for the reverse. I wonder what the situation is, what the possibilities are & if another solution is possible & which one. Then I will think positively along that objective, or rather as objective as possible, line, but to demand black because what I don't like is white, or to require red because what I don't like is blue is primitive negative thinking. That kind of realism & collective striving is absent from this book or video & that is a shame because they forget attraction holds the world & the cosmos up because it is always counterbalanced by repulsion. Otherwise the moon would have fallen onto the earth a long very long time ago, even if this repulsion is itself the product of attractions that are standing abreast & against the attraction of the earth. The apple did not fall as long as the stem was strong enough & the apple light enough for the stem not to break. The author of this book or video seems to have forgotten that the cosmos is a complex system of opposed spheres & when a weak point appears, then a catastrophe developsin that weak point, & the earth is doomed sooner or laterin cosmic time to disappear, just like the sun which will one day have burned all itself fuel.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
Dreadful Twaddle - By: Paul Sloane, 16 Oct 2008 After you cut though all the flannel, the secret is revealed. If you think about things they will come to you. No they won't. It takes dedication, persistence & hard work to achieve success, get rich, lose weight or achieve whatever your goal is. This book is delusional & misleading. The elements on positive thinking are fine but they are better expressedin many other self-help books. The 'secret' itself is laughable.
