REVIEWS OF THE BOOK
- THE SECRET
THE LIES AS QUOTED FROM THE BOOK:
COMMENTS FROM THE EDITOR ARE IN RED:
DR BOB PROCTOR:
"Why do you think that 1 percent of the population
earns around 96 percent of all the money that's being earned? Do you
think that's an accident? It's designed that way. They understand
something. They understand 'The Secret', and now you are being
introduced to 'The Secret'. p. 6
[Editor's note: Who
designed this system? The writer's God? Greedy money
grabbers whose interest in life is to have it all and keep everyone
else on their knees and in poverty?
Also 95% of humanity is not
capable of and could not 'think' or 'understand' what this book
proposes, even if they could read, unfortunately because there aren't
enough teachers in the world, mostly because people won't pay them
enough to tolerate the conditions which they would have to face- even
in America.
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"Whether people have been told they have a slow
thyroid, a slow metabolism, or their body size is hereditary, these
are all disguises for thinking 'fat thoughts.' If you accept any of
those conditions as applicable to you, and you believe it, it must
become your experience, and you will continue to attract being
overweight. p 58
"Food cannot cause you to put on weight, unless you
think it can. p 59
"You most likely know of someone who is thin and eats
like a horse, and they proudly declare, "I can eat whatever I want and
I am always the perfect weight." And so the Genie of he Universe says,
"Your wish is my command." p. 59
"Make it your intention to look for , admire, and
inwardly praise people with your idea of perfect-weight bodies.
Seek them out as you admire them and feel the feelings of that - you
are summoning it to you. If you see people who are overweight, do not
observe hem, but immediately switch your mind to the picture of you in
your perfect body and feel it. p 60
[Editor's note: Of course
these writers do not allow for disease and body weight to be inherited
genetically- according to these writers, all disease and overweight is
because people desired it or fought against it and that is what
created it.]
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DR. JOE VITALE
It takes no time for the Universe to manifest what you
want. Any time delay you experience is due to your delay in getting to
the place of believing, knowing, and feeling that you already have it.
It is you getting yourself on the frequency of what you want. When you
are on that frequency, then what you want will appear. p. 63
[Editor's note: The
Universal energy force of creation can do these things, but to blame
humanity for not being God and not being millionaires because they
cannot attain that level of creation is going a little far.]
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"Like Aladdin's Genie, the law of attraction grants
our every command. p 68
[Editor's note: This is
going a little far as well, though the law of attraction is true, it
also takes effort and time to manifest what one desires.]
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LISA NICHOLS
"When you want to change your circumstances, you must
first change your thinking. Every time you look inside your mail
expecting to see a bill, guess what - it'll be there. Each day
you go out dreading the bill! You're never expecting anything
great. You're thinking debt, you're expecting debt. So debt must
show up so you won't think you're crazy. And every day you
confirm your thought; Is debt going to be there? Yes, debt's
there. Is debt going to be there? Yes, debt's there. I debt
going to be there? Yes, debt's there. Why? Because you expected
debt to be there. So it showed up, because the law of attraction
is always being obedient to your thoughts. Do yourself a favor -
expect a check! p 72
[Editors note: If you
don't want debt, you don't create it in the first place by buying
things you can't afford and your desires are bigger than your
pocketbook.]
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DAVID SCHIRMER
"When I first understood 'The Secret', every day I
would get a bunch of bills in the mail. It thought, "Who do I
turn this around?" The law of attraction states that what you
focus on you will get, so I got a bank statement, I whited out the
total, and I put a new total in there. I put exactly what I
wanted to see in the bank. So I thought, "What if I just
visualized checks coming in the mail?" So I just visualized a
bunch of checks coming in the mail. Within just one months
things started to change. It is amazing ; today I just get
checks in the mail. I get a few bills, but I get more checks
than bills. p 104
[Editor's note: I wonder
if visualized checks actually pays the bills, or does one just claim
bankruptcy and start over?]
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RHONDA BYRNE
"A game I created that helped shift my feelings about
my pile of bills was to pretend that the bills were actually checks. I
would jump for joy as I opened them and say, "More money for me!
Thank you. Thanks you." I took each bill, imagined it was
a check, and then I added a zero to it in my mind to make it even
more. I got a notepad and wrote at the top of the page, "I have
received," and then I would list all the amounts of the bills with an
added zero. Next to each amount I would write "Thank you", and
feel the feelings of gratitude for receiving it - to the point where I
had tears in my eyes. Then I would take each bill, which looked
very small compared to what I had received, and I would pay it with
gratitude!
[Editor's note: Evidently,
this writer did not actually buy and covet the things that the credit
cards purchased - she just got these nasty bills in the mail because
she didn't want them and that's what she had focused on.
I never opened my bills until I had got myself into
the feeling hat they were checks. If I opened my bills before
convincing myself they were checks, my stomach churn when I opened
them. I knew that the emotion of churning in my stomach was
powerfully bringing in more bills. I knew I had to erase that
feeling and replace it with joyful feelings, so I could bring more
money into my life. In the face of a pile of bills, that game
worked for me, and it changed my life. There are so many games you can
create, and you will know what works best for you by the way you feel
inside. When you make-believe, the results come fast! p105
[Editor's note: I hope
this writer used those checks to pay those bills she had created to
begin with.]
"You have got to feel good about money to attract more
to you. Understandably, when people do not have enough money they do
not feel good about money, because they don't have enough. But those
negative feelings about money are stopping more money coming to you!
You have got to stop the cycle, and you stop it by starting to feel
good about money, and being grateful for what you have. Start to
say and feel, "I have more than enough." "There is an abundance
of money and it's on its way to me" "I am a money magnet." "I love
money and money loves me." "Ii am receiving money every day."
"Thank you. Thank you. Thank you." p 107
[Editor's note: This is
evidently what life is all about for this writer.
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"Feeling happy now is the fastest way to bring money
into your life. p 111
"Make it your intention to look at everything you like
and say to yourself. "I can afford that! I can buy that."
You will shift your thinking and begin to feel better about money. p
111
[Editor's note: This is
the kind of thinking that creates debt in the first place.]
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RHONDA BYRNE
"Many people have sacrificed themselves for others,
thinking when they sacrifice themselves, they are being a good person.
Wrong! To sacrifice yourself can only come from thoughts of
absolute lack, because it is saying, "There is not enough for
everyone, so I will go without." Those feelings do not feel good
and will eventually lead to resentment. There is abundance for
everybody and it is each person's responsibility to summon their own
desires. You cannot summon for another person because you cannot
think and feel for another. Your job in You. When you make
feeling good a priority, that magnificent frequency will radiate and
touch everyone close to you. p 118
[Editor's note: This
writer evidently doesn't know what it means to have children, elderly
parents, or care about humanity. She says if 'she' feels good,
automatically everyone else she comes in contact with will also feel
good. Everyone else resents those they sacrifice for - naturally
- because 'love' for others is evidently not connected to sacrifice in
this writer's mind.]
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"Your job is You. Unless you fill yourself up first,
you have nothing to give anybody. p 123
[Editors note: 'You' is
not a job. You, filled with love and compassion has a lifetime
to share those things. Money is never necessary to start giving
to others, and millions of people volunteer their time and efforts
sharing with those in need.]
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RHONDA BYRNE
"You cannot 'catch' anything unless you think you can,
and thinking you can is inviting it to you with your thought. You are
also inviting illness if you are listening to people talking about
their illness and when you are giving all of your thought and focus to
illness and when you give all of your thought to something you are
asking for it. And you are certainly not helping them. You are adding
energy to their illness. If you really want to help that person,
change the conversation to good things, if you can, or be on your way.
As you walk away, give your powerful thoughts and feelings to seeing
that person well and then let it go. p 132
[Editors note: Disease or
illness is not caught just because you think about it. Millions
of people get contagious diseases by going to school, shopping, or
work and some babies are born with disease or illness they never
thought of even in their first breath of life. Many diseases are
in the air and have nothing to do with 'thought'. Walking around
'thinking' you can't catch a disease is foolhardy - and not thinking
about disease will not save you either.
Listening to people talk about
their illnesses is what nurses, doctors, counselors, ministers, and
priests train for years to help people. They do not do all this
training to add energy to the illnesses they treat. If we all walked
away from people with illnesses and diseases, it would be a very sad
world indeed. Where is the compassion and love for these
people?]
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"Disease is held in the body by thought, by
observation of the illness, and by the attention given to the illness.
If you are feeling a little unwell, don't talk about it - unless you
want more of it. If you listen to people talk about their illness, you
add energy to their illness. Instead, change the conversation to
good things, and give powerful thoughts to seeing those people in
health. p 139
[Editors note: Disease is
not held in the body by thought. Certain illnesses have a
specific lifetime of their own such as flu and colds though some can
be shortened by drinking a lot of water, drinking teas and juice, and
taking medications appropriate to the illness. More serious
diseases are not held in the body by thought either. Many
diseases can be eased by medications, and the body/mind connection,
but to say that thinking about the diseases holds it in the body is
erroneous.]
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LISA NICHOLS
"People have a tendency to look at the things that
they want and say, "Yes, I like that, I want that." However, they look
at the things that they don't want and they give them just as much
energy, if not more, with the idea that they can stamp it out, they
can eliminate it, obliterate it. In our society, we've become content
with fight against things. Fighting against cancer, fighting against
poverty, fighting against violence. We tend to fight everything we
don't want, which actually creates more of a fight. p 141
[Editors note: So, this
writer is proposing that we as a nation and world community should
ignore cancer, poverty, and violence, not to mention other diseases
and societal ills and just let them happen, which actually means that
everyone with cancer, poverty, or victim of violence will die so there
is nothing to worry about or use our God-given intelligence to solve
and conquer?
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JACK CANFIELD
"The anti-war movement creates more war. The
anti-drug movement has actually created more drugs. Because
we're focusing on what we don't want - drugs! - p 142
[Editor's note: This is a
statement made either by a Republican who loves the current
government, OR a person who is totally naive to what the true
government policies are. Neither the anti-war movement, nor the
anti-drug war has anything to do with 'positive thinking. War
and the drug problem are both created for self-profit by the
government itself.]
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HALE DWOSKIN
"So if you're anti-war, be pro-peace instead. If
you're anti-hunger, be pro-people having more than enough to eat. If
you are anti-a-particular politician, be pro-his-opponent. Often,
elections are tipped in favor of the person that the people are really
against, because he's getting all the energy and all the focus. p 143
[Editor's note: Here again is a
statement made by someone who evidently has no knowledge of true
political events run by politicians and their promoters who will stoop
to any trickery to have their way instead of the people's.]
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RHODA BYRNE
"When I discovered 'The Secret' I made a decision that
I would not watch the news or read newspapers anymore, because it did
not make me feel good. The news services and the newspapers are not in
any way to blame for broadcasting bad news. As a global
community, we are responsible for it. We buy more newspapers when a
huge drama is the headline. The news channels' ratings skyrocket when
there is a national or international disaster. So the newspapers and
news services give us more bad news because, as a society, that's what
we are saying we want. The media is effect, and we are cause. It
is just the law of attraction in action! p 145
[Editor's note: While I
understand fully that watching the news or reading newspapers can be
disturbing and it doesn't make us feel good, the news gives us the
information we need to make informed decisions on what we need to do
going forward in life. We cannot live life in a vacuum.
It is not a problem that people
watch TV more or buy more newspapers when there is a huge crisis or
drama going on in the world - that's how newspapers and TV stations
make their money - which of whom of course has to support them because
money is what this writer says life should be all about - and someone
has to be on the bottom of the heap to provide the bucks those higher
up on the money-ladder others are. Where else would the money
makers advertise their products or services? The writer wants
her cake and eat it too, while not supporting others who would like to
do what she professes to do. Not everyone can write a book about
how to make money while quoting other money makers and then not
advertise the book. Guess where the book got its biggest support
- Oprah Winfrey on TELEVISION! I wonder who was watching the TV
and buying the book that is making the writer rich!
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DR. DENIS WAITLEY
"Most of the leaders in the past missed the great part
of 'The Secret', which is to empower and share with others. p 152
[Editor's note: This make
one wonder how these leaders got to be leaders, doesn't it?
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NEAL DONALD WALSH
"There is no blackboard in the sky on which God has
written your purpose, your mission in life.
"So your purpose is what you say it is. Your mission
is the mission you give yourself. Your life will be what you create it
as, and no one will stand in judgment of fit, now or ever. p.177
[Editor's note: For a man
who earns his living saying that he talks to God, it is incredible to
think that he teaches that there is no God to give souls a mission to
do in life. The fact is true that God is not an old man in the
sky, however, souls do come into physical life with missions to
fulfill that was decided while still in the spiritual realm before
birth - some small, some large. Every person has something they
are here to do whether they figure it out or not. There are
enough cases of NDE (Near Death Experiences) to know for certain
that the soul judges itself when it leaves the body, a small number
even experience going to hell because it is part of their religious
training in life. There are still ghosts in cemeteries waiting for the
Second Coming of Jesus, and they refuse to go to the light because
Jesus hasn't come to fetch them. There is much suffering by ghosts in
cemeteries because of erroneous Christian teachings.]
DR. JOHN HAGELIN
"Be happy now. Feel good now. That's the only thing
you have to do. If that's the only thing you get from reading this
book, then you have received the greatest part of 'The Secret'. p.179
[Editor's note: There is nothing
wrong with being happy, feeling good, and feeling JOY, but that is not
the whole purpose of life. One should do in life what makes one
happy and feel joy. That's how you know you are on the right path.
It does not necessarily have to be your vocation as we all need to
support ourselves as best we can and fulfill our mission in life, but
the joy can be your avocation as well along the way. And
sometimes we have more than one thing we can feel joy from. ]
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