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Thoughts on NYT Secret Squabble article and such

February 26, 2007 drewrozell 5 Comments

Okay, I am officially tired of The Secret. But that won’t stop me from talking about it some more here!

First, some great comments on the previous NYT article. Wise words.

A couple decades ago, one of my favorite childhood groups, KISS, played on the music variety show Solid Gold. I was so excited to see them on TV that I didn’t care that they were completely boring (no fire, explosions, and they performed their ballad, "Beth").

I feel the same way about The Secret. Of course it’s not a perfect movie. Personally, I could do without the whole "secret" angle of ancient scrolls and such. I think that just feeds into the "New Age" perception of this information. But I can recognize what a wonderful marketing tool that is (hard to argue with 1.5 million copies sold).

The Secret is a start. That’s all. It’s not a "how-to" manual. It’s just a vehicle to get the word out to a large number of people and it’s done so in magnificent fashion. In 1996 I read an article featuring Thomas Leonard in Newsweek about personal coaching. It was a light bulb moment for me. My life’s work began in that moment. That doesn’t mean that the half-page article was the greatest one I ever read and the entire field of coaching looks much different than it did a decade ago. But the important thing is that the article got me started!

Some quick, semi-coherent points about all this stuff before I hit the gym:

  • I have the original version of The Secret. Hell, I had like 40 copies… wish I knew they’d become so valuable 🙂  Personally, I think Esther Hicks is da bomb. It’s the words of Abraham that resonate in my soul and this is the work that’s laid the foundation for my understanding of attraction. You can bet that all the "teachers" learned from that source. I did. I’m glad I have this version of the film and I cannot comment on the 2nd version.
  • The title of the NYT article is "Shaking Riches Out of the Cosmos" and this is illustrated with a picture of hundred dollar bills flying out of The Secret book. The implication is clear: the self-help junkies have been deluded and fleeced again. Ms. Byrne is laughing all the way to the bank, you fools… No matter though. This article will be how many people begin their journey into this field of awareness. And that’s good for all of us.
  • The article was  billed as "rivals claiming credit" but I did not get this from reading the article at all. I saw where two parties had different preferences about business. Jeez, that’s never happened before.
  • A valid criticism of The Secret is that the movie is that it presents attraction/manifestation as the way to "get stuff". This is not what this field of study is about at all. All of that is ego-based illusion that leads nowhere in terms of personal evolution. The Secret is misleading in this way (though I’m not sure the producers have more than a surface level understanding of this).

    The Law of Attraction (I’m even getting tired of that phrase!) is really the Law of the Universe. It’s how things work. And at the foundation of this work is to separate the real-you (the eternal-pure awareness- you) from the ego-you. The by-product of living the law of attraction is peace and clarity, not stuff…

  • As I write, I just got an e-mail that a deal worth about $15K of passive revenue has fallen through. Speaking to the point above, I read the e-mail, shrugged, and deleted it. Attraction is not about making THAT deal happen. By dismantling my ego as to THAT result being "good" or "bad" and getting stuck there, I remain in the state of flow where my intentions show up. It’s impossible to explain all this in a paragraph, but I cannot tell you how good that feels to KNOW. Such a relief in my life!
  • For you visionaries, the future of attraction/coaching is about helping people bring unconscious energetic blocks to the level of consciousness and removing these blocks. This is where new technologies come into play. If you want to be on the cutting-edge folks, this is where to focus your attention and study.

Okay, the gym calls. Invite you to share your thoughts…

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  1. Terry says

    February 26, 2007 at 2:45 pm

    I think this line sums it up for me, personally: “The Secret is a start.”

    I had never heard of the “Law of Attraction”, in those particular terms before, when I first saw The Secret (the Hicks version). But it really was a life-changing event in my life. The thing is, after watching it, I immediately went searching for all of the original material that The Secret was taken from… including the Abraham Hicks stuff, the Wattles book, and the work of the interviewees. It became clear that The Secret was really just an introduction into a larger “Attraction” world.

    More than likely, this brou-ha-ha (both for and against The Secret) will die down in a few months, and those that really LEARNED the law of attraction will be forever changed… and those that get ticked-off when a parking space doesn’t open for them will forget about it, and move on.

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  2. Mark says

    February 27, 2007 at 12:26 pm

    Excellent summary of your thoughts on “The Secret”. Yes, the secret is not all of it, it is simply a part of a much larger picture. I believe that it is wonderful that so many people are watching the movie. It will be great if even 1% of these people are inspired to use this power to benefit all of us.

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  3. Sondra Rose says

    March 10, 2007 at 9:11 am

    Hey Drew!

    I’m with you….AND…

    I LOVE The Secret! It’s been one of the best tools for me to introduce the LOA to clients–especially those who aren’t big readers like me. I imagine “The Secret 2” will be even better.

    Thank you again for introducing me to the Law of Attraction back in 2002 when I was a client of yours! I wasn’t attracted to Abraham-Hicks back then, but I did introduce lots of my clients to LOA through Lynn Grabhorn’s book.

    Since watching “The Secret” last summer, I’ve read lots of Abraham-Hicks and now recommend “Ask and it is Given” as my LOA “bible”… Guess we are ready when we’re ready. : )

    I appreciate that there are many resources available to share with folks, depending on where they are on the evolution spiral. Because “The Secret” was featured on Oprah, I was able to turn on one of my sisters to LOA in a way that worked for her. Now she is sharing the movie with her book group!

    Not everyone is ready for channeled information. Having watched both versions of The Secret, I prefer the second version for its greater accessibility to the mainstream. I think Lisa Nichols has lovely energy and her authenticity really added to the new version for me.

    I got into relationship coaching in 2004 and sure enough, my beloved coaching trainers, Gay & Katie Hendricks, base their coaching principles on LOA. The main part of my work has been to help folks shift their unconscious vibrational patterns so that they are in alignment and in the flow. I’ve been doing this with great success by helping folks presence their feelings and I am intending to check out EFT-training as a possible tool to add to my practice, in addition to some of the “vibration-calibration” devices I’ve been reading about.

    Hugs!
    Sondra

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  4. Alexandra says

    March 16, 2007 at 9:59 am

    I am pleased that the word is being spread. We went to an Abraham workshop in November and it is life changing. The problem is, of course, to reprogram the neural networks. It is so easy to be depressed and so hard sometimes to see the potential. My friend constantly says “The Universe loves me!” and it is as if roses are laid at her feet. Whatever she wants, comes about because she allows it. We must allow miracles. Why is that hard? Sometimes it is. But as has been said, ask and it is given, seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.

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  5. Shama Hyder says

    April 9, 2007 at 10:04 am

    Drew,

    As a law of attraction based success coach, I have to agree 110% with all that you wrote above. The Secret is a great start-but there is so much more than that. Keep up the excellent work!

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