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Purchased this for my daughter who seems at times to have low self-esteem. I can only tell you what she says about the book. She has enjoyed what she has read so far.

I could not post this with zero stars, lamentably. This is at it's best disingenuous, trite and ill informed. At its worst it is irresponsible and dangerous. The fact of the matter is books like this is what gives manifesting and metaphysics a bad name. I am not sure what repulses more, the author, for scheming a quick buck on a magic genie type book or my fellow man, that sadly never seems to want to disprove that there is a sucker born every minute. This book is an affront to all authors who delve into the power of thought and mind, conscious and subconscious, et al. It is a wonderfully marvelous and rich field of study with grand merit. The problem is there is effort to become self actualized and to accomplish becoming fully engaged. This book is insulting. Imagine willing yourself to be healthy and lean - and eating all the ice cream you desire?!?! You can clearly blue print the life you want, but perhaps you should be meditating on having the intestinal fortitude and courage to accomplish a grand life and healthy body. People want this book to be true because it is easy. I need to stop this review ... there is bile in my mouth from recalling it!

In sales, training for a job I no longer have, the training manager `treated' me and my colleagues to a movie. Now, the anticipation of breaking the monotony of a classroom situation with a movie presentation is buried deeply in American students. The title came up and it was the video version of the best-selling _The Secret_. I watched this, and diligent student that I am, I took notes. I had very little conception of just what I was in for. I knew that it was a highly selling book. The 'Secret', for those out of the know is simple. All you have to do is ask the universe for stuff and it gives it to you. I wish that were a gloss of the explanation, but that seems to be it. If I had my notes from that day, I would most likely see things like `Magical Thinking!' or other such pithy refutations of the main premise of the video as I argued against it as I watched it. I remember that my main beef with the video was that of the dozen or so speakers advocating the `Secret' that were featured as authors, I had heard of exactly none of them. If the secret is so powerful, I asked, why are these people not successful enough that I had ever heard of them. When the lights came up, the trainer asked about our opinions of the video. I can't remember what I said, but I hope it was positive enough for him. I understand the appeal of the secret. People like stuff. Our capitalistic economy makes you break the tenth commandment all the time. Happiness is not just related to material accumulation, but happiness is material accumulation. The advertising and the media assure us that this is the uncritical mindset that people live their lives in. I have seen people play general positive thinking up in both scholastic and professional life, and I kept wondering about the efficacy of it. In my opinion staying positive is detrimental to critical thinking and maintaining a realistic and non-exhausting baseline. The biggest argument against the secret is the last two years. How many people in 2007 started asking for less stuff?

Ok fine I get it. We need to think positively to adequately live our lives, but that's like 1 step in a 10 step process to really getting what you want. The best advise I ever got was "Life is what you make of it", and it's true, life requires a lot of effort. But to only advise people to "think and it will appear", is preposterous. The only path to pure happiness is through action - getting everything God blessed you with out of your system and into the world. That's a paraphrased Russell Simons quote. Happiness is not crossing your fingers and really, really, REALLY hoping for the best...that's just empty hope. This chick also 100% stole this book from a book written in the 1800's by Wallace D. Wattles titled "The Science of Getting Rich". That book is available for free online...not sure where but it's out there. Lame book...don't waste your money.

I am enjoying reading this book. I'm not quite finished reading it, but I can say it is truly inspirational.

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I listened to the cd a year ago and didn't grasp the meaning of the secret. After I've listened to the cd for the 2nd time this year, I felt like I understood it better and was able to use the secret in my life. As of right now I am just testing it and using it towards "A" grades and "my parking spot" and it has given it to me 90% of the time. It usually depends on how strongly I believe that I have what I ordered in "the catalog of the universe". If you listen to the cd you'll understand. P.S. The background music in the cd makes it so much more easier to visualize. = )

This is by far one of the worst books I've ever read (listened to). It's completely redundant, repeating itself ad nauseum. Not to mention the fact that it's very shallow and does not fully develop the ideas, not to mention the fact that there is not a unique idea covered here. The author reads a sentence, then includes a clip of another motivational speaker basically repeating the same thing. This whole book could be summarized in 1 concise paragraph, I can boil it down to one catch phrase: "You create your own self-fulfilling prophecy, good or bad." I cannot fathom how this got published much less became a best seller.

I bought this item and had some technical difficulty. The seller walked me through and was as pleasant as a warmer summer day! I could not be any happier with my audiobook and experience!! Buy from this seller...they rock!!

If you only do one thing for yourself in this lifetime--really listen to "The Secret." I saw the DVD at the lowest point of my life. I had fought for my life due to illness. My husband's actions had put me in post traumatic stress disorder. My religion turned out to be a scam. When I heard The Secret, it was like water to a dying soul. I got it! I asked God for a villa in the Southwest and rental units to bring me income. I also asked for strength and a new life. I thanked God over and over again that all I asked for was ALREADY mine. Within 6 months, a lovely home, near a river and the most beautiful little RV park you can imagine was MINE--in the Southwest! It fell into my hands in a miraculous way! Dozens of people in town said they would have bought it in a heartbeat! I was the only one who was in the right place at the right time! I also completely recovered my health thanks to finding the doctor who knew how to help me. I have a background in health and greatly admired Dr. Ben Johnson, who is a doctor with three degrees in The Secret. Imagine my surprise when I showed up for a health conference and Dr. Ben Johnson was there! We are now friends! As I drove him to the airport after a business meeting one day, he asked, "So Debbie, how did you come to own an RV park?" I replied, "Dr. Johnson, I used THE SECRET! You helped me to get my RV park!!! Before he got out of the car, he put his hands on top of mine and thanked God for me and for sending me the RV park and a new life! I cried tears of joy and amazement half the way home. I listen to the CD set a lot. It is more in-depth than the movie. Does The Secret work? Oh yes!!! Thank you God! Thank you Rhonda Byrne! Thank you Dr. Johnson! We can use THE SECRET to make the world a better place! Debbie

First off let me say that is one of my most favorite books on CD, I believe there are a lot of truth in this book when it comes to visualization, postive thinking, giving, and focus. Do I believe you can cure cancer with well-power or fix your own eyesight, NO!!! I do believe that if you are ill, you must keep a postive look on life, because it does effect you immune system and if you lose the well to live you will die. So keep positive.