The Dark Side of 'The Secret'

[Lauranimal]

I was really baffled some 8-10 year ago, when I've experienced this 'positive thinking discipline' being utilized by insurance companies and its affiliates,

LOL!!! OMG I remember this! I had applied for work at a life insurance company about 15 years ago. They give you this long test to see if you would fit in with how they do things. Apparently I failed it utterly. I can remember thinking too that they were looking for honest and sincere answers and for people who show integrity; Someone who could be trusted. How naive I was. They were looking for the exact opposite and capable of twisting truth and projecting it with a positive spin of optimistic BS.

 

[Vulcan59]

Looks like there is a sequel to "The Secret" called "The Power". I'll let the good professor speak for himself.

I don't watch Oprah enough, so I haven't seen much open endorsement of the nonsense behind that unbelievable bestseller, The Secret. There must be a lot of closet believers, though, because that piece of well-whipped frothy BS sold 19 million copies. Now the author has cranked out another, similar excretion: The Power, nicely reviewed in Newsweek. Both have the same premise, that the Universe really, really loves you and wants to give you everything you wish for, if only you concentrate and ask.

The entire article can be read here. :)

 

[PopHistorian]

Any guesses as to what volume III might be called?

 

[FireShadow]

Any guesses as to what volume III might be called?

Hmmm...I don't know, "What's for Dessert?" maybe?

 

[Oxajil]

Any guesses as to what volume III might be called?

Hmmm...I don't know, "What's for Dessert?" maybe?

Or "The Secret Power"

 

[paralleloscope]

Any guesses as to what volume III might be called?

Hmmm...I don't know, "What's for Dessert?" maybe?

Or "The Secret Power"

Great titles
or maybe they would triangulate the STS shrine it is, with something like 'the pinnacle' or 'the Ring'

 

[Psalehesost]

Any guesses as to what volume III might be called?

Hmmm...I don't know, "What's for Dessert?" maybe?

Or "The Secret Power"

Or perhaps "The Self", since these teachings are about Self-love (love of the false self) and the supposed power of our false selves.

 

[FireShadow]

I really like "The Ring", but "The Self" is a close contender.

 

[PopHistorian]

They seem to be heading toward, Rule Your Own Planet. No, wait, the LDS has that covered already.

 

[anart]

Any guesses as to what volume III might be called?

'The Alarm Clock Goes Off and You Have to Get Up For Work'

 

[Renaissance]

'The gnashing of teeth'

 

[Buddy]

Any guesses as to what volume III might be called?

"The Love Chemical: Making addiction work for you"
Alternate:
Exploiting Neurochemicals For Fun And Profit

:D
Considering that "The Secret" is still roasting in a lot of unhappy camps, I predict reviewers, readers, former believers, practitioners and author and social critic Barbara Ehrenreich to jump on the parody bandwagon with something like:

"The Secret Secret"
(Dirty tricks Redux)

 

[deleven]

Seems I recall a quote to the effect that behind every great fortune there is a crime. Perhaps the real crime is that those that aspire to such 'wealth' miss the great opportunity in evoking the inner journey. As a testimony to this miss was JD Rockefeller's great rage at realizing he could not take his empire with him to the grave. Then there is, of course, our admonition to 'lay not your treasure where moth and thief can rend assunder'.

For myself, I can clearly state that "The Secret" had a very positive outcome in that it did precipitate a rift between my ex and myself which most certainly catalyzed the ending of our relationship; An ending that was painful to be sure, as I tend to be most loyal. But it did spell out, in plain terms, the frequency mismatch which had, until that point, distracted me from my involvement in The Work.

Thanks for this wondeful thread! :D

David

 

[Samuel]

By the way, from a political perspective, V for Vendetta seemed to me to be an obvious Illuminati movie meant to provoke end-times Monarch programming. Why would you supposed skeptics follow a mainstream movie so avidly? The Freeman broke down how it is Illuminati-made pretty good, I don't remember his website off hand. Arent the Wachowski Bros. known agents? The Matrix was Illuminati-themed all the way. Still was a good movie though.

Alrighty peace.

You see, you only look at this movie from a reactional point of view. Like a digital gate, ‘it’ (the reaction machine in you) sees things only in terms of ‘yes’ OR ‘no’. You see ‘good’ and ‘evil’ in the same way. Its all external to yourself. You see things only in terms of illuminati (bad) or not-illuminati (good). It’s all subjective and your understanding of this movie is equally reactionary and subjective.

We are quite literally ‘drafted’ into a personality based thought construct system as soon as our education begins, and it's without our consent and we are given appropriate ‘uniforms of thought’ that reflect this. There are some people who simply do not fit well into this uniform and they question things. It's a WAR. It’s an inner war to think for yourself. Meditation movements simply crystallize the false personality so as to self calm these ‘misfits in uniform’ who begin to actually question things. The intent of this is to eventually lull these misfits into giving up their fight to be objective and think for themselves. THAT is what the essential message of the movie 'V' is about.

Then there are those who ‘fight the Machine’ without knowing the true nature of the battle. Either way you will be doomed if you let your reaction machine think for you.

Either you lose the will to fight thru ‘meditation’ or fight the wrong kind of battle because of stupidity and ignorance. The real message of the movie is about the nature of psychopaths who rule our lives. But to begin to know how to ‘fight’ this you must learn how to think for yourself and know the true nature of the battle.

You pretty much nailed it remarkedly well, kenlee: one of the best thought provoking posts on this thread.

 

[Eongar]

Volume III: "It was all a joke".