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| The Secret | 
 enlarge | Author: Rhonda Byrne
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  188 reviews
Sales Rank: 16
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 1847370292
EAN: 9781847370297
Publication Date: December 4, 2006
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 Read it and then take ACTION! September 3, 2008
If you read this book with an open mind and actually take action and DO some of the things it suggests... you cannot fail to see the difference in your life. I've created my own sucessful company and what I learned in this book has been crucial to it's growth and sucess. Beyond Chocolate: How to Stop Yo-yo Dieting and Lose Weight for Good
 A good introduction to the law of attraction August 30, 2008
This is basically the movie transcribed. The intro is annoying as they babble on about 'The Secret' for far too long before getting to what it actually is.
Once it gets going it covers the topic well, but is a bitty as it jumps from contributor to contributor.
For me this was my introduction to Esther Hicks, who after reading her books changed my life. So i do owe The Secret a debt of gratitude as it opened my eyes, and showed me the way, even if it didn't change my life on it's own. But do what it says and research some of the avatars quoted in there and see whose writings work or you.
For me it was Esther Hicks, for my Mum it was Napoleon Hill, and for my friend it was Bob Proctor. But we all were introduced to these writers through this book.
Only positive things to gain here.... August 29, 2008
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I would reccommend people read this book, there is only positive things to gain from it. If you have read other books on the subject then it's likely you have read this and if this is your first it's a good place to start! The book has proved to provide 'the secret' for rhonda byrne, those featured in it and there is absolutely no reason why you cant join them in the success you desire too.
 Dangerous August 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This books claims that if you truly believe then the universe will provide everything you need. It is based on some pseudo theory that positive thoughts create a kind of positive feedback that will benefit everyone. That's basically the message but the book repeats it over and over in a hundred different ways.
I think the book is dangerous and I wonder how many people who bought it went on to over-commit themselves financially in the belief that the universe would provide...
We live in a world of SCARCITY, not unlimited abundance... August 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
There is much merit in anything self-helpy.
If you have taken the time to pick up a book like "The Secret" at least you are taking positive steps to improve your life.
This alone marks you out as part of a tiny minority of people who are more likely than the crowd to achieve their dreams.
The Secret is moderately useful in reminding you to use positive thinking but there are much better books out there for same.
That said, one thing this whole movement gets TOTALLY wrong, however, is the notion that "the universe" is limitlessly abundant and, as a result, we can all manifest everything we want.
This is very dangerous and very untrue.
At the world's current population and level of Ecomomic development we are already bumping up against some very serious ecological glass ceilings.
In order for every African, Chinese, South American and Indian (for eg) to have the standard of living of an AVERAGE western European or North American we would need approximately EIGHT MORE PLANETS of Oil, Gold, Iron Ore, Agricultural land, fresh water, fish etc... etc...
If everyone in the world were to be able to manifest their multi-millionaire dream existence as this book would have you believe you'll have nine billion people by 2020 flying to their super yachts in private jets.
This is quite clearly utterly impossible. There isn't enough metal to build them, let alone enough oil to fuel them.
Those of us lucky to live an affluent first world existence do so on the backs of most of the world's population living on a $ a day and having a life expectancy of roughly half of ours.
Only a very, very tiny minority of the earth's population can ever hope to have a $4.5m house (as described gushingly in the book by one of the contributors) and no "secret" is ever going to change that I'm afraid.
This book will, however, be helpful for those of us in the first world who, by luck of birth, DO have a chance of getting all the material trappings we want (note I didn't say NEED here).
The people responsible for this book need to do some serious reading outside of their evidently narrow world view.
I would suggest they start with Jeffrey Sach's most recent "Economics of a Crowded Planet" and Jared Diamond's "Collapse".
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