The Secret (Extended Edition)

This film is fantastic. Everyone should see it. It helps explain how things in the universe work and somewhat of why things happen to any one of us, depending on what we ask for. Great personal development and thought provoking film.

I was excited to watch the DVD, and very disappointed to find that it won't read on computer drives. It gives a message, "Windows Media Player cannot play the DVD because the disc prohibits playback in your region of the world. You must obtain a disc that is intended for your geographic region." What is this? a bootleg version? I did get to play on a friend's home-theater.
The movie itself is a little corny with use of stock-footage, such as a a romantic couple eating strawberries on a picnic blanket or Alladin releasing the Genie. There is also some ludicrous conspiracy theory that the ruling powers and free-masons over the years have keep "the secret" from the public. In spite of all this, the movie reveals profound insight, is a good beginning into the Laws of Attraction, and is inspiring to change your life- if you believe. I do.

I've been a student of personal development for years. My primary source, when I began manifesting my goals, was "Think and Grow Rich" for a very long time.

This video did a greal job of bringing the 3 steps of achieving your goals to an audio/video presentation. It is wonderful to see that it was an INFORMATIONAL view as opposed to motivational.

External motivation (say, from a motivational speaker or a seminar) is only temporary and probably the reason why people have to keep in touch with more of it. However, for those that are internally motivated, by their OWN desires are always looking for ways to accomplish their goals. those that plug into "personal development" probably succeed faster. None-the-less, those that are internally motivated, make up the 3% of the population that know and practice the Law of Attraction.

This video brings The Secret ot the Law of Attraction to the mainstream, giving the other 97% of the population a chance to discover that they, too, can accomplish any goal that they desire. The video is a good forum, because again, the majority of the population does not like to READ personal development, but they'll watch a movie.

When a friend of mine of the enlightened wealth institute told me to get this as I mentioned how all the negative news on the TV was starting to bring me down, it really helped me.

The power to control your subconscious mind is HUGE and some of the brainless movies and shows today actually try to take that away from us and dumb us down. Some may say The Secret is 'too light' and what about an action plan or business plan in addition to just 'thinking about it and believing in yourself'....and to that I say, do what works for You!

Imagine combining both - firing up your subconscious mind (as it works 8 times faster than our conscious mind) on what you want to achieve and then putting that in writing and an action plan with goals to match it.

I also liked all the video effects, music etc. as it was very uplifting!

Tammy, and enlightened wealth institute student

The book and the video are the two sides of the same coin and I would advise you to follow the one or the other. I will suggest though that you concentrate on the video because the commentary between the quotations are nothing but the proof that some people need a lot more explanations and a lot of paraphrase to understand the basic meaning. Are we all without limits? And that is going to be my very first remark. From my long experience I know that some people are physically handicapped, or mentally handicapped, or psychologically handicapped, or with many hurdles on their road and around them. You should see the state of some of those children born to deep alcoholics or drug addicts. Or what about children with a severe genetic disparagement? And I refuse to say they are just disabled, or differently-abled. They are handicapped by being materialistically in their very body or mind at a disadvantage that will prevent them from doing what most people around them will be able to do. If the mind is intact, and working on positive thinking is the only way for these people, then they can compensate their physical limitations with their spiritual achievements. But you can't run in the standard Olympics without legs just like a bicycle will not run without wheels. And this time, in most of these situations, one will not be able to excel, full stop and period, and if one can excel in one particular field in which he is not or is less limited, it won't be without the help of other people around them. You cannot think positive if there is no signs along that road. The second remark is positive. Apart from these special cases, everyone, absolutely everyone can excel somewhere and that excellence can only be reached if it is targeted, looked for and built. Positive thinking, education, understanding that the pleasure of such achievements is in the goal when reached and not in the effort you have to accomplish, even if for those who will reach the highest points this very effort is a pleasure, the pleasure of the effort itself. A runner has to train day in and day out and that is never, absolutely never a plain entertaining phase of relaxation and abandon. Physical pleasure requires sweat and heart speed. But if one does not set their minds on the aim they are going to strive towards, they will never reach it. Success is enormously in the mind, in the conscious and subconscious motivation of the candidate. Yet it is absolutely false to say that man has no limits. Humanity, and every member of it, has always been limited historically and no one could think plasma physics or quantum computers under Julius Caesar. Each historical period produces its possible fields of investigation that are limited because in a later historical period those fields of investigation will always be vaster, larger, deeper, more intense. Or then the author is speaking metaphorically of man as the representative of humanity in its cosmic history. But that is not helping any individual who is striving to achieve something in his own life. Icarus did try to fly but wax wings were kind of primitive. Then my third and last remark will be a question: why only ONE percent of humanity controls NINETY-SIX percent of wealth? If this is a fact, and it is, it is the proof that all men are not equal in facts but only in rights, and that is so by our collective decision to say so. But one thing is sure: thinking negatively is never good. Think of McCain and Palin and their negative campaigning. Think of all the anarchists of the world who have never achieved the slightest beginning of their dream which is only a negative picture of the world the way it is. If you criticize the world systematically, then your dream becomes the inverted image of this world, hence a negative picture of reality, and that will never guide or inspire people into desiring such a future. When I don't like something I do not ask for the reverse. I wonder what the situation is, what the possibilities are and if another solution is possible and which one. Then I will think positively along that objective, or rather as objective as possible, line, but to demand black because what I don't like is white, or to require red because what I don't like is blue is primitive negative thinking. That kind of realism and collective striving is absent from this book or video and that is a shame because they forget attraction holds the world and the cosmos up because it is always counterbalanced by repulsion. Otherwise the moon would have fallen onto the earth a long very long time ago, even if this repulsion is itself the product of attractions that are standing abreast and against the attraction of the earth. The apple did not fall as long as the stem was strong enough and the apple light enough for the stem not to break. The author of this book or video seems to have forgotten that the cosmos is a complex system of opposed spheres and when a weak point appears, then a catastrophe develops in that weak point, and the earth is doomed sooner or later in cosmic time to disappear, just like the sun which will one day have burned all itself fuel.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines