The Secret (Extended Edition)

This book is great...
Do not miss to buy DVD of this movie
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this movie lived up to all my expectations, it was fantastic. I own all the years on DVD of Sex and the City and this movie is the perfect ending to the tv series. The girls are still outragous and the outfits are amazing. Can hardly wait for Sex and the City movie sequel.

We bought the Secret Extended DVD, because of all the hype, and after watching it we were fairly disappointed. I am aware of and very much believe in the Law of Attraction mostly from reading "The Law of Attraction" by Michael J. Losier. I found that book to be much more useful and provided a pragmatic realist approach to taking steps to turn what you want into what you have and not focusing so much on getting "stuff".

The Secret, unfortunately, just felt like a really-really-really long commercial, full of cheesy effects and theatrics, that was pitching something that they never got around to selling. "It worked for me, "It worked for me too!", "Yes, it worked for me too!"-seemed to be the message throughout the video but the players never really got around to telling you HOW it worked for them and what they did to make it work. OK, a little maybe; make a vision board, focus on what you want......etc. Losier's book (far less expensive too) gives you a plan, takes you through it, and shows you how to recognize results.

The Secret DVD left me wondering if I should have bought the book instead. What did I miss, was there more action to take in the book that wasn't covered in the DVD, etc.? Turns out I did start searching around the internet and found lots of details on the players in the DVD and found all their coaching and consulting businesses. Maybe I did find what the Secret DVD was advertising after all?

Great DVD, special when you try to see and get the Best out of it. I have the book, I have CD and I bought DVD because the level of energy you get by watching this people is incredible, you see right away that their success comes from there attitude and where to get attitude - you work on it, it's not easy, it's takes time and the best - it's possible. This DVD gives power to belief in yourself and ability to create wonderful life for all. I think it's nice to have this DVD, you can find the right answer when you have trouble, just by watching, because mind after that work differently. Good luck to all.

This review pertains to the original DVD release version of The Secret. I enjoyed the movie shortly after it came out, but began to feel uneasy as assorted controversies began to dog some of the stars. Look it up if you don't know what I'm talking about.

Overall, this is an important movie, for we're in a period of humankind's existence where perceived scarcity of resources will force us to either evolve as a species or perish. By evolve, I mean using a much higher share of our intellectual (and spiritual) capacity than at present. Critics, including adherents to the Law of Attraction, have Swiss Cheesed The Secret for pandering to the people's materialism, wanton lusts and venality.

And many have raised the oh-so-essential point that manifesting one's intentions is not merely a sit-back-in-your-La-Z-Boy-and-dream process -- as the movie might have you believe. Success is not easy. The movie is very light on the fact that most of us have to work our tails off to succeed.

But come on, lighten up, people -- all that's just marketing to get viewers thinking about the higher-level capabilities within them.

If you watch this movie and actually study it, you'll quickly realize that you must learn more, grow more and act more if you wish to materialize the paradisic visions shown in The Secret. (And of course, the idea is for you to learn, grow and act under the watchful tutelage and support of The Secret business organization. They are more than happy to supply you with videos, seminars and other "product" that might -- might -- help you to achieve some measure of life mastery.)

Part of the "Secret to Money," it seems, is creating a huge sales and marketing apparatus to keep the money flowing in after they buy the video.

But back to the movie. It presents some quite intriguing and valid principles, including: 1) that everything, including matter, is reducible to energy; and 2) All of this energy is connected in an incomprehensibly large network (hmm, a Matrix?), meaning that everything and everyone is connected with everything else. If you accept this, it renders quite foolish the wars, struggles and competition we engage in daily. And it makes generosity and kindness seem like a no-brainer, if not downright self-serving.

And so now we're at something of a crossroads. Even as more people than ever are embracing the message of plentiful abundance and oneness (preached by Buddha, Jesus, Wallace D. Wattles, and many more), we find a world gripped in many places by greed, crisis and dysfunction. Here's hoping that The Secret, for all its flaws, can tip the scales so that humanity will move toward alleviating its own suffering. It will require "the masses" to awaken to the potential within themselves as individuals, and undergo the hard work of life mastery.