The Secret.  Jesus Christ.  Oh the punishment that stupidity, gullibility, and greed have for those among us cursed with a fully functional human brain.  Maybe the religious fascists are right after all, and evolution hasn't taken place yet.  Not for most of us, at least. 

Anyways.  Back to this secretion of hapless rambling.  Let me enlighten you to the one key fact that guides you to read this heap of burning shit, that turns mute the bits of logic that your invariably dying brain is scratching into the inner wall of your skull with its broken nails.  GREED.  And incredibly large doses of stupidity, of course. 

It's yet another take one the painfully stupid concept of the "law of attraction".  Let me tell you something right now.   It'll save you the countless hours you'd be spending researching the topic at large.  The "Law of Attraction" states that the things that you manifest will find their way into your life by way of cosmic force.  What's wrong with this statement?  First of all, the word 'manifest'.  Right now I manifest a huge giant turd being flushed down a monstrously large toilet.  That's exhibit A, 'validity'. 

What does in fact happen is just two simple things.  First, you will recognize things that you ... urgh ... 'manifested'.  It's like reading your horoscope.  A great many things with neutral meaning happen, and you consciously assign meaning to the ones you want.  So 'manifestation' is in fact nothing more than picking of all the same things that happen anyways the ones you consciously decided on beforehand.  And second, you will take actions most suited towards your desirable outcome.  It's not fucking magic.  You a) notice things you want and b) get off your ass and make it happen.  You're not manifesting shit, and the universe is not directing any greater forces to bend to your will.  Just reading that last half sentence should make your toes curl by the sheer stupidity of the very concept. 

The real secret is that Rhonda and the goons that took the bribe to act as 'proof' of her greed guilded and completely assanine fabrications are laughing their proverbial way to the bank.  It must be especially sweet to spend money taken from people who obviously parted with it to further grow the reeking mountain of shit that they feed their questionable brains under the guise of knowledge and self-enlightenment.

I can say much of the same for a lot of the self help philosphizing that litters a whole section of most bookstores.  It's a suckers game, and the way to play a winning hand is to make the most boldfaced possible statement to make the suffering masses believe in the possibility of salvation.  In all reality all it would take is turning off the TV and slowly digging out your soul from the mass of shit marketing it has been burried under for most of your life.

Read the thing if you will.  If I hear you quoting any part of it in sincerity anywhere near me though, I'm going to speer your eyeball with a pencil.  I'm manifesting it already.