The Secret movie has attracted a lot of praise from many different areas, but also a lot of criticism, both in and outside of the Law of Attraction Camp.
The criticism from outside is to be expected and usual. Claims that it is useless, gives false hope, is just mumbo jumbo etc.
The criticism is partially valid in that many people will only scratch the surface and try to apply LoA without understanding how to properly. Thinking that just ‘wishing’ for something will bring it about. Not understanding the difference between wishing and intending is the biggest mistake beginner LoAers make. The second is not understanding how action is the catalyst that sets the intentions in motion.
While they are happy to line up people who have tried and failed to use the secret. The thing that is missing from every single criticism of the movie, and LoA, is proof of people who have ever succeeded and maintained that success WITHOUT ever intending it. Because there is none.
All the world’s most successful people will tell you without a moment’s hesitation that they got to where they were because they kept their goal in mind at all times. That they could see their goal before they achieved it. Most if not all will also have a long list of ‘coincidences’ that let them achieve those goals.
So while is it is possible to not succeed while trying to use LoA. It appears very much to be impossible to succeed without using at least some of the principles it teaches.
The primary principle of LoA is to take responsibility for your thoughts and life. This in itself is a piece of education that would revolutionise most people’s lives if they just applied it instead of waiting for the world to revolve around them. This point is also missed by most of the critics.
The criticism from people who should be it’s supporters is suprising but also not unusual. It is very typical in fact of the ‘alternative gone mainstream’ syndrome. The same sort of treatment that any artist, musician theory or concept recieves when it breaks away from it’s origins, i.e. elitist groups of often highbrow thinkers who seem to think that nothing is valuable or useful any longer when it gets exposed to the ‘masses’. That somehow it’s purity is in question unless it suddenly lives up to outrageous standards.
The two primary complaints I see agaisnt the secret fromt he LoA camp are these:
It is too commercial and doesn’t contain enough information
They shouldn’t be making money from teaching the LoA
The first one is quite easy to answer. The Secret is not meant to be the ‘Bible’ of LoA. It is an introduction. It is LoA for Dummies. Do you criticise your computing 101 class because it didn’t teach advanced Java techniques of linking multiple relational databases from different vendors? Of course not. Do you criticise your wheelbarrow because it isn’t a Ferrari? Of course not.
The secret was meant to popularise the Law of Attraction. To bring it to the light so that people could then seek out the other information. There already are thousands if not millions of very comprehensive courses, books, CD’s and DVDs about the LoA.
Why haven’t any of these works had the impact that The Secret has? Because they were too high level for most people. They required dedication, and extensive research. The Secret requires you to sit in front of the TV for 40 minutes. Something most people do very well.
From here many people will try LoA as a quick fix and fail, I am sure of that. But many more will try it, see the effects and do more research until they too are able to resume complete control of their lives and live the life they want.
For that alone it is worth it. Even if only a single life was saved. It was worth it. But I already know of dozens of people whose lives have been changed for the better by this movie.
The proof of it is, as they say in the movie, ‘all around you, you just don’t see it’.
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