In today's world I can see why this book would be so popular. People have forgotten how to be happy. Maybe this book will make them realize that.

My problem with the book is that you are to blame for your own problems. For instance, I had cancer. It was my fault. I screamed out into the universe for it. Hmmm... I was in good health when I was diagnosed... so no, I didn't really ask for that. Perhaps a good book to read or a winning lottery ticket, but no, I never asked for cancer. I consider myself a happy-go-lucky person and am generally very positive. According to my oncologist it was nothing I did, just rather bad genes.

So if you read this book, please do not take it too seriously. If something bad happens in your life, make the best of it. You are not the cause of all the universe's problems. Just be happy with you and try to bring a little peace in your own corner of the universe!




HashBrown (Singapore) (2009/03/19):
It's just ok to me.



mary (USA: NJ) (2009/04/22):
Gah! It was awful; couldn't even read it. I'm all for the power of positive thinking but this book is ridiculous. Though the content is extremely offensive to me (you bring on your own cancer by thinking about it, regardless of what frame of mind you're in while thinking of it? Seriously? Then why aren't all the people who work for the American Cancer Society and every oncologist totally afflicted?) I can't bring myself to actually throw out a book so, in hopes that someone else can sift through the nonsense to walk away with a positive reading experience, I offer it to you all. You've been warned.



Barbara (USA: OR) (2009/08/24):
For the longest time, I refused to buy this book. It was overhyped and appeared a direct rip off of all those "DaVinci Code" inspired clones. But after beginning to study Unity School of Christianity and other new thought teachings, I gave in to my curiosity -- and I'm glad I did.

The ideas presented here are NOT new and are definitely no secret. They are precisely what are taught by Unity as well as Religious Science and other New Thought groups. However, the book, and the movie (which at first viewing seems hockey beyond belief) provide a truly uplifting and motivational approach to the teachings. It's like having your coach give you a pep talk about life.

If this had been my first introduction to the power of the law of attraction (or the law of mind action, as Unity puts it), I do not think I would have accepted it very well. Devoid of almost all spiritual basis and depending on a very superficial and partially erroneous scientific explanation, it would not have satisfied me.

However, having already established an understanding (albeit an incomplete and ever changing one) of the way the universal intelligence works through and in us, I was more open to the messages in the book and film.

So far, I *have* had interesting results. Are they simply the product of positive thinking? I don't know. But I will continue working with the principles and see what happens. I'm keeping an open mind -- which you definitely need to get anything out of this book.

I will say that I'm amazed at how many people are so close-minded that they disregard even the *possibility* that this human potential exists, without even trying it for themselves. I thought the first rule of any rational, scientific, endeavor was to be objective. Without trying something, how do you KNOW it won't work?




Aka (Australia) (2009/08/27):
I think the idea of "You create your own reality" is unfair. How would you explain this theory to a starving person in Africa? Is he starving because he doesn't practice "The Secret"?

I do agree though, to a degree, with the power of image training in order to achieve something. However it does not always work because we do not have control over everything.



Leigh K Foster (USA: NJ) (2009/12/07):
i hate it with a passion, and an acquaintance insisted on lending it to me. since i have been unable to contact this person, i am passing this on.