The purpose of this article is to explain some of the concepts used by people who have read The Secret. You may find it difficult to follow along with some of what everyone is talking about. I've heard people say the language of the time sounds forced and unnatural.
Things were different back then. The discoveries of quantum physics were causing people to re-evaluate their relationship with life, the universe and everything. The works of people like Edgar Cayce, Charles and Myrtle Filmore and Ernest Holmes were causing people to think in new ways.
A new world of creativity was opening up before people. Science was moving inexorably into the realm of spirituality. We learned that we had an effect on the world in which we found ouselves.
The effect of these new ideas was not limited to religious circles. Many of the things we take for granted today like Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich, Positive Mental Attitude and the areas of literature, art and music show the influence of this new way of thinking.
Some say this sounds like Jedi mind tricks, like The Force of Star Wars fame, which "surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together." This view of a universal substance that is everywhere present is described throughout history in philosophy and belief and is described by Wallace Wattles as "a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe."
The idea was born that we had a say in the unfolding of our lives. No more pleading for the mercy of a Supreme Being! Needless to say, this was a very liberating concept for people to consider.
I like the way one person put it when saying "It gives us more power over our lives." How can we know the unknowable? It makes sense to this writer that if we are made in the image of a Supreme Being then we would be co-creators of our lives.
Do you believe in astrology? You can embrace any belief you want, but I hope your fate doesn't depend on it! I would not like to find out in the end that my ultimate fate depended on whether I mumbled certain chants or rubbed magic beads in a certain order.
"Thoughts held in mind produce after their kind". This is something we've heard for years and often never see the meaning. Like Edgar Allen Poe's Purloined Letter, it's been there the whole time!
Would you like to learn more about this? The book that inspired The Secret is titled The Science of Getting Rich. Published over 100 years ago, it is in the public domain today. Look for more information in the Resource Box.
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