califor123
At the beginning of this movie, one person says that we know, "like, attracts like." One person mentions magnets as a paradigm. The other man says it's a law of attraction. But we all know that with magnets, we are given the universal belief that it's opposites that attract. So, right away, I was a skeptic. And whenever I see pyramids in a film like this, I'm even more skeptical.You'll have to watch this to see if it "attracts" you.
ironhorse_iv
If you have read 'The Secret' and believe what it says, this will probably offend you, because here is a little secret from me: The Secret is pretty much pseudo-intellectual hogwash! Directed by Drew Heriot, the movie takes an inside look of the belief of the Law of Attraction that author Rhoda Byrne talks about in her self-help novel, 'The Secret'. With help from leading authors, philosophers, and new age scientists; Rhoda Byrne hopes that this movie would help audience members, be shown, the steps to learning 'The Secret', to help them in their everyday lives. While, it's good that the movie is trying to help people, be more open minded, and not closed minded; there is a lot of things in this movie that needs to look upon in a bigger scope. A lot of things, they mention, should be already known to the audience like try to be more optimistic than negative. Still, there are certain things that the movie is trying to say, doesn't add up. First off, there is a bad side to being too optimistic or prudent. Extreme optimists often display bad financial habits and behavior that are generally not considered wise like saving less or spending more money. Others problems could be extreme gambling, dangerous risk taker, and offensive apathy toward lost. This Law of Attraction attitude can be sinister in the wrong hands. Telling people exactly what they want to hear, couched in somewhat unproven scientific terms and woven together sounds like cult-like brainwashing. The Secret insists on rigid sameness of the populace, by asking people to stay positive, and never question, how their life is going. It's asking for the call for conformity and consumerism. In an odd way, being negative, has its positive. A call for change, is often create by anger. As much as it can be used for destructive ends, it can also be harnessed to form the basis of great achievement. This documentary actually suggests that victims bring about their own doom by being on the wrong mental frequency. This is very wrong and kinda offensive. The secret is telling us that millions of victims died because their minds were just too weak to believe that they really did have control. If they just thought more positively, we wouldn't have victims! Try telling that to the Holocaust victims of World War 2, and I hope they slap you back, Rhoda Byrne. Another argument, against the Law of the Attraction, is how the film tells that, through cosmic law, whatever you focus on, will necessarily grows to come truth. For the record: Quantum mechanics does not deny the existence of objective reality nor does it imply that mere thoughts can change external events. Effects still require causes, so if you want to change the universe, you need to act on it. You can't think of something, and exhume to come to live without reaching goals. This is less a law, and more just a theory or hypothesis. For it to become a law, it has to be proved by verifiable, scientific study and replication. The movie rarely shows any prove of that. In my research, I found a lot of things that contradicts the little informative, they honest put into the documentary. Yes, it easy to sow subconscious seeds in your brain, priming them, but magnetism doesn't help make results. Most magnetism is cause, by alignment of electrons made from iron. Iron attractive and repulsive forces between objects. A thought is not made of material—it is the result of thousands of electrical charges firing through your brain at one instant. Each of these tiny charges has electromagnetic properties just like everything else, but there is nothing magnetic about them. There is a huge different between a thought and object of thought. Don't get me wrong, the movie has captivating speakers that could prove that the Secret does work. The movie got Joe Vitale to Jack Canfield and Neale Donald Walsch to John Assaraf to choose from. They're fascinating to watch, but they mostly spoke about how the law of attraction has impact their lives and the lives of thousands of others, rather then, explaining in detail, how Law of attraction, honestly works. It's clear that the film is covering up the lack of substance. Yes, the book goes into more detail about the Law of Attraction, but for a documentary, it needed to be a little more informative. It's also bit misleading documentary. It saying that everything in the world is connect, by one thing and that is the Law of Attraction. If the Law of Attraction was truly, at world, wouldn't that meant, that everybody would have one way of living life. I really doubt that; seeing how the world is full of different cultures, and sub-cultures inside them. The film also make it seem like a lot of famous people from the past, like Socrates, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and others, have used 'the secret' to get their way. There is little to no prove of that. Most of them went around challenging other people's beliefs that people took for granted. They would have been the most skeptical critic of 'The Secret' if they were alive today, because they work hard on getting answers. Overall: "The Secret" film doesn't work as a self-help documentary, because it's full of absurd, illogical, scientifically false, or just plain ridiculous claims. The film lacks critical thinking. In the end, you really don't need to leap down the quantum physics rabbit hole to understand it, but buying into the existence of some Law of Attraction is an insult to victims of real misfortune.
arindambanerjee11
First, what is The Law of Attraction (TLoA)? Let's say you're poor and really want to be rich. Instead of always complaining about being poor and always focusing on what you don't have, TLoA says that you should visualize yourself as rich. See yourself in this situation. Feel what you would feel if you were in that situation. Then, somehow, money will come to you.Simply stated, it is the belief that what you focus on is what you get (or create for yourself), and there is some truth to that – but not for any of the mystical reasons claimed in this terrible movie. The movie indicates that a number of famous people knew "the secret", including Einstein, Plato, Newton and Edison. However, the movie offers no proof that any of these people knew of, agreed with or used the law of attraction.The movie also claims that the people in power in society and business have long known of this law and worked to keep it from the rest of us. Scenes are shown of people being persecuted for trying to steal the secret and (I assume) bring it out to the rest of us.No proof of this is offered and to the best of my knowledge, no conscious effort has ever been made to keep TLoA secret. But this is my point: Changing your thinking changes nothing out there, in the vast universe surrounding you. It changes something inside of you. Changing your perception, your focus, your emotions and your thinking from negative to positive (from what you lack to what you want) has an enormous effect on your motivation, energy and creativity and that's why you will then be more efficient working towards your goals. It's that simple.No electromagnetic waves emanate from your head, magically transforming the universe. No mystical vibrations affect your surroundings. Changing your thinking does not change the quantum states of objects around you in any reliable, useful way. The universe doesn't stand ready to grant your every wish.Rather, you change yourself and THEN you change your circumstances. It works through a combination of entirely non-mystical, psychological and rational mechanisms, including confirmation bias, positive thinking and optimism.
