How to be happy (2)

“‘The Secret’ is a feature length, historic and factually based account of an age old secret, said to be 4000 years in the making, and known only to a fortunate few. ‘The Secret’ promises to reveal this great knowledge to the world – The Secret to wealth, The Secret to health, The Secret to love, relationships, happiness, eternal youth… The Secret to life itself.”

This is the offer on the web site of a documentary which the “New York Times” has described as ” the biggest thing to hit the New Age movement since the Harmonic Convergence”. The secret that the movie purports to reveal is “the law of attraction”. This holds that the universe will make your wishes come true if only you really, truly believe in them.
Now I’m a great believer in self-affirmation, self-belief and positive thinking (I just wish that I could practice them better) which is why I send out my “Thought For The Week”. However, to suggest that there is a physical law which enables thinking to change the universe is utter rubbish and totally unsupported by evidence – but an idea that millions worldwide are apparently prepared to believe.

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One Comment

  • Richard Leyton
    March 4th, 2007 at 12:27 pm

    Oh dear, this sounds like some sort of horrific re-hash/variation of “What the bleep do we know?” which came out a while back (my comments – similar to yours I think – here), and sought to spin quantum mechanics as some sort of new-age mumbo jumbo…
    At times I almost think the enlightenment didn’t happen…