Customer Reviews
The book that saved my life - By: A. GILL, 09 Jan 2009 
Please allow me to share with you how "The Secret" changed my life &in a very real & substantive way allowed me to overcome a severe crisisin my personal life. It is well known that the premise of "The Secret" is the science of attracting the thingsin life that you desire & need &in removing from your life those things that you don't want. Before finding this book, I knew nothing of these principles, the process of positive visualization, & had actually engagedin reckless behaviors to the point of endangering my own life & wellbeing.
At age 36, I found myselfin a medium security prison serving 3-5 years for destruction of government property & public intoxication. This was stiff punishment for drunkenly defecatingin a mailbox but as the judge pointed out, this was my third conviction for the exact same crime. I obviously had an alcohol problem & a deep & intense disrespect for the postal system, but even more importantly I was ignoring the very fabric of our metaphysical reality & inviting destructive influences into my life.
My fourth dayin prison was the first day that I was allowedin general population & whilein the recreation yard I was approached by a prisoner named Marcus who calmly informed me that as a new prisoner I had been purchased by him for three packs of Winston cigarettes & 8 ounces of Pruno (prison wine). Marcus elaborated further that I could expect to be [...] raped by him on a daily basis & that I had pretty eyes.
Needless to say, I was deeply shocked that my life had sunk to this level. Although I've never been homophobic I was discovering that I was very rape phobic & dismayed by my overall personal street value of roughly $15. I returned to my cell & sat very quietly, searching myself for answers on how I could improve my life & distance myself from harmful outside influences. At that point,in what I consider to be a miraculous moment, my cell mate Jim Norton informed me that he knew about the Marcus situation & that he had something that could solve my problems. He handed me a copy of "The Secret". Normally I wouldn't have turned to a self help book to resolve such a severe & immediate threat but I literally didn't have any other available alternatives. I immediately opened the book & began to read.
The first few chapters deal with the essence of something called the "Law of Attraction"in which a primal universal force is available to us & can be harnessed for the betterment of our lives. The theoretical nature of the first few chapters wasn't exactly putting me at peace. In fact, I had never meditated & had great difficulty with closing out the chaotic noises of the prison & visualizing the positive changes that I so dearly needed. It was when I reached Chapter 6 "The Secret to Relationships" that I realized how this book could help me distance myself from Marcus & his negative intentions. Starting with chapter six there was a cavity carved into the book &in that cavity was a prison shiv. This particular shiv was a toothbrush with a handle that had been repeatedly melted & ground into a razor sharp point.
The next dayin the exercise yard I carried "The Secret" with me & when Marcus approached me I opened the book & stabbed himin the neck. The next eight weeksin solitary confinement provided ample time to practice positive visualization & the 16 hours per day of absolute darkness actually made visualization about the only thing that I actually could do. I'm not sure that everybody's life will be changedin such a dramatic way by this book but I'm very thankful to have found it & will continue to recommend it heartily.
By: Ari Brouillette
Disgusting - By: Jamie Panter, 07 Jan 2009 
Terrible. I flicked through the book. I turned the video off after 10 minutes. Complete & utter rubbish. Let me get one thing straight. Positivism is a good thing. Having a can do attitude will get you further. This book is disgracefulin saying that this is all you need to live a great life. It encourages laziness, selfishness & above all a release from responsibility & empathy. Anyone who rates this book is one of 2 things. Somebody trying to escape responsibility for their lives or (at worst) a selfish person who wants everything with no desire to work for it. Do not be fooled. There are great books out there that work. Paul Mckennas 'I can change your lifein 7 days' is brilliant & relies upon psycholody & science to advise & suggest. Read that.
This book is a religion. If you want a higher power to guide your life, then there are far more established religions to join. If you want to genuinly learn things that will help you gain control of your life, there are ACTUAL helpful books. Either way, do not line this womans incredibly well marketed & deep pockets further.
Amazing - By: Blondiee, 07 Jan 2009 I cannot believe that people are possibly slating this book!!
This book is amazing, it has brung me so much since i have read it!
The only reason people are giving this bad reviews, is because they haven't believed or even tried the laws of attraction properly. All i can say, is its up to them, if they want to be negative & not experience the power of the secret, then fine! leave them to it.
But i know that i have witnessed proof of this books laws working, from this book i have recieved amazing exam results, good relationships, good fortune, & much more to come.
I hope people can at least try this book, give it a chance, if you are thinking positively about this book - positive things will happen.. its all inside! I thoroughly reccomend this book to anybody.
NASTY NEGATIVE REVIEWS!! - By: The Mand, 06 Jan 2009 So many AWFUL reviews!!
Well i found 'the secret' fascinating, as have all the people i bought it for & introduced to it! & i'm NOT suicidal!...HATE livingin ENGLAND but thanx to 'the secret' good things have been happening to make this DAMN MISERABLE COUNTRY a little more bareable!!. Thanx to Rhonda Byrne & all Americans!!!....at least they LOOK AFTER THERE TEETH!!!.
Mumbo Jumbo No Secret! - By: Gibson, 02 Jan 2009 Normally one finds these new age tracts mildly amusing. However there is something particularly offensive about the absurdly titled The Secret.
The book is little more than a glossy coffee table revamp of the old "power of positive thinking" schtick. However The Secret goes furtherin that it assures us that poverty is simply the end product of negative thoughts blocking money coming to us. "Think rich, & you will become rich",in other words.
Try telling that to the masses of people currently losing their jobs & homes as a result of the inequities of unbridled capitalism. According to The Secret, their misfortune is of their own negative making & has nothing to do with the chicanery of capitalism's banksters & shysters.
As for the poor of the LEDC's , sure all they have to do is read & practice The Secret & hey presto they will become rich.
The Secret also advises us to give up reading newspapers & watching tv news as this will only make us unhappy. Far better to wallowin blissful ignorance of the injustices of the wider world than risk one iota of one's own precious personal well-being. This is typical of vacuous New Agery which simply cannot conceive of the fact that that it is actually good to feel unhappy about the suffering of others.
An absurdly simplistic Law of Attraction is toutedin this book. That Law may be expressed as follows: "Half-baked philosophy,plausibly marketed, will always attract the dollars of gullible self-indulgent folk".
