A Little Background Of The Secret

If you haven’t actually read or seen The Secret you may be hearing a lot of wording thrown around that doesn’t quite make sense. You may find it hard to understand parts of what people are saying. I’ve heard people say the language of the time sounds stilted and unnatural.

This was really an exciting time. New knowledge was changing everything. Charles and Myrtle Filmore were creating study groups that eventually became Unity Church; Ernest Holmes founded Religious Science and Edgar Cayce was giving psychic readings that were eerily accurate.

The old ways were being swept away. Key to this process were the discoveries of science. We learned that we had an effect on the world in which we found ouselves.

Based on this information people began to consider the nature of the universe as something pliable; something we could shape with the power of the human will. Many of the areas 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 culture and society and is referenced 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 “new idea” that occurred 100 years ago was that we could directly impress our will upon this “formless substance” and shape our experience of life. No more pleading for the intercession of something higher than ourselves! Such an idea was very transformational to the mindset of the time.

I like the way one person put it when saying “It gives us more power over our lives.” There are things we cannot know for sure. It makes sense to this writer that we are free to live our own lives and to make our own choices.

Do you believe in past lives? Whether you do or not, it should not dictate the way you live your present life! 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.

The big secret behind The Secret is the Law of Attraction; another way of saying this is “like attracts like.”. This is something we’ve heard for years and often never see the meaning. The Secret is a secret because we don’t see it right in front of us!

Would you like to learn more about this? The name of the book is titled The Science of Getting Rich. This book is in the public domain now since it was published over 100 years ago Look for more information in the next paragraph.

Adam Dillinger runs the Self Help Hotline and has been involved in self improvement and New Age thinking since his youth. He is excited to offer a free copy of the book that inspired The Secret. You can learn more about it here.