The Secret, Jane Roberts, Laws of Attraction, new-age thinking, forgiveness
Everyone is talking about the new book "The Secret"-this secret is another book based on the laws of attraction-reminiscent of the Jane Robert books; "Nature of Personal Realities" and "The Way Towards Health"-Why does this subject continue to intrigue us? Perhaps we do realize it is a great truth and want to harness this power in our lives. Seemingly simple-we are attracted to attraction-but it is far from simple. While, we can talk about changing our thoughts till we turn blue, and we can tell ourselves over and over what we want to feel or are supposed to feel-The truth is, until we get honest about our true feelings and what is really going on inside-we will never be able to apply the laws of attraction faithfully and all of our efforts to attract the things we want will be in vain. For instance-I can be filled with rage and anger-for years-built up, and I can do the "right" thing and turn the other cheek or advertise to the world that I have moralistically forgiven others-The fact, is no matter how hard I try to move forward and attract positive things in my life to me-the only thing I will be attracting is more anger and more deception into my life. Clearly, ideologies like "The Secret" or various self-help techniques-be it mantra's, meditating, visualization, yoga- are empty and useless until we truly experience our own personal reality and view these ideologies within the concepts of Wilhelm Reich's work on human armor and the need for physically expressing rage and anger before it consumes us. There is a bigger secret, which precedes-"The Secret"...