History Of The Secret

If you haven't actually read or seen The Secret you may be hearing a lot of terminology thrown around that doesn't quite make sense. You may find it hard to follow along with parts of what everyone is talking about. People thought and talked in a different way back then, and sometimes you have to give them credit that when they said for example "men" what they really meant was "humanity".

This was really an exciting time. New knowledge was changing everything. The works of people like Edgar Cayce, Charles and Myrtle Filmore and Ernest Holmes were causing people to think in new ways.

A new world of possibility was opening up before people. Science was moving inexorably closer to the realm of spirituality. People were being told that they had a power over the world around them.

Based on this information people began to consider the nature of the universe as something pliable; something we could shape with the power of our will. The idea of Positive Mental Attitude, Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich, the fields of art, literature, music and many others were profoundly influenced by this shift in thought.

Many people may think the view of the New Age culture sounds 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 in many of the world's great religions and is described 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 idea was born that we had a say in the unfolding of our lives. No more pleading for the intercession of something higher than ourselves! Needless to say, this was a very liberating concept for people to consider.

One thing is for sure: it's good to have choices. How can we know the unknowable? It makes sense to this writer that if we are made in the image of a Supreme Being then we would be co-creators of our lives.

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.

"Thoughts held in mind produce after their kind". This is something we've heard for years and often never see the meaning. Like Edgar Allen Poe's Purloined Letter, it's been there the whole time!

It really makes for an interesting study. The book that inspired The Secret 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 owns the Self Help Hotline and has been involved in self improvement and New Age thinking since childhood. He is excited to offer a free copy of the book that inspired The Secret. You can learn more about it here.