Jeff on my soap box again.  I think The Secret is one of the more dangerous things to come down the pike (or more accurately recycle) in recent years.  This book and DVD are selling like crazy and people at my church are asking me to read it.  (Which I am)

The Somareview has a good and lengthy piece up on The Secret and this part jumped out at me:

The problem with “The Secret” comes when you try and apply its bold
assertions to every situation, in every part of the world. This is
where the back-pedaling starts.

A few weeks ago, Larry King interviewed some of the members of the
Secret Team, among them Lisa Nichols, Bob Proctor and Joe Vitale. There
were quite a few prickly call-in and e-mail questions, like what
happens when everybody’s doing “The Secret” to win the lottery and only
one person can have the winning number?

“Well,” ventured Lisa Nichols, “of course the winner could be just lucky.”

Huh? Nobody said anything about sheer luck in “The Secret.”

Then there was the question about really bad things happening to
good people, like 9/11. Bob Proctor, who had just affirmed that there
are “absolutely no exceptions” to the Law of Attraction, got that one.

“Well, Larry, I can’t tell you why 9/11 happened,” he admitted. “But
I can say that, yes, a lot of people died, but death isn’t really a
tragedy, is it? It’s not bad. It’s just a transition to a different
level…”

Whoa! Talk about back-pedaling over a cliff! I’m sure that profound
comment made all the people who’d lost loved ones in the most deadly
and senseless attack on American soil feel a whole lot better. Why, I
must have attracted 9/11 to me so that my husband, or son, or daughter,
or whoever could die and go to a better place!

Then Lisa Nichols got the inevitable question about a child who gets
cancer, or who is brutally abducted and killed. Did that child attract
his or her terrible fate? Did the parents attract such a tragedy in
their lives?

“Well, uh, of course the child didn’t attract it,” stammered
Nichols. “I mean, we’re not responsible for absolutely everything that
happens to us. But we can control our attitude. We can attract faith,
and compassion, and understanding, which will get us through the bad
times.”

Wait a minute. Bob Proctor just said that there are “absolutely no
exceptions to the Law of Attraction. Not one.” He even had the audacity
to brag that he never has a bad day anymore, since he’s put the Law of
Attraction into practice. So where did those millions of Hurricane
Katrina victims go wrong? If everybody in Baghdad buys “The Secret” and
puts it to work, will the bombings stop? Will the war in Iraq end?

Check out the whole article here: http://www.somareview.com/thesecret.cfm