What utter bilgewater. Patently designed to hoodwink those with absolutely no self-esteem. Reprehensible filmmaking. They should be ashamed of themselves. Avoid.

Honestly, this makes the lowest grade of pornography look like Shakespeare. Just believe and the Universe will do exactly as you command! Hey positive thinking and belief are incredibly important, if they stopped there it would be fine. I'm all for a near-spiritual support for positive thinking. But don't believe you command the world! Believe what you like, and respect the beliefs of others. But here they make the case that your (subjective) beliefs drive the (objective) realities of the universe. They present it as though its a scientific fact. And they imply that this is the true secret of the ages, that all the greats possessed this precious knowledge, and that an evil conspiracy subdues it. That is patently false. It is truly a demented, grade school pseudoscience wrapped in an infomercial. At least Jerry Springer doesn't pretend his show is Cosmos!

Anyone heard of this old saying? "Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits form your character, Your character determines your destiny."Positive thoughts "usually" yield positive outcomes. Greece composer Yanni once quoted during his concert at the Acropolis: "… everything great that has ever happened to humanity since the beginning, has begun as a single thought in someone's mind and if anyone of us is capable of such a great thought then all of us have the same capacity, capability, because we are all the same". It's essentially the same basic concept as The Secret.The first time I watched The Secret was in 2007. Our daughter was only 2 years old at the time, the year when my wife had stage-4 lymphoma and was going thru chemotherapy and I was on the verge of losing my job (and health insurance) due to outsourcing. Talk about stress and emotional ups and downs!!! We got the DVD from another couple whom at the time was also going thru cancer treatment. Throughout 2007, my wife probably watched that DVD once a week and I watched it about 5-6 times. We didn't expect miracles to happen overnight. But during tough moments, the messages in this DVD actually brought some hope. Little by little, we tried to follow and think and talk positively and dream about how good our future will be. By late 2007, my wife finished all her treatments and gone into remission; and I finally landed a stable government job.By late 2008, my wife has gotten healthier and grew all her hair back; and I even got a city award from my new job exactly one year after employment. It's been 8 years now. My wife is still healthy and I got promoted 3 times on my job since then.I feel blessed. Some say its luck of the draw and I won't say the good things in our lives came easy. We had to work for everything we attained. The Secret taught us how (and why) to have a more positive attitude, helped us gone thru tough times, learn to be more grateful and humble when we achieved successes, and in return, the Universe will give us even more. You have to experience The Secret to believe in it.

To be honest I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. I believe their message was a direct hit. The reason I believe that is all I had to do was look at my life. The things that have happened to me have been good, bad and ugly. The one thing they all had in common was where I was at mentally. When I feel angry I get anger in return. When I feel happy I get Happiness. When I wanted a house on the water I got a house on the water. When I felt like getting in a fight one always found me. I believe that if everyone truly looked at their lives they would see the same pattern. When you want something it doesn't magically fall out of the sky it takes time to attract the tools and people to help you achieve it. If you don't believe it guess what? It is not true. You attract what you think. Period.