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raelovestoread 's review for:
The Secret
by Rhonda Byrne
This is the biggest pile of crap I've read in the last decade.
The Secret (spoiler alert) is that you are the master of the universe, that everything in your life was brought into being by your thoughts and that nothing is caused by good old-fashioned bad luck. It sells this as an immutable law, similar to the law of gravity. Which apart from being baloney, it's also pretty offensive.
The Secret even cites the example of plane crashes/bus crashes so it isn't like this was casually overlooked.
Let's take the example of the Holocaust. How would Rhonda Byrne explain that? Were millions of Jews just thinking too negatively? Were they on the wavelength of genocide? If they had just loved themselves more and thought positively would it have spared them? Don't be so bloody stupid. The theories in this book represent victim blame of the worst kind.
Is she really suggesting that women who get raped are 'attracting it to them' by their thoughts? What about child abuse? What a load of tosh.
That isn't the end of my beef though. All the way through she dresses the 'law of attraction' up as science. She even reinforces this by slanderously pinching tit bits that don't apply from Einstein, Buddha, Shakespeare etc and claiming that they back up her theories. Buddha for crying out loud! His teachings were about eliminating want and greed from one's being so they can be freed from desire, not about trying to rustle yourself up a new car by dwelling on it excessively.
Which brings me to the relentless materialistic content. Wealth wealth wealth cars money wealth. I could do with some extra cash but they make it seem like the measure of a man!!
I get the point.. Taking responsibility for your own happiness, thinking positively, exuding love and focusing on your goals. These are all GOOD THINGS. This pseudoscientific nonsense is not the way to achieve this.
The Secret (spoiler alert) is that you are the master of the universe, that everything in your life was brought into being by your thoughts and that nothing is caused by good old-fashioned bad luck. It sells this as an immutable law, similar to the law of gravity. Which apart from being baloney, it's also pretty offensive.
The Secret even cites the example of plane crashes/bus crashes so it isn't like this was casually overlooked.
Let's take the example of the Holocaust. How would Rhonda Byrne explain that? Were millions of Jews just thinking too negatively? Were they on the wavelength of genocide? If they had just loved themselves more and thought positively would it have spared them? Don't be so bloody stupid. The theories in this book represent victim blame of the worst kind.
Is she really suggesting that women who get raped are 'attracting it to them' by their thoughts? What about child abuse? What a load of tosh.
That isn't the end of my beef though. All the way through she dresses the 'law of attraction' up as science. She even reinforces this by slanderously pinching tit bits that don't apply from Einstein, Buddha, Shakespeare etc and claiming that they back up her theories. Buddha for crying out loud! His teachings were about eliminating want and greed from one's being so they can be freed from desire, not about trying to rustle yourself up a new car by dwelling on it excessively.
Which brings me to the relentless materialistic content. Wealth wealth wealth cars money wealth. I could do with some extra cash but they make it seem like the measure of a man!!
I get the point.. Taking responsibility for your own happiness, thinking positively, exuding love and focusing on your goals. These are all GOOD THINGS. This pseudoscientific nonsense is not the way to achieve this.