Several of you have asked about The Secret, and why, since I was in it, I’m sometimes critical of it. So what’s wrong with me? Why am I such a wet blanket?
First of all, The Secret used just a small bit of what I said when they recorded what I had to say about using the mind to create what you want in the world. They had a certain point of view they wanted to present, and I quite frankly didn’t know precisely what it was when I was being interviewed. Now, I see that their point of view was primarily a magical one, in the sense that The Secret seems to be saying that all you need to do is wish, hope, or “put it out to the universe” in order to get something. This point of view was presented despite the fact that very few of the teachers featured in The Secret (and I know almost all of them) actually believe that.
If you want to give “putting it out to the universe” a try, go for it. I’ll just caution you that I know a lot of very successful people, and none of them (and I really do mean zero, none, nada, zip, goose egg) became successful using that method.
Yes, every successful person I know did use their mind, and did focus on the outcome they wanted. Focusing your attention on what you want IS necessary. However, it’s just the first step. and you certainly don’t do it because it creates some sort of magic tractor-beam that sucks what you want into your waiting arms.
Here’s what happens when you focus your mind on the outcome you want: 1) it generates ideas you can use to get it, 2) it alerts you to resources you can use but might not see otherwise, 3) it creates the motivation to act, and 4) it helps you develop necessary personal qualities you might need, such as imagination, courage, persistence, or enthusiasm.
Next, though, you need to act, you need to do something. And, if you want something in return, the action you take needs to be of value in some way. It can’t be just any action. Running around in your underwear in Times Square is an action, but it might not get you the outcome you want.
The idea that thinking or hoping by itself will get you what you want is first-class magical thinking. It’s preconventional (see previous posts for what I mean by that). Yes, if you wish for something, every now and then it might happen. This is called a coincidence. A stopped clock is right twice a day, but that won’t help you know what time it is. If Aunt Sally sends you a check right when you need money and after you “put it out to the universe” to “attract some money”, it’s a coincidence, not your mind magically pulling Aunt Sally’s arms toward her checkbook and making her write a check and stick it in an envelope addressed to you. Try using your mind to get Aunt Sally to send a check every week and see what happens.
“Every now and then” is enough reinforcement for someone at a preconventional level, though. Sadly, those who think this way struggle to make life work, because preconventional ways of being in the world work only in a preconventional society (and even then they don’t work that well). As a way of navigating the world, they are very primitive, which is why preconventional societies have always been poor, and have offered life spans of about 40 years at the most, with few creature comforts. (And, for those of you who romanticize such cultures, remember that they generally involved slavery, human sacrifices, murder rates MUCH higher than modern society, treatment of women as possessions, and had no democracy or freedom of choice–all this from the latest anthropological studies.)
But back to The Secret. What is more, both controlling things with your mind (other than yourself, which is what you should use it for) and the hope of getting something for nothing are self-centered, egocentric, narcissistic points of view. Yes, until we learn to be in charge of ourselves and our immediate environment we do tend to think mostly of ourselves, but that doesn’t make it resourceful or desirable.
I find that those who wish for magical powers like this do so because they feel powerless in the world. They don’t see a way out of their situation (though there is one) and this idea that there is a magic way to get what they want sounds very appealing.
Telling those who are having trouble making life work, “just wish for what you want,” and that no action is required, is nothing short of cruel. There are very concrete, workable ways to create what you want in this world, and they can be learned (I teach exactly how to do this, step by step, in my Life Principles Integration process online courses). Wishing and “putting it out to the universe,” though, are not on the list of ways to create what you want.
Many people who saw The Secret assumed that of course you need to take action (this is obvious to anyone past the preconventional level), and they supplied that piece even though it was barely mentioned in the film. These people quite likely benefited from seeing The Secret because they were inspired and reminded of something that is true–that all success BEGINS with how you focus your mind.
Those who didn’t supply this extra piece, and were left with the idea that they can just wish for what they want, didn’t benefit from The Secret, and in fact were, in my opinion, harmed.
And don’t even get me started on the idea that people in Africa are starving because they are thinking the wrong thoughts.
What you focus on does create your reality, but there’s no magic involved. Many–most– people don’t know that this is true. Until you can observe your thoughts and be aware of how you focus your attention–which comes at a certain level of development–you cannot intentionally focus your mind. Before that point your mind still focuses on something, but it is done automatically, unconsciously. When you are immersed in your mental processes, these processes (what I have called your Internal Map of Reality) will create your life without any intentional direction from you.
Once you develop to the point where you can observe your thinking process, rather than being it, you can direct your mind, and in doing so begin to take charge of your life.
So, my friends, keep Holosyncing, because Holosync creates such awareness. And with this awareness, keep stepping back in an effort to observe whatever it is that you are immersed in. In this way, you can transcend it. More on that later.
Finally, before I go, let me comment on a few posts responding to what I said about Yogananda. I love Yogananda, but that doesn’t change the fact that a belief in miracles that still surrounds him is preconventional, magical thinking. No evidence whatsoever exists that people can dematerialize, for instance, or that any of the other sorts of magic described in that tradition can actually happen. If those of you who believe in this stuff have some evidence–not stories, but actual evidence, that any reasonable person would accept–put it on the table.
And, I have to say that one of my pet peeves is people who use quantum physics to “prove” that magic exists. Quantum physics represents a deeper level of understanding how the universe works. It does not, however, prove the silly New Age magical events it’s often trotted out to prove. If you really think there is some actual evidence for magic or for the suspension of the laws of physics, show me. Not stories, not anecdotes, not that someone else you respect thinks so, but proof.
And make no mistake, anyone who wants to believe in this stuff is welcome to do so. I wasn’t trying to demonize it, and I’m not trying to talk you out of it. By its nature, magical thinking requires no proof, so I’m not surprised that several people have posted comments in which they pledge allegience to various types of magical thinking, but without any attempt to offer proof.
All I’m doing is pointing out where such thinking fits developmentally, and further making the point that people who live from this point of view have a hard time functioning well in the world. Magic is an explanation offered when rational, or transrational, explanations are not available.
Yogananda, for instance, was very highly functioning, but it wasn’t because he relied on magical powers. It was because in other areas of his life he was developmentally well beyond that approach to life. If he wanted to create a certain result, he focused his attention on how to do it, then took action. I don’t recall a single situation where he relied on some sort of magic to get things done.
Someone asked the Dalai Lama what would happen if modern science disproved some of what Buddhists believe (which it has, in several cases). “Then that belief will have to go,” he said. This is why the Dalai Lama is not a preconventional thinker.
Again, thank you for reading.
Be well.
Bill
PS: By the way, I have another recommendation for you. Please check out Integral Institute’s Integral Life Practices Starter Kit. Ken Wilber and his brain-trust (consisting of some of the smartest and most spiritually advanced people on the planet–and I mean that) have created a unique way to “cross-train” in the areas of body, mind, spirit, and shadow material. This, along with Holosync, is a very potent way to develop your awareness.
Ken and his team have found that when you do a daily practice that affects all four of the above areas, it greatly accelerates your growth. When you leave out any of these areas, it holds you back. So, they’ve identified some of the very best time-tested practices in each area and they show you exactly how to do them (solving another problem–what’s the correct way to do a certain practice?). They even give you “one-minute modules” you can do on days when things are hectic and you have little time, so you can hit each area, at least a little bit, every day.
Most of you are already using something powerful in the spirit area–Holosync (in fact, as they add “auxiliary modules,” Holosync is the first one they plan to add). I think you’ll find that this kit is a powerful way to create a practice in the other three areas. I highly recommend this kit. Go check it out at www.myilp.com.
Until next time, when I’m going to share something new about development…
Hello Bill, Thanks for your latest blog I did enjoy reading it along with the comments posted by the readers. Like some others, I too, have come to your column via The Secret. I was first intorduced to this via the DVD.
I have the audio and the book, both of which I use periodically when I am drawn to them, like I do every other book, c.d and dvd I have on my shelf and I take from each of them exactly what I need at the time.
This leads me in all sort of directions and I am finding my way beautifully thankyou. My awareness and life are opening more each day, I am becoming more in tune with my Higher Self as I learn to let go of all that no longer serves me and this follows on by allowing me to give more unconditional love than I ever have. Thankyou for your part in my journey. Dianne
Thanks for your comments on The Secret Bill. I’m relieved to see that people are finally waking up to the narcissism of this magical new age rubbish. I saw a “Puppetji” video on the same – which is a real laugh. For some real, rich and gutsy energetic information on realisation Elysha’s website is great for cutting right through to your youness.
Just curious, do you think feng shui is magical thinking?
Bill
I endorse fully all of the points made by Peter(NL)on November 10th, 2007 at 5:48 am. I would add the following:
Whilst I entirely agree with your points made in your recent blogs re stages of development and all of your teachings and writings regarding the criteria for creating the conditions for achieving, creating and attracting a successful life, and I also understand and share your rejection of “pre-conventional” magical thinking, where does the concept of “Life Purpose” – or “alignment” – fit into all of this?
My own lived and observed life experiences show me that there are dimensions beyond that of a focused mind (and a balanced brain) that ultimately determine the outcomes we experience in life.
Put simply, there seems to be a transcendent (or spiritual) dimension that ultimately determines the course of a person’s life and especially that affects factors such as timing and synchronicity etc.
I would suggest that in addition to and beyond all the excellent principles that you teach (and that I totally support and my life experience bare witness to) there are further and higher principles and dimensions that need to be articulated and understood and – I was about to about to say “applied” – but I feel could be more accurately described as “aligned with”.
I may have misunderstood you, but my concern is that you are so understandably concerned (for all the valid reasons you have frequently and eloquently outlined) to steer us away from the limitations and inadequacies of magical thinking that you seem to negate and/or totally ignore the transcendent or spiritual dimension.
What you seem to present is ultimately a reductionist or mechanistic view which whilst necessary and essential as a foundation, does not, in my lived and observed life experience offer the full perspective.
I would respectfully and humbly suggest that we need to seek to ascertain our own individual “life purpose” and align ourselves with that – as an additional and integral component of all of the personal developmental work that you teach. Thus the ultimate outcomes we experience is a combination of all that you teach when aligned with personal “life purpose”.
In my life experience to date and in my current understanding this occurs within the context of the unitive or integral stage of our development.
You have spoken elsewhere about how you have reached a point in your life where you feel that having done sufficient and extensive personal development work, “invested in the universe” and aligned yourself with your personal “mission” or “life purpose”, that the universe now rewards you for the value you create and deliver.
I feel we would benefit from hearing more from you about how this happened for you, and how you discovered – if you’ll forgive the cliche – your calling, and particularly your experiences of and interpretations of the timings, synchronicities and alignments that have occurred as this has unfolded.
Further, I feel we would benefit from your explanation of the basis of the principles that underlie how (beyond a focused mind and balanced brain)
the universe functions to create /manifest these timings, synchronicities and alignments and the role of the transcendent or spiritual dimension in this unfolding.
Thankyou
Stephen Warrilow
Dear Bill,
I am not fond of the Secret mostly because I think they duped people. I felt they were being dishonest and not giving enough information. I didn’t like the marketing either.
I understand your point about magical thinking but I don’t think it can be applied to all parts of life. My experience has been that if I can work it out for myself just trying to pull it in won’t work. If there is nothing I can do, as in a survival situation, help is there almost immediately. I would imagine when it is my time to go there will be no more help that saves my life. I’ve also noticed that the clearer I get, the more of my ’stuff’ that gets released what I do want happens more quickly. Granted I am not just sitting at home waiting but in a very short period of time what I want and need is easily obtainable. I can honestly say most of my parking spaces are right up front. I can’t remember the last time I had to park too far from a building, except for today oddly enough. I attribute that to my intuitive sense of pulling in the lot and ‘knowing’ right where the empty slots are. I would say I am 95% correct. Am trying to apply that towards other areas of my life. Perhaps that is more of a remote viewing thing.
Lester Levenson, from Sedona Method fame, had many synchronistic events like my parking spaces one. His were even better.
I wanted to mention something that happened in my life, just to throw a wrench in the whole ‘magical’ thinking thing. I had cancer three times. The 1st time I had chemo and surgeries. The 2nd time I refused to put myself through all of that again. When I found out I challenged the god of my lack of understanding to heal me or kill me, quickly. I really let go. I knew I had no way of healing cancer and I was pretty sure the medical profession was shooting craps in their attempts so I had to let go. My thinking was I will never, ever put myself through that torture and poison again-never! I don’t know how to say this briefly and get the point across but in 1.5 weeks people, jobs, money, etc starting showing up out of the woodwork. I was taken places I had no intention of going to, given jobs I didn’t look for or particularly want, heard voices telling me what to do and bumped into sevearl people who ended up helping me in unimaginable ways and eventually was healed of breast and ovarian cancer. I never looked for these people. I stopped researching, talking to doctors, reading more reviews, etc. I simply gave it all over to something else. I abdicated all responsibility for my healing. (The book will be out next year). I felt like I had no control over my life. I don’t know what to attribute this too. I didn’t sit and think about it all the time. In fact, I refused to think about it. I just put it out of my mind. It all came to me anyway. Perhaps that original declaration and intent was strong that I didn’t have to do anything else. Far be it from me to know the cause of all this.
Another time I was in the ocean with my siblings. The beach was private so we didn’t have life guards. The undertow was great that day because a storm was coming in. We were not supposed to be in the water but being cocky teeenagers who were all on swimming teams we thought we could handle it. Shortly after body surfing we found ourselves to far out to swim back. I tried several times to get back to the beach but I’d only move a couple of feet if that. I had no clue what to do. All of a sudden a picture popped into my head that showed me if I dove down and put my fingers in the sand I could pull myself in because the undertow did not roll directly across the bottom of the ocean. It rolled about a foot above the sandy bottom. This is what I did to bring myself in. I didn’t know that little known fact. A couple other things like this have happened also. Is this intuition, a voice from something spiritual, knowledge I had inside I was not aware of? I don’t know.
You seem to be pretty adamant about magical thinking not working. Perhaps we don’t know enough about magical thinking or intuition or spiritual guidance or who knows to make dogmatic claims. Check out the work of Dr. Richard Batlett at http://www.matrixenergetics.com. His work is pretty darn magical and he is curing all kinds of things based on Quantum Physics principles. I use his work in my practice and it works. Sometimes it takes several sessions but ultimately it works.
There is more to us than we know. I am sure you know that. Best to keep our minds wide open, don’t you agree?
Ria
I choose to write because I felt a feeling of sadness. From all the support and care you have put into providing us, your holosync users, I’m seeing dupicity, or the end justifies the means, rather than integrity. It seems as though your trying to say that the Secret misrepresented you and your philosophies, and yet your are using it as a personal forum in Materes of the Secret to support yourself. As I see it from reading the comments of which more than half came to you by way of the Secret, your intention of sharing your knowledge through the production have come to pass, just not as you would have liked or choosen. Explaining what the movie did or didn’t take from your interview, sounds like a man concerned too much with what others think rather than His intentions.It r production, it was someone elses, and you choose to be part of it, and it benefited you and those you claim to want to help. I would expect you to act from a position of integrity rather that self promotion. You are either greatful for the doors that have opened and the opportunities presented and should act accordingly, or I feel you should disassociate yourslef from the product ( and how sad would that be for those you have helped). You made a choice and have benefited from that choice, and as I see it your entire reason for doing it was met. We only get to make our choices, we do not get to controll the consequences, regardless of our intention.
I am glad to see so much conversation about the Secret. I too am curious to hear how you explain synchronicity.
I am somewhat confused by the term “magical thinking.” From a wiccan perspective, magic is not wishful thinking. It is so much more than using the power of intention and gratitude. I do believe it taps in to how the universe works-in ways we do not always understand. It may have been Starhawk who said “magic is the way the universe works”. It seems to me there is magic used in ancient cultures and religions (in which people lived for very, very long times) which is very powerful, and the way you are using “magical thinking” is very different.
My main issue with The Secret – which I loved – were that they did not address the fact that unconscious beliefs are thousands of times more powerful than conscious beliefs (see the excellent book The Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton, MD) and without addressing the beliefs of the unconcious mind (basically what is accumulated by age 5) it will keep generating the same old crud in our lives.
Bill,
I appreciated your comments. While positive thinking is something which frees one’s attitude from obsessing on the worst case scenario; it is equally important to put “feet on prayers” as my parents instructed me wisely. Scriptures seem to confirm that the Creator expects people to use their God-given talents to achieve while expressing gratitude for the results that come our way. The real Secret seems to be focus on what can be done with some effort, faith, and due diligence. And when “miracles” happen don’t question them, just give gratitude that circumstances fell into place.
While I too agree, The Secret minimized some very important information; I also believe The Secret serves as a seed — a seed that encourages mainstream humankind to transcend to a higher level of consciousness — to leave behind victim mentality, and transcend to a more positive, empowered state of being.
Bill, in a previous post you spoke of those at the transcendent level in regard to religion, “Though someone at the transcendent level may see the limitations of these other views, they don’t make them wrong, which would be like making a child, or a teenager wrong for not being able to see the world from an adult perspective.”
Would not The Secret fit into the very same category when perceived from a transcendent point of view? Could it be The Secret is more of a means to an end? The vehicle by which to reach an audience that otherwise may have been unreachable?
I believe that you, and many others like you, are the water that will make the seed grow.
With deep respect,
June
Hey Bill. I really love your blog.
When I watched The Secret, my first thought was, “People aren’t going to understand the spiritual backwork that’s needed to get to the point where you’re attracting what you want.” I also thought it was ridiculous that it didn’t explain very well that action is needed, and lots of it. In addition, I thought it was terribly irresponsible to encourage people to self-heal. Although some people are able to self-heal, to tell this to a general audience who has a lot of muck sitting in their subconscious minds is inappropriate. But the information it provided about quantum physics and the law of attraction was very valuable. Perhaps if the movie had not focused so much on manifesting bicycles and necklaces simply by looking at a magazine picture, etc., people would have noticed the other messages, like taking action.
I hope you won’t mind if I tell you something else that’s been bugging me for several months now. No offense, but I think it is disappointing for you to use the The Masters of the Secret course (you even used a similar logo to “The Secret”) to market your products, but then turn around, and basically say The Secret is a load of you-know-what. It really lessens your credibility. You could have just said how you felt when the movie came out. The controversy alone would have probably brought even more people to your site, in fact. People who thought the movie was ridiculously magical in nature, or who thought it was too materialistic. Personally, I went to your site because I found what you had to say in the movie to be interesting and compelling.
I have a question for you. I really hope you’ll address it, because you seem to have the knowledge and experience to answer it:
If we create our reality by what’s in our mind, how do we explain a baby getting a fatal illness, or a two-year-old being snatched by a predator? It’s sort of how you alluded to the starving Africans in your post. I would really love it if you’d elaborate. You said, “Don’t even get me started on that people in Africa are thinking wrong thoughts.” Well, what I’d like to ask is, “Please do get started!” It’s very hard for me to reconcile the power of the mind with bad things happening to babies, and starving children in Africa. I would love to hear your thoughts on the subject, and also, how does the law of attraction fit in with those events?
Also, what do you think of the vibrational levels concept?
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and for your thought-provoking blog posts.
While I certainly do not believe that simply “putting it out there” will create piles of money to suddenly manifest in my bank account, I still have to leave room for the possibility that there are energies going on around me that I don’t understand or that happen outside my awareness. I guess my main question is, then, what is the definition of “magic”? As far as I know, there is no indisputable scientific proof of “universal consciousness”, yet virtually all integral and searching philosophies (quantum physics, Jungian psychology, mysticism, many religions, etc.) ascribe to this belief, often presenting it as “fact.” But, without empirical, scientific data, is it any less magical than the belief that “our thoughts create our world”?
Mind you, I’m playing devil’s advocate here, because I wholeheartedly believe in the universal consciousness philosophy, based on my own experience and because it resonates deep within me. But I still think it’s an interesting philosophical question. On one hand, belief in certain types of “magic” seem to place one into the pre-conventional, lowest rung of the developmental ladder; yet, an understanding and “knowing” of other types of “magic” (as in universal oneness and interconnectedness, which cannot be proven, either), catapults one into the “transcendant” realm, that appears to be something to which human beings should want to aspire (ok, no shoulds…but you know what I mean, I think). In fact, many believe that science can explain the ecstatic state of unity and bliss by saying that it’s really just a release of chemicals in the brain, or, in the case of near-death experience, the “light” is what is experienced as our systems shut down. Ultimately, it’s still a belief and, in a sense, magical. It’s just that it’s a more all-encompassing, pluralistic, compassionate belief system than the mostly self-serving approach to magic as presented in The Secret. It’s more experiential than it is faith-based.
I’m not a scientist, but I do know that even science is limited and flawed. How many times have we heard about “studies” that “prove” a certain idea, only to find out later that the studies were inherently flawed? Not being a scientist, I can never truly know what is fact and what is not, so I have to choose to believe or disbelieve whatever studies exist (many, after all, are biased). In the final analysis, it seems that it’s up to me to base my beliefs on what makes the most sense to me — on a variety of levels.
All this to say that I do agree with you — pure magic and “wishcraft” is complete bull. But, again, as a post-conventional, green-meme thinker (I think!), I simply must leave room for the possibility that things exist that are beyond my human comprehension. Today’s magic may be proved fact tomorrow. I’m not going to bank on my dreams and desires, though, unless and until they lead me to appropriate action.
Bill,
I appreciate your comments regarding your participation in The Secret, but do not accept the idea that you lent your name and ideas to a project without knowing how they would be used. That would be negligent and irresponsible on your part, and you just don’t seem like that kind of person.
Thanks for your contribution.
Bill, your message is simple and clear.
I am on Purification Level 1 and I can attest to the fact that regular meditation with Holosync and following the instructions to the letter are leading me to greater self-awareness and an increased ability to focus on what I want. It also has considerably dampened my interest in metaphysical speculation, especially of a magical kind.
I have also done the Life Principles Integration Process courses and they work, provided you follow the instructions and don’t get lost in meaningless metaphysical speculation. Once I started focusing my mind on exactly what I wanted in life in outcome terms, then I started seeing and finding the information I needed and getting the ideas I needed to make things happen. Our brain is a wonderful machine, it just needs to be focused on the right things.
Thanks,
Rich
Hi Bill,
What’s the difference between the claims in The Secret and waking delta as described in your interview with James Hardt?
regards
Mike
Hey Bill,
Im glad that you wrote this blog as I have read the Secret and was surprised that you endorsed it, as I thought it pushed the idea that you create your own reality a little too far. Thanks for clearing this up. It gives you more credibility in my eyes, but it does raise one question for me though, and that is why did you not read the secret, before it went to press, if you were going to be quoted in it. I think I would if I was going to be published like that.
Also my conclusions, from reading alot about the success of a lot of people, are basically as you have put in your blog. That by thinking the right thoughts makes you more aware of the possiblities that are out there, and causes you to seek these things out. By doing this you become more in line with success and the things you want, but it still requires work and effort.
As far as getting parking spaces etc. My hunce (after watching What the Bleep-down the Rabbit Hole) is that if we can tune in to the cosmic consciousness per-say, maybe it can help direct us as to when and where to go at the right time, and be in the right place when opportunities arise. So hey presto a parking space. We don’t so much create reality, but are more in tune with what is actually there in the world around us so that we can best use it to acheive our goals. Thats all.
James
Just read your thoughts on The Secret. Thank you! I’m glad that you as a writer on psycho-spiritual topics actually keeps his neocortex going strong. Thank you for not blaming the poor and starving for not focusing properly on what the universe is supposed to give them…
Natalie
Dear Bill,
First of all my thanks to you for this blog and all those who participate who are obviously serious minded people on the path of self growth.
I’m very new to all of this, but add my comments for what they’re worth. Like many others The Secret has been amongst the numerous books I’ve read this year, most of which have been like stepping stones and without which I probably wouldn’t have found you or Holosync.
I do feel that the Law of Attraction is a valid law, and just reading about it has forced me to notice when I’m focusing on scarcity or neediness, or fear in an egoistical sort of way which I can see have been self-sabotaging in the past. I agree that thoughts are a form of energy and believe from my own experience that happy or positive thoughts vibrate at a different resonancy to negative thoughts. I know when my inner self is happy I get a completely different reception from all those I meet during the day and notice the small ‘miracles’ happening around me. I think the missing piece has been the role of the sub-conscious and for me that is where Holosync comes in.
I’ve also been aware of ‘coincidences’ or Jung’s sychronicity for many years, which have often helped me make life-changing decisions for the better for which I’m very grateful.
Personally I’ve found too that following dreams + ‘gut instincts’ (although for me they feel more from the heart) has worked, even when I have no idea how these new ideas will unfold, and somehow the next step or action always seems to present itself which to me is part of the magic.
I think that we’re living in a very exciting time, and value quantum physics for giving me an alternative paradigm which seems basically to agree with what all the major religions have to say, which seems to be for the first time a real meeting of science and spirituality.
Finally my sincerest thanks Bill for the Holosync program which I’ve only just started but feel very excited about, and for so much back up material and other stuff. Your passion for what you are doing really shines through!
Best wishes to you, and everyone else
Caroline
I don’t respond to blogs but I had to after your comments about The Secret and having being lead to you because of The Secret. Ann Widdownson has put it correctly on how I feel also regarding your comments. I don’t believe in wishful thinking and it was stated in the movie by Fred Alan Wolf that the Law of Attraction is not wishing thinking. I believe in God and LOA, I knew something was going on in my life through the years but didn’t understand it or knew what it was, but the Secret explained a lot to me about the Blessings that I have experience in my 55 years here on this earth. And now I realized that there are bigger things in store for me in the future that I never thought were possible now that I have rid myself of old briefs that I have learned through my life thanks to the Secret and you and the others in the Secret. So please don’t be so critical about the Secret because it has lead alot a people to you. So, you really should be grateful for the Secret. Because I am grateful for the Secret and I understood I needed to do additional research about the LOA which again lead me to you and using the Holosync. I hope you will answer in your blog the many questions that others have asked you and let all of us know what your answers are are.
And by the way, since practicing LOA – I always get close up parking spaces and have received several unexpected incomes and I so grateful each time it happens.
Thanks and Be Well,
Janice
Thanks for the article Bill about the Secret. I watched it several times and read the book, which is just a repeat of. So many ppl around me were exstatic and so excited. I personnally have been listening to and reading self help material for a long time, and when i first watched the movie, i came away from it with some anger. Number one, I picked up right away that the message they were sending out was only half truths , if that. From working a twelve step program for 18 yrs. I know from experience that one must change themselves first and thier actions before their life changes. The secret is painting a picture of,{just see it in your head and it will happen}. Tomorrow a gold cart will show in your driveway, just because you thought about it, and that’s it. Voila. Hello , it doesn’t work that way. All of life is action. Maybe that could be the title for part two. thanks for allowing me to share.
P.S. I am listening to holysync now. It has been about 3 weeks. Very enjoyable and easy listening. one day at a time though for me. It is what it is. thanks so much.
But Bill, couldn’t you say that the idea of God is a magical idea since there is no proof that he/she/it exists? But you mention God sometimes in your articles. What am I missing here? Thanks.
Bill–I love Holosync and your and your staff’s support. However, I don’t agree with your generalized comments about “The Secret.”
I do think there can be ‘magical’ thinking in some New Age thought without vibrational alignment. I believe (spirituality and science) this is a vibrational Universe and alignment, along with desire and releasing resistance (this I know you agree with), not only puts us in the ‘field of all possibilities,’ but GUIDES us to action based on inspiration, not desperation. Releasing resistance allows the ‘ask and it is given’ to manifest.
This is the ‘magic’ of the Universe for me.
I’ve been thinking a lot about this, and it came up during my Holosync meditation this morning, too. The thing is, for most of my life post-childhood I was always a very rational thinker — I guess you could say “conventional” in the sense that my thinking was rational but extremely dualistic, black and white, this or that. Then in my 20s I became exposed to metaphysics and began to open my mind to the possibility that things existed in the universe that I could not explain, and the idea that we are all connected via one energy. In other words, I had to raise my developmental level and awareness in order to accept that. So, to me, I always thought that a belief in “the spirit world” (or ‘magic’) was actually a HIGHER, more evolved level consciousness. To suspend my disbelief and accept the power of crystals, pendulum magick, healing energy, etc., seemed like I was advancing and expanding my consciousness rather than stepping back. Therefore, when I hear you say that magic is a preconventional idea rather than a more advanced one, my back went up a bit (because, of course, I’m still a bit attached to being “right” — but getting better, thanks in large part to Holosync!).
So, needless to say, I’ve been feeling a little confused as to what constitutes “magic” as opposed to what constitutes “expanded consciousness” and the experience of the Divine. What I came up with this morning is that magic, as expressed here and in The Secret, seems largely self-serving, ego-based, and materialistic. The belief that you can control the others, the world, even the weather (!) with your thoughts is certainly narcissistic, childish, and clearly falls into the realm of the pre-conventional. Belief and experience of the Divine, universal consciousness, and other unseen forces, however, seems to come along with a significant increase in compassion and sense of unity, and leads to an expanded world view. This clearly moves beyond the “what’s in it for me” that often can typify the pre-conventional mindset, I would think.
Anyway, those are my ruminations on this. I’m not sure exactly why I keep thinking about it so much, except that I’m obviously working on sorting some things out. I guess because as move through Holosync and continue expanding my awareness and gaining more information, I am starting to give up what’s left of my magical thinking and I’m having some resistance (!) to doing so. We do, after all, seem to live in a “magic pill” society, so abandoning all those deep-seated beliefs in fairy godmothers, wish-granting Genies, and superhero powers–conscious or not–I guess makes me feel unsafe and vulnerable on some level. As long as I believed there was the possibility of wishcraft, I had some hope. So, perhaps I am still holding a bit more onto the preconventional parts of myself than I readily like to admit! Truth is, though, I’m finding out that I don’t need to hold onto any of those beliefs at all — that I have plenty of hope without them. I never really believed it anyway — it’s sort of like Linus holding onto his security blanket! He no longer needs it, but isn’t ready to give it up just yet. I, on the other hand, think I’m ready to donate my blanket to someone who needs it more.
Oh well…onward and upward, I always say. Thanks!
Proof of magical thinking (sort of)
There actually have been experiments that have shown that intention can alter reality. Take a look at Lynne McTaggart’s work at
http://www.theintentionexperiment.com/the_results.htm
These are rather large scale tests with thousands of people sending intention to one plant to grow faster (for an example) with standard scientific test groups. Quite interesting. Also I’m sure everyone has heard about the TM tests of mediators in a city lowering the crime rate.
So if we want to have an open mind, I don’t think we can discount entirely ‘mind over matter’.
Don’t get me wrong, I whole heartedly agree with Bill’s basic idea in this blog that sitting around and wishing is not the best way to change your life and that action is required. I would also add to keep an open mind and not limit yourself or the universe.
Some homespun practical advice for believers in magic: My wife came home from the gym tonight, and dinner’s aftermath was still strewn throughout the kitchen and dining room. It’s not a high class problem, but wish as we might, we couldn’t make that mess go away. Then we got off our hindquarters, the kids pitched in cleaning, and in under 5 minutes flat, we had the place spotless. For us, it really is all about taking the right actions—even in the simplest of household tasks. Why should we believe that life’s more difficult challenges will magically sort themselves out if we just send out positive energy—never mind winning the lottery, do you think I could get the neighbors to come by and clean-up the kitchen for us by believing that they will? Reminds me of the “Elves and the Shoemaker”. That’s not to say that I won’t shovel out my elderly neighbor’s driveway this winter without being asked. That’s not magic, but it is kind of special for both of us. Come on…we all know where Santa’s magic comes from, and I still can “make believe” along with the best of you. Now finally, the advice: keep on dreaming in magic, if that’s what really compels you to do wonderful things. Peace.
Bill, thanks for the post, Im a sucker for the easy way to accomplish your dreams, and the get rich fast products. The secret was inspirational, but would of been much more practical and useful if they wouldve talked more about taking action. If your in the right frame of mind, expecting a great outcome, and you take action, not much can stop you.
Bill, this is one of your best articles. Even in modern times, with so many scientific discoveries, magical thinking still pervades society. People do feel powerless and grasp at straws.
Your article provide me with the insight that I need to become more focused on what I want to achieve, and why. Napoleon Hill and Clement Stone’s books didn’t provide the “why” part.
I am going to print this article and put it in with my MyILP kit.
Thanks again,
Keith
I think not all people are gifted or children of magic. Magic holds great part of enthusiasm played along.
Some people are nonenthusiastic and not in love with life. They might say they wish for something, but it never comes true for them because they don’t live the dream. I think Bill refered to those kind of people.
But it is the spirit, the essence of a persone.
Wherever living for the dream is involved, a person will be a dreamer and her or his dreams will come true, and yes, it is magical and the magic is in our hearts and minds. And I am in love with it. Aren’t you ..?
Bill -
Having used your materials and Ken Wilbur’s for some time, I have
found one thing consistently missing in your blog – addressing the deeply
engrained self-centered ancestral patterns that focus on representing
ourselves as valuable to the world. Most of these patterns are actually
destroying mankind’s opportunity to continue living in symbiotic
relationship with the earth, poisoning our entire ecosystem and the
availability of life energy for our own continued existence as a species.
Unless we very rapidly move from the self-centered materialistic
gratification mode into one where communities of people focus on renewable
living in harmony with nature, we are passing an atrocity to our offspring.
As an intelligent species with imaginations and more than enough information
at our beck and call, we can be focusing our creativity on building systems
for living that don’t bulldoze another square inch of precious land anywhere
on this globe, that don’t pollute the waters another drop, that don’t
pollute the air with another speck of poison, that don’t rely on fossil
fuels at all. When we begin to revere those who are working to educate
children in home and school environments of love, respect and community, and
those who are devoting their minds to creating sustainable living solutions
for all life, that’s when the fear that creates the need to wildly make
millions of dollars through persuasion techniques to sell people more
information or more material goods will no longer hold a sense of excitement
and power.
If all of the creative potential, for instance, that is being used to create
copy that closes a deal or that creates the next fashion buzz or that
flaunts muscle mass or stamina in sports competitions – if all of this
intelligent energy were funneled into a collective venture to make this
world a beautiful joyful living space for everyone, we could actually have a
joyful world as our collective reality.
It is only because we collectively have chosen to pay sports idols millions
of dollars for exhibiting their physical feats in a stadium that their
talent is being used that way. What if we paid these athletes huge sums of
money to be fire fighters or to be the stamina in helping restoration after
a sunami? What if we, as a species, gave glory to physical strength in those
ways? Wouldn’t it be grand to use our intelligence and unique talents in
ways that truly maximized the resources and gifts that are abundant in our
world and ourselves?
How about focusing peoples’attention to celebrating life by having such a
wholesome consciousness that the most fulfilling thing to do is not to make
millions of dollars to lead a jet set lifestyle, but instead, to live in
communion with the source of life that is represented by everything that is
on this planet? What if we truly questioned the unconscious greed attitude
that has pervaded our society because so many people experienced childhoods
that did not show them how precious and valuable they are and that all life
deserved to be held in utmost respect and that it is necessary for each of
us to contribute firsthand to a system that provides for everyone and
everything? Is this magical thinking? I don’t think so. It is the truth of
who we really are at the core, deep beneath the rubble of not being totally
honest with how significant our gifts and talents really are to the
community of life.
Here are some what ifs that bring wonder and excitement into physical
realty. What if people banded together in small communities and began to
reorganize priorities for a life well lived? What if the school teachers
and firefighters and stay-at-home moms and engineers who are really putting
full attention to shifting man’s priorities into responsible co-existence on
this planet were all revered with equally huge incomes that persuasion
salesmen and marketing gurus and the in-the-news idols of our times are
getting? What if those who are filling their pockets with money and then
spending it on more goods that eventually contribute to the cluttering of
the earth and to choking us in a slow death were awakened? Here’s a good
example. Most people who consider themselves aware and environmentally
frienly are flying around the world in jets, many of which are private jets,
polluting the skies with massive amount of poison from the jet fuels. Is
this considered reasonable because they have work to conduct or deserve a
much needed vacation? That’s magical thinking to the max to think that they
are so important that they can poison the world but others are the culprits.
What if some people who know better and are in positions where thousands of
people respect their opinions would stand up bravely like MLK and Gandhi
have recently done, without the need to buy into the materialism that is out
of control at this time in the supposedly civilized world? I am an eternal
optimist even in my sixties and encourage you, Bill, to be one of those
people who is willing to step forth and promote awareness of these changes
that mankind as a whole needs to make in order to live what they preach to
be true.
Speaking of fantasy thinking, it seems to me that the most blatant fantasy
is the way mankind is continuing to live on this planet idolizing money and
material goods while rationalizing it by handing off money to charities and
shirking personal participation in creating a reorganized integrated world.
When will a group of influential people in the avant-garde sector like you
stand up and relentlessly tell it like it really is – that the safety and
joy we really yearn for comes with a big price. And that the price is a
complete overhaul of mankind’s focus on material goods, and that the top
priority to experiencing safety and joy is to lovingly care of each other.
I encourage you, Bill, to stand up and speak to this big picture which goes
far beyond Al Gore’s global warming campaign. That campaign, when you
examine it, is promoting a very narrow vision of what mankind needs to face
up to and own as our collective mission. We have the talent, intelligence
and wherewithal as a marvelously intelligent and creative species to
collectively create a more joyful future for mankind that celebrates how
precious each of us is by using our individual gifts to build a world of
magnificent community rather than for our own private pleasure.
Am I living too far into the future and not accepting that man is so
entrenched in the materialistic money game to experience its true honor and
glory in the next generations? Is mankind really going to pass this broken
system on to our offspring for the sake of our own folly? I’m encouraging
those who have the attention of thousands of people to step up and reveal
the big picture as it really is.
There is a way out of the pain that is causing this obsession with money in
the collective human mind. We need to muster our courage and face what we
together are continuing to create in this world we share. The way out is the
courage to hold a new vision for mankind in which each of us uses our gifts
in new ways and uses our imaginations and resources to create these new ways
of living. The way out is leaving the confines of how life in general has
unfolded in the past for mankind. The way out is to have the courage to not
only step up to our own lives but to step up and contribute fully with our
lives to creating a totally new system of living on this planet – one where
we are not using the ideas of rejecting codependence or claiming
independence as an excuse to not take care of others as well as ourselves in
everything we think and do.
It takes the courage to say ‘I’m not buying into the mindset that has
created life on this planet as it is. I’m facing what needs to change yet in
myself in order for the human race to honor itself and all life (which
includes me). I’m willing to do what isn’t necessarily easy but what I must
do to model to my offspring what is really most valuable in being alive.’
For me, that which is most valuable has nothing to do with making a lot of
money. While I was single parenting three children, one of them said to me
“Mom, I’d rather that we’d be on welfare than for you to be paying attention
to work instead of being with me just for the sake of giving us kids more
things and vacations.” Wow, that was the universe giving me a clear message
of how our culture’s money mindset has blinded us to what the deepest part
of our being is here to experience on this magnificent and beautiful planet.
great post bill!
glad you are setting the record straight regarding your participation in and position on this movie.
i wonder if you saw my review of it: http://julianwalkeryoga.zaadz.com/blog/2006/12/the_secret_spiritual_cinema
and/or heard my dialog with ken wilber on it here:
http://julianwalkeryoga.zaadz.com/blog/2007/3/get_integral_with_julian_walker_and_ken_wilber
I think there is room for pre-conventional, conventional, and integral thinking. Each dimension helps a person to find his or her place in the world by giving meaning. Each level is a bit more complex than the previous level, and there is no reason to move between levels until the solution that led to one or another level becomes the next problem to be solved.
I have enjoyed each step along the way. In fact, I have particular fondness for some of the places and levels I have observed life through. Which is why, in contemplating the Secret, I would like to share the following with you.
Coming from my first teacher, Drill Instructor Sergeant DeBord, of the USMC, it comes out of a highly conventional paradigm. Nevertheless, it is a highly applicable (if rhetorical) question important to any study of the Secret.
“…If you wish in one hand, and **** in the other, which do you think will fill up fastest?”
Someone wrote: Take out the ideas of magic and mystery and synchronicities in life – no thank you – I will continue to believe we have a divine connection with source and source responds.
The divine connection with source isn’t magic…it isn’t even divine…it just is.
Thanks, Bill, for your articulate and honest response to The Secret. At last somebody’s making sense! The Secret, for me, was no news (the ideas have been around for centuries) and I couldn’t understand all the hype. Besides, it only told half the story, and as you pointed out, the whole ‘doing’ side of achievement/happiness was missing. Goodonya, mate (as we say here in Down Under)! – Fiona
I agree Bill, You are seemingly endless in your criticism of not only the movie but of the book ‘The Secret’. Your criticisms and your ‘lengthy’ defenses do not serve you. I have learned for myself that when I criticize I am telling much more about my own self than I am about the one I criticize. This is not a criticism it is a truth.
Your logic has nothing to do with it. You are not right and you are not wrong.
Why attack another’s truth in defense of your own? Does it really make sense? Everything is true.
Bill,
Good idea using “The Secret” in your email to draw people to your blog too bad you missed the point.
Like you say most successful people acted on their thoughts in order to generate their success, but this does not negate many of the steps that they took along the way.
To dismiss the message in “The Secret” (sounds like your sour because they didn’t put you in the book or in the video) is like saying that learning Calculus is a waste of time because Edison, Gates, Wozniak , never used it to create their success.
“The Secret” helps you to create a foundation for thinking successfully. Emerson tells us, “The ancestor of every action is a thought”. “The Secret” shows us how to create these ancestors.
Its very interesting that “Holosync” is a relvant science to you but it has no wide spread acceptance when compared to “The Secret” and all the similar writings (Hicks, Dyer, Chopra), and “Holosync” has been around for a long time. It seems that the only people who keep pushing that snake oil are the ones with a tape/CD to sell you.
Bill – success always seems just off in the distance for you specifically because of blogs like this. Let go of your jealously and start to put out thoughts and writings that help people and encourage positive thinking and you will receive all the success that you dream about.
Cheers,
David Mc
Interesting approach to the secret stuff. I am surprised that you have such a negative idea about it though. Personally I think that we have to make things happen. Taking action and focusing. I do believe in “magic” though. If I agree with your point of view then it is not necessary Holyosinc either. A good book is enough. What your mind believe is your reality after all.
That magic is called “faith” the capacity in believing in something you can not see, analyze or get proof. You just believe. Some people call that outcomes “miracles”. I have to say that you create luck, you create that magic.
I do not think that is the message of the secret. The secret is trying to teach that everything that is coming to your life for good or bad is your responsibility. Your mental attitude create your life. You attract things to your life.
Of course the secret is just a commercial version of the whole science around this. It is not a secret. This knowledge has been here for centuries. There are plenty of books that you can read and get a deeper understanding about this.
I personally get my parking spots in the 98% of the times. This is happening long time before “the secret”. All I have to do is to believe that spot is there for me.
I highly recommend Richard D. Larson and others interesting books you can find in amazon.
I just want to say that there are some of us who saw “The Secret” and didn’t feel they were simply pushing magic. It bothers me that someone (of your stature) would be in something not knowing what the “bottom line” was or what the producers wanted the outcome to be. I agree with Dan Goss… criticism doesn’t serve you..but (to me) does say more about the person being critical. I still do Holosync and don’t intend to stop because you are….omg…..human.
I would rather move forward…..Linda p.s. thank you for holosync…
A number of folks keep bringing up the “How could you not know how the Secret was going to turn out, or their point of view”. I just have to say that, having spent many years in the entertainment and recording industries, this is really not at all unusual. The “magic” is in the editing, and pretty much anything can be edited in such a way that the finished piece can be virtually nothing like what it seemed like at the beginning. Many important things still end up on the cutting room floor, and almost never would a relatively minor participant in a project get to see or approve the rough cut before it’s finished. If they allowed every person in a project like The Secret to approve the finished product, it simply would never get done. People can sign on to a project with the best of intentions, being told what the project is essentially about. However, the bias often doesn’t come out until the piece is edited.
So please cut Bill some slack here — it is, in fact, more likely than not that he is telling the honest truth about what he thought the finished product would be and how disappointed he was with the outcome. It happens all the time — ask almost any author less popular than J.K. Rowling (who gets total control — this is the exception in the “biz”) how they liked the way the movie version of their bestseller turned out. Interview with a Vampire, anyone?
Finally……..someone talking sensibly about a movie that for the most part puts a “fairy-tale” spin on Universal Principles. In some respects The Secret does a disservice to those sincerely looking for guidance on their path and quest towards greater Self-Mastery. I was troubled after my first viewing – the over-simplification of the profound can be dangerous. I was also troubled by the appearance of many well-known authors, coaches, etc, like yourself who by default put their stamp of approval on the movie.
You have restored some of my respect and I thank you for that. I hope the others who participated and who share your point of view will “come out” as well……even in the face of some who would cry “jealousy” or “deceit.” It takes courage to admit being duped.
The marketers behind the movie may have indeed been of the “fast food fast buck” variety……..I would like to think otherwise, but then that might be more “magical thinking”
Please continue the conversation……
Don’t know if my previous email got sent off – it just disappeared. Obviously must have submitted it prematurely… any way my last comment was I turned to holosync because MY LIFE WAS NOT WORKING and therefore have to question my perceptions, interpretations of things, people’s comments etc in other words my thinking…My way of thinking and then my way of behaving (action) were the causes of my difficulties. I think, therefore I act (don’t act), therefore my life is. I need to remind myself, when I read a comment from you or from someone else that brings up a strong emotional reaction, that my way of thinking (which I admit has been faulty or my life would have been working better) is being challenged…that is a good thing because obviously something needs to change. I’ll be honest, there is nothing I would like better than to simply think myself into a different life but that just feeds the helpless child, victim, poor me aspect of my belief system. Anyone that has ever accomplished anything has worked for it in some way, granted it may have seemed to have come easier to them because they did not hold on to many of the limiting, self-defeating beliefs (and ensuing behaviours) that I consciously or unconsciously hold on to. Now all those thoughts and all the effects of those thoughts and actions have had any impact on my body chemistry as well and that is part of what I need to deal with now but I believe it is do-able and because I have this belief my mind is open to answers that are “out there” that I had previously not been looking for because they did not fit my “belief system” or “map of reality”. Anyway all the controversial comments around the “Secret” have led me to post these comments. What I hear you say, Bill is that you are grateful for what holosync has done for you and as a result your gratitude is expressed in the service you provide the rest of us…and well you gotta eat too eh? The neat thing is the more you get, the more you can give. I’ve always admired a straight shooter – keep up the good work… sure gets me excited and when I can feel the life pulsing through me I know I’m onto something…
Hi all,
“The Secret” was also brought into our house around April of this year. My Mrs was totally hooked by it although i was a lil sceptical. It has mislead a lot of people looking for purpose in their lives, which is kind of a shame but hey thats the way it goes.
The best thing the secret has done for my wife and I is lead us to Holosync and Mr Harris of which i am eternally gratefull for, hehe. Got Awakening Level 1 in the post last Friday and am reading Oneness isnt Metaphysical which I must say is a complete eye opener. Just waiting for the fat cheque to come from Auntie Mavis so i can buy into the Life Priciples Intergration Process
Good luck to everyone on their journeys to enlightenment
and above all
Have Fun!!
I agree mostly with Peter NL’s Nov 10th comments-you certainly have taken advantage of your association with The Secret-just yesterday, I received another endorsement from Centerpointe with the Secret logo on the front of the envelope. I also never understood the Secret to be telling anyone just to imagine and not act. I further think you use science and religion to your own purposes and probably not any more truly scientifically than many those who believe in magic ( and who cares, but it seems odd to call on science for back-up). If I could dematerialize, probably the last thing I would sign up for is a scientific study. There is so much on this planet and in life that is beyond our mental understanding, so much we have yet to discover that I could imagine one day everyone sitting around and laughing about those poor souls who didn’t know that they could…(fill in the blanks)
Well, a lot of interesting viewpoints here, but “do you believe in magic?” is like, “Do you believe in god? I always think, “what do you mean by god?. Same thing with magic, I feel magical thinking has its own evolution, I remember how it was as a child, natural, no question, I cant recapture the knack I had then, but know magical things happen in a certain state, and never when you are trying too hard or thinking too much. The trick is to get in to that state, whether with Holosync or anything that works for you, i believe in magic. Love M
Hi Bill,
This conversation leaves out one of the most important “missing elements” to The Secret — which so far no one else has commented on, so I will.
In my experience, you need the ingredients of intention, focus, desire, and considered action — plus two that are not discussed as critical in The Secret:
– receptivity/allowing (usually getting out of your own way)
– aligning your emotions with what it is that you intend.
The latter element is the major missing piece. It simply does not serve you (and doesn’t seem to work) to believe with your head and disbelieve with your heart. What you FEEL must be aligned with what you WANT and INTEND.
Sometimes that means doing the hard work of letting go of dysfunctional states of being, thinking, and habits — but isn’t it worth it, in service of a greater good for you and all your relations?
Just my 2 cents today. Curious what others think about this.
To clarify my post. When I refer to “the way you handle people (your so-called colleagues) when they are speaking” I am referring to your “interviews” on The Masters of the Secret website. These are people whose opinions you claim to respect and you don’t even give them the courtesy of your attention. Incidentally, if you are so against the message the DVD is teaching, it certainly didn’t stop you from jumping on the bandwagon or opportunity to capitalize on it with the “The Masters of the Secret,” did it?
Self-centered, egocentric, narcissistic. Yep- that about sums it up.
For every example you can site disproving “magical thinking” I can think of several which would support it. It has worked in my life (even before “The Secret”) and I have seen evidence of the reality of it in the lives of many others. Of course you are able to disprove it …. that is the nature of the Law of Attraction. You will find whatever it is you are seeking to prove or disprove by creating a reality to support your beliefs. Isn’t that what you teach, Bill?
“Control the Universe with your mind? Or just the tri-county area.”
I would settle for controlling the tri-county area. In lieu of that, I’ll just keep holosyncing.
On viewing the Secret dvd, I thought it was three times too long. Just too repetitive.
Steve
Well of course if the “people in Africa’s” daily reality and what they observe are all that they know, they wouldn’t even think to think differently. Does you purport that your “LPIP online courses” WOULD help them? If they could afford a computer and internet access, that is.
About the article on the “Secret”…you digress sometimes…neat…Namaste…thank tou…
Hi Bill:
Thank You much for the impact Holosync is having in my life..I also wish to add to comments made by Peter(NL) on 11/15/07..I’d recommend for you and anyone else to explore LIFE TEACHINGS OF MASTERS OF THE FAR EAST by Spaulding..These 6 volume books depict THE END of what all of us might behold when we supposedly understand the fully realized consciousness of manifesting ANYTHING aligned with “spiritual” knowledge..takes.in my opinion your wonderful Hololsync series,The Secret and A Course In Miracles to mention a few to an unimagined..or forgotten TRUTH(?)…Awakening Level
INFINITY!…nice idea…
Be well 2 U 2!
Richard
Having read and heard a great deal about the Secret and various opposing views, I only actually watched the film a couple of days ago. Having done so, I agree with much of what you say Bill – although felt that the film did mention that action is required a little more than might first appear on the surface. Like you I do not agree with the simplistic mantra that if you focus on getting a parking space you will. However, for me, the best part of the film is that it promotes the benefits of positive thinking and shows people that when they are making choices they can choose to be negative and get one set of likely results or positive and get another. And it’s the stressing that we all have control over our choices that interests me. For me, it goes back to a personal value of whether you want to create a good feeling and happiness in yourself and other people or not, and how that usually (of course not always) results in getting a better response from others. Anyway, I very much enjoyed your post – and also your quote from the Dalai Lama with which I completely concur.
All the best and thanks
Tamsin
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