The first step to change your reality — your experience of reality, that is — is to intend precisely what you want to experience. You do this by imagining it as already real and by getting excited about it. The excitement will draw it into your world. Your excitement can be rooted in fear or love. It will work either way. It’s best to favor one polarity or the other — whichever you feel is more powerful for you — but in truth you can use either frequency.

How much money is a large sum?

For the past few months I’ve been getting some pretty interesting hate mail in response to my blog, Whirled Musings. I created WM as a humor blog, dedicated largely to making fun of the New-Wage subculture. That’s my term for the prosperity-obsessed, MLM-loving segment of the New-Age and motivational crowd (or, to use a term coined by my partner Ron Kaye, the “hustledorks”). I also like to hit on more traditional New-Age targets, as well as pop spirituality, self-help, and the silly side of the corporate world.

Like multitudes of people, I was recently attracted to the Law of Attraction a.k.a The Secret. But almost 10 years ago, I got obsessed with Ken Wilber's Integral Vision, so much so it was the center of my college thesis and personal search for knowledge. The passion for it and passion for other stuff died down when I got into the real world.

You’ve probably heard about, and perhaps read, a book phenomenon called The Secret. I haven’t read the book, but I’ve seen lots of negative reviews about its new age mumbo jumbo.

Psst! Have you heard The Secret? If not, the first thing you need to know is that The Secret isn’t a secret, and this in itself should set your skeptical alarm bells ringing, since whenever the very name of a thing is a contradiction of the thing itself, it is easy to imagine that the bridge up ahead may be washed out.

Two Parts of The Secret No One Talks About—And Why The Secret Won't Work Without Them

The Secret. It's all the rage. The book and movie have garnered the enthusiasm of millions. Everyone from Oprah to Montel is extolling Rhonda Byrne's spiritual juggernaut. The premise of The Secret is simple; The power of attraction. Like attracts like. What we think, what we feel, acts as a magnetic signal, attracting its correlate from the Universe. The Secret says our thoughts and feelings manifest that which we desire.

The 90 minute movie-infomercial, The Secret, resonates with the earlier film, What The Bleep, and further abandons any pretense of respect for critical thinking, philosophical fit and transpersonal development. Contradictions, confusions and indulgences are rampant throughout the film. It plays more like a fevered revival, encouraging us all to abandon ourselves to pre-rational magical thinking as a miraculous prescription for easing our materialistic suffering.