Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #391 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-10-01
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Format: NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English
• Dimensions: 7.50" h x .50" w x 5.25" l, .20 pounds
• Running time: 92 minutes

On the DVD
Behind the Scenes
Deleted Sequence
The Secret Summary
Outtakes
Trailers
Commentary by Producer and Executive Producer

Synopsis
The craze in positive thinking that swept American culture thanks to celebrity endorsements from such popular figures as Oprah Winfrey comes from the page to the screen with The Secret. Derived from a tradition said to date back hundreds of years, the philosophy of The Secret is believed to help people reach their goals and lead happier lives, with a technique for thinking and doing that's been employed by some of history's most accomplished people. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide

Customer Reviews

NOTHING compared to the original
This new "extended version" which EXCLUDES Esther Hicks speaking for Abraham is nowhere near as profound as the original version. They basically take out all the parts with Esther and get Lisa Nichols to try and convey the same concepts, which she does... quite poorly. Not to discredit Lisa Nichols, but she is trying to speak for Abraham and not from herself and her own ideas which in the end comes out unclear and uninspiring. Although I am grateful for The Secret, this version has lost it's impact that the original had, it sounds so hokey now and although it will easily help to assist the already believers of the law of attraction, it doesn't stand a chance of inspiring the skeptics.

Buy - The Secret Behind "The Secret" - with Esther and Jerry Hicks instead. I don't care who you are, that will blow your hair back.

There's More To The Story
The Secret is one of the best produced and edited DVDs of its kind that I have ever seen. And the line-up of teachers and presenters is top-notch. There is only one reason I give this DVD four stars instead of five. The Secret is about the Law of Attraction, and how we can use that Law to "attract" into our lives anything we want. But it spends 95% of the time talking only about being focused on what you want (rather than what you don't want), and generating positive feelings about that. It only spends 5% of the time making it clear that what we really attract into our lives is the people, circumstances, and opportunities that lead us to what we want. In other words, when we utilize the principles mentioned in The Secret, doors open. But we have to recognize those doors for what they are and go through them. And that involves action. Many people who watch The Secret walk away with the impression that visualization and positive feelings is all it takes. It isn't. You still have to do something. As long as you keep that in mind, The Secret contains information that can be life altering. Enjoy!

Steven Lane Taylor, author of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat: A Guide for Living Life in the Divine Flow"

This DVD cannot be trusted.
It seems everyone knows this "Secret" is not a secret. So the DVD and book lie from the outset. It was never suppressed. There is no proof offered that the famous people who knew the "secret" actually knew it.

It's a repackaged version of the Book "The Power of Positive Thinking. Positive thinking is a good way to feel happy and confident. It helps to accomplish your goals. This book says you don't have to work you only have to think in the correct, positive way and then want you want will somehow arrive.

It says Isaac Newton knew the secret. And for those of you who aren't aware of the premise the secret is the "Law of Attraction"
But Newton formulated something different,
The law of universal attraction
This was identified by Newton as a force acting upon any two bodies in the Universe, Called the law of universal attraction or gravity.
The law that an object will fall to the ground or the moon is held in place by a larger object; the Earth. It wasn't about getting necklaces.
Having people give you an expensive necklace is one of the things the DVD shows are attainable if you use their Law of Attraction.

Here's the central premise of the Secret so those of you out there don't have to spend money on this.
The law of attraction that is mentioned in the book and DVD is; if you have positive thoughts about wanting things or health or love then those things will come to you.

Ask, Believe, Receive are the key to getting what you want.
On one hand the DVD "experts" (since the creator of the movie found experts that is more proof there is no secret.) say that the law of attraction works whether you believe in it or not. But with Ask, Believe, Receive it states you have to BELIEVE for it to work. That is the way out for most spiritual con artists. If their predictions are wrong or their advice doesn't work it is your fault.

The DVD also warns that if you think negatively than those bad things will happen to you. One example in the movie is a person in their car who does not want to be late. He thinks I don't want to be late so that supposed negative thought radiates outside him and causes him to be stuck in traffic. I don't know about you but I have not wanted to be late many times and that was all that was on my mind.
I either left early and wasn't late or I drove really fast and I wasn't late and I was late. There was no correlation between thought and result.

The creator a Ms. Byrne a TV producer was not doing well financially or in her career when she read a book
''The Science of Getting Rich,'' first published in 1910. No suppression of that book. She then read other non suppressed books in the same theme.

So what did she do? Did she use the power of the secret to attract millions of dollars and attract wonderful TV projects to produce that would make her lots of money and fame? No she worked. She came up with and idea and wrote out a script, she sought out financing for the movie. She didn't wait until the financing was attracted to her. She sat down and wrote a book. She worked to get what she wanted.

Ms. Byrne upended the whole idea of the Law of Attraction by going out and getting something instead of ASKING, BELIEVING AND RECEIVING
Then by clever marketing, she was able to expose the DVD to the public and enough people who look for the easy way in life purchased it. They were not attracted to blindly send her money. She provided a place to buy it. The book preaches magic but the creator practiced hard work and persistence and good old fashioned imagination to get her millions. The fact that her ideas are not worth buying but sold into the millions is a testament to those many people who don't want to work or develop their imagination. They want the get rich quick scheme. Or get love quick or get healthy quick scheme.

Bottom line: The Secret is of no value as it can be summed up in a few phrases that have been openly spoken and written for ages.

Think Positive about your life, Think about what you want to achieve. Visualize your goal or whatever accomplishment large or small you want to attain. Much like a Golfer sees his shot landing on the green before he hits the ball. Study, work and show initiative in order to gain that which you want. If you sit in your home waiting, nothing will happen. Of course you should also buy a lottery ticket now and then because somebody has to win.

One last story about negative thinking, I wrote and performed in a play, at a small Toronto theatre. I financed it myself. I made the costumes and props and did most of the Publicity. We rehearsed and had some previews and then it was time for the night the critics came. For two weeks I was convinced the critics would hate it. I was able to visualize their faces in the audience looking grim, bored and angry they had showed up.
It was irrational but those thoughts obsessed me. That Opening night was also the night the heat didnt work and it was -10 Celsius outside
The reviews came out the next week and it was a huge critical success. They all loved it! The play sold out for 8 months. So despite what the secret says, despite the law of attraction that works whether you believe it or not, I didn't attract bad reviews. I had worked very hard and despite my negativity and fear the play was a success.