The Secret

Ally and I were introduced to The Secret by her mom a couple years ago. When we watched it the first time, I didn't think much of it. I wasn't one to subscribe to "wacky" ideas about the universe and the law of attraction being that I am extremely rational (possibly to a fault)and I tended to believe in a traditional Christian worldview. However, I humored my wife and tried it. I tried visualizing what I wanted and practiced thinking about what I wanted in the present tense, and the things I was thinking about started to happen. When we first watched it, I was going no where in the mortgage industry and was ready to throw in the towel for a desk job, but when I started visualizing working with a booming book of business, only a month later I had my first million dollar month. I continued hitting that number or more consistently for the next six months. Until I started slacking in my thoughts. Now I am ready to go again!

We watched the Secret again on Sunday night and I picked up even more stuff that I didn't notice the first time. The first thing I noticed was the secret was not in opposition to my rational viewpoint at all. In fact it is a hell of a lot more logical than anything I had previously believed. The Science (called quantum physics) behind the secret is mind boggling. Science tells us that if you boil anything down to its most basic form, everything starts with energy. Energy is what causes an atom to exist which makes up molecules, which make up cells, which make up all things. So the very essence of all things, including us, is energy (Remember E=MC2? That's what it means). The form this energy takes is all determined by cause and effect (That E=MC2 guy also said "Every action has and equal and opposite reaction"). We also know that every individual human thought has specific and unique energy pattern which can be measured and monitored with today's technology. So if everything is energy, and we have the ability to create specific energy patterns with our thoughts, these energy patterns must have an equal and opposite reaction, meaning positive thoughts about what we want should repel what we don't want and attract what we do.

Now that might seem a bit of a stretch to some and it does even to me, but it makes a heck of a lot more sense than believing that I can talk to someone who can't be seen and ask him to answer my prayers. I think a more logical, scientific explanation for answered prayers could be that because the believer is praying so much and focusing so much on what they want that the energy they are sending out is attracting the outcome they desire. Also, this can explain why sometimes the opposite of what we think we are praying for comes true. For instance, if someone prays passionately for a loved one asking "please don't let them die," they are focusing on death and may be attracting exactly what they didn't want.

Who knows for certain... What I do know is that I don't pray on a regular basis and when I use the principles of The Secret in my daily life, it works. Call it what you want, but I consistently get the things (read: material items, feelings, emotions, opportunities, life events) that I focus on, including the bad things that I focus on when I am not careful to monitor my thoughts. They don't always come right away and many have yet to come, but I am confident that they will. I am even willing to admit, that maybe God and the secret are one in the same. I don't really care what it is called I just care that it works.

Chew on this... What is the definition of energy?... Let me give you a head start... it always is, always, was, always will be, it creates things, destroys things, is it present in everything, transcends time, etc, etc, etc.... Now define God...hmmm...