We all love secrets. We all want to believe that somewhere, someone has a secret key that will make life work better.
We want to believe that there’s a secret to so many areas of our lives. We want a key, a pill, some kind of simple solution to the complexities of the things that face us each day.
Anyone who comes up with the latest ‘weight loss secret’ is bound to pull in loads of money. All they really do is show us the ‘secret’ to fleecing people who are hoping for a quick fix. Deep down we all know that the ‘secret’ to weight loss is to eat better and excercise more but we keep holding out for a simple secret.
How do we avoid the difficulties of life? How do we make life work in our favour? How do we achieve the life we want?
According to Rhonda Byrne, there is a secret that will turn our lives around so that we can enjoy the life we’ve always dreamed about. Rhonda’s book, The Secret, has certainly turned her life around. It’s a bestseller. People around the world are scrambling to get hold of the key that will unlock a brand new life for them.
My regular Wednesday morning guest on 98.5 Sonshine FM is Ross Clifford who is the Principal of Morling College in New South Wales and current President of the Baptist Union of Australia. Each week we chat about a range of issues relating to spirituality and belief.
Today we focussed on The Secret and talked about the origins of the thoughts it contains. Far from being a secret it’s simply a re-telling of New Spirituality ideas that have been around for the past couple of decades and is derived from The New Thought Movement which is over a century old.
Apparently it’s all about the idea that we are what we think. We’re told we should visualise the things we want to attract into our lives. Could it really be that simple? Could we take this same message to people suffereing desperate poverty in developing countries? Is it really all about making our own lives better to the exclusion of others?
Similar thoughts have also been adopted by certain segments of the Christian community who follow a ‘name it and claim it’ doctrine.
Is there anything in the book that is new or helpful? Listen to my discussion with Ross by clicking here and decide for yourself. You can right click here if you’d like to save the mp3 and listen later.
Posted by Rodney Olsen
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We were talking about this book just last week. I think (once you have hear what is inside) that the most amazing thing about this book is that it has been on the topseller list. I didn’t think that there would be that many people out there that would “buy into” this.
I am glad you’re talking about it, and it is an old philosophy. I am downloading you stuff, would like to listen to this one.