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|title=The Secret

|sort=Secret

|reviewer=Magda Healey

|genre=Home and Family

|rating=1

|buy=No

|date=December 2006

|isbn=978-1847370297

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''The Secret'' has been on Amazon's list of top bestsellers for quite a while now. (It's no 12 at the time of writing). The description suggested a motivational self-help book of some kind and the synopsis referred to physicists, old oral traditions, religions, poetry and philosophy. Intrigued by the consistently high ranking, I included the book in my last order even though I am not normally in a market for this kinds of work.

Couching the idea in pseudo-scientific terms like '' emitting this frequency into the Universe'' doesn't make it any more viable. You cannot emit frequency, by the way and thoughts do not, generally, get emitted anywhere (unless we shout them out really loud or broadcast using machinery). Statements like ''The feeling of love is the highest frequency you could emit'' do not make sense at all as factual statements - however appealing they might be in a metaphorical sense. There is no such thing as ''vibrations of mental forces''. Modern physics' proposition that vibrations of so-called super strings is at the basis of all matter (or energy) DOES NOT translate into large-scale stuff like human bodies, brains or even (huge in comparison to strings) atoms. I doubt that my spirit is so big (or small, depending on how you look at it) that it fills the room, but I'm pretty sure that I am not an energy magnet or a transmission tower and I am very sure indeed that I do not electrically energize anything, thank you very much.

And the oil in Belize was not created by the belief of the team that discovered it.