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Originally Posted by Taco John
I just wanted to add that this new marketing iteration of an old philosophy doesn't ascribe "fault" for people who get cancer (and the like). The underlying philosophy is that people aren't victims of their lives, but rather choose their destiny going into them. Thus, they go into them to learn from specific experiences. As the philosophy goes, someone isn't at "fault" for getting cancer, but rather are experiencing the life of a cancer patient. It's now up to them to live that life, either as a victim of cancer, or in control of the experience.
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"The Secret" isn't about life experiences and shedding karma to reach enlightenment; it's about, well: "Ask once, believe you have received, and all you have to do to receive is feel good."
Just feel good and all of your wildest dreams will instantly come true!
And you actually hit upon what's most distasteful about this: It's a shitty marketing scheme to make money off of people who really WANT something like this to be possible. They take a few sensible ideas ("I think I can, I think I can..."), wrap them up in a shiny new "spiritual" coating with all sorts of fun buzz words that mean absolutely nothing, and rake in the dough.
The people pushing this are no better than people who claim they can talk to the dead or move objects with their minds.