PS: they gave me “the secret” in a drug treatment center in 2005 and I immediately took responsibility for my own thoughts and I have been clean and productive for 5 years now. I put my focus on creating a new future and I got it, and I continue to get it.

I did my research, and the shit works… you just have to apply it just like anything else. It’s not like you invite war, or invite rape, or invite disease… but if you constantly talk about it and put your attention on other people’s suffering, and then simultaneously believe that you are vulnerable and you feel fearful and don’t do something to get out of harms way, then your chances of getting the bullet, or the rape, or the disease go way up.

Plan and simple, you’re just not willing to accept that you’re fully responsible for everything that happens to you and you alone. There’s nobody else. It’s just you, dumass.

Bob Proctor is a bit of a knob… I will admit. There are more clear teachers of these principles.

Again… So much of what you said was flawed, but you have masterfully attracted all the evidence you wanted to prove that it does not work. Extreme situations don’t just happen… there’s a lot of time and thought leading up to those events. Those people who have those things happen to them are masterful victims… even the little babies… those innocent little babies.

But they keep coming back for more for many reasons too numerous to count; but here is a very good reason I like to assume that they are being an example to others of what not to focus on.

Devoting any mental energy towards worrying about other people “buying into” crap; or whether there is any justice in this world for con men, is, what my therapist assures me is called “magical thinking”, and contributes to my sleep disturbances, acid reflux, and other neurotic behavior. There are more constructive things to focus my attention on. Like me. And guiding my own choices.

All this other stuff – thinking about it, worrying about it; has no effect on outcome. No more effect than on the fact that we all gotta pay taxes. No more effect than on how some people work very hard for very little reward, and others produce almost nothing, and are compensated with unimaginable wealth. No more effect than on the 50,000+ that just died of a natural disaster in Haiti. No more effect than on, well, the fact that all of us are going to wear out and end someday.

Or as the coach in the Bad News Bears put it; “It just doesn’t matter.”

but then put a glossy cover on and people will buy anything. If wishing and wanting would work there’d be a lot more millionaires, we’d all be married to the perfect partner who never lost their temper, our kids would all be well-behaved geniuses etc etc.
but they’re not so we must live away with what we got.
The secret seems to me to be to make the best of what you’ve got, not wasting time wishing for the moon, if you want a better life you have to do something towards it all by yourself.

http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/news/local/flagstaff/arizona-sweat-lodge-deaths-12-28-2009

In a separate incident a lady as recent as December jumped to her death after attending a “Turning Point” seminar.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10614329&pnum=1

“The 34-year-old plunged to her death shortly before 7pm on December 20, 2005 – two days after completing a Turning Point course described as a ‘journey to the core of the human spirit’.

She was naked, acting in a child-like manner, singing and shouting ‘I love you’ to her husband as she jumped from the second floor of her Macquarie St office building in Sydney.

An autopsy found she had no drugs or alcohol in her system.”

I have read quite a bit about the self help world and how those product hurt people. It is fascinating how flimsy these so called “gurus” are and the techniques the use to scam people. And they care so little about their followers. One of the creators of The Secret accidentally killed a bunch of his followers in Sedona, AZ in September, and showed no remorse for what he had done.

If you want to learn more, you should check out this guy’s blog:

http://shambook.blogspot.com/

His book is excellent too.

Jim