listening: The Model Lipstiques - Madamme Lucha 69
Mood: The Secret - thinking still

Watch The Secret movie on the tuesday. hmmmm... again.. hmmmm..

there's no secret to The Secret. the book and movie simply state that your thoughts control the universe. through this "law of attraction" u "manifest" ur desires. "it is exactly like placing an order from a catalogue. … you must know that what u want is urs the moment u ask." "See urself living in abundance and u will attract it. It works every time, with every person." the appeal is obvious. forget education, effort, performance. everything u want—money, power, comfortable shoes—is urs simply by wanting it enough.there are certain caveats. apparently the universe has a language-processing disorder and doesn't comprehend standard English usage of the words don't, not, and no. so, as the show explains, if u summon the universe by saying, "I don't want to spill something on this outfit," the universe translates this as, "I want to spill something on this outfit." If only Rhonda Byrne, the television producer who is the author of the book and creator of the DVD, had been there to counsel those negative authors of the Ten Commandments!
given my skepticism, how could I make myself believe in The Secret enough to give it a fair test? To quote one of The Secret's avatars, Ralph Waldo Emerson, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." clearly, The Secret is drivel, but why should that stop me from sincerely throwing myself into seeing if it worked? I am already deeply susceptible to superstition and seeing signs—if i find a penny (faceup only), I pick it up knowing something good will happen to me. As self-absorbed as i already am, i loved the permission the book gave to sink deeper into a Jacuzzi of megalomania. As The Secret points out: "You are the master of the Universe. You are the heir to the kingdom. you are the perfection of Life." Just as I'd always suspected!