The Secret Mumbo Jumbo

The secret is known. Or is it? The release of Rhonda Byrne's new book, "The Secret" has people raving about the power within. The book shows how to attract good things to yourself; it explains how to become a magnet of sorts, to create your own destiny through the power of the universe.

Now, it strikes me as quite crazy that one finds it impossible to believe in a God, or an established religion for that matter, but that they could fall for this scheme.

Is it really so much harder to believe that there is a loving God that created the earth and everything in it, that there is a divine purpose for everything, and that life is not one big mush of organisms thrown together for no purpose but what we decide on ourselves?

Have ideologies changed so drastically to a paganistic worldview that such ideas seem even plausible?

People are hungry for truth. They grasp for anything to fill the void in their lives, often unwilling to examine the truth that there IS an ultimate truth. No, rather, humanity continues reaching into thin air, attempting to find something that isn't there.

So what is the secret? Thesecret.tv states that the film and book hold "the secret to unlimited joy, health, money, relationships, love, youth: everything you have ever wanted."

Right off the bat, this statement creates within itself a fallacy. Ok, so, through the power of yourself, or the universe, or the sun, or whatever, one can find the fountain of youth within themselves. Preposterous.

It's been said that several things in life are inevitable; death and taxes. But they forgot to add one thing to the list; aging.

Yes, youth can be attained in the mind; this has been called a youthful mindset. Exercise, laughter, love, fun, genetics; these contribute to a youthful mind, often followed by a youthful body.

But age happens. The universe can't stop it. The only way aging will stop is at the end of life.

Money does not come as a result of wishing. It is the result of hard work, or working smart. If wishing were all people had to do then the world would b alot richer, and poor, third world countries would not exist.

Then again, maybe they have to much negativity prohibiting the intentions.