In 2020, a major motion picture called The Secret: Dare to Dream was released and is available through major outlets such as Amazon Prime and Netflix. The movie is based on a 2006 documentary and book called The Secret.
In 2007, Lighthouse Trails reported on the documentary film and the book, The Secret, both which quickly became mega best-sellers. The Secret’s main agenda is to promote “the law of attraction,” a New Age, occultic belief that your thoughts and words dictate what you will get or what will happen in your life (i.e., the power of positive thinking).
The Secret (the book) was written by Rhonda Byrne who was influenced and inspired to write the book by spirit-guide advocates Jerry and Esther Hicks (authors of The Law of Attraction). In the Acknowledgements of The Secret (which has now sold tens of millions of copies and is translated into dozens of languages), Byrne thanked the Hicks and the teachings of Abraham. Abraham is a group of spirit guides that Esther Hicks channels for guidance on spiritual issues. On their website, the Hicks stated:
Abraham, a group of obviously evolved teachers, speak their broader Non-physical perspective through the physical body of Esther [Hicks]. Speaking to our level of comprehension, from their present moment to our now, through a series of loving, allowing, brilliant yet comprehensively simple, recordings in print, in video, and in sound – they guide us to a clear connection with our Inner Being–they guide us to self-upliftment from our total self [god-self].
The 2020 movie, starring two popular Hollywood stars—Katie Holmes and Josh Lucas—rekindles The Secret’s message (that man can create his own destiny and reality because he has divinity within him) during a year (2020) of crisis and chaos when many are fearful and anxious about the future.
The following is our 2007 article on The Secret. Before watching the movie (and hopefully you won’t) or recommending it to someone else, please read our 2007 article which we have posted below:
The Secret: “A New Era for Humankind”
Last year’s film release, The Secret, makes no secret about it’s intentions: to let the world know that humanity is on the brink of a new era. This new era will open up to humanity unleashed power, riches, creativity and all that we ever dreamed of. A “secret” that has been locked away for centuries is now available to all.
The film, available only on DVD or online, is promoted by celebrities like Oprah and Larry King, and according to one celebrity on the film (Dr. Joe Vitale), in just a few days (Feb. 8th), Oprah will air a special about the film. Such promotion has helped to make the film an incredibly popular one, as can be seen by Amazon ranking, which puts the DVD in the #1 position for DVDs. According to a News & Observer article, “‘Secret’ Spreads Around the World,” 700,000 copies of the DVD have sold since its release last March.
News & Observer explains just how this “Secret” works:
In the film, viewers learn to ask for what they want. And, if they believe it, they will receive it.
It sounds simple enough, but here’s the catch: If you’re cynical, sad, depressed and resigned that nothing will change, nothing will. Thoughts are so powerful, the teachers insist, that you attract what you think about, even if you don’t want it. Get it?1
It’s these “teachers,” both ones from the past and present day ones, that The Secret uses to reveal this hidden knowledge. Present day teachers include Jack Canfield (Chicken Soup for the Soul), John Gray (Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus), and an assortment of philosophers, writers, and visionaries who share their insights on the “Secret”:
“We have a magnificent inner calling, vision, mission, power inside us that we are not honoring and harnessing,” says philosopher and “Secret” teacher John Demartini in a recent telephone interview. “This movie brings it to the forefront that we can [harness that power].”2
Larry King calls the DVD the “most profound information he has run across in 40 years.”
The film focuses on the “law of attraction” and was produced by Australian-born screenwriter and producer Rhonda Byrne, who after a series of setbacks in her own life, discovered that past personalities like Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, William Shakespeare, Abraham Lincoln and others had this secret knowledge, and Byrne came to believe that it “was part of every religion, including Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism.”
In the trailer of the movie, it begins by showing a genie from a lamp, who tells the beholder “your wish is my command.” Research analyst Ray Yungen explains this concept:
[T]the genie represent[s] the Higher Self, who was reached through meditation by staring at the flame of an oil lamp. It was believed that a person could have whatever he or she wanted, once in touch with it. Our word genius comes from this Latin word for spirit guide and now means a person with great creative power.3
The premise of this is that we all have a divine essence within us, and we just need to get in touch with it. In other words, as panentheists teach, God is in all of creation, including all human beings, and once a person becomes aware of this, there are no limits to what he can achieve. Yungen elaborates:
Once a person merges with the Higher Self, he is on his way to empowerment, meaning he is capable of creating his own reality. Basically, all power is within the Higher Self, so when one is in tune with it, he can run his own show….
Metaphysicians believe that we all create our own circumstances anyway, so when we are guided and empowered by our Higher Self, we can consciously co-create with it.4
What is so alarming about The Secret is that it shares the same mystical view as the contemplative prayer movement, which is that all is one. The Secret film constantly makes reference to “the universal mind.” This is the same mindset that Thomas Merton, Henri Nouwen, and Tilden Edwards had. Listen:
“The human family is one in God’s spirit”–Edwards5
Thomas Merton said he believed that all religions share “the experience of divine light”6
Nouwen believed that “it is in the heart of God that we can come to the full realization of the unity of all that is”7
The “universal mind” in The Secret is the same as the unity of all that exists and this is exactly what is found among the “Christian” contemplative masters.
With the church’s fascination and embracing of meditation through the contemplative prayer movement (i.e., spiritual formation), the film further gives the green light to millions of Christians to be ushered deeper into mysticism. While less than a million people have thus far bought the DVD, everyone knows that when a product has Oprah’s signature of approval on it, sales automatically soar to astronomical levels, and Christian women are a huge segment of Oprah’s audience.
Without exaggeration, meditation is becoming an integral part of our society, in every facet: education, business, government, entertainment, health and religion. And with most Christian leaders promoting contemplative spirituality to at least some degree, Christendom is being affected dramatically. When Alice Bailey, who coined the term New Age and was instructed by her spirit guide, said that the age of enlightenment was going to come, not around the Christian church but rather through it, her “prophecy” may be coming to pass. Just last year, Fox Home Entertainment released a film called Be Still, an infomercial for contemplative prayer, in which numerous well known and highly respected Christian leaders took part. And nearly every major online Christian bookstore is selling books that promote New Age style meditation, which has a premise that all paths lead to God and divinity is within every human being thus removing the need for a Savior. If this promotion and embracing of meditation keeps up, then there really will be “a new era for humankind.” But it will be an era that the Bible warns about when it says: Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons.”
This coming week, when Oprah shows her special about the The Secret, please be praying that women (and men) watching this show will see this as further seduction into a mystical realm that is void of the Gospel of the true God and Light, Jesus Christ.
Endnotes:
1. http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/538825.html
2. Ibid.
3. For Many Shall Come in My Name, 1st Ed.,p. 14.
4. Ibid., pp. 11-12.
5. A Time of Departing, 2nd ed., p. 43.
6. Ibid., p. 60.
7. Ibid., p. 63.
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My friend showed me this movie a long time ago back when it first came out. I told her that it was spot on except for one thing: it wasn’t Christ-centered. I told her that we are to ask in faith and believing, but we are to ask Jesus Christ and not to will it ourselves. She didn’t listen to me. She made a vision board and every single thing that she wished for from that vision board did indeed come to pass, but at a terribly high personal price to her. In the end, it wasn’t worth it. Keep Christ in focus and all else will resolve on its own.
Just a few comments about vaccines I talked about in my first comments. The COVID-19 vaccine given to many in the world now is experimental. Not tested for side-effects yet. Are some people dying? Yes. Recently the Sars-Cov-2 virus is said to be 70% more deadly than COVID-19. Look for a COVID-21 soon. Soon a vaccine will be given to change our DNA. The purpose of it is to help change our thinking. The Great Reset/ Trans-Humanism. Bill Gates and scientists think they are GOD. God made man in His own image. Vengeance is mine says the Lord, I will repay. The power of Satan using man will end in death and destruction. Merry Christmas to all and trust Christ today.
Hinduism teaches this. Millions of Hindus already believe this and live in abject poverty. Karma – where does that fit? And Hindus are governed by the racist caste system. Can animals can discover their “higher selves” and be empowered? Or a rock? If God is in everything why not? A new spin on “evolution”! I haven’t seen this natural extension of this false concept discussed. It doesn’t explain the evil in our hearts and acts. We need a Saviour!
This is nothing new. People have been falling for this for years. It has nothing to do with a vaccine. People want to look for outside excuses as to why they fall for this stuff rather than facing the truth: they choose this. ” we, all like sheep, have gone astray. Each to his own way. And God has laid upon Him the iniquity of our souls.” After so many times of going this way God, in His timing, will ultimately send the strong delusion, that people seem to crave, to take over. No man made vaccine will have this type of power. God’s word is our shield. Know it.
The new era of mankind, a film, The Secret: Dare to Dream pushed by Oprah and Larry King, man creates his own destiny because he has Divinity in him. The New Age is coming. We are all one together. A universal mind. Could a vaccine given to all help them think this way? Add Contemplative Pray Movement of course. Beware Apostates, the Rapture of the Church is a any moment happening. Then what? With the Holy Spirit taking the Bride to meet the Lord in the air the world will be left in a darkness with Satan and his army of Demons. The strong delusion will kick into high gear to those who rejected Christ as their Savior. Satan knows his time will be short. Turn to the Lord Jesus Christ while you still can!
I precieve another similar teaching from the positive Confession proponents. “If you pray and ask by faith without doubt then you will receive your desired results from God. ” They go on to say, ” there’s power unleashed by the words you speak be they positive or negative words “.
” Speak wealth and health into your life, never speak negative words. Stay away from negative thinkers and speakers. ” Some went so far in this teaching, ” Dont even say, if its God will because IF is a form of doubt and negative speak”. The common theme is, ” let my will not thy will be done”.