Have you seen "The Secret"

Hi, Ankesh,

While I respect you and your opinions, I am having trouble believing that you could read or watch The Secret and still not really understand. It's all about the interconnectedness of things and life.

Who do you suppose is causing trees a mile or more away to show signs of distress when other trees are being cut down? Their roots don't touch. They don't physically feel the earth reverb that far away. What tells a mother rabbit isolated by 240 miles of land and sea and in a submerged submarine that her babies are in mortal danger so she gets very agitated and stressed?

As for humans, how do you explain advanced knowing of events that haven't even taken place yet?

Manifesting a parking space not possible? Ask my husband...I do it all the time unless I'm too stressed out for other reasons. Actually, I just use some remote viewing and anticipatory sensing and it works like a charm. Is that cheating or just making use of all one's thoughts and faculties? Sort of a chicken and egg thing, isn't it?

I believe you meant wrapped up, not warped up? You're right that most people don't have any idea about the interaction of the physical and mental. Even those of us who seem to, have a lot to learn.

In answer to your question about smiling and happiness, both versions are correct. If you smile, whether you feel like it or not, endorphins are released which lift your spirit and makes the smile genuine, usually within 20 seconds to 20 minutes. Smiling and happiness appear to 'go together' to one degree or another. We are highly integrated beings...unlike the Chimpanzee who smiles because he's been taught to on signal or in specific situations.

I do believe that some of the claims being made for manifesting are yet to be verified but that does not make the entire thing B.S. any more than an (as yet) unsolved mathematical equation makes math B.S.

I would also tend to agree that the WAY the entire Secret thing was presented was a bit over the top but that goes hand in hand with bucks and baloney in movie making or even book promotion.

Anyway, I know manifesting works because I've experienced it but not the way most folks think of it. BTW, you CAN bring about disaster, on a personal level, through giving emphasis and 'power' (for lack of a better word) to the negatives in your life. I've seen that, too. You worry about something enough and it will most likely happen to some degree. Now, who can say it would or would not have anyway? I don't have all the answers either...but the process is indeed intriguing.

Sandi Bowman