Some advertisement uses that line as its tagline, does it not? It escapes me now; perhaps it has something to do with women’s monthly matters, that does strike some form of chord.
What I refer to here, however, is Rhonda Byrne’s The Secret, my entire review of which I shall reserve until later, only to make a small objection to page 28 of my copy. The first 27 pages are taken up with talking, at length, about positive reinforcement and wavelengths and energy (and, despite my tone, I am attempting, for Abigail’s sake, to keep an open mind). But on page 28 came this challenging idea:
“Often when people first hear about this part of the Secret [their caps, not mine, and 'this part' to which they refer is the idea that when you think good thoughts, you get good things, in a nutshell] they recall events in history where masses of lives were lost, and they find it incomprehensible that so many people could have attracted themselves to the event. By the law of attraction, they had to be on the same frequency as the event. It doesn’t necessarily mean they thought of that exact event, but the frequency of their thoughts matched the frequency of the event… Nothing can come into your experience unless you summon it through persistent thoughts.”
Pardon me, but I find it not only incomprehensible but inconceivable and slightly offensive to think that this woman is suggesting that people who die as a result of murders, natural disasters, road traffic accidents, and so on, die because they were thinking bad thoughts. Is that not another way of shifting blame on to the victim? No wonder people loved The Secret.
Full review to come.
P.S. I remember now: it’s from a Pantene ad.
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