Beyond the Secret: A review of the movie by Bob Proctor

Lots of talking heads. That was my first impression. Lots of folks no one knows, and a few who are known, talking about motivation. Not the most exciting format. Motivation, success thinking, and goal setting are fine topics and, when you put a lot of effort in, they work.

But they are not the same as law of attraction – an entirely different philosophy. Law of attraction is a spiritual teaching with roots in the very ancient Vedas. Presently, the most popular teachers of law of attraction are Esther and Jerry Hicks, and Abraham. Just about everything we know and understand today about law of attraction has come from the books by the Hickses.

The best selling movie, The Secret, was based on Esther Hicks work. That is, until Esther was edited out due to a dispute on legal property rights. That doesn’t change the fact that her work was the basis for the whole movie. The second edition of The Secret brought in a lot of other folks to fill Esther’s shoes and talk about law of attraction as they understood it.

The Secret doesn’t work for most people. The reason is that it is not a pure teaching. When Esther, and all her words, were edited out, the teaching lost its clarity. It became like the children’s game of Telephone – where you whisper in one person’s ear and they whisper the same thing on down the line. When it gets to the end of the line and the person says out loud what they heard, it is never anything like what the original person said. Usually it is pretty laughable.

That is my feeling when I watch Beyond the Secret. Everyone is giving their own interpretation of something they don’t understand very well. It is a mish-mosh of teachings and ideas, with no sound philosophy to unite them, and so they don’t work together very well.

When Esther was asked why doesn’t The Secret work for people, she replied that the most essential parts had been left out. Beyond the Secret suffers from the same problem. There is no reference to Source and our connection to Source as spiritual beings. There was only a passing mention of vibration. Not nearly enough attention was given to ways to actually change vibration from the inside out.

Beyond the Secret also gives a lot of attention to finding your purpose and then taking action to live your purpose. Law of attraction, as taught by Abraham, Seth – another important teacher of law of attraction, and Ernest Holmes, still another important teacher, all say our only purpose in life is to experience joy. Action is not emphasized by any of these law of attraction teachers; alignment with our goals is much more important. When we are aligned everything comes to us. When we are not aligned, all the action in the world won’t make our goals happen. Alignment is something we each do inside our minds.

The basic steps to achieving your goals as explained in Beyond the Secret are: 1.- follow your purpose, 2.- take action, 3.- find a mentor, and 4.- share your goals with others. Sharing your goals with others is an easy way to get off track. It can lead to opening yourself up to an energy drain. It can also sabotage you in a number of other different ways. You may share with someone who doesn’t take your desires seriously. Even if that person does not overtly ridicule you, their doubt will be evident in every question they ask you. They may give you a sense of pressure to accomplish and a very real fear of failure if they are always asking where it is. Most folks don’t understand that a thing has to be accomplished on the inside first, before it is seen on the outside. Few people understand that any manifestation is 99% complete on the inner realms before we see it in the physical. Constantly checking on your progress, or having someone else asking you, is energetically like planting a seed and digging it up every day to see how it is doing. It won’t do very well with that kind of scrutiny.

Beyond the Secret suffers from the same problem that plagued Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich for so many years. After Hill’s death publishers began to edit the book to make it more ‘friendly’. They took out all references to vibration and by doing that, took out all the references to what really made it work. Only when large numbers of people didn’t get effective results did someone go back and compare the latest editions with the original. Then they found all the crucial parts had been edited out. The emphasis on vibration is the key. You have to embody your goal. You have to align with it in consciousness to attain it. You have to believe it is possible and you have to expect it.

Beyond the Secret is a movie that doesn’t quite know what it wants to be. By titling it that, Bob Proctor invites comparisons with The Secret and implies that it is a movie that will tell you how to use the law of attraction more effectively. Yet, with its emphasis on outwardly directed action, it seems to have very little to do with the art and science of consciously creating reality.

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Politics, Elections and The Law of Attraction

Philip F. Harris

Politics and the Law of Attraction definitely mix. When people think of the Law of Attraction (LOA) they tend to focus upon money, health, relationships, employment and generally personal issues. However, the basic tenet of the LOA is that it operates all of the time, in every situation and at every level of society. There is no time or place or issue that is not under the LOA. Gravity works on the planet for the rich and the poor, for the young and the old, for Republicans and Democrats as does the LOA.

 

On a societal level, the LOA has determined the course of history. It has brought peace or war, abundance or poverty, power or weakness, freedom or slavery to the world´s nations. The LOA basically states that form or reality follows thoughts. The more powerful the thoughts, and the emotions and intentions behind those thoughts; the greater the manifestation of those thoughts. This occurs either consciously or unconsciously. Nations whose people live with an underlying fear of neighbors are frequently at war with those neighbors. A nation that is confident of its goals, hopes and future tend to thrive. People, both individually and as a society attract what they either desire or what they fear.

With respect to the American election process, it is clear that it is adversarial; one party against the other. The “Secret” indicated that all too often, people fight against something, rather than for something. In this process more energy is often put into what is not wanted than what is wanted. Frequently, this results in the undesirable being manifested. The more energy, thought and emotion that goes into fighting against a candidate results in that candidate winning; form follows the thought. This is why those who teach the LOA try to get people to understand not to fight against something, e.g. war on drugs, war on poverty, war on terrorism, fight against cancer or obesity. This very mindset creates and attracts what is not desired. My new book, POLARIZING YOUR LIFE TOWARDS PERFECTION (soon to be released by Cambridge Book), shows how this process works and how to avoid this mindset.

In the current campaign for president, both Obama and McCain have fallen into the same old process of campaigning against each other. Debates are scheduled, the rhetoric is flying and ads attack the position of the other. Furthermore, supporters of these candidates tend to be ´against´ the opponent more so than ´for´ their desired the politician they support. Most discussion is centered on what is disliked rather than what is liked. The result is a polarized thought form that creates tension and discord. Perhaps Obama came closest to a proper understanding of a more correct process when he said that the election is not about him, rather, it is about the people. If the election process ran on this basis, we would not have debates, but rather forums. There would be no negative ads, but rather commercials that say what the candidate believes. We lean very little when debates are merely one politician attacking the other. A better system would be to have each candidate present their ideas, their record and their programs with audiences able to seek clarification, but not debate. In this way we attract quality discussion void of negativity.

The bottom line is that Americans must decide what they are for, not what they are against. In this way the LOA will create the desired result. When the focus is on the problem, even if you are seeking solutions, you still add energy to the problem. But if the focus is on what we want for education, health care, jobs, culture, and what we see as our role in the world, we have created a positive mindset that will create positive results. If you desire to consciously use the Law of Attraction in this election, give your thoughts, attention and emotions to what kind of future you want for America. Be ´for´ something and not ´against´ something. It is the only way to create a process with positive outcomes.

Ernest Holmes – Prayer For My Country

MY PRAYER for MY COUNTRY by Ernest Holmes 
author/founder of ‘The Science of Mind’

Believing in the Divine destiny of the United States of America

and in the preservation of liberty, security, and self-expression for all, I offer this my prayer for my country:

I know that Divine Intelligence governs the destiny of the United States of America, directing the thought and the activity of all who guide its affairs.

I know that success, prosperity, and happiness are the gifts of freedom and are the Divine heritage of everyone in this country.

I know that success, prosperity, and happiness are now operating in the affairs of every individual in this country

I know that Divine guidance enlightens the collective mind of the people of this country, causing it to know that economic security may come to all without the loss of either personal freedom or individual self-expression.

I know that no one can believe or be led to believe that freedom must be surrendered in order to insure economic security for all

The ALL-Knowing Mind (of God) contains the answer to every problem which confronts this country. I know that every leader in this country is now directed by this All-Knowing Mind and has the knowledge of a complete solution to every problem. Each is compelled to act upon this knowledge to the end that abundance, security, and peace shall come to all.

And I know that this spiritual democracy shall endure, guaranteeing to everyone in this country personal liberty, happiness, and self-expression.

Ernest Holmes is the founder of the spiritual philosophy called Science of Mind or Religious Science. He lived from 1887 to 1960. I haven’t been able to pin down the exact date this was written, but it seems to have been before the 1940’s.

Law of Attraction and the Large Hadron Collider

You may have heard on the news a few days ago that the world’s largest and fastest subatomic particle supercollider started up in Switzerland. It is called the LHC – Large Hadron Collider.

 

This was put together by the folks at CERN,  the European Council for Nuclear Research, and a consortium of 8 thousand physicists from 85 countries. It is in a circular tunnel 17 miles in diameter, under the border of Switzerland and France.

 

It went online Sept. 10^th  in test mode, and the intention is to eventually create the conditions present 1/3 of a second after the Big Bang. They are looking for, among other things, the Higgs Boson, which is often called the God-particle. This is the missing particle in the understanding of how energy acquires mass, or as one scientist put it, “How stuff becomes stuff.”

 

What does this have to do with law of attraction? Quantum physics has already shown us the effect an observer (intention) has on reality. I hope that some of what they find substantiates some of the science Seth spoke about: particles he called  EEs and CUs.

 

From Paul Helfrich’s website, link below: Electromagnetic energy units (EEs) – faster than light particles within the subtle field (Framework 2) earmarked for physical manifestation that “slow down” to form all matter, guided by the conscious mind and the pineal gland in the brain. Millions compose each atom. EEs are made up of the even “smaller,” more fundamental, consciousness units (CUs). Discussed in detail in The Seth Material.

 

Consciousness units (CUs) – the foundational “causal force” or Primal Cause within All-That-Is; Seth’s metaphor for pure source energy in the causal field. CUs are ubiquitous, faster than light, nested “units” of awareized, not humanized, energy imbued with a propensity for creating gestalts of action, energy, and matter. Their unique characteristics include dreaming and inner sensing. Discussed in detail in The “Unknown” Reality, Vol. 1.

 

Some scientists have expressed concern that crashing particles into each other could create black holes and particles called ‘strangelets’ that might swallow the earth or otherwise demolish the planet. There are arguments way too technical for me on both sides of this position. All I have to say is “remember Atlantis.” (They blew themselves up and sunk the island through the misuse of technology.) Some small consolation is that it will take from 50 months to 50 years (how’d they figure that out?) to accumulate enough black holes to swallow the planet, so it won’t happen immediately.

 

Here is what a couple of people had to say about black holes:

“If it creates black holes I’ll just escape to an alternate reality where the experiment never took place!”

 

And Chris of Canberra queried, “If the world does end, who will do the Wikipedia entry about it?”

 

What got me started on all of this was this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM

This is a 5 minute rap song by one of the scientists working at CERN. Its very funny and yet it explains what’s going on in a way that is easy to understand.

 

If none of this piques your interest, at least take a look at the video.

  

Sources:

Major artilce –  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider

Seth definitions – http://newworldview.com/library/Helfrich_P_Seth_Jane_Concept_Overview.html#CUs

news and quotes – http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24320776-2,00.html

safety issues – http://www.lhcfacts.org/?p=70

 

Happy Manifesting!