Oprah's The Secret of THE SECRET episode

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 4:38pm

Holy cow. Apparently the universe wanted me home from work today with a cough and cold so that I wouldn't miss Oprah's latest exploration of "The Laws of Attraction."

First off, I had no idea Lousie "You needed to get that Kaposi's Sarcoma on your face because gay men are too vein" Hay was in on this bandwagon. But that's only the first of many things I have learned.

I learned that viewer Nancy's "vision board" (a bulletin board) picture of a new range resulted in her getting exactly the range in the picture! The "universe" wouldn't even let her buy another brand of range!

WHY did Oprah end up with a Tiffany bubble blowing machine? Well, according to a columnist for O Magazine, it's because of Quantum Physics! Our minds can manifest objects out of energy! The universe is a lot more magical than we realize! She explained that the universe was telling Oprah that there is "plenty!" Don't worry, Oprah assured us, she wrote about it in her Gratitude Journal!

There are moving testimonials from actual viewers. Actually, there are "moveen" testimonials from the viewers. Most of them pronounce the suffix "ing" the way Katie Couric does, as "een." It must be some secret code that puts you in touch with the universe! Like the poor woman who had been drinkeen because she was miserable. Her vision board helped her dreams come true in a year! I'm not kiddeen!

Anyway, the show is very very elighteneen.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 4:41pm

My favorite guru is still Wayne Dyer.

[blueroses]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 4:43pm

Louise Hay is a freak.

[Jane2]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 4:47pm

Namo, it's so enlighteneen that I started pukeen. After watching that scam movie of The Secret, I refuse to watch people swearing by it. Even my dentist and his wife believe in it. Last time I was at their office, they started gushing about how they immediately find parking spaces in the city now that they concentrate on findeen them.

Now, I had pasted a picture of my desired Greek Island retreat on my bulletin board years ago! I still didn't get it! Who can I forward a letter of complaint to? Maybe Oprah?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 4:49pm

I'm manifesting even as we speak.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 5:02pm

Manifesteen, PJ! Jane, I have a firefighter calendar on my vision board. I'll let you know how it turns out.

[Calvin]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 5:07pm

I'm going to write on a piece of paper "The Secret is horsepuckey" and stick it on my vision board.

I'm hoping the resulting paradox will cause the universe to implode.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 5:09pm

Just your universe, Calvin. Apparently The Secret is kinda solipsistic.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 5:13pm

Jane2, you crack me up!! I know what you all are saying. I was manifesting about an $800,000 condo in DC and still nothing!!

[Calvin]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 5:13pm

Well, cool. In my next universe, I want to be an astronaut or a dragon. I'll just add that as a footnote.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 5:32pm

Separate Post-Its will keep the universe from getting confused.

[Jane2]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 6:02pm

Namo, I bet you'll find that calendar on many many many vision boards!

Dottie, did you ever see the SECRET? oy. They show this guy who just moved into his new house. As he's unpackeen boxes, he comes across this sketch that he himself had drawn many years ago. (btw, he must have been architecture major, the way the house was drawn). lol. Anyway WHAT A STRANGE COINCIDENCE! The house he had drawn in his youth was the VERY ONE HE JUST MOVED INTO!!!

Hey, if you don't believe this stuff now, well, I just don't know!!!!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 6:14pm

If you don't believe, you'll never receive.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 6:19pm

That's really got me thinkeen, Pal Joey.

[BigFatBlonde]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 6:24pm

Feel better, Namo.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 6:25pm

Here's the Secret Gratitude Book, one of the most powerful tools you can ever use to transform your life into total joy. When you use this book every day and write about all the things in your life you are grateful for, you will be amazed at the never-ending list of thoughts that come back to you of more things to be grateful for. You can use The Secret Gratitude Book to powerfully attract specific things that you want into your life in absolute abundance.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 6:37pm

Do you have to keep the Gratitude Journal a secret? Is that why it's called The Secret Gratitude Journal? Is the secrecy key? Because Oprah spoke about hers and I'd hate to find out she doesn't manifest things like a Tiffany bubble blowing machine by talkeen about it.

[Jane2]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 6:40pm

I have a friend who lives by the Secret. She has a vision board. Can you imagine? She cuts things out and pastes them on there. We had a big argument over the whole concept of the Secret until I realized there's no way you can reason with them.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 7:03pm

Oprah featured someone else in 2000 that mentioned a gratitude journal. You were supposed to write down at least 3 things per day you were grateful for.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 7:26pm

I think it's a nice idea. Like a gift list at a shower.

[postergirl]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 7:29pm

I don't know about The Secret - it sounds suspicious. Not proven like the energized blue dot in the National Enquirer - now that REALLY works! Just cut it out and put it somewhere relevant to your wishes. Like put it in your manuscript and win Tony!

[keen on kean]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 7:39pm

So all we have to do is have every homeowner who is about to be foreclosed upon put up a post-it note about payment of his/her mortgage, and the real estate market will be golden again.

Does it work for Presidential elections?

I'm laugheen. Does that mean I don't get the lead in the next Disney musical?

[Jane2]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 7:47pm

You WILL get the lead. Just focus on it real strong.

I love the example they had about a woman who wanted a check for a large amount of money. I don't remember the exact amount, maybe $20k. She thought about it and of course it came in the mail!

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 7:52pm

When I was in high school I always dreamed I'd play Kim or Rosie in Bye Bye Birdie. In my early twenties I played Nancy! Thanks "The Secret"

[tazber]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 7:58pm

Not to be confused with the thread where we share secret testimonials.