The Secret

The Spirituality of Narcissism
by Stuart Davis

In this blog post Stuart Davis exposes The Secret, Rhonda Byrne's "spiritual juggernaut", which claims that the Universe responds to our wishes, providing whatever we desire, and that we create our own reality with our every thought.

Davis offers a refreshingly sane, balanced perspective on this issue - "Your thoughts and feelings are not the source of reality, but two of its features. You do not "create" your reality, you participate in it, and in certain circumstances, under particular conditions, you can influence it. And it is good and useful to cultivate that influence, to positively nurture those portions as much as possible, in the interest of love."

picture yourself in a boat on a river
with tangerine trees and marmalade skies
somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly
a girl with kaleidoscope eyes

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