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The Secret

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Stackys · 21/08/2020 09:29

AIBU to give “the secret” any thought?

I toyed with it years ago. Asked “the universe” for a £10 note. Walking through York the night after, found a wet soggy £10 note on the floor in a graveyard.

Played with it again a few weeks later. Asked the universe for a red balloon. Immediately afterwards I put YouTube on to listen to some music and the first recommended video was a song called something like “10 red balloons”. I’d never heard of the song before.

When I was a child, before I knew of “the secret” we were moving house and I desperately wanted a garden with steps in it. That would have been highly unusual in this area but I kept on thinking about it obsessively. The house we moved to had steps in the garden (the only house in the whole street that did).

My friend goes on about the secret all the time, I put all my “successes” down to coincidence as the alternative sounds batshit but some people truly believe it works, intelligent people!!

I watched the movie yesterday and I’ve decided I want £50k in my bank by New Year’s Eve 😂 ironically DH said to me this morning “we have nearly x amount in bank! The most we’ve ever had!” (Nowhere near £50k) ... maybe it’s already working lol

This is of course lighthearted but I’d be interested to hear other people’s experiences of it?! Please don’t turn it into a “you’re a fucking imbecile OP” type thread, it’s just for fun.

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UnaCorda · 21/08/2020 14:08

@BottomOfMyPencilCase

True Grin But what if the £10 was always lying there but they only noticed it after they put it on their wish list
It's still a coincidence that it was lying somewhere they happened to pass, and that they had "asked the universe" (please imagine my massive eyeroll at this point) for a tenner before going wherever it was.
WinterIsGone · 21/08/2020 14:06

ZaraW Blimey, what an insensitive friend. Sad

ZaraW · 21/08/2020 14:05

An American friend who loves self help books bought me this when I was diagnosed with cancer ten years ago. I thought it was BS.

Oliversmumsarmy · 21/08/2020 14:05

If it worked Trump would not be president. And if Trump gets to be president again, you can be damned sure it doesn't work

Well if Trump wanted to be President and manoeuvred himself into a position where he could be President then what is to say it didn’t work

I have only ever used cosmic ordering on finding a parking space.
It could all be coincidence. When we go somewhere and know it is busy then we cosmic order a parking space close to where we need to be on the way and one is always waiting for us in the exact spot we want to be.

We drove into Gibraltar and wanted to park up to go on the Cable cars. We drove around the town and parking area by the cable cars a few times. Then I suddenly remembered about cosmic ordering.

We cosmic ordered a parking spot in the parking area and then drove there and one had just become free. As we drove in a guy drove out.

It could be all coincidence but when we haven’t used it we have taken an hour sometimes to get a spot to park but when we have used it then the parking spot has been waiting for us

ChiefClerkDrumknott · 21/08/2020 14:00

At least one of the ‘teachers’ involved in the original The Secret doc, James Arthur Ray, was imprisoned due to negligent homicide of 3 of his followers. Other cases came to light where participants in his seminars were badly injured and one committed suicide. There’s a good podcast about it called Guru: The Dark Side of Enlightenment. Safe to say, I think he was full of shit and only in it for the money...

BottomOfMyPencilCase · 21/08/2020 13:58

I was replying to UnaCorda

BottomOfMyPencilCase · 21/08/2020 13:57

True Grin But what if the £10 was always lying there but they only noticed it after they put it on their wish list

SaintofBats · 21/08/2020 13:56

If it worked Trump would not be president. And if Trump gets to be president again, you can be damned sure it doesn't work.

Maybe Trump has extra-super-strength LoA Powers, like the poster up thread who 'absent-mindedly manifested an intention' that magically made the universe force her ex-boyfriend post on social media. Or the poster who saw a butterfly and sold a sofa. Hmm

IMissMenthols · 21/08/2020 13:54

I'm confused, I said everything is made up of energy and people are trying to counter. Did you not learn science?

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Stackys · 21/08/2020 13:54

A few years ago I went to Vegas and decided to have a go on roulette. Had no idea how to play it on the machine (never gambled before) so just put $5 on and pressed a random button. I won $20. No idea how 😂 anyway it made me cocky so I went to a proper roulette table and looked at the wheel, I knew the next ball would land on red so I put $5 on it. I won $10. I carried on doing this, staring at the board and visualising the ball landing and I won every single time. In the end I had people literally putting their money on whatever I was putting it on. Altogether I came away with $220 from a single $5 bet. In the end I’d had so much to drink thanks to the women throwing free cocktails at me that I started to lose it. Lost 3 in a row and then called it a night.

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UnaCorda · 21/08/2020 13:52

@BottomOfMyPencilCase

anyone who believes that wishing to find some money and then stumbling across a stray £10 note is a result of 'The Secret' rather than sheer coincidence is seriously deluded and worryingly credulous

It's not coincidence. It's the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon ie selective attention and confirmation bias.

Yeah, I'll give you that. Grin But there has to have been an element of coincidence for the thing that caused the confirmation bias to happen in the first place.
UnaCorda · 21/08/2020 13:48

The law of attraction is in relation to the law of vibration...

Are these Isaac Newton's lesser-known laws?

Durgasarrow · 21/08/2020 13:47

If it worked Trump would not be president. And if Trump gets to be president again, you can be damned sure it doesn't work.

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Stackys · 21/08/2020 13:47

@BottomOfMyPencilCase

Why are people getting angry at each other? 😂 It's AIBU. You manifested angriness by choosing this section WinkGrin
Damn right!! 😂😂😂
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KaptainKaveman · 21/08/2020 13:46

@VividImagination

I’ve never heard of “The Secret” but some time ago money was very tight and I was wondering how we would get to the end of the month. I had put lots of small bits on gumtree which had sold for a few odd pounds and I had a large item that I’d had on for months with no interest.

I took the dog for a walk to his usual field and half way round there was a large, pure white butterfly just sitting on the grass. I walk my dog in that field several times a day, most days and have never seen a butterfly there,, ever. I stopped and looked closely and it didn’t fly away. After a while I walked on and when I circled back round it was gone. I really felt it was some sort of sign and thought to myself, perhaps it means that I will sell that large item today. When I got home there was a message from someone wanting to buy it. I have never seen a butterfly in that field since.

I don’t believe that was coincidence.

What was it then?
donquixotedelamancha · 21/08/2020 13:45

The law of attraction is in relation to the law of vibration, everything in the Universe is made from the same material which is energy. That's a fact that even a cynic can't argue.

LMAO. I think Physicists might have one or two issues with that 'fact'.

BottomOfMyPencilCase · 21/08/2020 13:45

Why are people getting angry at each other? 😂
It's AIBU. You manifested angriness by choosing this section WinkGrin

022828MAN · 21/08/2020 13:44

[quote IMissMenthols]@Staffy1
Not specifically, in my original post I said I absentmindedly set an intention as in 'wouldn't it be nice' so the events were aligned. It's not about controlling someone. It's the same thing when you think about someone random and then they call you out of the blue.[/quote]
It's clear you're obviously looking for meaning in things. But him posting is purely coincidence.

DorisDaisyMay · 21/08/2020 13:40

My children (who know zero about things like this are interesting). I have one son who always says ‘I can going to win’ when we play games. (Football, monopoly, snakes and ladders) You can see it, he absolutely believes he will win. And he does, almost all the time. I have seen him roll seven ‘sixes’ in a row. My other son, often says ‘I will never win, he always wins’ and you know what? He rarely wins.

IMissMenthols · 21/08/2020 13:38

@Staffy1
Not specifically, in my original post I said I absentmindedly set an intention as in 'wouldn't it be nice' so the events were aligned. It's not about controlling someone. It's the same thing when you think about someone random and then they call you out of the blue.

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Stackys · 21/08/2020 13:36

Why are people getting angry at each other? 😂 hilarious!

As I said in my OP I DID put my experiences down to coincidence but other people do believe it works so I don’t see the harm in trying it!

I’m still envisioning my £50k. I’ll post on NYE to let you all know whether I made it or not 😂

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GettingUntrapped · 21/08/2020 13:36

Someone said that the universe doesn't care about you. Spiritual teachers say that the human brain and consciousness is the universe manifesting consciousness of itself. We are the universe looking at itself. Sound very woo, I know.

smallestleaf · 21/08/2020 13:35

it's not that deep

It sure ain't.

PamDemic · 21/08/2020 13:32

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smallestleaf · 21/08/2020 13:32

Excellent post from Youokhun

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