--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "I am the eternal" <l.shad...@...> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:24 AM, TurquoiseB <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote: > > > Posted because it's a great piece of writing, and > > funny as hell. It's a customer review from Amazon. > > The original, should anyone think I made it up, > > is here: > > > > http://www.amazon.com/review/R2X2TB3S4O5I60?ie=UTF8&ref_=cm_cr_rdp_perm > > > > > This is very funny and too well written. I'm sure it's the fake > of a very literate person who is a detractor of The Secret, of > which there are at least 4 billion.
It is. Click on the author's name on the Amazon link and you'll see a few of his other "reviews." This is just his schtick, and he's good at it. > Let it be. As stated in The Secret DVD, if all the wealth > in the world were scrambled such that everyone had the same amount > of wealth, very quickly things would be back as they were, hence > the reason so many people make light of the Law of Attraction and > The Secret. Live in the mud, think in the mud, continue to live > in the mud. > > Myself, I carry Secret DVDs, Secret hardcopy books and Secret Daily > Teaching in my trunk. If you haven't read The Secret or seen the > DVD, "here, have one". A cool thing to do. I do that with certain films or books that I think people might find a resonance with. None of them at this point could be considered "spiritual" except by myself. Examples might be the film "Don Juan de Marco" and the book "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal," by Christopher Moore. > Three things have made a big difference in my life (besides my > wife). They are TM/TM Sidhis, yagnas and The Secret. My yagna > group offered me as a gift a Unity yagna a few years ago. That's > when these interesting experiences started. When I learned of > The Secret my life changed even more dramatically. My life is > one of pure magic in part for The Secret. Cool. Whatever floats your boat. Really. As you can probably tell, I don't have the faith in TM/TM Siddhis, yagyas, or "The Secret" that you have. But if you found them valuable and continue to, I have no problem with that. I may think it's possible that the reason that these things worked for you lies more in your belief that they would than in the practices themselves. But I could be wrong about this. As I've said many times here (and as people keep ignoring, no matter how many times I say it), I really don't know shit, in the sense of knowing "truth." Let alone "Truth." I don't even *believe* in "Truth." So when I write shit here, it is NOT to some- how claim that I "know the truth" about any- thing. I don't. I'm merely writing as an exercise in playing with words and playing with concepts and ideas with the idea that maybe writing about them will help me get more of a handle on them. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But at *no point* do I consider the "handle" I get on these things while working them out in my writing to be "truth," or "Truth." They're just temporary answers, to be discarded at some point along the Way when I find other temporary answers that I like more. I mean, look at what I came up with yesterday as an example of an "axiom," when Edg asked for some: "Don't eat the yellow snow." That's as much of a "Secret" as I'm willing to pass along to others as advice. :-)
