Quote Originally Posted by dragonrider
Gandalf, The Secret will never work for you because you don't BELIEVE! If it doesn't work, it's your fault! Really, for a Wizard, you seem incapable of magical thinking....
I agree completly! And i dont mean it as a joke, as Dragonrider does. I mean seriously.

While it may actually sound very absurd (i know it does), there is some truth behind all this. Of course it is not like they explain in the movie, or in the book. They do indeed some questionable (to say the VERY least) interpretations of quantum mechanics, but unfortunately its usual in all this "new age" stuff.

Anyway, the main point is: visualizating a thing you wish that happen actually increases the chances of it happen.

Now i have to call a quantum mechanics interpretaion called "the many worlds interpretation". Just remember that im a physicist, so im not making a naive or misguided interpretation of quantum mechanics.

This many worlds interpretaion says that there is infinite "parallel" universes, where all the possibilities of all the events are there. Like, lets say i throw a coin. It can be heads or tails. In our universe, it only can be one of this options. Well, what the many-worlds interpretation states is that there are two universes: in one of them the coin choosed heads, and in the other it choosed tails. But as we only can percieve one universe, we percieve that the coin choosed one of the options.
And this is valid for all the possible choices of all particles of all atoms, etc... so in fact there are kazillions of parallel universes, with all the possible outcomes of all possible choices.

Note the important role of our perception. All the possible possibilities exist, they are there. But only the ones that we actually percieve are the ones that seems "real" for us.

When you visualize a thing and wish it become true, youre in fact creating a "goal" to where your perception must go. Or, in other worlds, youre choosing which possible parallel universe you want to "go" to. (The one where the thing youre visualizing becomes true).

And what makes you reach this universe? The choices. Imagine youre in a plain with lots and lots of forking paths, and youre walking through any of them. Imagine youre somewhere and want to arrive somewhere else. If you know the direction of where you want to arrive, at each fork in the path you can choose the right way to go, to arrive where you want to.
And its the same with the visualization. The visualization is like choosing where you want to arrive at. And then, if you have the goal clearly depicted in your mind, it will choose always the right choices to assure that you reach whatever you visualized.

Thats why most people who uses this secret talks about incredible good luck, or being at the right place in the right time, or unusual coincidences, things like this. Cause they were the right choices, and led them to the desired results.

I hope it can be "understandable" enough... i have a very clear picture of how it works in my mind, but rendering it in words and translating to english is really not easy. So, if there was anything unclear, feel free to ask! :thumbsup:
Coelho Reviewed by Coelho on . "The Secret" Works for Weed! I read the book and own the movie and I am a firm believer in "The Secret" because MMJ comes to me, even when I don't have money! As long as I focus on happy feelings about marijuana, I receive more in return! I suggest everybody either read the book or see the movie... The marijuana will cometh! :jointsmile:, Laura Rating: 5