The makers and minds behind The Secret are appearing on The Oprah Winfrey Show today, and if you haven’t seen The Secret – or Oprah, for that matter – today would be a great day to check your local listings for time and station.
The “secret” of The Secret is The Law of Attraction, phrased one way as, “You get what you think about. Your thoughts determine your destiny.”
In other words, you’re supposed to dwell only on positive things, and focus on positive outcomes for any life situation – personal, business, health, money, you name it. And the flip side is that dwelling on the negative outcome only makes a negative result more likely.
Put in a nutshell, the thought gurus behind The Law of Attraction are telling us that our minds control our reality.
And the down-to-Earth, hyper-intelligent brains behind the content of Wired magazine seem to be leaning this way, too.
Their latest issue features the topic “What We Don’t Know.” It’s 40 little essays (the online version has 42) about things like what’s at the Earth’s core, what causes ice ages, and where your keys are.
Here are a few snippets from four of the 42 that, together, may surprise you:
Is time an illusion? Plato argued that time is constant – it’s life that’s the illusion. … The most radical interpretation of [Einstein's] theory [of time]: Past, present, and future are merely figments of our imagination, constructs built by our brains so that everything doesn’t seem to happen at once.
How can observation affect the outcome of an experiment? Physicists have no problem with the cognitive dissonance of [a photon's] “wave-particle duality.” But… so… what’s light made out of, really? The dichotomy raises the mind-boggling prospect that unless we observe an event or thing, it hasn’t really happened, that all possible futures are quantum probability functions waiting for someone to notice them – trees falling unheard in a forest.
How do entangled particles communicate? According to a famous doctrine called Bell’s Inequality, for entanglement to square with relativity, either we have no free will or reality is an illusion.
Is the universe actually made of information? “What we call reality,” [John Archibald] Wheeler writes coyly, “arises in the last analysis from the posing of yes-no questions.” He adds, “All things physical are information-theoretic in origin, and this is a participatory universe.”
These are hard-science people addressing these questions, not airy-fairy folks strumming harps in between mantra-chanting.
Please watch Oprah today, and check out The Secret for yourself. It took me a while to come around (I’ve got a hard cynical streak in me), but I’m officially a believer in the Law of Attraction. And I deeply believe it’s worth your consideration, too.
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