The Secret

Uh,

yeah, the secret, the secret, the secret came out with Bob Proctor and all of those, uh, wonderful teachers.

And that, uh, took me deeper.

And, uh, around 2009 is when i through my exploration really got into bob proctor and i actually ended up doing a 13 month coaching program with him online and it was uh absolutely marvelous i was able to go to toronto and actually attend a five-day seminar and meet bob proctor and then uh communicate with him with a group coaching that lasted 13 months was absolutely amazing.

Then we also have Rhonda Byrne, her Law of Attraction.

She has something called The Secret.

That came into the church a few years ago, alarmingly into the church.

And there's a movie out there called The Secret, too, that you can get.

I think it might be on YouTube or Amazon Prime.

So this just it comes and goes, doesn't it? But it's always with us.

The 2009 Sedona sweat lodge tragedy involving self-help guru James Arthur Ray.

Ray had become one of the biggest names in the self-help world after appearing in the wildly successful film The Secret and on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

But in October 2009, his spiritual warrior retreat near Sedona, Arizona, ended in tragedy after an extreme sweat lodge ceremony.

Three participants, Kirby Brown, James Shore, and Liz Newman, lost their lives.

By the early 2000s, he did have a following, but he was one of many.

During that time, there was this rise in this kind of new age self-help business.

uh that was going on uh really you know elevated quite a bit by oprah winfrey like the oprah show she had guests on there her rotating cast of self-help gurus so to speak you know included eckhart tolle marianne williamson gary zukoff um uh Deepak Chopra so these people were on the New York Times best-selling seller list and with their books and they were making quite a bit of money with their seminars uh that were more based in spirituality and finding fulfillment in life and not so much about also making money um but Ray Really, so he had a following, but he really just skyrocketed in 2006 when the movie The Secret came out.

Just randomly, he was at this conference with other new age speakers and Rhonda Byrne, the person that made The Secret, just grabbed him and said, can I get a few minutes with you and film you for this movie that I'm making? And so he said yes.

Uh, they were just in a committed relationship, uh, was back in 2011.

And she said, well, what do you want to, what are you wanting to do with your life? I said, I want to make a film more impactful than The Secret.

And I just completely forgot about it, didn't take any action on it.

And, you know, life happened and I had other things that I wanted to, goals that I wanted to bring.

I'm excited.

The secret manifesting what you want in life and keeping life more positive rather than The noise that we tell ourselves, that we get into habits of telling ourselves.

And I actually read The Secret years ago.

I looked it up.

It was written in 206 by, oh, my God.

Yes.

If you think of it.

I was introduced to the book in the movie, The Secret.

Obviously, the word gratitude is...

It's not a new word, but in terms of, you know, gratitude journals and Rhonda Byrne, The Secret and all of that.

So it's a good 10, 15, maybe 20 years.

But Timo, it is important to be reminded, I suppose, isn't it?

Guys, huge and heartfelt thanks as always.

We're always super grateful, boys.

Let's get our copies of The Secret out and we're all chants.

Not being glib.

And I just did more and more and more of it.

And there was a guy at the time who was reading a personal development book called The Secret, which is around law of attraction.

And he was reading bits of it.

And I was going, well, that's really interesting.

Whereas way back when the first book and for lots of people, it's the big classics, isn't it? Think and grow rich.

It's, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.

For me, it was The Secret.

Magic of Thinking Big.