The Dark Secret Behind "The Secret"

The dark secret behind The Secret:

I see this teaching as a new age repackaging of the "sin" concept and shifting “salvation” away from God to the thinking Ego. It's the same idea as In Job - who his friends said, suffered because he did something to offend God. That Story ended with God affirming Job as a righteous man. The point of this myth is that our little philosophies always fall short of the Truth.
Ideas behind The Secret, are ego affirming for those who are “successful,” and foster a blame mentality toward those who suffer. It is possibly for the ego’s protection in not having to get involved to solve the worlds hunger problems for example. It allows for a feel good brand of compassion, without an obligation to intervene or intercede. It is itself a judgement of others which binds not frees, like a forgiving – as in healing - which restores what went wrong.
There is chaos in the universe, which allows for creativity as well as conflict. Our salvation rests in the goodwill of our neighbors – which too is the message of The Course in Miracles – the power of a non-judgmental forgiveness in the truest sense of restoring the sacred image to our daily perception.
This is not to minimize the creative power of the desires of the heart. It must be tempered however with an understanding of "mind" as a collective, complete with genetic, ancestral memories and non local connections with the whole of a living universe. Our desire for answers should not lead us to adopt flawed theories, even if they contain a kernel of truth. Learning to live with the insecurities "not knowing" allows further reflection and a more complete revelation.
Our attention is invited to see the perfection in others, always, and by that power not only can our lives change but also the lives of others. This is a needed realization – we are all in this together. If I must blame my neighbor for suffering the consequences of their wrong thoughts, I must also accept my responsibility for their condition because they are part of my life – my consciousness.
If this idea makes the ego uncomfortable and squeamish, it is likely to desire to keep the suffering masses at arms length, and say to themselves, it’s really their fault and therefore none of my concern. With this, I can now, again justify slavery, racism, class privilege, etc - because these louts won’t listen to me when I expound the Law of Attraction.
The current crop of “teachers of light” are light headed with their inflated vanities about understanding the mystery of “why bad things happen to good people.” And like Job’s accusers – they seem not now to be suffering so they must be doing something right. How does the maxim go … the higher the climb the greater the fall? A great healer said Love your enemies. All sickness of body, mind and society is a crying out within for a transfiguration; to EVOLVE. Viral anomalies of body and mind are not an enemy to be fought but a wound to be embraced and a condition of the life-force to be evolved, or liberated, with our combined intention – and the assistance of some “other power” – as say the Shin Buddhists.
We are well to learn and apply the perspective of the healer in our communal lives. Not my will be done, but Thine – the other power – by names such as The Holy Spirit, or ‘Shakti’ or whatever. The vanity of ourselves being that “other power” has never been the Perennial Philosophy. This was the mistake of the “Satan,” the ancient inner ‘shaitan’ (desire for self alone) and repeated again in today’s “Secret” teachings.
It seems to me – and this is bound to make the teachers mad – that if they really believed this was a “Law,” AND had true Love in their hearts, they would have a missionaries zeal to bring this to world, rather than endlessly repackage it for a consumers market that leaves them quite well to do. As a healer said : “By their fruits you shall know them.”