The Secret, a DVD and book about the “law of attraction” (LOA), is the latest New Age fad to make a big media splash. The producer, Rhonda Byrne, and five participants recently appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show to promote it.   The central premise is that if we learn “the secret,” then all our dreams will come true. At its best, ...

John Skingley: Paul M. Helfrich: After 51 years in this physical focus, I can find no single causal element in my awareness, not my beliefs, my thoughts, feelings, emotions, expectations, dreams, impressions, impulses, body, DNA, genes, and on and on. TOGETHER, these elements conspire to create only the Framework 1 portions of my experience. As ...

Jen: Don I totally understand - this kind of irritates me as well. But you know we all are in a stage of development, the key is that information is not presented as dogma so we can remain flexible in order to receive more. Then we are able to receive and weed out what seems/feels inappropriate or untrue as we apply the new knowledge.  ...