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 ...