The Secret Commentary, Critique by Moshe Daniel Block, ND

[JusticeinUnity]

The more I listen to your analogies the more impressed I am. I haven't read The Secret as I don't have an interest in the book. Thank you for making your focus on God the Creator as being the one and true way of enlightenment and fulfilment.

[MosheDan9]

@JusticeinUnity

Thank you again brother. I appreciate your kind words and your friendship. We live in strange times. The Secret is one of the products of it.

[egodust11]

i enthusiastically agree with most of what you're saying.

to my understanding, "The Secret," and those who wrote and produced it, are entrepreneurs selling materialistic philosophy (as well as solipsism and narcicism)...it represents and promotes an ideology which is the very antithesis of metaphysics.

i also studied cabala, as well as the major religious philosophies. aside from dogmas, eventually one comes to realize they're all saying essentially the same thing.

- frank maiello

[MosheDan9]

@egodust11

Very well said my friend. I agree with you, of course, and appreciate your feedback.

[borkex]

you don't know nothing fucking marihuana smoker

[flutemagick]

I think there is truth in the secret and I practice it myself but it has its limits. I mean obviously we can't attract anything and everything. But it certainly does work best in 1st world nations. :P

[Lululila67]

'God the creator'. I agree that was one of the things I really didn't like that was left out of that book.

Unfortunatly we are living in a more secular or "anti-god"/science and technology type of world these days. I find it very disturbing how many people (espcially kids growing) don't want to believe in God or have no interest.

[MosheDan9]

@Lululila67

it is true, and many are in the age of reaction. they are reacting to the control of religion, reacting to the control of the male over the female. all is swinging too far away from the balance, but it will come back, and people will remember the balance and remember their Creator.

[Lululila67]

I found the book "The Secret" to be boring. For a lay person just getting into metaphysical concepts or the concept of "what we put out we recieve" and also visualizing what you, etc, then I think its great. But if you are a person who is already familiar with these concepts, then it is boring. (IMO).

Have you read "Think and grow rich"? A book written along time ago recently resurrected. (About Money). Thats a good book;)

[MosheDan9]

@Lululila67

I agree with you completely. It is a very basic book and the movie is worse.

thanks for the book suggestion. I also heard it was good.

[GnaReffotsirk]

I agree. It's both dangerous and overtaxing to people. It can also be more burdensome. What if someone does not "manifest" those he/she thinks of? In the back of the mind, it's possible that person would feel like someone's manifestation of that someone's thoughts. There must be God to solve this imbalance.

[billywheeling]

I had felt uneasy with the Secret as well. Though the authors readily admit this law of attraction is not their creation, something in the presentation is missing. I couldn't quite put my finger on it, but the dangling golden carrots were very present, which seemed oddly impure as a spiritual practice. Yes, I so agree with all of what you say here. Above all else: LOVE.

[MosheDan9]

thanks a lot for your comment.

[law17gun]

Excellent Moshe, You address the service to self aspect very well. You clearly focus on the creator and do not dismiss the deceiver. Keep up the good work.

[MosheDan9]

Thank you very much. I appreciate the feedback.

[ShivaniSannyasini]

~::~ Namaste! Everything You Shared Is True! Yes! GOD Is The ONE SPIRIT Fabric Of ALL Seen And Unseen And Beyond. We Reincarnate Until Perfect Merging In GOD Is Attained By Purity And Daily Meditation And Spiritual Practices. In This Dark Age Yuga Humans Are Born With Many Fructifying Present/Past Life Bad Karmas They Created ~That Creates ALL Outer And Inner Sufferings. GOD Is Always Infinite Perfect Pure Consciousness Divine Love Wisdom. ALL Imperfection Is Human Created. Desire Only GOD! ~::~

[moviemakera]

AMEN

[synergee]

We may not have been completely responsible for creating ourselves, but the very fact that we could've been created better means that there is a 'more aware' creator than the one that created us. And the awareness stretches all the way to infinity. But the basic spirit remains the same - 'to be better' and the basic law of creation remains the same. As we gain in more awareness that law would deepen as well. And we would have a higher vantage point to create from. Hope this makes sense. Peace :)

[synergee]

Hi Moshe, Nice video. But the distinction you are trying to draw, is the difference between micro- and macro-universe. The essential spirit of how things are created remains the same at every level - every level of awareness, morality.

[MosheDan9]

The Secret does help to switch the person who is stuck in the matrix/victim/powerless into someone with ability to take responsibility for their own life. That's good. BUT!! it fronts itself, that is, the law of attraction, as God! The secret even goes on to say "The law of attraction is, was, and shall always be" which is the very phrase that represents the Eternal truth of our Creator. They are replacing God with the Law of Attraction, which is only a manifestation of God, not God Him/Herself.

[MosheDan9]

Very Well said Yxshel. Exactly!

[Yxshel]

something started to bother me about "the secret" too. It doesn't bring people any closer to spirituality, enlightenment and the divine. "The secret" mainly feeds into the ego of people who want to be spiritual and have it all too. To people who envy successful people and think that their liberation will come through the fulfillment of desires based in manifestations in the outer versus understanding that true bliss is within.

[zaboka99]

Wow you are wiser than you know. It couldn't be any clearer to me than the way you have put it.

[fuckingnewguy]

Sorry Zaboka99 I accidently gave you a thumbs down. But I agree with you that Moshe is very well spoken on this point. I just watched the movie for the first time this week. I guess I wasn't spiritually ready to see this movie until now or I would have come across it by now. This critique has been up here for a year now and I'm just now getting to it. Sheesh talk about slow on the uptake.

[nathalielavoie]

Good point if you belive in god !

I do belive in god but it's not for everyone !

Thanks for your point of view. :-)

[Puelehua]

amen amene