The hunger for magic is universal, most people have it in some way or another. People pray, hoping their thoughts will influence reality (or hoping that God will intervene on their behalf, which is kind of the same thing, except that someone else performs the magic). The Secret (by Rhonda Byrne) was enormously successful, which mostly proves that people wanted to hear its message. It made over 1 million sales soon after the DVD was released, and its primary message is ‘what you think creates the world you live in’, in other words: your success is dependant on your visualisation of that success.
This is magic. There isn’t much science to back these assertions up. Yet people believe. Why is there such a hunger and need to believe? Read the rest of this entry »
