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The Secret/law of attraction (Byrne)
The big picture
Australian TV writer and producer Rhonda Byrne was featured in Time magazine’s list of 100 people who shape the world, a year after her book The Secret became a bestseller in 2006. It claimed that the power of positive thinking is enough to generate life-changing results. Byrne has a huge number of devotees and a large number of critics. She contends that the law of attraction is a natural law of the universe which rewards us with things that match our thoughts, either positive or negative. If we are angry, then events will take place which make us even angrier. If we are happy, then nice things will happen which reinforce that feeling of happiness.
Byrne appears to have been influenced by ...
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