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Originally Posted by impaul99  Here's how I see it. There are three types of people out there:
1) People who are not yet ready to be introduced to the Law of Attraction.
2) People who are ready to be introduced, and they are just waiting for something to come to them to explain how they feel, they just don't know it yet consciously.
3) People who are already using the Secret in their lives although they might not call it by that name.
The movie was made for people in category #2.
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Thanks for the categories! I'd only just begun to think about the various reactions to "The Secret" or the concept of LoA amongst people and that's because I either encounter group 1 or group 3.
I've been in group 3 most of my life but not actively. I always felt that things ultimately work out well for me. So when I've had things go badly, they really were some type of setup for things working out well.
I'd recently begun studying about LoA so when The Secret came out I wasn't all that anxious to read the book or see the movie. Like SilvermoonDancer, I am not much into hype! But the book showed up at the library which surprised me. I figured it would be on hold till the end of time or something and hadn't even bothered to check online and...there it was. I figured it was a sign!
I was a bit disappointed at what I felt was a mere skimming of the surface but then I thought, well, if it gets more people started along this way of thinking, that's great!
Since most people I meet are in group 3, I am amazed by how angry some of those in group 1 are. It's not just "oh, this isn't for me." or "isn't this just positive thinking repackaged?"
My guess is that the anger is based on the fact that at some level people don't want to take responsibility for the reality they created. It's so much easier to call LoA a "load of horsesh*t"