Using ‘The Secret’ to spread good cheer around the world

By Robin Grille

I was euphoric after watching The Secret, I was glued to every word. The feeling that I could have it all, that I never need to feel so limited again, filled every corner of my being. Exhilarating!

But surely, this must be just ‘Part I’ of The Secret. I learned all I need to know to have my dreams come true, but the end of the movie came too soon! I wanted to see how I could spread these wonderful news to everyone around the world! Is it really OK that the whole thing be about me, me, and more me? Wait a minute – that’s just my old self-doubt patterns getting in the way. Sorry!

No matter, I was after all given the tools I needed to visualize myself into anywhere I needed to go. So I resolved to take a journey, just me and The Secret, to those places around the world where the wonders of The Secret had not arrived. Where, I asked myself, do I find those who are most in the dark about the simple alchemy of joyous living? Let me find them and I will bring them this sublime and Ancient Truth.

So, with dufflebag over my shoulder, I set forth. My first stop was in Indonesia, to visit the so-called ‘victims’ of the Tsunami. I wondered among them, telling all who would listen that what brought them this calamitous wave was no more than their negative thoughts! If they would only get off of all those bad emotions and climb aboard the boat of gratitude, the wave would never return. Instead, a wave of riches would sweep through their villages, bringing to them whatever glories they chose to imagine.

Well, you can lead a horse to water, I guess. Straight away I sensed hostility when a little girl (rudely) interrupted my teaching and asked if I had a blanket to spare, because her Mommy was cold at night. Don’t they get it? I didn’t want to give them a fish! I wanted to teach them how to cast an infinite net! Lesson number one: you can’t change people. They are responsible for themselves.

But if one, just one villager has heard my message, then my efforts were not in vain. I have sown the seeds of a liberated, quantum-tuned consciousness among the emotionally stuck.

After clearing my mind of all negative thoughts of failure that were blocking my path, I hopped across to Calcutta. “Maybe The Secret can be better taught one individual at a time”, I thought. Resolving to share my psychic abundance with one that appeared to most need it, I sat beside a grubby, crippled boy as he begged for alms in a filthy street. He tried to tell me of his despair, his fear, and his bottomless hunger – but I wouldn’t have it. I would not - and could not - let this boy wallow in victim-consciousness. “Can’t you see, my boy, that you are here by choice? Your twisted body is naught but a reflection of your twisted thoughts! This world is your Genie, my little man, just waiting to do your bidding! So stop focusing on your misfortune, and start feeling grateful! Feel grateful for all the good that Life has showered you with, and your wildest dreams will materialise - and the bonus is: you don’t even need to know how it works!” I’m sure I glimpsed a tiny half-smile, like a ray of sunshine crossing this boy’s contorted face. Though he was passing gas at the time, I knew better: he really got it, I could feel it! I swear I could see in the quantum depths of my mind, this boy speeding off in a BMW convertible, with the babe of his dreams resting her head on his shoulder. Real fulfilment, my friends, comes from sharing the joy of unlimited acquisition.

But the worst of human misery is not always where you think it is, my friends. Sometimes, darkness and ignorance fester in your own backyard. Returning home from my positive-visualisation world tour, I set my sights on some of the Abuse Survivors Group that abound in my region (sigh). Oh, when will they learn to stop peddling agreement with all this bad emotion, don’t they see how they keep themselves so limited and small? Offering my services to a local survivors’ group, I sat and listened to their horror stories. Lucky I am so centred in my positive creative alignment (Om!), or I would have taken-on these people’s ‘stuff’. Can’t have my quantum mind-clarity polluted, can I? Someone had to put their foot down. ‘Enough!’ I cried out. ‘I need to get in your face, in the name of your liberation! Can’t you see, these are just stories, and you are all stuck in your stories! Sure you have been abused, but you need to learn to say: “So What?” Focus on the good that you want to create in your lives, and every joy will come to you!’

I think the problem here is those pesky psycho-babble types who get into these people’s heads, telling them how good it is to wallow in all the emotional muck. And so, I was tarred and feathered and thrown out into the street by these maladjusted groupies. But am I going to let that get to me? Bah! I put it all behind me! It’s in the past already!

I feel so free these days, since The Secret helped me to realise true empathy does not mean listening to people’s feelings. God, I was sick of that! I now know that if you truly care for another, you tell them to get off the bad vibes and start playing the happy movie in their heads. What a relief!

And each day I thank the bearers of The Secret (how did they manage to keep it hidden in the Egyptian sands for sooooooo long?) for helping me to forgive. The one per cent of people who have 96 per cent of the world’s wealth, have it because they know….you guessed it: ‘The Secret’! How could I have been so petty? Today, I toast the top-gun oil barons, the defence industry bosses and any others who have shown humanity how The Secret really can work for us.

(The next paragraph is best read loud and fast, preferably in a heavy, Cockney accent). So, ladies and gentlemen, stop your wallowing! Don’t indulge your negative emotions! The universe wants you to have it all! You can have that car of your dreams! You can have that impossibly expensive bracelet! You can have that sprawling McMansion! You can have the ‘to-die-for’ spouse, made-to-measure to your exact specifications! Your life can be all about having! Joy, joy and more joy.

And that, my friends, is what has made this country great. We have all the stuff we want, because, unlike all those miserable, depressed, victim-consciousness junkies around the world, we visualised it so. All stand for the national anthem.

By the way: if each of you could send me one dollar after reading this article, you would be helping me to achieve my $100,000 instant prosperity goal! And you will feel like you have participated in proving to the world that this thing really works! Wow! I am grateful to you in advance, knowing that this money has already come my way.

My fond adieu, co-creators. And always remember: when the shit hits the fan, don’t complain: YOU created it!


Robin Grille