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Religion & Spirituality > Theories of Spirituality Book reviews: The Secret, by Rhonda Byrne

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I have heard the new self help book, The Secret by Rhonda Byrne, described as a smooth marketing maneuver. Others see it as just another self-help or heal thyself with rose-colored glasses approach. I guess for me the factor that made me dismiss my skepticism and look deeper was the history of the author herself. When her career seemed to be declining rapidly she read an old book. The book inspired her to rapidly and energetically compile the beginnings of a script that she was so passionate about that she was able to sell it directly as a movie, without a book to precede it. When the...

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