Ask, Believe, Deceive... Or Why These Gurus of Greed Are Taking Us All for One Big Cosmic Ride ; As the Sequel to Rhonda Byrne's Self-Help Sensation, the Secret, Tops Bestseller Lists Around the Globe, Anne Gildea Puts Its so- Called Scientific Theory to One of Ireland's Leading Physics Professors... [Eire Region]

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Are people really dumb, in general? AI couldn't help wondering when I saw that The Power was top of the bestseller lists here and in the States. The book is a follow-on from The Secret, the 2006 sensation that, to date, has sold more than 19m copies worldwide, by purporting to reveal the hidden 'ancient' secret to material success.

And the secret of The Secret? 'The most powerful law that governs our lives,' as author Rhonda Byrne solemnly puts it - the Law of Attraction, which in the crudest terms boils down to 'like attracts like'. If you put out positive thoughts, the logic goes, you get back positive things, or as Rhonda says: 'Ask, Believe, Receive'. Ask The Universe for whatever you want; believe you have it; then just sit back and wait until you get it. 'It's like having The Universe as your catalogue,' she explains.

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Ask, Believe, Deceive... Or Why These Gurus of Greed Are Taking Us All for One Big Cosmic Ride ; As the Sequel to Rhonda Byrne's Self-Help Sensation, the Secret, Tops Bestseller Lists Around the Globe, Anne Gildea Puts Its so- Called Scientific Theory to One of Ireland's Leading Physics Professors... [Eire Region]

And now we have The Power! So, what, I wondered, does it reveal? Apparently it's 'The Creation Process' - a three-stage strategy: 'Imagine it. Feel it. Receive it.' Sound at all familiar? 'You don't need to have read The Secret for The Power to change your life, because everything you need to know is contained in The Power,' multi-millionaire Rhonda helpfully clarifies in the foreword. Why? It's the same book in all but name! Yet peopl...

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