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Vivianna - Rhonda Byrne worked for a public television station in Australia and approached them with an idea to create a documentary about the non-physical teacher Abraham (who is channeled by Ester Hicks of Abraham-Hicks publications). The television station approved and so Bryne made arrangements with Jerry and Esther Hicks to film some of Abraham's lectures. She filmed the lectures during a week long Abraham seminar held aboard a cruise ship. She also interviewed Jerry and Esther Hicks.

Byrne then interviewed famous people in the U.S. who were students of Abraham and utilizing Abraham's teachings in their lives. Some of those interviewed included: Bob Proctor, Dennis Waitley, Joe Vitale, Dr. John Gray, Hale Dworskin, and Jack Canfield.

After Byrne got all of her interviews together, the Australian television station decided NOT to continue with the project. Byrne then took her material and turned it into the movie "The Secret" (which was shown in some theaters and later made into a DVD) and also wrote the interviews into a book (and audiobook) by the same name. Later, do to legal issues, the Abraham material was removed from the DVD and book.

I have read the book and seen the DVD and I think The Secret is information everyone should know. The secret in The Secret is The Law Of Attraction - we each attract every material thing, every person, every situation and circumstance in our lives. We can each be, do and have whatever we want in life if we learn how to use The Law of Attraction in our lives.

It's garbage. There is no secret. It's a scam to get people to pay money for a book/film.