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The Secret of the Seal Movie (Movie About Seal/Movie About a Seal)
The Secret of the Seal is a children’s movie based on a best-selling novel. You can find out more about it here.
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The First Seal Film/The First Seal Movie
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The First Seal film is a horror movie that’s currently in production. The First Seal film is written by Giuseppe Lucarell and directed by Ben Mathus. I am sorry but that is all I can currently tell you about The First Seal film.
The Secret Seal – Novel
The Secret of the Seal, the book on which the above movie is based, is a 1994 children’s book.
You can find out more about its plot here.
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The Secret Seal – Movie (Original Version)
Before it was translated into English, the original The Secret of the Seal movie was in Japanese. The original title was ‘Tottoi’.
Hidden Seal/Age of Calamity Hidden Seals/Hidden Seals Age of Calamity
If you want to unlock hidden seals in the game Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity you can learn more about how to do that here.
Secret by Seal
The Secret Law of Attraction Movie
It’s been 18 years, give or take, since the release of The Secret—the popular film and book.
Produced by Rhonda Byrne, an Australian television writer and producer, The Secret was hugely successful with DVD sales reaching higher than 2 million within the first year of its release and book sales reaching higher than 4 million within 6 months of publication.
In 2007, this success earned Rhonda Byrne a spot on Time Magazine’s Time 100, a list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Here in East Africa, the phenomenon that was The Secret was not lost on us.
Bookstores across the region (at least in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda) brandished huge displays advertising the book, and within 7 months of the film’s release, I (living in Nairobi at the time) was able to get a copy of The Secret’s first edition.
Chances are that many of you, my readers, have already either watched or read The Secret.
Today, I would like to share a bit about The Secret with those of you who haven’t, while engaging those of you who have in a discussion as to whether “the secret” contained in The Secret really is the secret to successful, joyful living.
What is The Secret?
The film, which was released before the book, is a documentary-style movie consisting of interviews with authors, philosophers, and scientists about the secret to prosperity, health, relationships and happiness.
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The book, containing the same material as the film, was published 7 months later, with both the book and the DVD version reaching the top of the bestseller lists.
What was the secret espoused in The Secret?
Sorry, I am not going to be a spoiler.
To find that out, you’ll have to read or watch The Secret yourself.
For a sneak peek into The Secret, though, you can find out more on the movie’s official website.
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Personally, I enjoyed the first edition of the movie very much (the one that included Esther Hicks, who was subsequently edited out of later versions).
The film was fast-paced, visually captivating, and chock full of fascinating concepts.
After watching the movie many times (understatement!), I have since incorporated a number of The Secret’s teachings into my daily life.
For example, now I “want what I really want” and don’t temper my desires by whether or not I think I can have whatever it is that I want.
Also, I’ve learned to take keen note of what my emotional guidance system tells me, staying away from places, people, or things that incite negative emotions in me and moving towards those that elicit positive ones.
Eight years after first learning about “the secret”, I can attest that I am now a more peaceful, positive, happy human being than ever before (and finally, I now understand what my Aunt meant when she once told me that I was uncomfortable with happiness and could never just let good things flow to me. D. T. O., thanks for sharing that insight! 😉 ).
Still, I am not sure whether or not “the secret” espoused in The Secret is truly the secret to successful living.
One major issue that I have with The Secret comes from past experience.
In my own life, I have experienced first-hand the benefit of negative emotion.
There’s nothing quite like being sick-and-tired of a situation to propel me to do something about it.
Also, I’ve experienced that a little bit of worry and anxiety helps me get stuff done.
Sometimes, I wonder: if I constantly stop myself from experiencing negative emotion, then might I not just become complacent and lose a great energy source that I have used in the past to create positive change?
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interesting
Hi Ghettoblackify,
Welcome to ChickAboutTown!
I am glad you found this post interesting. No further views to share?
Biche
agree with the conflict you have with that movie. it seems to dwell almost entirely on self-perception and leavesout the idea of having a God
Hi Kenneth,
Welcome to ChickAboutTown, and thanks for the feedback!
Biche
Seeing as you can practically recite the secret backwards, I cannot believe it took you this long to post about it!! 🙂
But to respond to the issue of God in ‘The Secret’ – I don’t know that they leave God out as such – I think it depends on what you perceive God to be: creator? provider? the source of peace? one with one’s spirit? God is, in my opinion, a very personal experience, and that experience and the extent of revelation is as varied as there are people.
As for the whole philosophy behind ‘The Secret’, every time I watch it I have been reminded about what I really need to focus on, and also been forced to reflect on the extent to which I was responsible for my current circumstances…
I ahve read the book and watched the movie. For
me the book was where i got the aha moments, the
movie was interesting to hear people speak about
how the secret has impacted their lives.
I also wish that they could have added something
in there about God being in control and not necessarily
the universe per se. However i personally think
when you adapt the secret in your life and keep
God at the center with prayer as well, then you
will find the secret is really the secret! Good
stuff!
Thanks for your feedback, Nash. I definitely need to read the book then!
Please read my new blog. I would love to hear what you think. I have never seen the movie, only read the book! It is my opinion that just like the laws of cleanliness in the Old Testament work, whether you believe in them, whether you are Hebrew; the Law of Attraction, the Law of Reciprocity in the New Testament work whether you believe in them or if you are a Christian or not. I maybe wrong, but this is my belief.
Hi Mommemau2,
Welcome to ChickAboutTown!
I did read your blog post on The Secret and the similarities of its teachings to those in the Bible. Very interesting post! Thanks for your feedback!
Biche
Hi, Great post!
Rhonda and her co-Authors knew how important yet sensitive the information was. They also realized that a natural law is a universal law -it applied to every sentient being regardless of religion, government, philosophy or tradition.
It would be like trying to explain gravity while asserting references to god. Same challenge.
God isn’t excluded in anything. God is everything. So it won’t take you long to deduce the correlation.
I look forward to more of this topic on your blog.
Thanks, Harji Bwika Simon
Hi Harji,
Welcome to Chick About Town and thank you for your comment.
That comparison to gravity and referring to God makes a lot of sense. Thanks for making me look at it in another way. Are you a big believer in the Law of Attraction?
Biche