What is dumber than The Secret?
Newsflash: The Secret, the revolutionary book/DVD that says you can think a totally awesome new BMX bike into existence, isn't such a secret after all! Apparently, people have been using their powerful minds to suggest to hoardes of people with less powerful minds that they can produce thought bikes for centuries. It's true!
In fact, according to this highly illuminating article in USA Today, there has always been bullshit! And some of it has been peddled by very minor television actresses:
Rhonda Byrne's book tops USA TODAY's best-seller list for the seventh consecutive week, and the companion DVD is No. 1 on Amazon's sales chart. It has captured wallets and water coolers like nothing else since Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown suggested Jesus was a daddy.
But such pop culture fascination leaves actress and minister Della Reese Lett laughing.
"Child, The Secret hasn't been a secret since the times of Moses, if not before," says the former Touched by an Angel star, founder and minister of the Understanding Principles of Better Living church in Los Angeles. "But every generation needs a new way to look at things that have been around a while. I suppose right now The Secret is it."
Lett's church is one of hundreds of loosely affiliated metaphysical churches that have been around for more than a century. Their guiding principles are anchored to self-fulfillment via the power of the mind.