SPOILER ALERT: The Secret DVD's documentary storyline itself is revealed in this review.

The people we think of as history’s “greats”, geniuses in science, business, academia, the arts, and public service, people like Plato, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Winston Churchill, Mother Theresa, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Andrew Carnegie, Ralph Waldo Emerson, those icons who bring us inspiration and aspiration – all achieved what they did through the deliberate practice of the same Secret knowledge.

Some of them had the same words for it, some used an entirely different vocabulary, but the awareness, the Secret they understood and applied about the way the Universe and everything in it works, was the same. One Secret, practiced to extraordinary effect for centuries, and now available to you in the movie: The Secret.

In The Secret this singular concept, this seeming-magic formula that led to the immortalization of so many of its practitioners, is explained by articulate authorities in a diversity of disciplines – theology, medicine, philosophy, business, quantum physics, and more. Set to inspiring music and a collage of engrossing images, the Secret to living the life you’ve always dreamed of is laid out for you in a clear, concise, and – most importantly – practical manner.

If you’ve found this review and you don’t know The Secret already, it’s time you were filled in. The Secret is the Law of Attraction: like attracts like, what you think about you manifest, thoughts create things, your thoughts create your reality.

After The Secret is thorough illustrated to where you can at least understand the concept, if not yet quite believe it, it is then explained how to apply the Secret, the Law of Attraction, to improving your life, in all areas: money, health, relationships with others, your relationship with yourself, and the larger world.

You will learn to eliminate what you don’t want from your life by concentrating on what it is you do want. You will learn to harness gratitude and other positive emotions to attract more into your life to feel good about. And you will learn simple, repeatable processes for using the Law of Attraction with increasing effectiveness, rapidity, and ease, including the fundamental process of the Law of Attraction:
1. Ask for what you want;
2. Believe that you have it already;
3. Receive it into your life by feeling the feelings of having it now.

The lush imagery throughout the film is a dreamscape that opens the mind to possibility like a kaleidoscope open the eyes to wonder. One of the most compelling, convincing, and inspiring aspects of the movie, however, is in the real-life personal experiences from the very same “teachers” conveying The Secret, stories of triumph over adversity and transformation in the face of overwhelming resistance.

If ever there was a Secret to enlightenment, this is it; and this movie lays The Secret bare for anyone with eyes to see, ears to hear it, and – most vitally – an open mind.