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It is the perfect example of mixed premises The secret sets up two contradictory standing orders They begin with what appears like the Primacy of Existence to coax the genie out. Once the genie is out, then it is right back to primacy of consciousness and anything goes. It is a bait and switch scheme claiming the scientific authority of lawfulness, while at the same time presenting the willfulness of wishful thinking. In effect, The Secret has the positive thinking from epistemology, taking metaphysical control of reality, confounding metaphysics and epistemology into a single, contradictory, mystical, concept.

⁠— Armon Eaton