I was involved for a short period of time with “The Secret” frenzy. I was even entering a business opportunity with John Assaraf – one of the Secret’s teachers, along with another Mind-Body guy touting a lot of the same beliefs.

Over the 4 or so months as we were developing these iPhone applications, the Mind-Body guy “empowered” me and my other technical partner with mantras and mindset of the secret.

What eventually happened is I quit because they were manipulating us, but my other partner was so blinded by his apparent new found “control” over his own life, he couldn’t tell his empowering decisions from the traps that were laid.

He went from founder/partner of the company, all the way to a part time contractor, while the ones that didn’t even do most of the work own and run all the executive decisions, and own the Code/IP based off the sweat of the developers.

I learned my lesson about “The Secret” very quickly, and that is this: Give the masses illusion of control, and then create/control the system’s rules that they operate in.

This is the fundamental concept of today’s broken capitalist society – I’d love to hear more from you on this subject. You have my email.