It woud be great if you made it to Darmasala. I will be doing a project for my non profit.
I am working with a photographer that will be doing photo essays that inspire people to do great things. We will be chrinicaling the trip of someone from the UK going to Darmasal to teach in the schools. There are many displaced Tibetans there from teh chineese take over of Tibet.
I will keep you posted. I have a newsletter for my non profit and will be posting information there on the trips related to it Newletter
Will be announcing my schedule after Christmas.
These are the locations for Jan and Feb.
St George , Utah.
Berkley, California
British Columbia
Sedon, Arizona
Dates will be announced after Christmas. If your ein those areas hit me up!
Namaste
Chris
I'll let you know when I coming and see if we can meet. I plan to stay for a while! Namaste!
oK, THIS THREAD IS COMING UP ON PAGE TWO FOR "LAW OF ATTARCTION" SO i HAVE TO PUT SOME LINKS HERE TO HELP BOOST TRAFFIC!
The Secret Forum
Pictures from The Secret World Premiere!
Secret Home Page
Ok, I just couldnt resist. this thread is coming up all over on google and what I just did is going to makeit come up even more!
Namaste
Chris
Chris I heard you are going to be showing The secret in Laguna Beach this month.
What are the dates?
I know it is no accident that this post was bumped to the top. This site is so large that I had never run across it before. Regardless, I have never been to meetup.com before last week and I went to it in hopes of finding a group of like-minded people in my area. I am in Spring Hill, TN, about 35 miles south of Nashville. There is no Law of Attraction site here, but I would love to see it happen.
Ever since I saw The Secret, it has consumed me, which I am so grateful for, I just want to meet others and share this with them. Help me with this.
Not a Chance! I heard you went to a big health expo!!
How was it!
The Secret is in The Wall Street Journal Today!
I posted it as seprate message here in The Secret Movie Forum, the Powerful Intentions Forum and the Law Attraction Blog.
When I opened The Wall Street Journal this morning there was an article about THE SECRET DVD MOVIE! I'm trying to find it on the web so I can post it here.
Quoted in the Article are Rhonda Byrne, the Producer and our very own Pat Thompson in Kansas City!
They asked Pat about the big Law of Attraction Meeting we had in KC a couple of months ago.
Pat said the focus of the questions were around how this little movie was able to pull it off.
I think today's article is the first of a few that will appear in The Wall Street Journal.
This week The Secret is on Oprah!
What a shining example of the law of attraction Rhonda and her team are for all of us
Live Abundantly!
This is a link to the article. Marcy posted it here on The Secret Forum
The Secret in Wall Street Journal
DVD THE SECRET - Secret dvd
Namaste!,
Chris
A Self-Help Conspiracy, "The Secret"
By CAMILLE RICKETTS
January 27, 2007; Page P1
Take some fairly standard self-help advice about focusing on your goals. Add "Da Vinci Code"-style mysticism and conspiracy theory, along with a dose of Hollywood special effects. Use word-of-mouth and the Internet to bypass traditional film marketing, and get the stars to participate for free.
The result is "The Secret," a DVD movie that's emerging as one of the year's most successful multimedia franchises -- and shaking up the self-help category. The DVD is the No. 5 top-seller on Amazon. A tie-in book is No. 6 on The Wall Street Journal's nonfiction best-seller list, where it has been for the last four weeks, and is the No. 8 audio book on iTunes. It's also available online as a streaming video for a $4.95 fee.
With a soaring soundtrack and CGI effects reminiscent of adventure films like "The Mummy," the 92-minute film follows a secret purportedly known to thinkers from Plato to Albert Einstein, but often kept hidden from the masses. This history is suggested through a montage of mysterious images: Medieval knights hiding yellowed scrolls, soldiers marching with torches, Enlightenment philosophers reading by candlelight. Interviews with advice experts -- many sitting in front of Da Vinci-like drawings of man -- are interspersed. The
film's trailer promises nothing less than "a new era in mankind."
It is perhaps the most dramatic example of an emerging "enlightainment" subgenre that blends life advice with elements of entertainment. The creation of Rhonda Byrne, the 55-year-old head of an Australian production company whose previous credits include TV programs such as "The World's Greatest Commercials," the film has everyone from studio executives to book publishers taking notice.
So what exactly is the "Secret"? Simply stated: Envision what you want, and it will come to you. The message is elaborated on by the film's cast of 24 advice experts of varying levels of fame, most notably Jack Canfield, author of the best-selling "Chicken Soup for the Soul" series. The ensemble approach marks another departure for self-help projects, which usually promote a single guru.
Pat Thompson of Kansas City, Kan., was so intrigued by the film that she organized a screening for 40 friends and guests at a local Thai restaurant. "It's in today's language, so everyone can understand it in their own lives," says Ms. Thompson, who has bought two copies of the DVD and frequently lends them out to friends.
The enlightainment genre will get another boost this spring when 20th Century Fox releases "Seven Spiritual Laws of Success," a Deepak Chopra film that co-stars Olivia Newton-John and is loaded with special effects, including a sandcastle that is transformed into a tower to illustrate the power of the mind. Hay House, a publisher of self-help books, is about to begin production on a movie version of a 20-year-old title, Louise Hay's "You Can Heal Your Life," with an expected budget of $1 million.
If these films take off, it could mark a new phase of expansion for the growing self-help industry, estimated at $9.6 billion by Marketdata Enterprises. Figures like Dr. Phil McGraw, Joel Osteen and Joyce Meyer have built massive multimedia empires. Self-help books alone account for more than $580 million in annual sales; 11 million copies were sold in 2006, up from 9.5 million in 2004, according to Nielsen BookScan, which says it tracks about 70% of retail book sales.
As with many self-help systems, Ms. Byrne's personal story is at the heart of the philosophy. In 2004, Ms. Byrne says, her company was on the brink of bankruptcy and she was struggling to cope with the death of her father. When things seemed to be at their worst, her 24-year-old daughter gave her a book. The book is unnamed in the movie, but on the "Secret" Web site, Ms. Byrne identifies it as Wallace Wattle's "The Science of Getting Rich," published in 1910, a classic of the self-help genre. She decided to make a film to share the book's message, which she says she has also identified in millenia-old texts.
A portion of the film's funding came from one of Australia's biggest TV channels, the Nine Network, which will air it as a special next month. Ms. Byrne says she mortgaged her apartment to raise more production funds, and credits "The Secret" with helping her to raise the $3.5 million for the film's budget.
This ensemble of experts proved instrumental to jump-starting word-of-mouth about the film. Between them, they had direct-marketing lists with hundreds of thousands of names. Before the release, they sent out a mass email linking to the film's trailer. Recently, some of them have promoted the movie on "Larry King Live"; next week, they will be appearing on "The Oprah Winfrey Show."
One similar project getting a lot of buzz: a just-released DVD of "The Celestine Prophecy," the 1993 best-selling novel that blends fiction and spiritual philosophy, from Sony Pictures. The film sandwiches New Age theories between jungle scenes shot in the Costa Rican rainforest. "We see this as an underserved and growing market," says Jeff Yordy, vice president of marketing for Fox Home Entertainment.
As for Ms. Byrne, she's working on a sequel but won't reveal her release date: It's still a secret.
Eventually
There are a few Law of Attraction Groups out there.
Did you look for your area on my tour page?
Where exactly are you?
Chris, did we go to school together in Villa Park?
OMG! Hi!
Jerry, private message me :)~
Chris
Had a greta time meeting everyon in Denver!
In Dallas and Los Angeles next woo-hoo!
I hope you can make time in NM. You are only 8 hours away in Denver. If not maybe next time. Would love to meet you.
Cindy
OOPS - heres a phone# - 505-205-7857 - If you cant stay - call if you pass through - I take you to lunch or dinner. You gotta eat on the road!
cindy
Ashlee Goodson
