Anyone read "The Secret?"

[Marilyn]

I heard a discussion on the radio yesterday about "The Secret". A psychologist was saying that some people who read this book are blaming themselves for bad things that happened to them even though there is nothing that they could have done to prevent the action. Example, rape victims are blaming themselves for being raped because they must have had negative thoughts that caused this to happen to them. Also that proponents of LOA say that the holocaust was the Jews fault because of their negativity.

I have not read the book, just heard this very brief commentary, but the jist of it was that if we embrace this philosophy, and bad things happen to us, it is our fault.

I'm sorry, but no matter how positive you are, bad things do happen to good people.