I fully expect dire criticism of this very brief review. I admit up front that it is biased. As a Native American, however, I have lived with many centuries of this sort of treachery: "Oh, what you're REALLY doing is worshiping our Christian God, so why not just forsake all of your 50,000 year history, your traditions, your language, and your soul, and come be a slave to our narrow and power-grubbing interpretation of a book that's less than a few thousand years old and wasn't even written by the people who claim to have written it?"

Yeah, knees jerk strongly in reaction.

The authors have taken a book of weakly cobbled-together gnosticism (namely, "The Secret"), turned the original book into a kind of spiritual anti-Christ and anti-Christian dogma that can't possibly work, and then explains that it really does work just as long as you're praying only to Jesus and doing what your preacher tells you is the right thing to do. Like most modern popular texts that scream Glory Hallelujah in this particular set of pews, the authors haven't a single leg to stand on, and they take several hundred pages of obfuscation to try to convince you that their apparent lameness is in truth just another miracle of Jesus' healing.

Let me be clear: I'm criticizing this book and its authors' hypocritical and childish attempt to "convert" people into their vision of what Jesus is supposed to be all about. Any further discussion of my position on the greater topic is outside of the bounds of a book review. My recommendation for this book would be that it be laughed at; it is clearly a poor satire.

I'm not a die hard fan of The Secret. In my humble opinion, The Secret book and dvd could have been better if it did not put too much highlight on materialism.

Nevertheless, I made a mistake buying The Secret Revealed book by James L Garlow. I have had higher expectations from the authors big names.

The authors took many pages, 304 of them, and too much of my time, in saying that The Secret is anti-Christ, yet it still raises eyebrows.

Thanks God, eventually in page 260 the authors concluded their point of view with this summary : "The Secret is a tag of team lecture on how to get everything you want by focusing your mind on gratitude, good emotions and visualization. The program directly opposes belief in God while preaching some principles that God ordained". There is a failing logic here, since when gratitude, good emotion and visualization have opposed belief in God?

There are many other books in the shelf and e-shelf today that obviously oppose belief in God and preaching some principles that God ordains. I, and perhaps millions others do not think The Secret is one of them.

More over, when buying this book I expected a healthy dose of dissenting opinion and constructive criticism about the book and dvd those are liked by millions of Americans and people around the world. I was dissapointed when I found a sense of anger and ridicules towards people involved in The Secret book and dvd, including Oprah Winfrey. Look at what the authors say in the following pages:

1. Page 124 : The authors ridiculed the physical condition of Joe Vitale, one of The Secrret teachers, by saying "Interesting how attracting new, real growing hair doesn't even make it to his list of skullduggery". We all know that being bald is given or a choice, but there is no point to ridicule it.

2. Page 120 : The authors ridiculed Oprah Winfrey by saying "Grand Ol' Oprah, arbiter and avatar herself of pop culture, said she has been practicing the Law of attraction for years without knowing it". I have watched Oprah's both shows of The Secret and After The Secret, and to my knowledge she has never said or implied that she arbiter and avatar herself of pop culture, and what's wrong in saying that she has been practicing the Law of attraction for years without knowing it?

I put this book down at page 260, can't afford to read anymore resentments