Here you will find the history of how all this came to be. "The Secret" movie history, including Bios of the teachers. As well as the history of the science of getting rich ,program, and the long span of events that led to this amazing opportunity!
The Secret History;
The Secret Film Synopsis The Secret has existed throughout the history of humankind. It has been discovered, coveted, suppressed, hidden, lost, and recovered. It has been hunted down, stolen, and bought for vast sums of money.
Fragments of The Secret have been found in the oral traditions, in literature, in religions and philosophies throughout the centuries. A number of exceptional men and women discovered the Secret, and went on to become known as the greatest people who ever lived.
Among them: Plato, Leonardo, Galileo, Napoleon, Hugo, Beethoven, Lincoln, Edison, Einstein and Carnegie, to name but a few. Now for the first time in history, all the pieces of the Secret come together in a revelation that is life transforming for all who experience it.
In The Secret film and her book of the same name, Rhonda Byrne presents teachers alive today who impart this special wisdom that has been known by so few. They include some of the world's leaders in the fields of business, economics, medicine, psychology, history, theology and science. 'Miracle Man' Morris Goodman tells his awe-inspiring story of how he recovered from paralysis by using the Secret. Dr. Denis Waitley explains how he used various aspects of the Secret in training Olympic athletes and Apollo astronauts to reach new heights of human endeavor.
Doctors in the fields of medicine and quantum physics explain the science behind the Secret. Best selling authors and philosophers explain how they have created lives of phenomenal success using The Secret.
The Secret reveals amazing real life stories and testimonials of regular people who have changed their lives in profound ways. By applying the Secret they present instances of eradicating disease, acquiring massive wealth, overcoming obstacles and achieving what many would regard as impossible.
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History in the making Back around 1903 Dr. Wallace D. Wattles, shared a world. He said that a persons right to life, means that he has the right to the free and unrestricted use of all the thing which may be necessary to his fullest mental, spiritual, and physical unfolding; in other words, his right to be rich.
I am so honored and grateful of the success of this program, The Science of Getting Rich. Let me give you a little history on this and how it came to be...A great secret has been passed throughout the centuries,it was coveted, lost, stolen, hidden, and bought for vast sums of money. As it continued it's journey of being past from one person to another.
Those who received the knowledge of the secret were fortunate indeed. For without exception, those men and women have become renowned as the greatest people who have ever lived. One night in Chicago, in 1896. The secret was passed to one such man. And with it's knowledge, he discovered not only why he had spent his entire life in poverty and failure. But he had discovered how to realize the life he had always dreamed. A life of total abundance. That night, his life changed forever.
Though it would be many years before he would begin to write the little green book, the now immortal masterpiece based on the principles of this great secret. The man, was Dr. Wallace D. Wattles.
What Wallace Wattles did not know at the time, and what he could have never have known. Is that the effect of that night would reach far, far into the future. He was setting forth a great matrix of events, circumstances, places, and people, that would change the course of history.
73 years after Wattles discovered the great secret, the secret was again passed from one great man to another. On a night in 1968, Loyd Conant, of the Nightingale corporation, had Bob Procter as a guest in his home. At the time, Bob Procter had been a serious student of human potential for close to a decade.
He had been studying Earl material since shortly after he began recording his philosophy. And nothing could have prepared Bob Procter, for the new dimension he was about to step into that night.
Loyd began to speak very softly. It was obvious to Bob that as he spoke, he was traveling into the past in his mind. He explained how many years before, he had been given a little green book. Even as he said the words, Bob could feel Loyd's energy change as he held the image of that little green book in his mind.
He told Bob that he stayed home all week reading and re-reading it. He said he knew, that he had discovered the secret to life. And so on the following Monday morning, Loyd Conant, decided that he would build a world class corporation.
Today, the Nightingale-Conant Corporation, now nearly 50 years old, is the largest producer, and publisher of personal-development products. It stands as a monument to Loyd Conant's dream, to his vision, to his understanding of the secret to life, and to the little green book.
Throughout Loyd's conversation, Bob was bursting with curiosity to know the title of the little green book, even more so, what was written in this magical text? That night, Loyd Conant gave Bob Procter his very own copy, of the little green book.
From a great, to a future great. The secret was handed over once again. The contents of the little green book, have served as the foundation of every personal development program Bob Procter has ever written.
Bob went on to write a number of very powerful seminars, and he has taught these seminars worldwide. The seminars have assisted companies to increase their business by hundreds of millions of dollars each year. The ideas and exercises in these recorded, and live seminars, have directed many thousands of individuals to go on to lead richer, brighter lives.
Understanding the little green book, and the secret to life, has enabled Bob to mentor educators, psychiatrists, medical docters, senior executives from multi national corporations, and students, and salespeople. He has also reached millions, with his #1 bestseller, "You Were Born Rich".
Without exception, every one of these individuals can see, and enjoy a brighter future, because of their new awareness. Realizing the impact the secret can have on a persons life, caused Bob to be totally committed, to teaching these concepts for the rest of his stay on the planet.
35 years after Bob Procter was given the little green book, and more than 100 years after Wattles first discovered the secret, on the other side of the world, in Austrailia. The secret again passed into new hands.
On a night in September 2004,Rhonda Byrne was handed a tattered, faded copy, of an old book. The book was given to Rhonda by her daughter. And in many ways, this book was Rhonda's last chance to save her own life.
In the previous months, her life had completely fallen apart. Her father had died suddenly,her business was crumbling, her relationships were in turmoil, and she was slowly going broke. But despite all of this, a flame continued to burn in Rhonda, the light of creativity flowed within. And as tears of desperation flowed down her cheeks, it was in this flame, this light within, that Rhonda reached out and took the book from her daughter's hands.
It was by a man Rhonda had never heard of. She was holding, the little green book. And when she read it's pages, like Loyd Conant, she was compelled to re-read it again and again, until it became a part of her very being. Like magic, her whole life began to turn around. With the knowledge, and the truth of life within her,Rhonda immediately embarked on a new journey, and a new mission. She had come to know absolutely what she had been born to do. She was going to take the secret to the world.
9 months later, in early July 2005. Rhonda Byrne, was sitting on a airplane, bound for the United States. In a few days her entire production crew would also arrive from Ausrailia. Ready to interview the teachers, on a film that was simply called the secret.
As Rhonda sat on the airplane, she gave no thought to the fact that she had not organized one single teacher for the film. She simply trusted that by using the knowledge of the secret, the perfect teacher's would appear to help her realize her vision of bringing joy to millions.
On her flight from Austrailia, to the United States, Rhonda brought one book onboard the airplane with her. She read that book from cover to cover. The book was called, "You Were Born Rich", and it was written by Bob Procter.
In the same month of July 2005. Bob Procter went on two day trip to Aspen. A city he hadn't visited for some time. Not long after he arrived, Bob was contacted by an Austrailian Production Company, called Prime Time Productions.
They simply asked, if he would do an interview for a film they were in the process of shooting. The film was called the secret. And despite knowing little else about it, Bob immediately felt that this was something he was supposed to do. The only problem was that his schedule was already filled up for some time.
But in an almost unbelievable twist of fate, one of his commitments had just canceled. The final step in a matrix of events that span more than a century, Rhonda, and the secret team were already in aspen. So the very next day, Rhonda Byrne, and Bob Procter, met for the first time. The veil of secrecy has at last been lifted, not just for one, not just for a fortunate few, but for all.
Bio's
About Rhonda Byrne;
The Aussie TV producer emerged from obscurity last year with The Secret, a self-help tome promising wealth, love, happiness and even weight loss through a simple application of the laws of attraction.
Buoyed by a plug from Oprah,The Secret hijacked bestseller lists and has become one of the fastest-selling self-help books in literary history, with 4 million copies in print. Rhonda Byrne (b. 1955) is an Australian Television Writer and Producer, best known for her work, The Secret, a self-help book and movie. She has also been a producer for Sensing Murder[1].
According to an article published by Australia's Herald Sun,[2] Rhonda has also worked on the Australian TV series World's Greatest Commercials and Marry Me. In 2007, Byrne was listed among Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World[3].
AUSSIE television producer Rhonda Byrne's emotional breakdown in 2004 has led to the biggest success of her career.
Telemovie The Secret has become a worldwide internet phenomenon and a best-selling book in the US. In recent weeks, it has been the main topic of two American TV shows, Larry King Live and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
Byrne is the brains behind World's Greatest Commercials, Marry Me and Sensing Murder, but that didn't stop her life falling apart two years ago. The death of her father, Ronald, in 2004 was the first of a chain of events that took Byrne to breaking point.
The production of the six-part true crime series Sensing Murder, hosted by Rebecca Gibney, was plagued with troubles and the chilling subject matter left Byrne deeply depressed. The gruelling schedule left no time for friendships and it splintered relations with her production team. "One day I woke up and received one phone call after another reflecting the disintegration of relationships with my team and my friends," Byrne says. "Then my accountant called and told me we'd run such a loss that year I'd be broke in a month, and we still had two films to complete. "As if that wasn't enough, I got a phone call from my mother who said she didn't want to go on living.
She missed my father so much that every day was unbearable. I understood, but I couldn't bear the thought of her not being there." Byrne, sobbing, retreated to an outside balcony at her home. Her daughter, Hailey, then 24, saw her mother was distressed and asked what was wrong. When Byrne listed everything, she got a surprising response.
"She just said to me, 'It will be OK'. Then she disappeared and came back with a bundle of photocopied paper with a bulldog clip on it and said, 'Read this'." Hailey had given her mother a copy of The Science of Getting Rich, a 1910 book by Wallace Wattles.
Wattles believed people could shape their thoughts and use the law of attraction to turn their lives around. People's thoughts were like magnets: bad thoughts created bad situations; good thoughts created prosperity. "It lit a fire in me," Byrne says. "It was exactly the opposite of the way I thought life worked." She spent the next 2 1/2 weeks tracing Wattles' philosophy, discovering that its roots lay in 3000BC. And she realised she had to make a TV show project about it.
Channel 9 came on board and Byrne went to the US to interview more than 50 teachers and philosophers who shared a belief in the power of personal thoughts, visualisation and the law of attraction.
Byrne envisaged a worldwide screening of The Secret, but that didn't happen - it still hasn't been shown in Australia. Instead, it has gained worldwide notoriety through video-streaming on the internet. "Something incredible happened because it was available only online," Byrne says. "It has become a phenomenon through word of mouth.
People love it and want to share it with their friends and family. "I've heard of people having screening parties of The Secret in their homes with more than 80 others. "I've had emails from people with diseases disappearing from their body; chronic pain for 20 years disappearing; people who have attracted the perfect person in their lives; and people who have used it to get a promotion.
"Children who were clinically depressed have watched it and been taken off drugs." Now Byrne realises that her breakdown happened for a reason. "I was trying to change things on the outside and you can't," she says. "You've got to feel it on the inside and everything else will change." The Secret can be seen at www.thesecret.tv and will screen on Nine this year.
About Bob Procter
Bob Proctor is an author, lecturer, counselor, business consultant, entrepreneur, and teacher preaching the gospel of positive thinking, self-motivation and maximizing human potential. In that endeavor, he follows in the footsteps of such motivational giants as Napoleon Hill, Earl Nightingale and Wallace D. Wattles.
Bob Proctor carries the message of these great teachers a step higher and explains in terms understood by tots and tycoons alike how a person goes about recognizing the potential and how to apply this effort in setting and achieving life goals. As an attendee at one of Bob Proctor's seminars put it: "Bob Proctor... brings all the great wisdom of Napoleon Hill, Wallace Wattles and others into a coherent whole that anyone can take home and apply..." INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED
His extraordinary teaching ability has won Proctor acclaim around the globe and has carried the Canadian-born motivator to the far reaches of the earth. He is as well known in Australia and Malaysia as he is in Alberta and Mississippi.
Helping employees grow, improve and adapt to change, Proctor's wide ranging work with business and industries around the world extends far beyond the pep rally syndrome. Instead, it encompasses working with business entities to develop strategies that will assist employees at all levels to grow and improve and adapt to the ever-changing nature of all commercial enterprises in today's business atmosphere.
A BOOK TURNED HIS LIFE AROUND
Perhaps the reason Bob Proctor is so insightful into the factors that limit peoples' success is rooted in the fact that he lived an aimless, purposeless existence for the first 26 years of his own life. Born in a little town in northern Ontario, Canada with the low self-esteem that often befalls a family's middle child, he performed poorly in school, dropped out and did a hitch in the navy.
Afterward he drifted from one dead-end job to another until a friend recognized potential in Bob that he had no awareness of himself. The friend introduced Bob to the concept of self-development through Napoleon Hill's classic Think and Grow Rich.
With the spark generated by Hill's words, Bob Proctor found the initiative to start an office cleaning business which he grew to international scope in his first year of operation. From that experience - after seeing what he had been able to accomplish with just a rudimentary knowledge of personal motivation and goal-setting - he hungered for more information.
His quest took him to the Nightingale-Conant organization to study under his mentor, Earl Nightingale. Once on board, he rose swiftly through the ranks. Eventually, while the Nightingale-Conant organization assumed the forefront in wide-scale distribution of personal development programs, Bob felt the need to take his ideas and methods directly to the individual, to the one-on-one level which had proved so successful for himself.
AN OUTRAGEOUS SUGGESTION ESTABLISHED HIS REPUTATION
In the mid 1970's, Proctor established his own seminar company and secured a contract to work with a few hundred agents of Prudential Life Insurance Co. of America in Chicago. During his first seminar Bob made the suggestion that any agent present could write $5 million in business that year if the agent made a decision to do so.
The fact that the seminar took place in July with the year half over and that no agent in that region had ever written so much business in the 100-year history of the company made Bob's suggestion appear to be outrageous. However, when the performance level of the entire division increased substantially with more than one agent actually accomplishing the deed, Bob's reputation as a motivator was established.
Over the ensuing years, Bob Proctor has shared his special message and expertise with hundreds of business entities worldwide and, through a program of live seminars, with thousands of people of all ages in all walks of life.
Meanwhile, in addition to his international best-seller You Were Born Rich, he found time to author other works as well, including Mission in Commission, The Winner's Image, The Goal Achiever, The Success Series, The Success Puzzle, The Recruiting Puzzle, and Being Your Very Best.
The experience of hearing and seeing Bob Proctor lecture is a memorable one, packed with the information, inspiration and wisdom to transform the lives of everyone in his audience. Unlike many programs which convince you that you can do anything you set out to do, Bob Proctor's programs complete the creative cycle by explaining what you must do, why you must do it and, more importantly, how you must do it.
About Jack Canfield;
Jack Canfield is an American motivational speaker and author. He is best known as the co-creator of the "Chicken Soup for the Soul" book series, which currently has over 124 titles and 100 million copies in print in over 47 languages. According to USA Today, Canfield and his writing partner, Mark Victor Hansen, were the top-selling authors in the United States in 1997.
Canfield received a BA in Chinese History from Harvard University and a Masters from University of Massachusetts. He has worked as a teacher, a workshop facilitator, and a psychotherapist.
Canfield is the founder of "Self Esteem Seminars" in Santa Barbara, and "The Foundation for Self Esteem" in Culver City, California. The stated mission of Self Esteem Seminars is to train entrepreneurs, educators, corporate leaders and employees to achieve their personal and professional goals. The focus of The Foundation for Self Esteem is to train social workers, welfare recipients and human resource professionals.
In 1990,he shared with author Mark Victor Hansen his idea for the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. After three years, the two had compiled sixty-eight stories.
Canfield has appeared on numerous television shows, including Good Morning America, 20/20, Eye to Eye, CNN's Talk Back Live, PBS, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Montel Williams Show, Larry King Live and the BBC.
Canfield's most recent book, The Success Principles (2005), shares 64 principles that he claims can make people more successful. In 2006, he appeared in the DVD, "The Secret," and shared his insights on the Law of Attraction and tips for achieving success in personal and professional life.
Personal info; Jack Canfield was born on August 19, 1944, in Fort Worth, TX. He is the son of Elmer and Ellen (a homemaker; maiden name, Taylor). He attended high school at Linsly Military Institute, Wheeling, WV, 1962. He went to college at Harvard University, B.A., 1966; University of Massachusetts at Amherst, M.Ed., 1973. Canfield married Judith Ohlbaum in 1971 (divorced, November 1976); he married Georgia Lee Noble on September 9, 1978 (divorced, December 1999); he married Inga Marie Mahoney on July 4, 2001; children: (first marriage) Oran, David, Kyle, Dania; (second marriage) Christopher Noble. He is a Democrat and a Christian, and his hobbies include tennis, travel, skiing, running, billiards, reading, and guitar.
Career: Motivational speaker, author, and editor. High school social studies teacher in Chicago, IL, 1967–68; Clinton Job Corps Center, Clinton, IA, director of teacher program, 1968–69; W. Clement and Jessie V. Stone Foundation, Chicago, associate director of education, 1969–70; New England Center, Amherst, MA, founder and director, 1971–77; Institute for Holistic Education, Amherst, founder and director, 1978–80; Insight Training Seminars, Santa Monica, CA, director of educational services, 1981–83; Self-Esteem Seminars, Santa Barbara, CA, president, 1983–; Foundation for Self-Esteem, founder and chairperson of the board, 1986–; Chicken Soup for the Soul Enterprises, Santa Barbara, chief executive officer, 1998–. National Council for Self-Esteem, co-founder and member of board of trustees, 1986–96, member of advisory board, 1996–. Maui Writers Conference & Retreat School, faculty member, beginning 1996.
