Does The Secret Blame The Victim Analysis

Does The Secret Blame the Victim? “The Secret” written by Rhonda Byrne is one of the best-selling self-help books in which most famous scientific term “the law of attraction” is redefined by the teachers of the Secret in order to reveal the fact which brings wealth, happiness and love. Teachers from various countries, backgrounds and professions try to explain how the law of attraction works by adducing specific circumstances from our lives. A critic named Courtney Martin probes the idea of the Secret which simply states that “what you think most will happen and by changing the way of thinking, we can get anything we want.”
According to Courtney Martin, “if the Secret’s logic is to be believed, then those who are hungry are not envisioning food hard enough.” This statement implies that the Secret’s doctrine also involves the idea that people are responsible for negative things happened in their lives as well as what they get after focusing to obtain it. Martin’s example helps us to recognize the

... If people believed they can be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and they have no control over outside circumstances, those thoughts of fear, separation and powerlessness, if persistent, can attract them to being in the wrong place at the wrong time.” Martin complains about offensiveness of this claim and finds it unacceptable that those people who have lost their relatives under terrible massacres or those women who have been raped had asked for them. In this case, a question arises: Do people who have been killed in suicide blasts in Middle East really wish to die? Although Martin does not explain the ways of protecting ourselves and our families from terrible circumstances, still blaming-the-victim mentality is objectionable for most of the