Was 'The Secret' (gasp) Right?

Twenty years on evidence is mounting not receding

Still from Fantasia, 1940

“Everyone knows” The Secret is garbage.

Mainline cultural commentators and august spiritual seekers routinely resurrect the twenty-year-old book and movie (which the overwhelming number have neither read nor viewed) for excoriation, presumably allowing twentieth-century social critic H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) to rest undisturbed after writing the first “take down” piece on mind metaphysics more than a century ago.