The Law of Attraction

A case study

The book came out in 2006, preceded by the film released earlier that year. It caused quite a stir. Oprah Winfrey jumped on board, as did Larry King. Some grabbed onto it with both hands and hearts; others poo-pooed its “failure to engage with reality.”

I’m talking about “The Secret,” the book written by Rhonda Byrne and movie sharing the same name. Have you heard of it?

I came across the book a few years after its release, and having read it, was struck with the eye-opening realization: “That’s what’s been happening to me all my life!”

For those not familiar with The Secret, the book and film propose the concept that anything you want passionately enough, believing in the fact that it can come true, will happen in your life. It refers to the Bible‘s Matthew 21:22: “Whatever you ask for in prayer with faith, you will receive.”

I’d been navigating my life’s path according to this principal before I knew it had a name. So I’m the case study. Examples:

1. When I was 13 years old, in the 7th grade, I developed a crush on my 27-year-old math teacher. Nobody knew (especially him) except my best friend and God. At the end of that year, he moved 5 states away (so I heard) and I went into the 8th grade. But I never forgot him and continued wishing for the impossible. Seven years later I was re-introduced to him (he moved back) by my then-boyfriend. Four months later, we were married. When he passed in July of 2025 (he was 82), we had been together 47 years.
2. My husband had children by previous marriage, all boys. He so wanted a girl but claimed “apparently I can’t make them.” I told him, “I may not be your first wife, but I will be different.” Our first child was a girl (my mother-in-law swore it was impossible). Then came the boys–twins. Different.
3. Obsessed with medieval history since the first grade, I wanted more than anything else to travel to Belgium, to Gent, to see the Van Eyck polyptych in St. Bavos Cathedral. Needless to say, on our budget, this was an impossible dream. But I wished and I prayed, apparently hard enough. In 2003 I sold a Persian kitten (I bred them back then) to a lady in Liege, Belgium. She not only paid $2500 USD for the kitten, but paid my airfare to deliver her. I was her guest for a full week and she took me all over the country–including to St. Bavos.

I could go on. But the bottom line is this; I am living proof that the Law of Attraction is real. You can base it on faith (the Gospel according to Matthew) or serendipity or just plain luck. But I know better.

A relentless researcher, I have also explored the concept of quantum mechanics. Believe it or not, much of this theory provides scientific evidence that the Law of Attraction is not merely woo-woo. It’s very real.

There is much, as humans, we do not know. But being very much caught up in ourselves, we believe that if we can’t explain it, it isn’t real.

I’m not that pompous.

I know there are entire dimensions we cannot explain, and many we don’t even know about. I’m no physicist, but I’m going with the knowledge that quantum mechanics is real, and although I can’t completely explain it, I certainly can believe in it.

Wouldn’t be a miracle if all we really had to do to change our lives in massive ways was to believe that we could? To wish hard enough? To be willing to take the first steps on a journey that exists only in our imagination?

Have you ever wished a dream into reality?

I believe. And to those who are willing to believe as well, it’s no Secret.