Rip off? Some would say this is a direct rip off of the Norman Vincent Peale book, copyright 1952 with lots of reprinting: "The Power of Positive Thinking". I could actually find some quotes and ideas from the book in this movie. I have a friend who initially told me about it and was so THRILLED to find how easy it seemed. I mentioned this "rip off" theory and that all self-help books are like this - it just takes the will to implement what they are saying. How many people were taken in by "The Celestine Prophecy" before they found out that it was fiction? While the premise is very different than that of "The Secret" - it seems to have the same "religious" following with the same promise of some kind of answer to life and how to live it. Maybe I am off my rocker, but it's my rocker, thank you, and this is how I see it. Strictly a money making rip off. Tom Cruise should have starred in it.