When The Secret first came out, Esther Hicks played a huge role in narrating the docu-drama. So it was surprising that in the latest version, all her bits are cut out. A number of the original viewers were curious why she’d opt out just as the movie started becoming popular.
If you’ve never heard of Esther Hicks, she claims to channel spiritual entities called “Abraham” and then teaches Abraham’s messages to the public. I find it somewhat bizarre, but I suppose it fits within the New Age thought movement. I’ve read her Ask & It Is Given book, and it does have some useful teachings in it. That said, I’m a sceptic at heart, so I have a difficult time swallowing that her teachings are supernatural in origin…
Regardless, she answered by posting to her website (I couldn’t find it or I’d link):
As time went by, it became apparent that the television network that we had been told would air “The Secret” was not going to do it, at least not right now, and so the production company began seeking other ways of marketing their beautiful project to recoup their very large investment. While Jerry and I were uncomfortable with what felt to us like a rather aggressive marketing campaign (just not our style, nothing wrong with it) we stayed focused on our busy schedule and really had very little to do with what was happening with “The Secret.”Eventually we received an email from the producer of “The Secret” lovingly explaining (we never have received correspondence from her that was anything other than extremely loving) that the contract that we had all agreed upon and signed was no longer sufficient for their further distribution of the project in the areas they were now seeking to distribute the project, and that it would be necessary for us (Jerry and Esther) to relinquish our intellectual property rights in these areas forever and redo our contract or they would have to reluctantly edit us out. It was clear, from the lovingly written email that they did not want to edit us out, but after conferring with our publisher, and then our intellectual property rights attorney, and finally with Abraham, allowing them to edit us out was the path of least resistance. Abraham’s words were very clear and easy to understand: “Whenever you are given an ultimatum that says, ‘if you don’t do this, then we will have to do such and such,’ it is best that you just let it go and move on. Otherwise there is always another, and this, and this, and this?”
Later, the New York Times followed up with an article stating that Esther and her husband, Jerry, were receiving 10% of the profits of dvd sales. But they’re multimillionaires so the money thing doesn’t bother them.
What the Hickses say bothers them most about the second version of “The Secret†is that those who watch it are not receiving enough explanation of the law or being told that its discovery was made by “vibrationally accessing broader intelligence,†Ms. Hicks said.
Bringing forth the voice of Abraham as she sat on a buttery leather seat in her motor home, speaking of herself in the third person, she said, “Esther’s concern is that they will destroy this information because they do not really know it.”
Perhaps, but in today’s internet age, it’s virtually impossible to contain/supress the flow of ideas. And being on Oprah and covered in every major publication certainly doesn’t help.
Join our mailing list and receive a free copy of The Science of Getting Rich, a 45-page Goal Setting Guide, and a 40 minute audio MP3 on The Secret.
One Response to “Why Esther Hicks Isn’t In 2nd Edition of The Secret”
Trackbacks/Pingbacks
[...] Finally, I added a few quick things as content. I wrote a post on Why Esther Hicks wasn’t in the 2nd Secret movie and embedded a Yahoo movie into my page so people could watch The Secret movie for [...]