Talk:Rhonda Byrne

Inspiration behind 'The Power'

Removed: Byrne was inspired to write The Power after answering several thousand letters from readers of The Secret. We don't know what her inspiration was, that is only what her website claims and cannot be used as a primary source. I added the website as an external link Bzzzzzzzzster 15:27, 22 August 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bzzzzzzzzster (talk • contribs)

Neutrality

This page seems highly biased toward promoting Ms. Byrne's works. While she has had legitimate success, this article fails to discuss her works' critical reception or her public image. Furthermore, all of Ms. Byrne's achievements are presented in a highly congratulatory tone. — further, Francophonie&Androphilie sayeth naught (Je vous invite à me parler) 10:13, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

@Francophonie&Androphilie: It is of utmost importance that this be included, as many people first come here to read an unbiased perspective. It is not a secret that this author feeds off the controversy her book inspires, the article is in need of more information all together. Oneksons (talk) 18:19, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

@Francophonie&Androphilie @Tamzin would you take another look? It has been 9 years Venkat TL (talk) 13:42, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

@Venkat TL: Well, that's definitely the most delayed ping I've gotten... My account was 3 days old when I posted the above! I did remove some non-neutral stuff from this article back in 2012. I've now removed some more, added a {{better source needed}} to the IMDb-sourced film credits, and changed an unreliable NNDb source for a reliable-enough Guardian one. What do you think? -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (she/they) 14:28, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

@Tamzin why make another thread when you can recycle. Your edits Looks good. BSN Tags are ok. @Bovineboy2008 You had added the NPOV tag recently can we have your opinion too? I believe the article as it stands today can shed the NPOV tag. Venkat TL (talk) 14:37, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

There's been no response in 5 months and the tagger has not stated their complaint with the article, so I'm being bold and removing the tag under WP:WTRMT EnPassant♟♙ (talk) 20:24, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

Date of birth

The article currently states that she was born in 1951, and is in the corresponding category of 1951 births. However, the reference is to her NNDB biography, which gives her birth year as 1945. So I am changing the article to match.--Gronk Oz (talk) 13:08, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

Criticism

I have cut out the criticism section, and will work on it in due time. I find this part way too one sided when there is many people who claim her self help book delivered. I want to keep a record of it until I can implement this bit when balanced.

In a critical review, The New York Times stated: "The Power and The Secret are larded with references to magnets, energy and quantum mechanics. This last is a dead giveaway: whenever you hear someone appeal to impenetrable physics to explain the workings of the mind, run away – we already have disciplines called 'psychology' and 'neuroscience' to deal with those questions. Byrne's onslaught of pseudoscientific jargon serves mostly to establish an 'illusion of knowledge,' as social scientists call our tendency to believe we understand something much better than we really do."Filmman3000 (talk) 05:18, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

"The Magic" adds the word "gratitude" to the following verse “Whoever has GRATITUDE will be given more, and he or she will have an abundance. Whoever does not have GRATITUDE, even what he or she has will be taken from him or her.” I have searched many versions of the Bible and many commentaries and have found no reference to any translation which includes this word. Neither does her translation follow the context of any of the Bible passages which include similar texts. Her book makes many pseudoscientific claims and has NO footnotes and nothing whatsoever to back up any of her claims.

Byrne, Rhonda. The Magic (The Secret Book 3) (p. 6). Atria Books. Kindle Edition.

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