And that's where I strongly disagree - "practically everybody involved". As just one data point relevant to the thread, with my Amway business I work with a third-party training company that, amongst other things, promotes the benefits of positive thinking and it works with literally hundreds of thousands of people around the world every month. It's the largest such company in the world. It promotes positive thinking but absolutely does not promote the type of "woo" thinking in The Secret (and to a lesser extent NVP's book). It's about changing thinking to positively change behaviours. (as an aside, it may be that consciously changing behaviour is probably the best way to change thinking (attitude) which if pursued then leads to changed behaviours (habits))
So, again, for me she's attacking a caricature that does not reflect the majority of the so-called "movement".
