{"id":1098,"date":"2007-06-20T15:17:03","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T15:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2007\/06\/paris-ponders-the-secret.html"},"modified":"2007-06-20T15:17:03","modified_gmt":"2007-06-20T15:17:03","slug":"paris-ponders-the-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2007\/06\/paris-ponders-the-secret.html","title":{"rendered":"Shh! Paris Ponders &#8216;The Secret&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"paris_idol.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/import\/paris_idol.jpg\" width=\"173\" height=\"236\" style=\"float:right;margin: 5px\">It\u2019s a zeitgeist double-whammy, as celebutante-of-the-moment Paris Hilton is reportedly reading the best-selling, Oprah-endorsed \u201cThe Secret\u201d while finishing out her time at a women&#8217;s jail in Lynwood, California. A Hilton representative told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2007\/06\/19\/paris-to-tmz-im-just-an-ordinary-inmate\/\" target=\"_new\">TMZ.com<\/a> that \u201cParis is spending time reading \u2018The Secret\u2019 and \u2018The Power of Now.\u2019\u201d<br \/>\nAs Elliot Mintz, Hilton\u2019s publicist, recently told InTouch Magazine: \u201cParis will be able to think and reflect and spend time alone to learn from the experience, because in Paris\u2019 life she\u2019s never alone. There\u2019s always constant chatter around her.\u201d<br \/>\nWhile 23 hours of solitary confinement a day offers plenty of time for contemplation, maybe Hilton would be better served reading something other than \u201cThe Secret;\u201d a book Beliefnet.com Spirituality editor Valerie Reiss <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/story\/213\/story_21359_1.html\" target=\"_new\">criticizes<\/a> as materialistic and lacking humility while decrieing the fact that it doesn\u2019t address the Law of Attachment&#8211;the idea on which \u2018The Secret\u2019 is based&#8211;as a means to help others. She goes on to describe it as being \u201cabout wishing ourselves fabulous.\u201d<br \/>\nHilton has been quoted as saying that she really would like to use her current experience to help others, and we all know that Paris already excels at fabulousness. So send us your ideas for self-help books from which you think Paris could really benefit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a zeitgeist double-whammy, as celebutante-of-the-moment Paris Hilton is reportedly reading the best-selling, Oprah-endorsed \u201cThe Secret\u201d while finishing out her time at a women&#8217;s jail in Lynwood, California. A Hilton representative told TMZ.com that \u201cParis is spending time reading \u2018The Secret\u2019 and \u2018The Power of Now.\u2019\u201d As Elliot Mintz, Hilton\u2019s publicist, recently told InTouch Magazine:&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrities"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Shh! 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