TEL AVIV — May 25, 2026 — The Great Secret Press, an independent publishing imprint, today released The Great Secret of Life, an 80-page synthesis of the six writers and teachers who built the modern manifestation tradition: Neville Goddard, Wallace Wattles, Joseph Murphy, Napoleon Hill, Ernest Holmes, and the obscure Manhattan figure known only as Abdullah, who privately trained both Goddard and Murphy in the 1920s and 1930s.
The booklet is the first single-volume work to bring all six writers together with their actual biographies, their actual techniques, and the lineage that connects them — material that the contemporary $1+ billion "manifestation" and "law of attraction" content industry has been repackaging for two decades without source attribution.
Unlike most current entries in the genre, the book treats its subjects honestly. Napoleon Hill's well-documented biographical fabrications — most notably the 1908 Andrew Carnegie interview that historians have established almost certainly never occurred — are disclosed openly. Mitch Horowitz's identification of Abdullah as the former vaudeville baritone Modeste Abdallah Guillaume is included, with sources. Neville Goddard's actual technique — the Law of Assumption, the State Akin to Sleep, Revision, persistence — is presented in the demanding form Goddard himself taught, without the modern softening that has spread on Instagram and TikTok.
The book concludes with a structured 30-day practical program built on what the six writers shared, accompanied by a 32-page workbook. Both are delivered as PDFs at $39.90 USD, with a 30-day money-back guarantee, through the publisher's website at thegreatsecret.co.
"There is a tradition here that was not invented in 2006 by an Australian documentary filmmaker, and was not invented in 1937 by a man named Napoleon Hill," said Ran Shapira, the publisher of The Great Secret Press. "Its roots reach back nearly two centuries, to a clockmaker in Maine. The actual writers who built the modern version of it deserve to be read directly, in their actual words, with their actual problems acknowledged. That book did not exist. So we wrote it."
About the publication
The Great Secret of Life is an 80-page PDF booklet plus a 32-page companion workbook. Single price, single SKU, instant delivery. No upsells, no subscriptions, no email list capture required.
Chapter 1 is available free at thegreatsecret.co/free-chapter, no email required.
About The Great Secret Press
The Great Secret Press is an independent publisher of source-based works on New Thought, manifestation, and the practical philosophical tradition that runs from Phineas Quimby through Neville Goddard and into the present. The imprint is based in Israel and operated by Ran Shapira. Editorial principles: primary sources only; original prose throughout; biographical honesty about figures whose myths have outgrown their facts.
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Ran Shapira, Publisher
The Great Secret Press
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