Upon release, The Secret became a worldwide sensation, featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show , and sold millions of copies on DVD. It featured interviews with philosophers, physicists, and motivational speakers such as Bob Proctor, John Assaraf, Michael Beckwith, and Jack Canfield. While widely praised for its empowering message, critics noted a lack of scientific evidence for the law of attraction and concerns about victim-blaming implications.