entity_id,period_id,confidence,rationale,source_id,review_status
ENT_VF_THE_UNIVERSE,PER_MODERN_FOLKLORE,high,"Genuinely petitioned, thanked, and trusted as a providential agent ('the Universe has my back,' 'thank you, Universe,' 'asking the Universe for X'). Functions as a quasi-deistic provider in Law-of-Attraction practice; Rhonda Byrne's The Secret (2006) instructs the practitioner to ask the Universe, believe, and receive, treating it as a responsive personal force. Rooted in 19th-c. New Thought, hence Modern-Folklore period; the vernacular gratitude/petition idiom is ubiquitous online.",SRC_BYRNE_SECRET,reviewed