Roy Masters

*WARNING: NOT RECOMMENDED (weird cult, imo)*
Roy Masters was my first meditation teacher.                                    

“Cruel people get their power from the way you respond to their pressure. Your life is in danger from people, especially members of your own family, who chip away, harp, nag and aggravate the life out of you, until you feel like killing them or yourself.

YOU CANNOT FIGHT THEM WITH RESENTMENT, because they use your resentment to drive you up the wall with fear and guilt, and terrify you into submission. Take heart. There is not a single problem that you cannot solve if you will learn to be patient…
Your reactions, becoming compulsive, are a subtle form of obedience. But emotional obedience is a form of slavery. Behind the relentless pressures that people apply (sometimes in the name of God and good), is a selfish motive that compels you to sin. Because of your reactions, you are thrown out of control and so you can’t live your own life. That is the reason why you feel sick and depressed…

I know what you want. You want relief from your nervous tension and guilt feelings. You want solutions to your sex problems and family problems. You want to stop smoking, drinking and overeating; you want happiness. But you will never find what you are seeking until you discover the hidden cause of your trouble, and that cause is allowing people to upset you too easily. Surely emotional self-control is the key you are seeking. Your very life depends upon responding in a right way to what is wrong with people.

Your main line of defense (and attack) is to stay calm and patient. Seeing you unmoved, the motivator’s tactics backfire on him; he becomes upset, loses his power and panics. Put up an impenetrable, invisible force shield of patience that lets the good come through and stops the ugly world from getting in and growing up inside to control your destiny… The secret lies in being consistent and adhering to the discipline of the mind as does an athlete to his goal.”

  

~ Roy Masters (Reuben Obermeister) has a radio advice program. His views are a weird hybrid of fundamentalist Christianity and New Age. He used to be a full-time hypnotist, but discovered that most people are already hypnotized, and need to be freed. He produced the mindfulness meditation record, How Your Mind Can Keep You Well. He teaches traditional gender roles, end-of-world preparation, past lives, and various right-wing conspiracy theories. Masters is founder of the Oregon-based non-profit, Foundation of Human Understanding.