The Dark Power of Doubt Roy Masters If there was indeed a first being, Adam, who began to live backwards by responding, it must have been because he doubted God and believed Satan. Only doubt could have separated him from his maker. Our response to demands and pressures is all the evidence we need that […]
Devil’s Advocate Roy Masters All of us feel secretly guilty and anxious because of our pride. We all hate our inferiority to reason. But while one Truth seeker seeks the real experience with the truth, in order to overcome his pride (or perhaps to be overcome by true humility), another seeks only the kind of […]
The Light Of Reality Roy Masters A drink often has a clearing effect on the mind, but the person who is dependent on a drink for this effect is not able to handle what he sees, so he only becomes more upset than he was before. He drinks to clear his mind, and then what […]
Planned Chaos Roy Masters In an attempt to fathom the epidemic of execution-style school shootings and murders, the President is assembling a panel of experts. Unfortunately, he is oblivious to the fact that the preponderance of those experts are covertly part of the very problem he is trying to solve. A dozen people picked at […]
The Learning Trap Roy Masters Surely, truth and factual knowledge are the same, aren’t they? The answer is that although they should complement one another, rote learning can trick and trap you into mechanical unquestioning subservience to all authorities. You can easily lose your common sense through being pressured to learn too much too soon. […]
Artificial Pacifiers Roy Masters The problem of addiction—any kind of addiction—is basically a problem of emotionality. If we could handle our feelings, we would automatically be impervious to pills, pot, or whatever. But most of us are so conditioned to look at our emotions as “only natural” that we are as helpless as the drug […]
Winning The Stress Game Roy Masters To win the stress game, you will need the vital information illustrated in this story. One day, we have a huge argument and you get very upset. A week later, when you see me coming down the street, there is a sense of fear, panic, and apprehension; you want to […]
Wandering Out Of History Roy Masters Mark Twain once said, “In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.” In a Newsweek article in 1970, historian Dr. Daniel J. Boorstin, […]
How To Be Carefree Roy Masters Between the stimulus (the tease) and your response, is a holy space. Here lies the freedom to choose new responses that will shape your new destiny. Unfortunately, emotional upsets block this blessing from coming through, advancing the cause of disease and suffering. Inside, two conflicting voices are at war, one of […]
Pulling The Strings Roy Masters You do not have free will the way you think. The proclivity to respond to cruel masters comes preconditioned from birth—inherited. Christians call this “born in sin.” No human since Adam has had the choice of good and evil; for us, there is only one way to salvation from the […]
