Death Wish Roy Masters The urge for liberation, or release, is so prevalent in our devolving society that psychologists had to give it a name. They call it the “death wish” or “death instinct.” Unfortunately, they have never come up with a satisfactory explanation for it. Why should people will their own death? The death […]
EMOTION – The Mother of All Addiction Roy Masters Emotion drugs us into believing that emotion is right for us. That is why we cannot question our emotional way of life, any more than the drug addict can or will question his support. Some people can successfully get away with existing emotionally; adding emotion to […]
Emotional Time Bombs Roy Masters Modern psychologists, justifying their own emotional hang-ups, advise their patients to vent their emotions and avoid painful repression. But if we follow that advice, we may experience some relief from emotional build-up within ourselves, but we are creating an emotional problem for our family. They take on our problem by […]
Sinking In Your Thinking Roy Masters As your life unfolds before you, do not resent seeing what you have done wrong in the past. Do not cover-up the mistakes of the past, but willingly suffer the agony of your soul. The repentance that results from this pain is a godly sorrow. “Blessed are they that […]
Why The Good Die Young Roy Masters The whole purpose of my radio program is, as Augustine said, “to restore health to the eye of the heart whereby God might be seen.” That is what I am trying to do, but it is not easy. People tend to have much hardness of heart. And there […]
A Good Bullfight Roy Masters from ‘Secrets of A Parallel Universe’ If you are alive, you are acquainted with stress, so you don’t have to be an expert to see that a clear relationship exists between stress and diseases of mind, body, and soul. You don’t even have to be unusually intuitive to realize that […]
Of Monkeys and Men Roy Masters from ‘Secrets Of A Parallel Universe’ When society’s certified “healers” theorize that most of our troubles are sex-based, they come close to the truth, but they veer off in a wrong direction when they conclude that what we need is more sex. They do so, of course, because they […]
Lying Words Wield Power Roy Masters from ‘The Secret Power of Words’ Confirm what a person likes to think about himself, make him feel good about himself, and you have that person under your control. Thinking (which makes you feel like something you are not) and feeling (which makes you think you are something you […]
Trauma Tug Of War Roy Masters- from ‘The Secret Power of Words’ I remember one time, when I was a young boy, someone said something mean to me. All at once I became conscious of my reaction. I wondered, “How could mere words hurt so much?” After all, no one hit me with a rock. […]
Feeding Your Ego Roy Masters from ‘Eat No Evil’ A wild beast, having no ego to feed, rarely—if ever—overeats. Man, on the other hand, thanks to the sin of pride, has descended so deeply and guiltily into his animal nature that he now finds it virtually impossible to feed his physical hunger without at the […]
