Colofornian.. Oh yeah..Roy Masters is a cult.. He wants people to get better and not need him anymore.. That is so cultish! ;)
Roy Masters is no more a cult than Jesus and his disciples were according to the Sadducees and Pharisees of his day, if you get my drift my dear and I like Beck too, he's a good man, so does Roy, we cultists got to stick together... [what-is-truth]
You both must be under Masters' hypnotic spell. (Even Masters calls his followers "Roybots.") [These Roybots have clashed repeatedly with others in Grants Pass, OR, when a couple of thou of them followed Masters when he moved there]
Are you both followers of a hypnotist born as Reuben Obermeister, who served a 30-day jail sentence for practicing medicine without a license?
Masters: "The secret lies in the Meditation Exercise, a principle similar to self-hypnosis. All of us have within a natural inclination toward right action..." (Masters, How Your Mind Can Keep You Well, LA, Foundation Press, 1971, p. xvii)
And, again Masters: "Meditation establishes a new relationship. Energy becomes available from within...What we say, do, and think, is intuitively impelled...Naturally, without effort, we are impelled to do what we realize is wise and to shrink from what is unwise." (same source, p. 75)
Masters' religion is ultimately selfism...the "Within" is capitalized...self-intuition is over-stressed. "Natural inclination" -- "Naturally" -- our "nature" -- is glorified, as is self-realization...(Masters has borrowed from Hindu-laced New Agism)
Masters: "No form of outer assistance can substitute for inner direction. Direction must come always from within. Moved by the spirit of intuition...The more we exercise our dependency upon the Within, the stronger this relationship becomes..." (same source, p. 132)
More Masters' selfism!
The goal, says Masters? "Through patience you will come to perfection..." (same source, p. 194)
Masters had a debate with Walter Martin in which he claimed perfection was possible (via his hypnotic, natural, self-directed, self-intuitive, "Within" method).
Masters: I am a man without sin." (1984 Masters' interview with "Us" Magazine, as cited by Howard Kurtz, The Washington Post, Nov., 1990)
And, Masters' measures "salvation" by mere intent: "Salvation is by the intent to do right." (Masters, Foundation Press tape on "Guilt")
Overall, Masters "combines Eastern and gnostic beliefs, Christian terminology, yoga, hypnotism, and self-help principles..." (Walter Martin, The New Cults, p. 297; most of research above by Gretchen Passantino and Todd Ehrenburg).