Eastern religion is not my field, but i know that the aforementioned exercises are not of Scripture and God.
And there is more. Going on from,
Bear in mind that the hand-raising feature of the meditation exercises is only a means to an end. The process of imagery is designed to inaugurate a chain reaction of responses touched off by conscious awareness. When your hand begins to rise, it is evidence of an energy value originating within you. But once you discover that by concentration through the middle of your forehead you can affect bodily responses, then imagery is no longer necessary.
Masters goes on to say,
Just being aware of the patterns of light and color that you see in your mind, and projecting them into the tingling of your hands, is all that is necessary....The patterns of light are etheric “computer” data that replace the lying imagination and its excuse-making proclivities. They effect every cell and nerve fiber in your being. They are the reverse of light waves of environmental pressure that affect your body adversely. As they reverse the negative effects of pressure, they impart an intelligent pattern of enfoldment. (How Your Mind Can Keep You Well, The object of meditation)
I see that “etheric” has to do with Theosophy, which is considered a part of the broader field of esotericism, referring to hidden knowledge or wisdom that offers the individual enlightenment and salvation.
During the Renaissance, use of the term diverged to refer to gnostic knowledge that offers the individual enlightenment and salvation through a knowledge of the bonds that are believed to unite her or him to the world of divine or intermediary spirits. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosophy
And which occultism certainly applies to Masters, while salvific Biblical repentance and faith and regeneration is contrary to the false gospel of Masters, who fishes off the Christian pier with a mixture of truth and critical error, enticing souls to buy his meditations (thus providing his income), and which opens on up to the occult.
This is what the Be Still is...
http://youtu.be/oJrtH4Uy5R4
And that melting into and becoming one with the universe is not Roy...he knows we do not become one with the universe...that is new age stuff and Roy is most definitely not new age.