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To: Boogieman; fabian

I have to admit I have never heard of Roy Masters. How do we know whether he is Christian or not? All I see on that site is that he writes about Christianity. What’s his back story?


229 posted on 07/22/2013 1:45:55 PM PDT by piusv
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To: piusv; fabian
I have to admit I have never heard of Roy Masters. How do we know whether he is Christian or not? All I see on that site is that he writes about Christianity. What’s his back story?

What fabian hasn't told you:
Roy Masters: Foundation of Human Understanding

[Reuben Obermeister] came to America in 1949, at age 21, to lecture on diamonds. He legally changed his name to Roy Masters in 1954 (yet never acquired American citizenship) and eventually became a professional hypnotist claiming he could "save people by teaching them self-sufficiency meditative hypnosis." The American Medical Association pressed charges against him for practicing medicine without a license. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail. He likens this "persecution" to the persecution Jesus suffered....

....In lieu of dependence on Jesus Christ for salvation, Masters teaches dependence on his meditation techniques. He teaches that mankind is inherently good, thus there is no need for salvation or a savior. All problems man encounters can be resolved through self effort. "No form of outer assistance can substitute for inner direction. Direction must come always from within. Moved by the spirit of intuition, we move without excitement, effort or strain. The more we exercise our dependency upon the Within, the stronger this relationship becomes, and we know it to be Grace," (How To Keep Your Mind Well, p. 165, Foundation Press, 1971). Though he claims to have been saved by the blood of Christ, he states that "one of the biggest curses in Christendom is the false idea that Jesus is God"....

....Participants in his week-long seminars pay $1,200 and $50 for one-day seminars held across the country. Masters says he wants to be remembered in the same category as Moses, Jesus, the apostles, Buddha, Gandhi, Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy.


230 posted on 07/22/2013 2:00:25 PM PDT by Alex Murphy
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Listen to his show tonight...give him a call. Don’t take others slanted word for it. And Jesus said throughout that he was doing the Fathers will, not his own so where these people come off thinking he is a God is true brainwashing in effect.


232 posted on 07/22/2013 4:33:12 PM PDT by fabian (" And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo in laughter")
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