-Caveat Lector- -Cui Bono?-
I first came into contact with Mr Masters (or should it be Mr Obermeister
{one for the German linguists!!!}?) about two years ago during a visit to
California. The fellow comes out with his own video tape to air his views on
things and in his delicate Britlander accentuation, proceeds to utter his
pronouncements on life and as it exists in the U.S. (among other places). What
he tells us (the audience) is that he was in the Britlander army and plied his
(then budding) trade of hypnosis on various Brit troops (I seem to recall
officer as well as enlisted). He tells us this. Then he goes on with his
spiel. Well, keeping in mind that he's a hypnotist, we have to remain aware of
the context in which he is speaking, namely a yacht harbour with boats and all
that schtuff. He tells us that he is a hypnotist -- that he is in control of
the situation, the puppeteer as it were, that he will guide all through the dark, murky, moldy, labyrinthine aspects of the world, for now and for later, should we choose to follow him.
Some of the more 'enlightened' parts of his schtuff, his schpiel, centre around
how the female of the species is to blame for all the males' problems. He's a cute fellow though ... in a Ken Starr kind of way. He's got his Foundation of Human Understanding (fhu.COM) and a few other adherents' pages to broadcast his spiel.
Recommended viewing by all the MC fans out there. But, focus on the background, not on his twisty, twirly maelstromatic visual focus. Don't get sleepy. Don't let your eyelids get heavy. A<>E<>R
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http://www.more-about.com/spirit/roy-masters.htm
><><For millions of people, Roy Masters' voice is a daily reminder of sanity
and conscience. But who is the man behind the voice? In London, England on April 2, 1928, Roy Masters entered the world. By the age of four, young Roy was
already aware of the plight of human existence. "I remember looking down upon
the street from the window of our apartment, and watching the people walking
back and forth from their homes to their work," he recalls. "I clearly remember
the expressions of unhappiness on their faces and thinking to myself, 'There
must be more to life than this."' Masters' father died of a heart attack when
Roy was 15. In 1948, Roy left England for South Africa, where he worked as a
diamond cutter for a little over a year. At age 24, Masters married his wife,
Ann, and eventually settled down in Houston, Texas, where he established the
Institute of Hypnosis. In 1961, Roy had become aware, as a result of his work
with hypnosis, that the reason why he was so successful with his patients was
that he was actually de-hypnotizing them. He was convinced that he had
rediscovered the meditation technique (or method of prayer) that Jesus taught
his disciples. Needless to say, he was eager to share his discovery with as
large an audience as possible. In 1963, Roy formed the Foundation of Human
Understanding. Soon, he decided to buy air time on radio station KTYM in
Inglewood, California. But when he approached the station, Mr. Al Williams, the
Station Manager, refused him permission to do so because he was convinced that
Roy was much too naive and vulnerable to last in the dog-eatdog world of radio.
Roy finally got around Mr. Williams by agreeing to the offer of a friend to buy
a 15-minute slot for him in his own name, which would be filled, of course, with Roy's taped message. To anyone familiar with the spontaneous, unrehearsed way Roy gets his message across today, it's hard to imagine what a labor of love those early programs were. Picture Roy writing out what he wanted to say,
editing and re-editing it, clocking it, taping it, and re-taping it. But he was
determined to do whatever he had to do, in order to be heard. The program was a
success from the very beginning. In the years since then, the Foundation has
achieved modest success by worldly standards. For the thousands whose lives have been changed through their contact with the Foundation, however, the
organization has achieved the greatest success possible.><><End><><
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>From http://www.oregonlive.com/news/99/02/st022817.html
{{<Begin>}}
Former relative denounces Grants Pass evangelist
Spiritual leader Roy Masters' ex-daughter-in-law will accuse him on national TV
of violence against her and her daughters Sunday February 28, 1999
>From The Associated Press
MEDFORD -- The former daughter-in-law of conservative Grants Pass spiritual
leader Roy Masters is about to accuse him on national television of violence
against her and her daughters.
A Los Angeles producer says Lisa Masters of Grants Pass is scheduled to appear
Thursday on "Extra," a nationally syndicated news show.
"I just want people to know he's dangerous," Lisa Masters said in her home last
week. "I just thought, 'I know a lot about this man; I'll just turn around and
let him have it.' "
Lisa Masters told "Extra" producer Frank Snepp that the controversial radio
personality punched her once while she was married to his son, David Masters,
and that Roy Masters slapped her daughters in 1997 while they visited his home.
She said she considered the incidents consistent with what she says is a long
history of Masters' denigration of women. "He's said on the radio there's a time
women have to be restrained and even slapped," she said.
Snepp said that he talked to both Roy and David Masters on the phone during two
visits to Grants Pass but that neither would let him put them on camera. Roy
Masters declined to be interviewed by the Medford Mail-Tribune. David Masters
was out of town.
Roy Masters' spokeswoman, his daughter, Dianne Masters, 42, said the radio
personality denies Lisa Masters' charges.
"She's a disgruntled wife," Dianne Masters said Thursday. "She's using every
possible way of getting back at her husband and my dad."
Snepp said Roy and David Masters backed out of an interview with "Extra."
Roy Masters is a radio preacher and former professional hypnotist who moved to
the United States from England in 1949. His real name was Reuben Obermeister. He
moved to Josephine County from Southern California 20 years ago. Estimates of
the number of supporters of his Foundation for Human Understanding in Josephine
County range from 1,500 to several thousand. Many moved there after Masters told
listeners to move to Southern Oregon to escape what he said was the inevitable
collapse of a sick society. {{<End>}}
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There are many more out there and I'll add names in here as time goes on.
At least if you can find a group listed here, you'll know it is not Christian.
I'll add links as time permits.
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The group's leader is not accountable to any authorities (as are, for example,
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The group teaches or implies that its supposedly exalted ends justify means (for
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The group's leadership induces guilt feelings in members in order to control
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Members' subservience to the group causes them to cut ties with family,
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Members are expected to devote inordinate amounts of time to the group.
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