Roy Masters - Eat No Evil

EAT NO EVIL

Copyright 1987, 2003 by Roy Masters

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Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 87-80407

ISBN 978-0933900127

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Never eat what you like.
Rather, eat what you know
is good for you. Great wisdom
is required here. To eat the
wrong food is to sustain pride
in its supreme folly, so that
pride food poisons not only
the body, but the soul with it.

Roy Masters

Many dishes cause many diseases.
A simple diet is best.

Pliny

About the Author

Roy Masterswho in his 80s continues to broadcast the longest-running counseling show in talk radio historystarted his journey toward understanding human nature in the most unlikely of places.

Growing up in pre-WWII England, one day as a teen he walked through a vaudeville show in the south coast town of Brighton, when a stage hypnotist caught his eye. He watched, fascinated, as the performer easily put his volunteer subjects under a hypnotic spell and induced each of them to do strange and outlandish things, like dancing around the stage with a broom, and forgetting their own names.

How, the young Roy wondered, could a smiling, personable stranger cause well-dressed, educated, competent adults to forget their name? Puzzled by the mysterious power the hypnotist had exercised over his subjects, Roy distinctly remembers pondering the question: Why cant hypnotism be used to make people act sensibly, rather than foolishly? Inspired by the idea of harnessing this baffling force for good, he later pursued the art of hypnotism and established a successful hypnotherapy practice.

It was during those years of practicing hypnosis therapeutically, however, that Masters made his central and pivotal discovery about the nature of human beings emotional problems, addictions and complexes.

As clinical psychologist Ron Carlson, Ph.D., would later describe this breakthrough: Roy Masters books reveal with penetrating insight that, unbeknownst to most of us, we are tethered to our thoughts in a destructive, hypnotic way which forms the basis of our emotional and mental problems.

In other words, Masters had discovered that people didnt really need hypnosis, because their core problem was that they were already hypnotized not by a clever stage performer, but by the stresses, pressures and seductions of daily life. After all, it stood to reason that whatever little-understood forces were at play on a hypnotists stage must also exist in real life as well. Virtually everyone, it turns out, is far too easily influenced by the intimidation, impatience and cruelty of other people, which in turn reprograms them in negative and destructive ways.

Over years of counseling as well as personal experience, Roy realized that the root of the power of negative suggestion lay in our wrong emotional response, and so he began to search for a way to help people overcome the hypnotic power of stress. After years of searching, he discovered a remarkably effective meditation method, and has been teaching itwith spectacular resultsever since.

This meditation exercisea simple observation technique called Be Still & Know, from the Psalm verse Be still and know that I am Godis at the core not only of Masters unmatched track record in helping people overcome even the most serious mental-emotional problems, but now comprises the centerpiece of a successful program within the U.S. military (Patriot Outreach) that is helping thousands of U.S. military personnel and their families to overcome the ravages of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

The Be Still & Know exercise works for me. It calms my soul, enhances my thinking, and improves my emotional regulation. I am thankful to be a more resilient chaplain. Chaplain (LTC) Phillip L. Pringle, US Army (Southern Baptist)

For many, one hour with Roy Masters will be more beneficial than years of traditional insight psychotherapy. Clancy D. McKenzie, M.D., Director of the Philadelphia Psychiatric Consultation Service, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

I must say, on the basis of 20 years experience, that the application of this technique has made a significant contribution to the treatment of the great majority of those people who have learned it. Dr. George M. Hayter, M.D., Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, St. Josephs Hospital, Orange, California

[Roy Masters] represents to psychology what jet travel represents to the horse and buggy. Paul Bahder, M.D., Princeton, New Jersey

Roy counsels people primarily through his internationally syndicated daily radio program Advice Line, where callers discuss their most intimate problems and find genuine help and healing. For over 50 years, Roy has served as a daily voice of sanity and conscience to his listeners, with the uncanny ability to zero in quickly on core problems and help people take charge of their own lives.

As the institutional home for his counseling work, Masters formed the Foundation of Human Understanding, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, in 1961. Through his daily radio broadcasts, lectures, seminars, his 18 books, countless audio and video programsand now, over the Internethe has helped millions worldwide, including many celebrities like the late John Wayne, extricate themselves from vexing personal problems, substance abuse and emotional traumas. He has also established a successful prison outreach and an innovative private K-12 school.

Beyond all this, and at a time in life when most people would have long since retired, an energetic Roy Masters is delving deeply into yet another long-time interestphysics and cosmology. He has authored Finding God in Physics as well as a more technical treatise, Gravity Driven Universe and has lectured on Electricity from Gravity at the American Physical Society in Denver.

Roy Masters and his wife, Ann, have been married since 1952. They have five grown children and 18 grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Contents

In the classic movie The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy finally discoversat the very end of her long and dangerous search for a way back to Kansasthat she has always possessed the means to return home. When she learns this truth, she is astonished, dumbstruck, that so mundane and ever-present a thing as her slippers could truly be the means for her finding her hearts desire. Did she really always have, right under her nose as it were, what she couldnt obtain from great witches and wizards?

The book Eat No Evil will leave you with much the same feeling Dorothy had when the good witch enlightened herawestruck at the profound and unsuspected meaning and power of so ordinary a phenomenon as eating.

Indeed, food is the most familiar of all mans activities, and the one he suspects least of harboring a great cosmic mystery.

Eat No Evil is reminiscent of a good murder mystery. The super sleuth solves the baffling case by fingering the butler, the familiar and seemingly innocent person least suspected by everyone else. So does author Roy Masters expose mans relationship with his food as the unsuspected, ancient origin of mans problems. He shows exactly how peoples hang-ups with food are directly connected to all their other problems.