March 2007| Advice Line with Roy Masters Podcast

Anxiety and Depression 2: Watching It Dissolve

The continuation of Brandy’s depression call to Roy.
(Clip from episode: K4618)
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Quotes regarding anxiety and depression from Roy Masters’ books:

“You cannot get away from the enemy because when someone else is not the enemy, the enemy is you. You are forever jumping from the frying pan into the fire, because any friend or authority who sympathizes with your troubles, anyone who distracts and consoles you, turns out to be the next enemy. Bad experience adds to bad experience, and personality adds to personality inside you. Trauma builds on trauma, guilt on guilt, fear on fear, and when you see the hopelessness of it all, you fall prey to morbid depression.”
-Beyond the Known

“The first phase of our lives involves earthy motivations, but the second part should involve discovering the original Divine motivation-grace. Not being able to find this state of consciousness is the underlying cause of drug addiction, alcoholism, depression, suicide-in fact, every problem you can think of.”
-How to Conquer Suffering Without Doctors

“You must be willing to stand still and let the Divine Presence catch up with you and increase your anxiety. Hold your ground as the pain of conflict increases to a point where you surrender to the inner pressure, in much the same way you have done with outer pressures when the heat is on. Resist the temptation to run away into pleasure and confusion. The problem is that you have identified with the adversary nature that has made a home in you. Understanding all this will enable you to separate from the taint of the ego self.”
-How Your Mind Can Keep You Well

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Anxiety and Depression: Anger Turned Inward

Brandy calls to discuss the symptom of depression with Roy.
(Clip from episode: K4618)
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Quotes regarding anxiety and depression from Roy Masters’ books:

“You must learn to trust what is given you to realize in the moment, without becoming upset over what is revealed to you; only then will your mind make you well and whole again. Opening your mind to doubt by the tiniest chink will result in your caving in to doubt forevermore. You will end up in a state of confusion, depression, and rage.”
-Beyond the Known

“Depression overtakes you because, being all things to all people, you give your all. Everyone runs you ragged and drains the life out of your body. You feel resentment against everyone for having to prove yourself, which pressure festers into gargantuan feats of kindness and devotion toward lesser gods than you in a desperate attempt to make them acknowledge you until you can't any more. Without the approval you need to assuage anxiety, you head straight for the classic ‘nervous breakdown.’”
-How to Conquer Suffering Without Doctors

“Fear and doubt indicate the absence of faith and draw us into a pattern of anxiety. We no longer love to do what is right – become pridefully afraid of making mistakes, which is not the same thing at all. Because of our decreasing understanding and failure to overcome our emotional response, we develop the increasing ability to compensate by analyzing and rationalizing, which we call worry.”
-How Your Mind Can Keep You Well

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Sympathy for Saddam: Attraction Through Abuse

Mike admits that as he watched the Saddam Hussein hanging, he imagined the rope around his own neck.
(Clip from episode: K4497)
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Quotes regarding abuse and abusers from Roy Masters’ books:

“Dictators "love" people and people "love" their "female" dictators. We see here a case of mutual abuse. Tyrants love the weakness of the people for the sake of the power it gives them, and the vast masses of people love the deception (hypnosis) that is practiced on them by those to whom they have given power. It follows that when people become thoroughly degenerate, they will dig up dictators out of Hell and bestow upon them the power to rule the world with their peculiar madness. How gladly do the utterly demoralized souls accept the exquisite tortures inflicted upon them by the damned of their own making and choosing. So it is with the ego of man; he brings tragedy down about his ears through the very woman he craves-and elects to power.”
-Beyond the Known

“Soon the tyrant personality begins to suffer feelings of guilt and anxiety for the demon role he feels obliged to play, while his hapless slave feels guilty for his weakness and his growing inferiority. Then, by adding resentment to his fear, the coward is compelled to go on giving power to the bully, thus enabling him to go on being more of a beast.
Sensing deep down that the way in which the victim is responding to him is largely responsible for the agonizing pain of his own power trip, the bully soon develops contempt for the sniveling coward. The underdog, not seeing his part in the creation of the evil that is lording it over him, simply dodges all responsibility for the situation and clings instead to the booby prize of judgment. So they continue to respond to each other in a deepening
hypnotist-subject, vampire-zombie relationship.”
-Beyond the Known

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Suicide: How to Stop Suicidal Thoughts

Nick is wondering how to deal with his suicidal thoughts.
(from episode: K4497)

Quotes regarding suicide from Roy Masters’ books:

“When you resent your own awareness of wrong, you see the Truth that could save you as the enemy that condemns you; and when you turn hostility inward on yourself in this fashion, you can dig yourself into such a deep hole of depression that you might see suicide as the only way to get any rest from pain.”
–Secrets of a Parallel Universe

"Children commit suicide by the hundreds of thousands-a million worldwide annually! They simply do not know how to rebel creatively. The only way they see open to them to kill the evil that they see in their parents is to turn their hate inward and kill themselves.”
–Secrets of a Parallel Universe

“People often prefer death to facing the truth about themselves, so they commit suicide before the agony of reality can catch up with them. Then there are the multitudes who kill themselves to end the agony of their compulsive obeisance to an evil god.”
–Surviving the Comfort Zone

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