By Roy Masters
May 11, 2025
Early in life we were emotionally shocked and traumatized. And with that first fall away from our original state of being, fault took root and grew into the multi-layered ugliness that we see ourselves composed of, when we first (if ever) begin seeking for what went wrong.
The seeker should bear this basic principle in mind: a human being can be shocked, excited, angered, stimulated, distracted, entertained, emotionalized and so on.
The very moment that happens true values are displaced, and the shock, the excitement, the anger, etc. is substituted for those true values.
In most of us, these displacements have become the “long-forgotten” experiences of childhood (forgotten because associated with those traumatic events is “shame”).
Instead of facing up to the weakness associated with the corrupting event, the ego tries to assert, or maintain, a posture of “original innocence.” All those friends and relatives who aid you in maintaining this charade of “innocence” succeed only in violating you more.
Before true maturity, all friends are really fiends. All excitement, entertainment, drugs, pills, counseling, encounter and group therapy, sensitivity training etc. work toward the same result: they help you feel secure and “right” while actually helping you to grow more wrong.
Once you fall to accept any form of comfort, you associate growth with the feeling of comfort. Without re-experiencing that comfort, you sense that original anxiety, or loss, that has actually grown more severe through your use of those assorted false comforts.
And—lurking behind those comforts—are the frozen smiles of the professional comforters, ready to assure you at every turn that you are perfectly all right the way you are. All you really need is just a little more of their services and help. Payable monthly.
Doctors of Doom
“I smoke two full packs of cigarettes a day,” a man complained. “Don’t be so concerned,” assured the doctor. “I smoke three packs on a bad day!”
A patient-parolee in a therapy group was instructed not to repress anger but to let it out, express it! Now she is back in jail.
A terrible danger attends this kind of “advice.” In spite of their “advanced” medical training, these counselors are unable to use their knowledge for good, achieving nothing more than the ability to use the information about their patients’ problems to justify their own anxiety over their similar weaknesses.
“Subconsciously the leaders of those who desire to remain blind are themselves unwilling to accept the truth”
Comforted, no longer in conflict with his own Conscience, the patient soon falls to temptation again. Then, haunted by increased guilt, he is forced to return either to the confessional, the jail or the operating table.
With the logic of a mad hatter, self-indulgent counselors point out with “scientific” solemnity that the inability to quit smoking is a reliable sign that cigarettes are necessary and proper for the body—as indeed they are in the counselor’s own case!
Thus we are advised to continue smoking to get the essential “ingredients” provided by the tobacco. Unable or unwilling to overcome his own degrading enslavement to nicotine, the counselor scores a double “victory” by earning money from his patients, while making his own vice more bearable.
But even more insidiously, such advice unconsciously blocks us from ever finding the real cure. There are all kinds of gurus of vice, ranging from fat little champions of gourmet to the emaciated wizards of pot and LSD—most doctors are no different. They are all people with wrong motives.
No doctor is likely to grow poor with this kind of treatment, for the patient will always be returning for reassurance as well as for treatment for the other problems that will grow out of the original one.
The same is true of the psychological advice given to the parolee, namely that “anger is natural. You must not suppress it, that’s what makes you sick. You must instead continue to get upset and let it out.” The psychologist who makes this kind of statement also misleads his victims.
His motive is not to help the patient but to help himself—to excuse and be comfortable with his own private tantrums. Have you ever filed a complaint against an impatient corporate employee only to find the management willing to defend his rudeness for their own personal reasons?
Subconsciously the leaders of those who desire to remain blind are themselves unwilling to accept the truth, for that would put them out of business and undermine their authority and power, which stands upon a lie.
For this reason they mostly treat (excuse) the guilt rather than attack the selfish existence that gives rise to it.
The healers in their turn are likewise addicted to doing their thing, that is, comforting wrong people for the ego appreciation and money (symbolic tribute, homage and love for a king) they obtain for their services.
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