Biography
Roy Masters was born and grew up as Reuben Obermeister in London, England. Masters worked as a diamond cutter and gem expert after relocating to the United States in 1949. Several years later in 1952 Masters met and married his wife, Ann. They moved from Birmingham, Alabama, and settled in Houston, Texas where they had four children.
In 1960, Masters became America's first radio counselor after starting Advice Line, which is a nationally syndicated, Conservative radio program.
In 1961 Roy Masters founded the Foundation of Human Understanding in Los Angeles, California In 1983, Masters moved his family and the Foundation from Los Angeles to Tall Timber Ranch in Selma, Oregon, near Grants Pass, Oregon. Masters holds regular church meetings called Sunday Conversations in Grants Pass and Selma, along with other meetings that vary from a Bible studies group, to men's and women's discussion groups.
In the late 1980s, Masters was accused of swaying people using hypnosis. In 1992, he wrote in a statement of faith that his work is the antithesis of hypnosis, and he has explained that "we need to dehypnotize people under the spell of charlatans, politicians, and authority figures who have programmed them."
In 2006, Masters published a theory of physics concerning gravity, electricity, and alternative energy technology. On March 9, 2007, he made a 12-minute presentation, "Electricity from Gravity," to the American Physical Society in Denver, at an open forum for the public to propose new ideas that contradict current conventions in physics.
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