Post by MargaretAnne on Sept 11, 2006 15:24:12 GMT -5
In Roy's book, "How Your Mind Can Keep You Well", there is a foreword by actress Eleanor Parker. Does anyone know if she still continues to endorse the meditation exercise? Is the foreword also included in the updated version of the book? It has been many years since the book was first published in 1972. It would be interesting to know if Roy has been in touch with Eleanor Parker over the years. I believe she is still living. Has anyone heard anything about it?
This is the foreword by Eleanor Parker:
Here's a photo of Eleanor Parker to refresh your memory:
These are links telling all about her life as an actress:
oscarworld.net/awardlobby_read.asp?LobbyId=117
www.filmsofthegoldenage.com/foga/1998/spring98/parker.shtml
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Parker
This is the foreword by Eleanor Parker:
I am not a writer. I am an actress, and throughout my professional career, I have been dependent upon the words of others. Therefore, the task of writing a foreword to this book--this wonderful book--is awesome, and only because this book, and its author, occupy such a meaningful and important place in my life, am I going to try to find my own words to tell you a little of what has happened to me.
As I look back and try to examine my life, it seems that ever since the age of about 13 or 14, I have been travelling on two tracks, parallel to each other, but moving in opposite directions. Track No. 1, the public, outer, material track, moved me from seeming success to seeming success: motion pictures and television, applause, awards, a modicum of fame, and financial rewards. Track No. 2, the private, inner, spiritual track, moved me from failure to failure: books, churches, synagogues, philosophies and a growing emptiness as each search foundered and left me further removed from a meaningful answer to the powerful question I was putting to my existence.
How complicated it all was.
How simple it all was.
The answer to my liftetime of questioning, and the answer, I feel sure, to your own questions, dear reader, you are, literally, holding in your hand. "How Your Mind Can Keep You Well" is the most unique work of the most unique man: Roy Masters, founder and director of the Foundation of Human Understanding, a most unique organization.
In a technological society wherein man and machine are equally automated, there is no shortage of contradictions in describing Roy Masters. Those who fear his truth--or, rather, the truth revealed through him--cry out, "Quack, fool, demagogue, blasphemer." However, to those who have listened and heard and been turned inward to themselves, other words come to mind--psychologist, philosopher, teacher, prophet.
Today's world, wallowing in corruption and guilt, is crying out for the honesty and courage and insightful understanding of Roy Masters, but the fact that there is such resistance on the part of those who control the communications media to making him available to the people, tells us that perhaps the world is not yet quite ready for Roy Masters.
However, dear reader, since you are already holding the book in your hand, you have taken the first step to understanding. Read on. You will be rocked; you will be shocked; but you will be unlocked. You will be taught to open yourself to yourself. You will be shown that through yourself you can attain the peace, the joy, the fulfillment for which you have been searching, and you will thank God for Roy Masters. I have.
Eleanor Parker
As I look back and try to examine my life, it seems that ever since the age of about 13 or 14, I have been travelling on two tracks, parallel to each other, but moving in opposite directions. Track No. 1, the public, outer, material track, moved me from seeming success to seeming success: motion pictures and television, applause, awards, a modicum of fame, and financial rewards. Track No. 2, the private, inner, spiritual track, moved me from failure to failure: books, churches, synagogues, philosophies and a growing emptiness as each search foundered and left me further removed from a meaningful answer to the powerful question I was putting to my existence.
How complicated it all was.
How simple it all was.
The answer to my liftetime of questioning, and the answer, I feel sure, to your own questions, dear reader, you are, literally, holding in your hand. "How Your Mind Can Keep You Well" is the most unique work of the most unique man: Roy Masters, founder and director of the Foundation of Human Understanding, a most unique organization.
In a technological society wherein man and machine are equally automated, there is no shortage of contradictions in describing Roy Masters. Those who fear his truth--or, rather, the truth revealed through him--cry out, "Quack, fool, demagogue, blasphemer." However, to those who have listened and heard and been turned inward to themselves, other words come to mind--psychologist, philosopher, teacher, prophet.
Today's world, wallowing in corruption and guilt, is crying out for the honesty and courage and insightful understanding of Roy Masters, but the fact that there is such resistance on the part of those who control the communications media to making him available to the people, tells us that perhaps the world is not yet quite ready for Roy Masters.
However, dear reader, since you are already holding the book in your hand, you have taken the first step to understanding. Read on. You will be rocked; you will be shocked; but you will be unlocked. You will be taught to open yourself to yourself. You will be shown that through yourself you can attain the peace, the joy, the fulfillment for which you have been searching, and you will thank God for Roy Masters. I have.
Eleanor Parker
Here's a photo of Eleanor Parker to refresh your memory:
These are links telling all about her life as an actress:
oscarworld.net/awardlobby_read.asp?LobbyId=117
www.filmsofthegoldenage.com/foga/1998/spring98/parker.shtml
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Parker