Adam and Eve Sindrome

by Roy Masters

What is the secret of a happy marriage?
What causes divorce, and what prevents it?
What is the proper relationship between men and women? The scenario is a man and a woman - two intelligent, kind, well-meaning people, start a relationship . . . and within a period of time . . . hate each other. Or another you wake up one day and see the person you married, and ask yourself, "Who is this stranger?" Why? Roy Masters, in his classic masterpiece of psychological insight The Adam & Eve Sindrome , explains with stunning clarity the underlying dynamics of the male/female relationship. Modern-day America is filled with divorce, antagonism, tension, and even violence between the sexes. Why? How do so many marriages begin in love and end in divorce - and how can we prevent it? The answer, Masters explains, lies in ancient the age-old story of Adam and Eve. The story of Adam and Eve is not merely a historical fable, but is a living archetype, a pervasive pattern of male-female relationships which is continually re-enacted by individuals everywhere. The story of Adam and Eve story contains the underlying reasons why well-meaning men and women hope to find heaven - but too often, find hell. But there is a beyond both patriarchy and matriarchy, relationships can be rooted in sanity, clarity, and real love, when they are based on ancient and hidden principles of self-knowledge. This provocative, revolutionary and eye-opening work is a unique and brilliant psychological analysis which far surpasses the ineffectual feel-good relationship therapies so prevalent today, and lays bare the real mechanics of the male-female dynamics. Find out what is really going on between men and women; discover the secrets of a successful marriage, the true reasons for divorce, the dynamics of real love, and much more in the provocative and life-changing book.

Paperback

First published September 1, 1985

About the author

Roy Masters—who in his 80s continues to broadcast the longest-running counseling show in talk radio history—started his journey toward understanding human nature in the most unlikely of places. Growing up in pre-WWII England, he watched a performer easily put his volunteer subjects under a hypnotic spell and induced each of them to do strange and outlandish things. How, the young Roy wondered, could a smiling, personable stranger cause well-dressed, educated, competent adults to forget their names? Puzzled by the mysterious power the hypnotist had exercised over his subjects, Roy distinctly remembers pondering the question: “Why can’t 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. 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 it—with spectacular results—ever since. For over 50 years 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. He has served as a daily voice of sanity and conscience to his listeners, with the uncanny ability to zero in quickly on core problems. As the institutional home for his counseling work, Masters’ formed the Foundation of Human Understanding in 1961. Through his daily radio broadcasts, lectures, seminars, his 18 books, countless audio and video programs—and the Internet—he has helped millions worldwide. 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 interest—physics 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.

Reviews

[David Nunez · Rating 4 out of 5]

An eye opener for me. A very interesting view regarding relationships. Roy Masters goes deep into discussing what love really is versus lust.

[Water Blakmon · Rating 5 out of 5]

The number one book I recommend on understanding marriage!

[Gretchel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Insightful look at why men and women behave the way we do based on the Adam and Eve story.