Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives
by Brian L. Weiss
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Author: Brian L. WeissEdition: Paperback
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Published: 1988-07-15
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Number of pages: 221
Publisher: Fireside
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Book Review: Past-Life Regression Offers Therapeutic Benefits
Summary: 5 Stars
Reincarnation is not a concept for which the author was predisposed either through his religious upbringing (as a Jew) or through his education and training (as a psychiatrist and a believer in empirical science). However, in the course of treating a young patient named Catherine, who presented with symptoms of severe phobias that did not respond to conventional treatment, the doctor stumbled upon past-life regression, which cured the patient of her symptoms. This book is the narrative of how that happened. The story is engaging and free of the psychological jargon and scholarly references that would have precluded the book's great popular success.
Reincarnation is something for which there is much evidence and about which (as the author notes) much has been written, yet many people refuse to consider that evidence. The author himself was skeptical at first of his own experiences with Catherine, yet her ability to tell him specific things about his deceased father and deceased young son, things that she could not have known (in any ordinary way), helped persuade him to keep an open mind and eventually to risk professional ridicule by coming forth with this account, which is an argument in favor of the reality of reincarnation and the therapeutic efficacy of past-life regression.
The book is a condensed account of the many past lives to which Catherine regressed in her sessions with Dr. Weiss, as well as the periods between lives, in which she was in contact with Masters, who sometimes spoke through her. Catherine, like the doctor, was not predisposed to believe in reincarnation. She had been brought up in the Catholic faith and at first was not comfortable with the idea of reincarnation. In her various past lifetimes, she had incarnated as both male and female. Many of the people with whom she was most closely associated in past lives were people with whom she was connected in her present life (she "knew" them), but many were not. ("I do not know him [in this lifetime].")
Perhaps the most important take-away idea from this book is that physical, emotional, and psychological issues that affect people today could stem not from a childhood trauma of the current lifetime (a staple of Freudian psychoanalysis), but from a traumatic event or a habitual pattern of a abuse or hardship in a past life or in past lives. The healing from these lingering difficulties seems to stem from bringing these past-life experiences into awareness so that they can be acknowledged and released.
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Summary of Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives
As a traditional psychotherapist, Dr. Brian Weiss was astonished and skeptical when one of his patients began recalling past-life traumas that seemed to hold the key to her recurring nightmares and anxiety attacks. His skepticism was eroded, however, when she began to channel messages from the "space between lives," which contained remarkable revelations about Dr. Weiss' family and his dead son. Using past-life therapy, he was able to cure the patient and embark on a new, more meaningful phase of his own career.Psychiatry and metaphysics blend together in this fascinating book based on a true case history. Dr. Weiss, who was once firmly entrenched in a clinical approach to psychiatry, finds himself reluctantly drawn into past-life therapy when a hypnotized client suddenly reveals details of her previous lives. During one hypnosis session his client introduces the spirit guides who have been her soul therapists in between lives. This is when the story really takes off for Weiss, who discovers that these guides have specific messages about his dead son as well as Weiss's mission in life. No, we cannot verify the truth of this story using the limited scientific tools we have available. However, it is hard to dispute that this well-respected graduate of Columbia University and Yale Medical School has discovered a personal truth that has led him to be an enormously popular speaker, author, and leader in the field of past-life therapy. --Gail Hudson
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