I was fascinated by the way her conceptions of death and the afterlife changed so much from lifetime to lifetime. And yet her experience of death itself was so uniform, so similar, every time. A conscious part of her would leave the body around the moment of death, floating above and then being drawn to a wonderful, energizing light. She would then wait for someone to come and help her. The soul automatically passed on. Embalming, burial rituals, or any other procedure after death had nothing to do with it. It was automatic, no preparation necessary, like walking through a just-opened door.” did anyone of you think that some one or a group of some people just shut them up and erased all evidence about this therapy and Catherine to have all of us just guess and argue about this book ? The first time I saw Catherine she was wearing a vivid crimson dress and was nervously leafing through a magazine in my waiting room. She was visibly out of breath. For the previous twenty minutes she had been pacing the corridor outside the Department of Psychiatry offices, trying to convince herself to keep her appointment with me and not run away. Butchy, Laura (May 2000). "Days of Our Past Lives". Columbia College Today. Archived from the original on 2010-06-24 . Retrieved January 3, 2021. For example, why not release the recordings of the sessions with the patient? Or at least, prove that the patient really existed? How are we to know that this wasn’t simply a work of fiction? It’s impossible to tell from what has been written. It could have all been made up, only first names have been used. Dr Weiss made no attempts to verify the astounding claims made by his patient, Catherine.

Un libro que desee con el alma a los 10 años. Todas esas historias de otras vidas que narraban, sobre todo los actores de mi país, se me presentaban como la posibilidad de ser diferentes versiones de mí misma, eso me fascinaba. No podía detener mis fantasías en la selva semidesnuda, bailando en la corte, teniendo un novio artista, recogiendo arroz o siendo pitonisa; muriendo tranquilamente o en un acto heroico. Me enloquecía esa idea. Sin embargo, y pese a que mi familia es muy liberal con esos asuntos, no me regalaron el libro. Luego vino la primera comunión, la adolescencia y la universidad, y esa fiebre por ver las películas de mi existencia, fue lentamente cubierta por el polvo. Un psiquiatra que obtiene su especialidad en Yale haciendo tratamientos con sesiones de hipnotismo y regresiones a vidas pasadas. ¿ A que suena intrigante? Pero si la gente supiera que «la vida es infinita; que jamás morimos; que nunca nacimos, en realidad», entonces ese miedo desaparecería. Si todos supieran que han vivido antes incontables veces y que volverán a vivir otras tantas, ¡cuánto más reconfortados se sentirían! Si supieran que hay espíritus a su alrededor, cuando se encuentran en estado físico; que después de la muerte, en estado espiritual, se reunirán con esos espíritus, incluidos los de sus muertos amados, ¡cuánto sería el consuelo! Si supieran que los «ángeles de la guarda» existen, en realidad, ¡cuánto más seguros se sentirían! Si supieran que los actos de violencia y de injusticia no pasan desapercibidos, sino que deben ser pagados con la misma moneda en otras vidas, ¡cuánto menor sería el deseo de venganza! Y si de verdad «por el conocimiento nos aproximamos a Dios», ¿de qué sirven las posesiones materiales y el poder, cuando son un fin en sí y no un medio para ese acercamiento? La codicia y el ansia de poder no tienen ningún valor.” With each life that you go through and you did not fulfill these debts, the next one will be harder. If you fulfill them, you will be given an easy life. – Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian L. Weiss, M.D. In the end we finally find out some of the good messages from the Masters which I thought very good but it was all too little too late to save this one for me.

Things were better outside the home. She dated in high school and mixed in easily with her friends, most of whom she had known for many years. However, she found it difficult to trust people, especially those outside her small circle of friends.

Brian Weiss had and has countless data and recordings of sessions, do you think all of them can be put in a book?This article is an excerpt from the Shortform book guide to "Many Lives, Many Masters" by Brian L. Weiss. Shortform has the world's best summaries and analyses of books you should be reading. A constantly criticized child can loose as much confidence and self-esteem as one who remembers being humiliated on one particular, horrifying day. A child whose family is impoverished and has very little food available on a day-to-day basis might eventually suffer from the same psychological problems as a child who experienced one major episode of accidental near-starvation.” Brian Leslie Weiss (born November 6, 1944) is an American psychiatrist, hypnotherapist, and author who specializes in past life regression. Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives (1988). As promised, I have read your review. You make some compelling arguments, which I very much appreciate. I do believe however it's like trying to argue faith with a follower: The very definition of faith is to believe in something you cannot see, touch, prove or unprove.