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I can't say that I now believe that we all have past-lives and return after dying, but I do believe that this book opened my eyes to appreciate the life I live now more. A friend of mine suggested that I read this book to gain a better understanding of what she believes. There is a lot more to living in this world than self satisfaction. Instead of worrying so much or being afraid of dying, I hope to embrace my current life, enjoy it and spend more time caring about myself and others.Overall this is a good read, if anything, to make you understand that everything in life is not about you. As I got into the book, it became quite interesting and a definite page turner. The hypnosis stories with the patient were very capturing and fun to read.This book definitely left me thinking and wondering if our physical life is all that there is.
I definitely recommend this book. Its easy reading that presents the content in an objective perspective - you don't feel like you should be wearing a tin foil hat while reading far fetched sci-fi tales. I think it has permanently altered my opinion about life and death. A distant acquaintance told me about this book and its ability to convert even the faintest of reincarnation believers. She was right.
It makes you wonder what really happens after death. The patient in the book, Catherine, could not have possibly made all of it up, and that's the fascinating part of this book. It would be fascinating to meet her. This was an excellent and well written book, although somewhat hard to grasp if you haven't considered the possibility of reincarnation or other after-death phenomenon. It opened my eyes and has changed my thinking that reincarnation is possible.
It is in these periods in his sessions that he is brought into contact with what remote viewers have dubbed "midway beings," entities that are involved with humans during their earthly lives, often mistaken as angels. In his book, Many Lives, Many Masters, Psychiatrist Bryan L. Weiss' book would appear to be nothing more than a parlor trick, were it not for his impeccable credentials as a psychiatrist and hypnotherapist, and for the fact that past life therapy has a much higher cure rate for certain disorders than does conventional therapy. For the skeptic, Dr. Weiss details his hypnotherapy sessions with a female patient with an acute anxiety disorder wherein she recalls events in several past lives that are deemed to be the underlying cause of her disorder. The book, though relatively short, not only details the patient's past lives, but also delves into the time between incarnations.
The author treats his own skepticism and incredulous response to what he encountered through his patient Catherine, and his struggle about whether to come forward knowing that he would be risking an accomplished career and subject to constant ridicule. I hope I have become less arrogant about traditional science (as we humans define it today) and more open to what remains to be learned. I highly recommend this book to everyone, particularly skeptics. I bought this book when I was 49. A couple of decades later, he has helped hundreds or thousands of people. It's just very hard for me to accept that there could be anything after the death of the body." She said something like, "That must be very sad, to think it all just ends. I was getting a masage when the therapist starting talking about the afterlife and I told her, "I'm sorry but I'm a scientist. You should read this book; it's also by a scientist." Reading Many Lives, Many Masters opened a new phase of my life, led me to meditation, helped me strive to be less egoic (an admittedly asymptotic goal), and gave me a new calmness about facing the end of life.
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