Many Lives, Many Masters is 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, M.D., graduating Phi Beta Kappa, magna
cum laude, from Columbia University and Yale Medical School, spent years in the
disciplined study of the human psychology, training his mind to think as a scientist and a
physician.

He held steadfastly to conservatism in his profession, distrusting anything that could not
be proved by traditional scientific method. But when he met his 27-year old patient,
Catherine, in 1980, who came to his office seeking help for her anxiety, panic attacks, and
phobias, he was taken aback at what unfolded in the therapy sessions that followed, which
jolted him out of his conventional ways of thought and psychiatry. For the first time, he
came face-to-face with the concept of reincarnation and the many tenets of Hinduism,
which, as he says in the last chapter of the book, “I thought only Hindus… practiced.”

For 18 months, Dr. Weiss used conventional methods of treatment to help Catherine
overcome her traumas. When nothing seemed to work, he tried hypnosis, which, he
explains, “is an excellent tool to help a patient remember long-forgotten incidents. There is
nothing mysterious about it. It is just a state of focused concentration. Under the
instruction of a trained hypnotist, the patient’s body relaxes, causing the memory to
sharpen… eliciting memories of long-forgotten traumas that were disrupting their lives.”
During the initial sessions, the doctor regressed her back to her early childhood and she
strained and stretched her mind bringing out isolated, deeply-repressed memory
fragments. She remembered from age five when she swallowed water and felt gagged
when pushed from a diving board into a pool; and at age three when her father reeking of
alcohol molested her one night. But what came next, catapulted skeptics like Dr. Weiss
into believing in parapsychology, and in what Shakespeare had said in Hamlet (Act I scene
5), “There are more things in heaven and earth… than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

In a series of trance-like states, Catherine recalled “past life” memories that proved to be
the causative factors of her recurring nightmares and anxiety attack symptoms. She
remembers “living 86 times in physical state” in different places on this earth both as male
and female. She recalled vividly the details of each birth – her name, her family, physical
appearance, the landscape, and how she was killed by stabbing, by drowning, or illness.
And in each lifetime she experiences myriad events “making progress… to fulfill all of the
agreements and all of the Karmic (from Hindu concept of Karma) debts that are owed.”

Dr. Weiss’s skepticism was eroded, however, when she began to channel messages from
“the space between lives”, messages from the many Masters (highly evolved souls not
presently in body) that also contained remarkable revelations about his family and his
dead son. Often he had heard his patients talk about near-death experiences when they
float out of their mortal bodies guided towards a bright white light before reentering their
discarded body once again.
But Catherine revealed much more. As she floats out of her body after each death, she
says, “I am aware of a bright light. It’s wonderful; you get energy from this light.” Then,
while waiting to be reborn in the in-between-lives state, she learns from the Masters great
wisdom and becomes a conduit for transcendental knowledge.

Next Page: Voices of the Masters and the Concept of Reincarnation

Voices of Master Spirits

Here are some of the teachings from the voices of the Master Spirits:

1. “Our task is to learn, to become God-like through knowledge… By knowledge we

approach God, and then we can rest. Then we come back to teach and help others.”

2. “There are many gods, for God is in each of us.”

3. We have to be on “different planes at different times. Each one is a level of higher

consciousness. What plane we go to depends upon how far we’ve progressed…”
4. “We must share our knowledge with other people. We all have abilities far beyond what
we use. …you should check your vices… if you do not, you carry them over with you to
another life… when you decide you are strong enough to master the external problems,
then you will no longer have them in your next life.”

5. “Everybody’s path is basically the same. We all must learn certain attitudes while we’re
in physical state. …charity, hope, faith, love…we must all know these things and know
them well.”

6. “Everything is energy… Humans can only see the outside, but you can go much deeper…
To be in physical state is abnormal. When you are in spiritual state that is natural to you.
When we are sent back, it’s like being sent back to something we do not know. In the
spirit world you have to wait, and then you are renewed. It’s a dimension like the other
dimensions…”

7. “The fear of death…that no amount of money or power can neutralize”…remains within

us. “But if people knew that life is endless; so we never die; we were never really born,
this fear would dissolve.” We have “lived countless times before and would live countless
times again…and spirits are around us to help while in physical state and after death, in
spiritual state.” We and our deceased loved ones would join these guardian angels.

8. “Acts of violence and injustices against people do not go unnoted, but is repaid in kind
in other lifetime.”
8. “Acts of violence and injustices against people do not go unnoted, but is repaid in kind
in other lifetime.”

9. “Everything comes when it must come. A life cannot be rushed… we must accept what
comes to us at a given time… life is endless… we just pass through different phases. There
is no end. Time is not as we see time, but rather in lessons that are learned.”

10. After death “we get to the spiritual plane, we keep growing there, too. When we arrive,
we’re burned out. We have to go through a renewal stage, a learning stage, and a stage of
decision. We decide when we want to return, where, and for what reasons…Our body is
just a vehicle for us while we’re here. It is our soul and our spirit that last forever…”

Dr. Weiss believes, under hypnosis, Catherine was able to focus in on the part of her
subconscious mind that stored actual past-life memories, or perhaps she had tapped into
what the psychoanalyst Carl Jung termed the Collective
Unconscious, the energy source that surrounds us containing the memories of the entire
human race.

Reincarnation in Hinduism
Dr. Weiss’s experience and Catherine’s transcendental knowledge might be awe inspiring
to the Occidental, but to a Hindu, the concept of rebirth, cycle of life and death, and this
divine knowledge is natural. The holy ‘Bhagavad Gita’ and the ancient Vedic scriptures
embody all this wisdom; and these teachings form the primary tenets of Hinduism.
Therefore, Dr. Weiss’s mention of Hindus in the last chapter of the book comes as a
welcome acknowledgement to a religion that has already established all of his new-found
experience.
Reincarnation in Buddhism
The concept of reincarnation is not new to Tibetan Buddhists, too. His Holiness the Dalai
Lama believes that his body is like a garment, which when time comes, he will discard and
move on to accept another. He will be reborn, and it is the disciples’ duty to find him out
and follow him. (Source: ‘Fifth Dimension’ - Discovery Channel)

Reincarnation in Christianity
Dr. Weiss also says that there were indeed references to reincarnation in the Old and the
New Testaments. The early Gnostics – Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Saint Jerome, and
many others – believed that they had lived before and would again. In A.D. 325 the
Roman emperor Constantine the Great and Helena, his mother, erased references to
reincarnation in the New Testament and the Second Council of Constantinople declared
reincarnation a heresy in A.D. 553. They thought this would weaken the growing power of
the Church by giving humans too much time to seek their salvation.

Many Lives, Many Masters makes for an unstoppable read and, like Dr. Weiss, we too
realize that "life is more than meets the eye. Life goes beyond our five senses. Be
receptive to new knowledge and to new experiences. Our task is to learn, to become God-
like though knowledge
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""A Revelation"" Thats the best way to start off trying to review this book which is and has
been the corner stone of the way i've dealt with life's most difficult trials. I was 19 years
old, in the prime of my newly adult life when the deaths of my father and three
grandparents, all in the space of 1 year left me searching for answers. Brought up as a
Catholic didnt seem to help me in my quest for answers so I started looking into other
religions, nothing really came close to giving me comfort. Zen Budhism came close but still
left me wanting. After roughly 4 years a work collegue gave me ""Many lives many
masters"". After reading it, I felt a warm a peaceful state of being. I've read the book 4
times now and still find it a ""Revelation"". Thank you Dr B.Weiss

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