Many Lives Many Masters

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Summary: hmm.
Review: A truly fascinating read but where are the hard facts he keeps talking about? I don't disbelieve in reincarnation, but I wonder why the actual transcripts aren't in this book. Or verifications of dates, historical occurances, etc. that Catherine mentioned while in her trances. I want to see the scientific method at work here, doctor! It's absence is suspicious.

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Summary: Convincing best seller
Review: Brian Weiss wrote a very convincing book but Laurent Guyenot in "lumière nouvelles sur la réincarnation" (a french book) has the intellectual ability to analyze what the reincarantion can be making B. Weiss appear naive and his book weak. Very very weak!



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Summary: Interesting Possibilities - Poor Psychotherapy
Review: Dr Weiss shares a powerful experience that opened new horizons for him. For me, a similar experience was when I did a firewalk. In that sense the book can really challenge you to consider what is and is not possible.

As an example of good psychotherapy the book fails. There are frequent boundary issues when the therapist specifically uses the client for his own benefit, at times creating situations in which the client has to take back the session.

Neurotic behaviors have to do with difficult developmental experiences followed by negative conclusions that we have reached about ourselves and/or our caregivers. It is these conclusions that lead to dysfunctional emotions or behaviors. I do not believe that it is sufficient to simply identify experiences, regardles of when they took place. I believe that to effect real change you have to identify the conclusions that you reached about yourself as well as the connections between those conclusions and the associated emotions or behaviors. We never read about Catherine doing tha part of the work. At best, we get the opinion of the therapist on what belongs to the client. Dr. Weiss also never considers other possibilities for the client's improvements such as the belief, partly promoted by him, that she is special or the numerous extra attention she has received from the therapist as well as his wife, who is also a clinician. He went as far as assuring she was last on the schedule as a means of not having limits.

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Summary: The beginning of a Spiritual Journey
Review: For many people, this book is the beginning of their spiritual journey. We reincarnate here on Earth with a veil that doesn't let us remember what is on the other side. Dr. Weiss offers us in his first book a door to that other side, a door that he opened for his first time in this lifetime.

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Summary: How you see it is up to you
Review: I am very interested in our minds and bodies connection, and most of all, meaning of life. I cannot say that I totally believe in reincarnation, but at the same time, there is no other ways to explain the experience of many others including this psychiatrist(Weiss). By publishing the book and sharing his experience, Weiss had a risk of loosing, or at least damaging his credentials in his career he worked hard to build up. For me, reincarnation or not, this book is another evidence to confirm that there is nothing to fear about death, and that our souls live on with/without bodies. It also makes me realize how important it is to live each and every day with appreciation that we have this life time to learn wonderful things. As the author implies in the book, how the information is digested is up to each reader. For some this is nothing but a fake story. For others, it is the one book that changes their lives.

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Summary: Great Book In My Eyes
Review: I'm a 17 yr. old senior in high school, clueless about my future and confused in what to believe in, i thought that having just one life was really unfair and then i read this book, not knowing about reincarnation or past lives. It's kind of comforting to read a book which really does change your perspective on life, maybe Brian Weiss doesn't have any scientific proof and maybe this book doesn't really do much for people who have studied reincarnation for many years and know every detail on the subject, but for someone like me who never knew about it, it changed my life, now death is just a part of life and things that seemed so important, like s.a.t.'s, school, boyfriends and teachers, don't really matter because it's only one life out of so many. And through everything that might happen to me, might just be that i'm learning to "become god-like through knowledge." I thank my sister for recommending this book, i suggest everyone read it, it's real.

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Summary: Great book, something to think about in this lifetime
Review: Is this true or not true? Whichever your believe is, this is a fascinating book to read. I have read this book 3-4 times before finally purchasing it just recently. I still find it fascinating and is making me curious about my own life.

I am Catholic and still like to be that way but I am always open to anything, including past lives and reincarnation. I do know that I am her for a purpose, maybe not to change the world, but to make myself better, to help others and learn. I know that I have alot to learn still but I think I've learned quite a bit along the way. I am not so sure but I think I have had past lives before. I do think I have been with people I am now around in the past, sometimes there are just certain attractions, negative or positive, with certain people, as if you have known them before.

So if you have an open mind, or just curious, read this book and your life might change for the better.

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Summary: open your mind to the possibility of another life ahead
Review: Many Lives Many Masters came highly recommended from my mom, who had read it several times and bought over 50 copies to give out to friends and family to read & reflect. While doing some soul searching this past year, I decided to pick up Many Live Many Masters and began reading. From the second I opened the cover I was hooked. Not only did the book re-confirm my feelings towards reincarnation, it made me reflect on certain characteristics and personality traits that I strongly believe have strengthened and grown through my own past life experiences. This book is the perfect example for anyone who believes in old souls.

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Summary: You've got to believe in something . . .
Review: The ideas and "truths" revealed in Many Lives, Many Masters seem as plausible to this reader as anything I've ever read in the Bible. In fact, much of the information revealed by the Masters is quite comparable to the laws most religious doctrine set forth, - do not kill, love your fellow man, do unto others, vengeance shall be mine - etc. This book provides a refreshing perspective on the notion that life is everlasting. Some may feel that Weiss, as a trained medical professional, lends an additional layer of creditability to the concept of reincarnation; but science is rarely able to explain the spiritual. You either believe or you don't. This was great read. Informative, enlightening and, depending on where you are on the journey when you read it, comforting.

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Summary: It changed my belief
Review: This book opened my mind to the possibility of reincarnation.

There are two ways in which my personal experience has sort of paralleled Dr. Weiss's exploration with his patient, Catherine.

When Dr. Weiss first began to accept as truth what his patient, Catherine, was telling him about her past lives and information she gathered between lives, he was forced to make adjustments in his belief system.

For a couple of years, I've been reading books on the near death experience. When I was several books into the subject, the possibility of life beyond death 'broke through' and became real to me, requiring me to revise my belief system. The way Dr. Weiss described his assimilation of new input so closely corresponded to my own that I felt I could be reading my own story.

Then there is the fact that the new information I've learned tends to slip away if I don't keep re-exposing myself to it. I keep buying more near death experience books and re-reading those I have. It strengthens my faith. It seemed to me that Dr. Weiss had a similar experience: His new beliefs faded between therapy sessions with Catherine, and emerged anew when he met with her again and heard more from her.

So, having new input to integrate and finding a way to hold on to the newly integrated input are two ways in which my own life experience seemed to parallel that of Dr. Weiss, making me feel I recognized a fellow traveler.

Now I'm going on to read his other books.