Same Soul, Many Bodies : Discover the Healing Power of Future Lives through Progression Therapy

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Summary: Weiss offers more than you think
Review: After reading "Many Lifes, Many Masters" and "Messages from the Master" many years ago, I use to think that Dr. Brian Weiss didn't have anymore to offer to my spiritual growth. But I was wrong. I widely recommend this book.

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Summary: Interesting read, but no lasting effect....
Review: Dr. Weiss' books are always interesting to read, but they never leave me with any lasting effect. After a short time, I find it hard to remember any of the cases he talks about. This book is no different. It has only been two weeks since I read it, and when a friend asked what the most interesting cases in it were, I couldn't answer her question.

Either Weiss is getting tired, or I'm simply getting tired of reading Weiss. Even though he offers his views on progression for the first time in the book, it's really nothing new. He sees future lives the way he sees past lives...you must learn a lesson (love, charity, compassion, etc.) in them, and if you don't...oops...you'll have to learn it next time...or next time...or next time. Weiss claims not to be offering proof of either past or future lives, yet he obviously has a very set in stone view of the meaning of life...or lives. His views, in my opinion, are as rigid as any views in organized religion.

And now, he has a prophecy about the future, which makes him a prophet now, does it not? He also takes a jab at New Age believers, saying many don't fully live as they should. This is like biting the hand that feeds him, in my opinion. He has a private practice, but he is no stranger to the New Age money making racket-- New Age conferences costing hundreds, New Age cruises costing thousands, etc. One can only wonder, if he sees those who attend such things as not fully living; or if he sees those who do not attend such things as not fully living? And $25 for a small hardcover book? Amusingly, Dr. Weiss repeatedly brings up in this book the fact that money means little to him, and that wealth does not impress him. While Weiss hears stories of horridness and sordidness, they don't seem to faze him a bit; but, what one thing does he hear that actually jolts and revolts him? The possibility that a client and his wife married for financial reasons, and not for true love! If this isn't overkill, I don't know what is.

This will probably be the last book I read by Dr. Weiss. It has been interesting...but it's just not that interesting any longer.



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Summary: This is a joke, right?
Review: He's exhausted the topic of Regression and has now started on Progression. There is even a chapter touching on Aliens, so you can see where the next book is going to go!

He's having a laugh, isn't he? Mind you, the joke is on us for buying the books.

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Summary: Great New Book!
Review: I am doubly excited both that Dr. Weiss has written another book and that "Same Soul, Many Bodies" is such a beautiful and important book. His first book, "Many Lives, Many Masters", completely changed my life and enabled me to find my spiritual path. The new book is filled with fascinating stories of his patients, showing how past-life therapy and future-life progression have helped them to heal physically and emotionally. These new case histories are particularly powerful and show how we all can find more peace, more joy and more healing in our lives by understanding and using these techniques. I also enjoyed his findings about the future, especially the future of this planet. His work resonates with the findings of modern physics, especially with the concept of parallel universes. At both a personal and theoretical level, this book is a must read.

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Summary: great introduction
Review: I found this book great for those who are wanting to increase their awareness of past lives. As a believer in reincarnation, this book gives good insight into past lives, soul mates, and our spiritual guides. It also intrigues with real life experiences in hypnosis and the ability for each of us to get in touch with our own spirituality. As I grow in awareness this book fufills my desire to learn about my spiritual path. Same Soul, Many Lives is a great beginning understanding of regression and progression therapy.

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Summary: What is the sound of one doc quacking?
Review: Presented as a series of stories about caricaturish patients interspersed with homilies on his (generic mystical) spiritual beliefs, this book reminds me of nothing so much as an infomercial. He mentions his other books and relaxation CDs often, and reminds the reader several times that it takes specialized knowledge to achieve the conscious state that lets you tap into these past and future memories.

Well of course it does. Otherwise, he'd be out of a job.

Weiss pioneered "regression therapy": hypnotizing people to remember past lives and thus stop repeating the bad choices made in them. In this book, he adds the twist of having them remember future lives. Or possible future paths. He's deliberately hazy on which, just as he equivocates about whether regression is a real memory or just symbolic. But the point is that they can see how much better things get from making the right choices.

Like any good infomercial, there's entertainment value here. His tales are full of picturesque characters, true love, violence, and, of course, happy endings. Each story illustrates schooling in some spiritual virtue; we are reincarnated over and over until we collect the whole set. Nonviolence. Love. Compassion.

The whole spiritual thesis doesn't stand up to much questioning (why can we figure out in 10 minutes as a human something that we couldn't figure out in multiple lifetimes as a higher-consciousness being of energy? if we can't ordinarily remember past lives, how are the learned lessons going to stick?), but infomercials succeed by telling people what they want so strongly to believe that they will put aside their questions.

What's so funny about peace, love, and understanding? Read the story about using them to change the weather to find out.

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Summary: Brian Weiss is a leader in his field
Review: Same Soul, Many Bodies is a remarkable look at the concept of life progression, showing us what life may be like in the near, as well as the distant future. There are books on past life regression, although few, but Dr. Weiss opens a whole new field with his fascinating studies on progression. If enough people around the world pay attention, the world would be a much better place.
Dr. Brian Weiss is a leader in the field of past life regression therapy with his book Many Lives, Many Masters. A highly advanced and enlightened soul, Dr. Weiss remains a wonderfully cheerful, humble man while he teaches others that love is the answer to many of life's questions. His aura of greatness is evident as he enters a room and it encompasses anyone in his presence.

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Summary: Uncharted territory
Review: This book introduced new ideas and spiritual realms to me-- and I've been reading spiritual books for several years! This was so enlightening and interesting that I couldn't put it down. Brian, you have done a superior job with this book!