Customer Rating:  
Summary: Past Lives in WWII
Comment: I was driven to this book as a result of reading a WWII novel called The Commodore. The Commodore could have happened and may have and deals with two past lives from WWII. The novel captured me to such a degree that I read this book and found it more than interesting.The Commodore
Customer Rating:
Summary: Breathtaking
Comment: This book was referred to me by my friend. I am a person, who believes in past life, reincarnation and all that stuff, but this book was even too much for me. Its very good book and made me want to go though this hypnoses even more.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Past-Life Regression Offers Therapeutic Benefits
Comment: Reincarnation is not a concept for which the author was predisposed either through his religious upbringing (as a Jew) or through his education and training (as a psychiatrist and a believer in empirical science). However, in the course of treating a young patient named Catherine, who presented with symptoms of severe phobias that did not respond to conventional treatment, the doctor stumbled upon past-life regression, which cured the patient of her symptoms. This book is the narrative of how that happened. The story is engaging and free of the psychological jargon and scholarly references that would have precluded the book's great popular success.
Reincarnation is something for which there is much evidence and about which (as the author notes) much has been written, yet many people refuse to consider that evidence. The author himself was skeptical at first of his own experiences with Catherine, yet her ability to tell him specific things about his deceased father and deceased young son, things that she could not have known (in any ordinary way), helped persuade him to keep an open mind and eventually to risk professional ridicule by coming forth with this account, which is an argument in favor of the reality of reincarnation and the therapeutic efficacy of past-life regression.
The book is a condensed account of the many past lives to which Catherine regressed in her sessions with Dr. Weiss, as well as the periods between lives, in which she was in contact with Masters, who sometimes spoke through her. Catherine, like the doctor, was not predisposed to believe in reincarnation. She had been brought up in the Catholic faith and at first was not comfortable with the idea of reincarnation. In her various past lifetimes, she had incarnated as both male and female. Many of the people with whom she was most closely associated in past lives were people with whom she was connected in her present life (she "knew" them), but many were not. ("I do not know him [in this lifetime].")
Perhaps the most important take-away idea from this book is that physical, emotional, and psychological issues that affect people today could stem not from a childhood trauma of the current lifetime (a staple of Freudian psychoanalysis), but from a traumatic event or a habitual pattern of a abuse or hardship in a past life or in past lives. The healing from these lingering difficulties seems to stem from bringing these past-life experiences into awareness so that they can be acknowledged and released.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Bothered
Comment: After seeing Dr. Brian Weiss on Oprah's show, I was intrigued and bought this book. Because he is a graduate of Columbia University and Yale Medical School and is the Chairman Emeritus of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami, he seemed credible enough for me to suspend my doubts about reincarnation. Almost from the beginning I had problems with Many Masters. When Catherine reported a past life that happened before Christ (B.C.) Dr. Weiss' credibility began to wane. How can you know about an event before it happens? Then when he asks her to look down and describe herself, she says she has blue yes. How could she know this? Other credibility killers: Are there mountains in the Netherlands? As a WW11 pilot, wouldn't you know what type of plane you were flying? When Catherine was a little girl at her older sister's wedding (in a past life) Dr. Weiss asked her to go inside the house and when she did, the adults sent her back outside. He thought that it was humorous that he had told her to go inside and when she obeyed him, she was sent back outside. So does this mean that when you recall a past life, you can actually change history?? She wouldn't have gone inside had he not instructed her to do so. I have an open mind and even though I currently do not believe in reincarnation, I am willing to hear the evidence and, if convinced, will change my mind. Dr. Weiss' book did not convince me. It seemed self-serving with the Masters using Catherine to give him messages and what about the husky voices? An earthly physical trait carried over to the other side? Fits nicely with the male authority figure here on earth but doesn't seem plausible. One final point. Life on earth is full of pain and suffering for many. When Dr. Weiss' reports that once people realize that they continue to return to earth over and over again, they lose their fear of dying. Huh?? He didn't ask me. Oh, yeah! I am so looking forward to coming back and suffering all over again.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Looking for proof?
Comment: When I read this book, I was only curious. I had read all the books I had on hand and decided, "eh, what the heck...might as well."
Little did I know this book would be the beginning (Kid you not, this book seriously was the beginning) of a whole new life of exploration and enlightenment.
Many Lives Many Masters doesn't prove a thing...if you're a skeptic. For me, the well-written, no-holds-barred presentation of case studies was enough to prove to me there was more beyond myself.
This is a must-read for anyone who:
Is curious about life after death
Is mourning a death
Has experienced an NDE or OBE and doesn't know what to think of it.
Is just naturally curious.
I also recommend Life After Life as a follow-up by Raymond Moody
|
