Many Lives Many Masters

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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: Present-Life Therapy
Review: Please people, get a life, and make it a REAL one. Read The Power of Now if you want open-hearted, practical wisdom. Read the Skeptical Inquirer, in which people with rational minds refute all the "evidence" for past lives, reincarnation, recovered memories and the like. Hypnosis opens up our ability to fantasize, to create myths out of our lives. But myths aren't facts, just as dreams aren't facts. When we believe them to be real, we walk down a very long path that leads us away from the truths of our actual physical-mental-emotional lives and towards illusions and false memories and often our Shadow selves. Be open-hearted, be open-minded, but please be rational and read books like this for the fantasy [and poor psychotherapy] that they recount.

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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: Spell binding book
Review: The naysayers have a hell of a time discrediting this book because Dr. Weiss is a conventional physician with a conventional background (a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Columbia University and Yale Medical School).

A 27 year-old patient, Catherine, had come to him seeking help for anxiety, phobias, and panic attacks. After a year and a half, Dr. Weiss couldn't cure said maladies with traditional therapy. On a whim, and as a last resort, he tried hypnosis. Under hypnosis, Catherine was brought back to her childhood, then as a baby, and then, out of nowhere, she slipped back into another time and place. Dr. Weiss thought the poor woman had a temporary case of psychosis but upon doing research, he found proof of some of the details of the lives the woman had lived (and, no, she was NOT Cleopatra!).

The best part of past life therapy is that after every method of "traditional" (read conservative) therapy has been tried and there are no results, past life therapy is used as a "last resort" and, many times, produces better results that enable the person to live a productive and positive life.

I dusted this book off in a day and love rereading it from time to time. It's heartening to read of a conventional doctor, his feet planted firmly on the ground, who discovered the wonders of past life regression therapy by "accident" and who champions it (complete with a set of ethics).

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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.



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Summary: 86 Lives and Still Sleeping in a Walk in Closet
Review: This book states that one can only get close to God and be accepted by him thru accumulated wisdom (from the Masters). We keep getting sent back to earth until we collect this wisdom.

The worlds oldest and still best selling book says the opposite. Jesus stands at the door and knocks, i.e. in this one and only life. To those who: 1. Hear His voice and 2. Open the door; I will come in and sup with them and they with Me.

If this lady can recite 86 lives she has already lived and is seeking help, then golly, I sure want to believe in this "tread mill of the masters."

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Summary: Unnerving
Review: This book was reccommended to me after talking of my experiences I've had with my 3 year old neice with a co-worker. My neice would share long past memories in detail of things that I had done as a child with my grandmother. She would say "Remember when I was your Nana and your were my little, little girl and we did this...". She's even told me that she'll be my "nana" again and I'll be her "little, little girl". It frightened me - especially as a skeptic. This book opened many doors for me and has in a way comforted my doubts in regard to religion.

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Summary: We are together, to the end of time.
Review: This is the third time that I've read this book over the years, and no doubt it will not be the last.

Just because this is a book on reincarnation, and past life regression, many people dismiss it a simple-minded, new age, drivel. I know that I almost did. That would have been an arrogant mistake, and a stupid loss, on my part. Take a look at the author's credentials: a Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude graduate of Columbia; a M.D. from the Yale University School of Medicine; Chief of Psychiatry at a major hospital; over 37 papers and book chapters published in his field; a recognized expert on brain chemistry. In short, this man wasn't jeopardizing his career to make a quick buck. It pretty well shook his world to the foundations when he discovered that reincarnation and the evolution of the soul were reality. As he points out, until they personally experience the reality of the existence and survival of the soul then most people simply will not, cannot, accept it. Then, once you do accept it, then you find that there are literally libraries full of legitimate research that confirms it all.

The main text of the book reads more like a novel than a scientific or spiritual work. The main case that shattered the doctor's previous beliefs is unfolded in exactly the way that it happened to him. The past life hypnotic regression of the subject is recounted practically word for word - including the words of the Masters.

What struck me was the agreement of everything that came from the Masters (sages at the highest plane of spiritual evolution) with the perennial wisdom teachings that stretch back through all human history and all traditional cultures. It is all there: the fact that we are here primarily to learn and grow; that we are to learn to see that spark of God in both others and ourselves; that only God may take a life; the importance of harmony, balance, and simplicity; to do good for the sake of good alone- with no expectation of reward; and of course the survival of the soul and the cycle of rebirth and spiritual evolution. Indeed without the latter, human existence would hardly make sense.

It all sounds simple, but you only really gain such wisdom by slowly applying and living it- by turning the theoretical into the internalized. This is what you take with you, and what you bring back with you on your next cycle of birth and death- the eternal wisdom that you have welded eternally to your soul by actually living it.

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Summary: Fascinating
Review: When I first picked up this book, I hadn't thought much about reincarnation, and doubted its validity; after putting it down, my mind was fizzing with the possibility of, "My God, what IF..." My outlook on mine and the world's problems completely shifted and I felt more hopeful, peaceful and awed by life. I loved this book - it's written simply but evocatively, producing vivid pictures of one woman's past life memories, and the remarkable healing her recall provides. Dr. Weiss doesn't force an agenda, doesn't ramble on about theological, moral or philosophical implications, just clearly and beautifully describes an encounter that changed both his mind and his life. And after reading it, mine was too.