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Summary: WOW
Review: Just read the book today, and all I can say is wow! A friend of a friend loaned me her book yesterday and I couldn't put it down since I picked it up this morning, and have been contemplative on the book since finishing it. I am currently reading "Sacred Contracts" by Caroline Myss, only half-way through it but I was alittle spooked how it seemed that I was meant to read this book first because Contracts describes how to recongize and forefill the purpose for this present life. I highly recommend everyone to read this book and also "Sacred Contracts", although I'm not finished it yet. I am a little disappointed by reviews of some others, like Micheal Rothschild. Apprently he does not believe in reincarnation, and that's okay, but he wants to convert everyone to think his way.
We should all come to our OWN conclusions by being open to all thoughts and ideas; not
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Summary: Quite simple the most inpactful book I've ever read
Review: This book will change your life. It is the kind of book that someone lends to you, and, after reading it you buy 2 copies to lend to other people. Weiss takes you through his discovery of a different side of a patient's existence. It can open your mind, as it did his, to a new world of possibilities.
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Summary: Open you mind. Read this book!
Review: I guess the best way I can put this is that I respectfully disagree with the respected Pathologist and the other fellow who claims this was a good "story". The truth is that in my experience as a hypnotherapist past lives are real. This book offers compelling evidence for the phenomenon but there are many other books that do so as well. I simply like Dr. Weiss's presentation. Those who left negative reviews seem to not realize a simple principle regarding subjective experience. That principle is that all subjective experience is translated through the subconscious before it can be percieved or vocalized by the subject therefore there can be some confusing or disjointed perceptions. Subjective experience is just that, subjective experience. Sometimes it can be proven with evidence found in the objective world; such as historical observations that can be confirmed. In other cases, these experiences cannot be verified because there are no references available. In these cases the reality of the experience will be its effect upon the subject. If the experience was transformative then it is fundamentally "real" for the person involved. These types of cases aren't able to be proven. That doesn't mean it didn't happen. I have no doubt that those who gave negative reviews have beliefs that are less than 100% grounded in reason and proof such as God/Jesus/Buddha/Allah/Krishna or any Higher Power by whatever name or an afterlife. There is at least as much "proof" for the existance of past lives as there proof of God(s) or an afterlife. So before you scoff consider that we all hold beliefs (well 99% of us at least) that are gounded in a reality beyond that which we can perceive with the senses. I'm not talking about resurrections and parting red seas I am talking about that which we can experience, not in simple faith which can be likened to continuing to believe in Santa well into adulthood. You may believe but that belief is largely baseless. Plus, the soul/mind/spirit has its own wisdom beyond the physical brain. It is that perception that allows us to perceive that which cannot be empirically proven. I love science, but my religion isn't materialism and sometimes we can become blinded by "reason" to truths beyond the scientific method. Chris
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Summary: Progression is Endless
Review: This excellent publication is an important contribution in human understanding of multidimensionality. How do past lives events and their attached emotions affect our present mental structure, and behavior? Is past life therapy the trend of the future for psychiatry and is Doctor Weiss ahead of his time by decades or even centuries? It is about time psychology admits our subconscious includes emotions implanted there beyond childhood; that the emotions, negative or positive, are buried in the subconscious from past and future lives. This superb investigative report can convince even those who never believed the theory, and evidence for multiple lives.
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Summary: An easy swallow for the Gullible
Review: I am a physician and a pathologist. Let me say right off the bat, an academic physician and any respectable physician making an unusual observation for the first time calls their colleague in for their opinion. The behavior of Dr. Weiss does not reflect academic objectivity. He distrusts the judgment of his colleagues and writes in the popular lay press where his observations and interpretations are not subject to peer review. I have read the comments of reviewers mentioning the "B.C." problem and the problem of Netherlands geography. Here are some more unmentioned: Most people who lived in the past, lived extremely provincial lives. They did not travel, or even know where in the world they lived. The village and the one beyond the next hill was all they knew. How is it the people in these past lives knew their geographic location, what language they spoke? Here's another. In several passages, Catherine relates the foul smell of furs and the surroundings. People become accustom to their surroundings. Those who backpack for several days become accustom to their own body odor. Yet another: page 111: "Osiris . . . Sirus . . . something like that" Please, did a person living in Egypt speak the name of the god just as we would thousands of years later? Here's another: page 117: "What kind of plane do you fly?" "Some kind of chopper plane. It has four propellers. It's a fixed wing." The Germans flew very few four engine planes. It would have been a very easy matter to pinpoint who this was with a few more questions. The FW 200 Condor, Junkers Ju 290, Heinkel He 277, to my knowledge are the only four propellors planes in the Second World War German Air Force probably numbering less than several hundred produced and only several dozen flying at any one time. The term "fixed wing" did not come about until after World War II. I won't go into the loss of pleasant near death experiences with some medications but wish to separate the process of observation from interpretation. Let us assume for the sake of discussion, Dr. Weiss and his patient(s) are not attempting to delude the reader. Does Dr. Weiss posit other plausible explanations? Does the absence of a readily available explanation for an observed phenomenon immediately call for the supposition of the paranormal? An academic physician publishing their findings in a journal always has a discussion section proposing various competing theories, how their findings support or do not support previous investigations and how and why they reached their conclusions. For someone who has "published" in this style, this is for me the most curious absence of critical interpretation. Medical and scientific community are not the closed-minded unwilling to accept alternative theories - fundamentalists are. (The Helicobacter pylori discovery story comes immediately to mind.) I have come across many dogmatic professionals who have cloaked their uncompromising slanted views with their professional credentials. What concerns me the most from reading the reviews is the number of people who read testimonials such as "Many Lives" without the benefit of a critical mind. For those who really wish to explore reincarnation and other paranormal phenomenon, I would suggest going to the home page of "The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal"...
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Summary: A Good Story
Review: My wife suggested I read this book because she found it fascinating to say the least, and besides I enjoy reading about this sort of phenomenon. Well I got to page 27 where the doctor says he is able to take down word for word what the regressed patient is saying because "While hypnotized, Catherine spoke in a slow and deliberate whisper." Catherine then goes on to describe a past life where she says, "The year is 1863 B.C." For those of you who don't get it, if you were back in 1863 B.C. you wouldn't know it was 1863 years before a future event i.e. the birth of Christ.
From that point I knew I wasn't reading an amazing account of someone's fantastic experience, but simply a good story.
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Summary: This Book Has Changed My Life
Review: This book is amazing! I have been an atheist all my life despite (or is it as a result of?) attending Hebrew school as a child and Christian school from 4th through 12th grade. In my final year in college, I took an Intro to Buddhism course and was immediately intrigued by Buddhist teachings and philosophies. But my exploration of Buddhism hit a wall, because I could not convince myself to subscribe to one of the fundamental tennets of Buddhism: the belief in reincarnation. I just didn't believe in reincarnation at all. I was always of the "You Die and That's It" school. Nothing even remotely changed this view for years--until last week when I read this book. In the span of less than 24 hours, I went from not believing in reincarnation at all to being almost completely convinced of its existence. I read this book with a very skeptical eye. But I also read it with objectivity, and, above all else, an intense desire to find truth. And I believe the account in this book to be factual. For the sake of argument, if it's a fake, it's an absolutely brilliant fake. But if it's completely authentic, then it's a phenomenal account that could change your life for the better. Either way, it's worth a read.
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Summary: Disappointed!
Review: Maybe I read this book a decade too late! I dig most New Age books and spiritual books. I think I had too many expectations from this book. The book is all about the past lives of one person and does not convey the expected dose of meaning for others (who read it).
A good effort but not SO good a book, doctor. Sorry!
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Summary: Inlighting
Review: I found this book to be one of the most amazing , inlighting books I have ever read.
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Summary: Perfect book.
Review: Have you ever read a book that makes you want to keep going on reading, well you found the perfect book and the kind of book you want to read. This book is really interesting, its perfect for people who like facts about pasts lifes and rencarnation.
Catherine is a 27-year-old woman that has panic attacks, stress, nightmares, anxiety, and phobias. She goes to find help to a psychotherapist. His name is Dr. Weiss. In Catherine's first session with Dr. Weiss, she goes back in time and starts talking about a building, a rock building. Catherine is a man and she is going down the stairs running away from something. She then finds out it's a war and she sees many horses and swords. Its in roman time, she stops running and the she feels pain, and she sees blood everywhere, dripping down her neck and she falls down to the ground. Catherine was floating in the air and saw her body lying on the floor; she had been stabbed on her neck behind her back and died.
Suddenly she opened her eyes, and she had already passed to the other life. Catherine was a baby and she was describing how she saw a room, small room was there was a man holding her in his arms. She also said there was a woman lying on the bed, she had black long hair and blue eyes. The room was green and she found out the woman on the bed was the mom she had in the life she's living Wright now.
Dr. Weiss told Catherine to pass on to the next life, because he didn't see anything important in the life she was describing. Catherine said she was a black woman with short black hair, she was serving tea. She said she was a servant and that she was treated really well. But there was a problem she was really sick, she thinks she has lung cancer. She is lying on the bed now and she is coughing and has a pain on her chest. There were people around me giving me tea and medicine. Then I didn't feel anything I was floating and saw my body again. She died.
I recommend this book to all the people that like interesting facts about rencarnation and past life's.
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