Many Lives, Many Masters By Brian Weiss M. D.

Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian Weiss M.D. is a persuasive documentation of reincarnation, the past life, and the afterlife. This book is about the author, Brian Weiss, and his experience with reincarnation. Brian Weiss is a prominent American psychiatrist who is married and has two children.

In 1966, he graduated Columbia University with a Phi Beta Kappa (Honors), magna cum laude (means "with great praise"). In 1970, he graduated Yale University with a medical degree. He became a faculty of the University of Miami after completing his residency in psychiatry. He promoted to the Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai Medical Center and finally became the head of the Department of Psychiatry [5].

Brian Weiss published thirty-seven

She was a very attractive twenty-seven year old woman. She had medium-length blond hair and hazel eyes. She was raised in a conservative Catholic families and was Catholic ever since [6]. She worked in the same hospital as Dr. Brian Weiss as a laboratory technician [4]. Two doctors on the hospital staff referred her to Dr. Brian Weiss because she had many mental problems.

Catherine was depressed, had panic attacks, and severe anxiety. She was afraid of water, choking (she was afraid of swallowing pills), airplanes, the dark, being closed in, and of dying. She suffered from insomnia, nightmares, and sleepwalking. She was also having an affair with Stuart, a married Jewish man with two children. He was a successful physician and treats Catherine poorly by breaking promises, lying, and manipulating her (Weiss 18).

Brian used traditional talk-therapy to treat Catherine for eighteen months. At one point during the therapies, he suggested medication but she refused. Since the conventional therapies didn’t work, he tried another method which Catherine was previously afraid of, hypnotherapy. The only reason why she agreed on hypnosis was because (to her surprise) she knew way too much about Egyptian things (without knowing why) that she even corrected a guide at an Egyptian exhibit in an art museum [6]. He explained that “Hypnosis is an excellent tool to help a patient remember long-forgotten incidents” (Weiss

At age five, she was pushed from the diving board into the swimming pool and choked on water. One night, at the age of three, she was molested by her father who stank of alcohol [1]. Brian was surprised when Catherine’s mental problems did not diminished because he thought that her past traumatic events would be the cause of her problems.

During the second hypnosis, he asked when the cause of her problems arose. During that session, they discovered that she went as far back as when she was Aronda in 1863 B.C. The woman she was died by drowning in a flood or tidal wave (Weiss 27-28). The next time Catherine went to see Brian Weiss, she was more vibrant than usual and she revealed to him that her fear of drowning had disappeared.

Brian Weiss later decided to record every session with her and analysed them like a scientist to see their veracity. At first he was skeptical about her memories and thought that they were made up but he knew that she didn’t have a mental illness like a split or multiple personality. Brian Weiss’ doubts about the sessions diminished when the Master Spirit (highly evolved soul) spoke through Catherine about something very personal to him. The Master Spirit said that his father’s name was Avrom which he named his daughter after. His father died because of his heart and his son’s heart was backwards like a chicken. His son died 23 days later (Weiss