Dr. Brian Weiss

[Naykid]

I love this kind of synchronicity! 

Dr. Weiss just posted on his Facebook: 

Experience is stronger than belief. What you were taught when you were a young child might be true or not. When you experience, then you know.

This has happened several times now.  It's great!  A couple weeks ago I was just flipping through one of his books and the next day he was quoting something from the very page I was on.  Coincidence?  I don't know. 

[personalreality]

Who is Dr. Weiss?

[Naykid]

As a traditional psychotherapist, Dr. Brian Weiss was astonished and skeptical when one of his patients began recalling past-life traumas that seemed to hold the key to her recurring nightmares and anxiety attacks. His skepticism was eroded, however, when she began to channel messages from "the space between lives," which contained remarkable revelations about Dr. Weiss's family and his dead son. Using past-life therapy, he was able to cure the patient and embark on a new, more meaningful phase of his own career.

http://www.brianweiss.com/

He's awesome in my eyes.  I love his books and I have one of his Meditation cd.  I would love to have him regress me, but alas I don't have the funds to go towards like that.   I still love reading about people's experiences with him though.  He is a sweet man. 

[Xanth]

Definitely bookmarking that one!

Thanks Nay

[Naykid]

You're welcome.    You really should and you should read some of his books, OMG, they are beautiful!!

[personalreality]

I'm totally not on board with people who claim past-life regression.  maybe parallel life regression.

[CFTraveler]

I love this kind of synchronicity! 

Dr. Weiss just posted on his Facebook: 
This has happened several times now.  It's great!  A couple weeks ago I was just flipping through one of his books and the next day he was quoting something from the very page I was on.  Coincidence?  I don't know. 

Cool.  One of the first books I read about reincarnation was written by him.  I found  it inspiring.  (Don't remember the title, though.)

[CFTraveler]

I'm totally not on board with people who claim past-life regression.  maybe parallel life regression.

PR, Dr. Weiss has been doing this type of work (as a psychologist I think) before the idea of parallel lives was fashionable and well known.

[moondreamer]

I haven't decided whether 'past lives' exist or not.  I've received a great deal of information/insight when meditating on it.  My thinking right now is that either that past lives exist or everything is happening at the same time, and we are receiving the information from those other parts of ourselves (not sure how to explain my thought process on that one  ) or  this is universal information that we all can access when we need to.  

I've 'recalled' all sorts of fascinating things from several 'past lives,' and it's helped a great deal with my own growth.

[CFTraveler]

I think that they're happening at the same time.  But since most of the time we experience them sequentially, it really doesn't matter to me, except to explain interesting effects of consciousness.

[Naykid]

I'm totally not on board with people who claim past-life regression.  maybe parallel life regression.

That's totally your prerogative, but does it really matter if it's called parallel, past, forward, sideways, inside, outside..etc?    It's the feeling and healing that can come from realizing a past life.  

Cool.  One of the first books I read about reincarnation was written by him.  I found  it inspiring.  (Don't remember the title, though.)

All his books are listed on the link, I see I haven't read all of them.  I know what I'm asking Santa for Christmas.  

[CFTraveler]

I'm almost sure it was Many Lives, Many Masters.  I might even have it here somewhere.

[Naykid]

I haven't decided whether 'past lives' exist or not.  I've received a great deal of information/insight when meditating on it.  My thinking right now is that either that past lives exist or everything is happening at the same time, and we are receiving the information from those other parts of ourselves (not sure how to explain my thought process on that one  ) or  this is universal information that we all can access when we need to.  

I've 'recalled' all sorts of fascinating things from several 'past lives,' and it's helped a great deal with my own growth.

I'd love to hear more!  I have recalled several lives.  I'll try and find my old posts about some of them.

[moondreamer]

He sounds interesting Nay.  I'll have to check that out.  Have you ever tried asking in your APs to see a past life?  I did once, and it was very cool.  

[Naykid]

I'm almost sure it was Many Lives, Many Masters.  I might even have it here somewhere.

Yeah, that's his first one.  I've enjoyed all the ones I've read.  His Only Love Is Real is mind blowing to me, because I have no doubt that I was searching for my hubby in this life.

With Only Love Is Real, Dr. Weiss takes his research one breathtaking step further. He portrays two strangers unaware that they have been lovers throughout the long centuries, until they are brought together again.

He shows how each and every one of us has a soulmate whom we have loved in past incarnations and who waits to reunite with us now. And he opens up entirely new worlds for all of us everywhere, based on a single, powerful truth....

Elizabeth was a beautiful woman who began past-life regression therapy for grief and relationship problems. With the help of Dr. Weiss, she delved into former lives, began to understand her present, and made contact with the Masters: highly evolved, ancient souls who, through her, channeled profound, crystalline messages for all people about life after death, spiritual dimensions, and the purpose of our lives on earth.

At the same time, Dr. Weiss was treating Pedro, a charming man also suffering from grief. He, too, underwent past-life regression therapy to seek solutions and healing.

Dr. Weiss had often worked with couples or families who discovered that they had known each other in previous lifetimes, with often shocking consequences. Elizabeth and Pedro, however, were present-day strangers. Yet they seemed to be describing the same past lifetimes with a stunning similarity of detail and emotion.

Could they have loved each other and lost each other across time?

In the answer to that question lay a gripping drama of which none of them-neither psychiatrist nor his patients-was yet aware, a drama that would nevertheless begin to unfold in the unsuspecting serenity of the doctor's office.

It is a drama of life after life, of destiny and hope. It is a story that happens silently every day.

This time, the world is listening.

[Naykid]

He sounds interesting Nay.  I'll have to check that out.  Have you ever tried asking in your APs to see a past life?  I did once, and it was very cool.  

I've never asked to see past lives, I just experienced them.  I should though!   

[Volgerle]

Brian Weiss is cool. Michael Newton is cooler.
His books are even more systematic and cover the processes of the lifes "in between" too.

As regards the discussion on past or not past:

It is really that 'fashionable' to hold up a view like "all is now" or similar?

Just btw, "all happens in NO-time" for me would still be more adequate instead of saying "same- or now-time", because the word "now" still implies time.

Anyway, in my view, this all is a little bit of an intellectual highbrow cul-de-sac.

For me past and "past" lives exist. Again, it's a thing analogous to what I wrote here a few days ago:
http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/welcome_to_book_reviews/frank_kepple_astral_projection_truth_newsletter-t32536.0.html;msg267716#msg267716

FoR is the key.

I mean, if you tell s.o. for example, "yesterday I washed my car", then you express with it that you did it the PAST day, using the simple PAST tense in your sentence, adding PAST related adverbs (such as yesterday, the other day, before, etc), and so on. Even a second "ago" is PAST.
Every one uses this in language. But now, when the discussion comes to "previous" lives, we are suddenly forbidden to use it. We are reminded that "there is no past", oh wow, year, of course... I always wash my car NOW. 

Come on guys, this is getting ridiculous!

What else would you say in the example? Do you say really say "I wash my car (now)" instead?

No. You form your linguistic expression from your viewpoint (FoR) where time exists as a reference to "index" successive events. So why not for "past" lives? People who argue this way should stop using any past or future tenses, past or future adverbs or anything else related to time in their speech. (Which is not feasable for communicative reasons, of course).

Yes, I know. time is not absolute, not linear as was thought for a long time in a Classical Newtonian Universe physics. Even on our plane these "linear breaches" can be proven by experiments now. They can be proven by quantum mechanics calculations. But relative view or absolute view ... that is the point here.

Time experienced in linear sequence is still fundamental for our lives here, it exists "here" (and "now"... how funny, yeah...) in this physical reality ... in "our" FoR as "re"incarnated beings. And yes, of course it is certainly more adequate to speak of "multiple" incarnations rather than "re"incarnations, especially if there are chronological overlaps (multiple lives).

However, from this FoR, in the timespace of this reality, past lives exist, and most of the "times" (... ) they are even pretty (chrono)logical. Time is one dimension /  operand / parameter in this 4D-reality, it is installed "in place". So why not use it even in metaphysical discussions, especially when we "only" talk about events in this physical reality, which is exatly what we do when we discuss other physical lives lived before or after this one ? Why should we not 'refer' to past lives if I can still refer to my 'past' vacation or 'past' (yesterday's) visit to the dentist? That does not make any sense.

In "normal" "linearly experienced" life in this reality, events are experienced successively (even though they can be breached by paranormal events). Every time increment with a state vector of certain energy and mass states follows another time increment with a state vector of certain energy and mass states follows another time increment with ...

Otherwise we could completely give up our language which is inadequate to express reality, as it contains past tenses and words relating to past (btw, some ethnic indigenous languages indeed do NOT have past forms ... makes one think, doesn't it?), we should no longer try to exist in this society which is dominated by processes in chronological time and just sit, meditate and "Be". Even then we would not escape time.

Yes, Buddhists and E. Tolle say that the NOW has the ultimate power and we should try to live in it, fine, but that does not mean that past/future don't exist, I still think they do.
Even simulated or alternative pasts / futures are still ... pasts and futures ... and thus ... time. Alternative time is still ... time. Time is defined by a spectrum of past, future and present (and that does not mean it must be linear!).

Sorry for the little rant, but for me this whole business and the obsessive need of stressing the fact that there "is no past" when it gets to discussing past lives and reincarnation gets a bit too artificial ... and even a bit too new agey .

[Naykid]

I've never heard of Michael Newton but I certainly will be looking him up, thank you.

[personalreality]

i just realized what the difference is between my perception of time and you all's. 

i came upon my realization through mediation and contemplation, you read what other people contemplated.

that makes sense now.  in that context, my comment doesn't make sense.