Many Lives, Many Masters
1988 • 219 pages
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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.
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[1]: http://www.brianweiss.com/about-the-books/many-lives-many-masters/
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In a literary sense, this is a modern religious parable about a physician's interesting professional relationship with a patient and the spiritual trials and growth they experience together.
In a scientific sense, Weiss' alleged “proof,” presented this way, doesn't hold up to the lowest level of critical observation. This doesn't mean all of his claims are false, but truth and proof are different.
I read books like this to explore new possibilities of thinking about the world. Anything presented as fact, though, must undergo some degree of scrutiny before I use it as foundation on which to structure my existence. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
