A recent Oprah episode on Hallmark Channel featured Dr Brian Weiss - who was head of Psychiatry in a Miami institute - and his epiphany when treating a patient using hypnotherapy. The patient was a Caucasian Catholic woman from New England. When asked to regress herself to her childhood, she over-regressed into her many past lives!
In-between her past lives - while hypnotised - she explained to Dr Weiss that his deceased infant had died for a reason : to teach him and his family about death and dying. She also mentioned that his living daughter, Ephraim, was named after Dr Weiss' deceased Jewish father. This stunned him as details of his family weren't publicised!
Despite being an adamant left-brained sceptic/scientist with his reputation risked in a conservative industry, he persisted and became a leading past-life regression hypnotherapist who helped many to overcome depression, guilt, etc - after discovering their past life effects on their psyche that impacted relationships and successful living. He published his seminal/top-selling book, Many Lives, Many Masters, in 1988.
On the show, Dr Weiss regressed a funeral director who commentated - with much trauma - a past death when in air combat, stemming from his inability to shoot enemy planes as he couldn't tell 'who from who' : presumably friendly from enemy aircraft, perhaps at night. Another life had him witness, helplessly and with much guilt/sorrow, a stranger being raped by a man.
He learnt that that stranger is his sister in this life! Knowing this helped improve their otherwise rocky relationship. Her presence as his sister had probably heightened his guilt from that past-life incident - which had antagonised their relating.
This dovetails with Dr Weiss' regression research on his patients : that soul groups (not musicians) do reincarnate in different roles to iron out their debts and obligations - ALREADY BELIEVED IN SOME ASIAN CULTURES. It seems that multiple rebirths are needed for an eternal soul to experience different perspectives religiously, genderly or racially.
Dr Weiss' data indicates that most reincarnate no more than 100 lives versus up to thousands as suggested in Buddhism. And that those dying young or violently reincarnate quicker than those dying calmly in old age - up to a century's interval between rebirths! Besides hypnotism, some recall past-life memories spontaneously - deja vu for instance - as well as via medication. Some need several sessions of hypnotism to recall while 20% can do so during their very first session.
He also found that reincarnation was widely believed in many faiths universally until present-day conventions forbade its teaching. For instance, Christian fathers opposed belief in rebirth that could blunt the carrot/stick of heaven/hell to keep the flock on the straight and narrow.
Resultantly, he is less materialistic and feels family-oriented - not just with those related. He believes we reincarnate to learn/teach our oneness/connectedness as eternal souls - needing to first unlearn the divisiveness of self/immediate family centredness.
One revealing interview with him is at :
http://www.lifepositive.com/Mind/per...wth/past-life/
Note : Unlike disinformation, those hypnotised are FULLY CONSCIOUS & IN CONTROL wilfully allowing the hypnotist/therapist to relax them to focus their recall. Medication and concepts like reincarnation, etc AREN'T HINDU, BUDDHIST OR RELIGIOUS beliefs - having predated these religions since pre-history. Personally, I have yet to read of communication from 'the other side' that mentions a particular religion or icon (Jesus, Buddha, etc) as 'the right one' - let alone corroborate religious relevance/necessity when we die.
December 19, 2008 Friday, 05:26 AM
