Interview with Dr. Brian Weiss on reincarnation...

[Ajay0]

An insightful interview with Dr. Brian Weiss on the subject of reincarnation...

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/spotlight/we-are-all-immortal/articleshow/16990083.cms
 

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The Greeks and Indians have always believed in the theory of reincarnation. I firmly believe karma is not punishment but an opportunity to learn our lessons. If the lessons have not been learnt in a previous lifetime, we come back to work on them. The lessons are about love, compassion, non-violence, patience, understanding and non-prejudice.

When the lessons and learnings are complete. Then there’s no reincarnation.

We are living in a world full of anxieties that cripple us. How can we heal and be free of them?

This is a matter of recognising our true nature. We are spiritual beings. We are immortal and eternal. Anxieties and other negative emotions are merely temporary states.

 

 

 

[Ajay0]

Informative article on Dr.Brian Weiss and his evolution from a conservative and skeptical psychiatrist to a believer in reincarnation.
 

https://lifestyle.inquirer.net/165945/skeptical-psychiatrist-finds-proof-of-reincarnation/

 

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Dr. Weiss graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University, obtained a medical degree from Yale University and later taught psychiatry at the University of Miami and became head of its psychopharmacology division.

When he became chief of psychiatry at a hospital in Miami, he had already published over 37 scientific papers and book chapters in the field of psychiatry.

Dr. Weiss’ impressive academic and scientific backgrounds certainly did not prepare him for what he discovered about reincarnation. In his best-selling book “Many Lives, Many Masters,” he said “years of disciplined study… had trained my mind to think as a scientist and physician, molding me along the narrow paths of conservatism in my profession.

“I distrusted anything that could not be proved by traditional scientific methods. I was aware of some studies in parapsychology being conducted at major universities across the country, but they did not hold my interest. It all seemed too far-fetched to me.”

Then he met a patient named Catherine in 1980. The encounter completely changed his life and his traditional way of thinking.

 

[Ajay0]

An interview with Dr. Brian Weiss from 2011...
 

https://hayhouseoz.wordpress.com/2011/02/07/an-intimate-interview-with-dr-brian-weiss-brian-l-weiss/

 

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3. It is said that memories of past life are nothing but one’s imagination. Please clarify. In addition, there has been a lot of criticism about your thesis on Past Life Regression. What is the harshest criticism that came your way and how do you deal with that?

As a psychotherapist I know that imagination does not have a long-term curative effect by itself. I have had patients speaking foreign languages that they have never heard or studied. I have had patients who have found their families from past lives after therapy sessions in which they recalled specific validational information. Others have known detailed historical facts that they never studied. So it is much more than imagination.

The harshest criticism has come from other psychiatrists who never studied regression therapy, who never tried it with their patients, and who therefore have uninformed opinions. These criticisms were worse in the 1980’s and 1990’s, but I find less of this resistance now.

 

[Ajay0]

Article on Amy Weiss, a social worker and daughter of Dr. Brian Weiss, delving on her past life as an old man in the Middle Ages who was persecuted due to prejudice.
 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2336088/Immediately-I-saw-body-old-man-long-white-hair-living-Middle-Ages-Woman-relives-spooky-experience-past-life-regression.html

 

[Ajay0]

Interview with Dr. Brian Weiss by Wisdom Magazine...

https://wisdom-magazine.com/Article.aspx/478/

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Wisdom: How do you know people’s experiences are valid and not just active imagination?

Brian: That’s why it’s good to have training as a therapist, because you are able to discern those differences. When people come into traditional psychotherapy practices, they talk about their dreams and fantasies. Imagine Woody Allen in therapy. There is that combination of metaphor, symbol, imagination and actual memory. It’s always there. You get very good at discerning what’s memory from what’s metaphor from what’s fantasy. Sometimes it’s very easy, if the person having the regression is speaking in a foreign language that they never learned. That’s called xenoglossy. That’s more than imagination. I have had people speak Medieval languages and foreign languages that they never learned to speak in this life. You can tape record it and give it to linguistics experts.

Usually when there is a lot of emotion there and detail, that’s a real experience too. There may be details that the person doesn’t know. For example, they may be visiting a city in Europe for the first time but they know their way around, it feels very familiar. They may know where an old church used to be but it hasn’t been there since it burned down 150 years ago. They are able to describe what went on in the church and where the secret room is. People check out the memories and find out that it is an actual memory, not fantasy. Sometimes there are elements of fantasy and imagination mixed in with it. That doesn’t mean that the actual memory is worth any less.

 

 

[Yimpa]

@Ajay0 Nice, reminds me of this:

 

[Ajay0]

On 2/3/2024 at 4:11 PM, Yimpa said:

@Ajay0 Nice, reminds me of this:

 

 

 Yes, Xenoglossy as in being suddenly able to speak, write or understand a foreign language that they could not have acquired by natural means is a sign of past life memories from past lives in other countries or regions.

Such incidents have been mentioned in the Bible and similar Christian accounts in the Middle Ages, often described as 'miracles' due to lack of coherent explanations for the same.

[Ajay0]

An interview with Dr. Brian Weiss ...

https://omtimes.com/2013/12/brian-weiss-md/#google_vignette

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JVM: How does remembering past lives actually help your patients cure themselves or get rid their symptoms?

Brian Weiss MD :The process of past life regression is very similar to the psychoanalytic technique. Remembering the traumas, either in this life or in others, has a healing effect. Bringing to light the memories and understanding from a greater perspective can cure the symptoms that result from the trauma.

Many of my patients have gone on to document the facts that have emerged during their regressions. Some of the lifetimes are not that long ago so research and validation are possible. The internet has helped greatly.

JVM: How can you tell if a past-life recollection or a future memory is real or not? Can it bE fantasy or metaphor?

Brian Weiss MD : A past life recollection can be real, fantasy, metaphor, symbol or a mixture of all of these, like in a dream. A good therapist can sort out and integrate all the material that has emerged during the regression. Those memories that are primarily accurate or real tend to have a different feel or tenor to them and are often accompanied by emotions. They have a different quality than daydreams.. Real memories can heal physical and emotional symptoms. Imagination doesn’t heal symptoms.