Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Pas

Many Lives Many Masters is the true story of a psychiatrist, his ’extraordinarily attractive’ young patient who worked as a lab technician in his hospital and the PAST LIFE THERAPY that changed both of their worlds.

Past life regression is an accepted practice in the west and you can find hundreds of centres and practitioners in all major cities.Universally the doctors & human race at large are now slowly accepting that one has to heal the mind also along with the body to bring about desired process of healing. 

Let me ask you a question .What will be your reaction when you regress and realise that you had lived earlier and will live again after death? 
I think, some may become more reckless! Afterall this is not the only life i have, the thought will cross the mind  and also that  this is not the end!  While on the other hand, some may become more responsible when they realise that everything you do is being accounted for & that whatever you do now will have its implications in next life.

Many Lives, Many Masters is an interesting book. Since it is written by a prominent psychiatrist, and is based on true case observations, it becomes more acceptable while intriguing.  For people who are interested in exploring "life after death "theories, it offers some fascinating facts.
Though there are many books, which may discuss this subject, but Dr. Brian Weiss has taken us as close to the truth as possible through his main character, Catherine. Catherine has everything one could want from life - a good husband, happy family , and yet, she finds herself getting depressed, not exactly knowing the reason, why. She begins to withdraw from her surroundings, struggling with her inner demons and finally, by the time she reaches Dr. Weiss for treatment, she is a wreck.
 
Intrigued, Dr Weiss turns to hypnosis to help Catherine understand the reason of her traumas. It is then, based on what Catherine reveals in the subliminal state of her session, is what shocks Dr. Weiss and us, readers too. It sounds so unbelievable and yet, it can't be a fallacy, for Catherine is not even aware she spoke what she did till Dr. Weiss plays the tape for her to work out if she can connect all that with her present in anyway. The subsequent hypnotic sessions reveal deeper mysticism that exists in this world or should I say the other world. Whatever conclusion or should I say, thought provoking beginning, each individual will draw from this book, one thing is true-it sure is based on the facts and not a fabrication weaved out of the author's imagination, and that is the selling point of this book. 

Here I would like to add my personal "Indian" viewpoint about this book
Am sure, many Indians have heard of Patanjali. The concept of Past Life Therapy is as old as Patanjali’s YOGA DARSHAN which was written around the 4th century BC.He talks about the soul(CHITTA) being burdened with the   impressions or samskaras of karmas from previous births.But for the western world, Dr.Weiss’s book comes as an eye opener much as many Indians too need the certification from a whiteman to accept the theory of reincarnation and PLT.I would like to mention about one more timeless treasure of our country , the book "Bhagavadgita", which also tells you that your soul leaves this body and accepts another body just as you shed old clothes to wear fresh ones.! So the theory  presented by Dr.Weiss is not new to us Indians, but the manner in which he tells, based on his case study, the facts become easier to understand and digest by anyone. 

Even in the western world  Dr.weiss is not the first one to think of reincarnation.In the ’Book of spirits’ (1857) Allen Kardec has written about spirits who spoke through mesmerized patients about their past lives.Perhaps one of the earlier persons to use regression as a therapy was Dr Denys Kelsey.His book Many Lifetimes(1967) is perhaps the first book on PLT which focuses more on therapeutic aspects rather than storytelling.

But all said and done, the book Many Lives, Many Masters brings the reader to a halt more than once, just to accept the revelations and to let them sink down. It is wonderfully written , though at times you may feel it to be somewhat repetitive in its accounts. The book gives an insight into the heart and mind of people disturbed or otherwise. The book also gives some answers to some un-asked questions like -why we get along so well with few people ?? and ,what goes wrong with certain relations even before they get started ? or , why we fail however hard we try to make a smooth sailing?? A person who is sensitive enough will feel & think differently after reading this book and possibly might feel to be a changed person for the book just touches something at the core within and changes one's outlook towards life, people and God !


Gita