Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives

by Brian L. Weiss

According to most writers, groups of souls tend to reincarnate together again and again, working out their karma (debts owed to others and to the self, lessons to be learned) over the span of many lifetimes.

“Our task is to learn, to become God-like through knowledge. We know so little. You are here to be my teacher. I have so much to learn. By knowledge we approach God, and then we can rest. Then we come back to teach and help others.”

We are frightfully concerned with our own deaths, sometimes so much so that we forget the real purpose of our lives.

“We also must learn not to just go to those people

whose vibrations are the same as ours. It is normal to feel drawn to somebody who is on the same level that you are. But this is wrong. You must also go to those people whose vibrations are wrong … with yours. This is the importance … in helping … these people.

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“Yes, we choose when we will come into our physical state and when we will leave. We know when we have accomplished what we were sent down here to accomplish. We know when the time is up, and you will accept your death.

“Everybody’s path is basically the same. We all must learn certain attitudes while we’re in physical state. Some of us are quicker to accept them than others. Charity, hope, faith, love … we must all know these things and know them well. It’s not just one hope and one faith and one love—so many things feed into each one of these. There are so many ways to demonstrate them. And yet we’ve only tapped into a little bit of each one….

The reward is in doing, but doing without expecting anything … doing unselfishly.

“Patience and timing … everything comes when it must come. A life cannot be rushed, cannot be worked on a schedule as so many people want it to be. We must accept what comes to us at a given time, and not ask for more. But life is endless, so we never die; we were never really born. We just pass through different phases. There is no end. Humans have many dimensions. But time is not as we see time, but rather in lessons that are learned.”

“Energy … everything is energy. So much is wasted. The mountains … inside the mountain it is quiet; it is calm at the center. But on the outside is where the trouble lies. Humans can only see the outside, but you can go much deeper. You have to see the volcano. To do it you have to go deep inside.

Our body is just a vehicle for us while we’re here. It is our soul and our spirit that last forever.”

“Everything must be balanced. Nature is balanced. The beasts live in harmony. Humans have not learned to do that. They continue to destroy themselves. There is no harmony, no plan to what they do. It’s so different in nature. Nature is balanced. Nature is energy and life … and restoration. And humans just destroy. They destroy nature. They destroy other humans.

They will eventually destroy themselves.”

“We have debts that must be paid. If we have not paid out these debts, then we must take them into another life … in order that

they may be worked through. You progress by paying your debts. Some souls progress faster than others. When you’re in physical form and you are working through, you’re working through a life. … If something interrupts your ability … to pay that debt, you must return to the plane of recollection, and there you must wait until the soul you owe the debt to has come to see you.

There was much practical advice along the way: the value of patience and of waiting; the wisdom in the balance of nature; the eradication of fears, especially the fear of death; the need for learning about trust and forgiveness; the importance of learning not

to judge others, or to halt anyone’s life; the accumulation and use of intuitive powers; and, perhaps most of all, the unshakable knowledge that we are immortal. We are beyond life and death, beyond space and beyond time. We are the gods, and they are us.

Wisdom is achieved very slowly. This is because intellectual knowledge, easily acquired, must be transformed into ‘emotional,’ or subconscious, knowledge. Once transformed, the imprint is permanent. Behavioral

practice is the necessary catalyst of this reaction. Without action, the concept will wither and fade. Theoretical knowledge without practical application is not enough.

“Balance and harmony are neglected today, yet they are the fo...

“Humankind has not learned about balance, let alone practiced it. It is guided by greed and ambition, steered by fear. In this way it will eventually destroy itself. But nature will survive; at least the plants will.

“Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness. Excesses cloud basic values.

It is as if humankind were not in its natural state while on earth. It must reach an altered state in order to fill itself with love and charity and simplicity, to feel purity, to rid itself of its chronic fearfulness.

“Consider the lessons. Intellectually the answers have always been there, but this need to actualize by experience, to make the subconscious imprint permanent by ‘emotionalizing’ and practicing the concept, is the key.

“Understand that no one is greater than another. Feel it. Practice helping another. We are all rowing the same boat. If we don’t pull together, our plants are going to be awfully lonely.”

The only differences among people are the number

of facets cleaned. But each diamond is the same, and each is perfect.

Who tells you these things?”