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Brian L. Weiss
We do not die, but are born again! Proof of reincarnation made by a famous psychiatrist and documented

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

© Brian L. Weiss, M.D., 1988

© M. Pechenezhskaya, translation into Russian, 2015

© AST Publishing House LLC, 2015

A fascinating fusion of mysticism and psychiatry

This book connects psychiatry with mysticism, the search for truth with the existence of eternal life. It reads like a gripping novel and is so captivating that I just couldn't put it down.

Harry Prosen, MD, PhD, Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Psychiatry medical college Wisconsin

Innovative and highly effective treatment

This somewhat provocative and beautifully written book goes beyond the usual psychotherapy books and presents an innovative and highly effective treatment. This book is a must read for those involved in psychiatry.

Edith Fiore, PhD, clinical psychologist

Does our life depend on past incarnations?

An interesting, well-written book that makes you think about how much our current lives can depend on past incarnations. You will not be able to put this book down without feeling a sense of solidarity with Dr. Weiss's conclusions.

Andrew I. Slaby, M.D., chief physician Fair Oaks Hospitals

Reading – A must!

A touching story about a man who experiences an unexpected spiritual awakening. This courageous book opened the possibility of a union between science and metaphysics. A must read to find your soul.

Jeanne Avery, writer

Read for everyone who doubts

A fascinating case story proving the effectiveness of psychotherapy of past incarnations. The book will be a real discovery for many who doubt the possibility of reincarnation.

Richard Sutphen, writer

For everyone who is having a hard time

Read this book! It is absolutely clear that five stars is not enough to give this book a fair rating. This book completely changed my views on what is important in this life - no matter how hard I want, I simply cannot do it justice. This is one of those books that I keep several copies of to give to someone who is having a really hard time to read, especially those who have experienced death. loved one or being close to someone who is dying. There is nothing more effective when counseling and working with grief; all the fiction on this topic simply did not stand close. Read it, even if everything is fine in your life, believe me, everything will get even better! Throw out all the self-help books and buy several copies of this book.

Ameesha Mehta

Still don't believe in reincarnation?

This is just an amazing book! All my life I have been an atheist, despite (or because of?) the fact that I studied first in a Jewish school and then in a Christian one. During my senior year of college, I decided to attend a class on Buddhism and was instantly drawn into the philosophy. But while studying Buddhism, I hit a blank wall: I couldn’t bring myself to believe and accept one of the main concepts in Buddhism - the idea of reincarnation. I was a proponent of the “you die and that’s it” theory. For years, no one and nothing could move me from this point of view, even temporarily - until last week, when I started reading this book. In less than 24 hours, my point of view - complete disbelief in reincarnation - has changed to exactly the opposite: I am now completely convinced that reincarnation is true.

Janice Taylor

A book that changes your outlook on life

Dr. Weiss integrates concepts from traditional psychotherapy into the exploration of her patient's spiritual unconscious. My outlook on life and myself will never be the same.

Joel Rubenstein, MD, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and practicing psychiatrist

Acknowledgments

Dedicated to Carol, my wife, whose love has nourished and supported me for as long as I can remember. We are together until the end of our lives.

My thanks to the children, Jordan and Amy, who have forgiven me for neglecting them so much during the writing of this book.

I also thank Nikolai Pashkov for transcribing audio recordings of therapy sessions.

I found the advice of my editor, Julie Rubin, very valuable after she read the first part of my work.

My heartfelt thanks to Barbara Hess, my publisher at Simon & Schuster, for her expertise and courage.

I am also grateful to all those who helped this book come into being.

Preface

I am completely confident that nothing happens without a reason. Perhaps at the very moment when something happens, we have no idea why. However, over time and with due patience, the reasons become completely clear to us.

So it was with Katherine. We first met in 1980, when she was twenty-seven years old. She came into my office complaining of panic attacks, phobias, and anxiety. Despite the fact that she had all these symptoms since childhood, she has recently become worse. She felt as if her emotions were paralyzed. Every day she became worse and worse, and did not have the strength to do anything. She was horrified and understandably depressed.

My life at that time, unlike hers, flowed measuredly and calmly. My marriage was strong, we had two small children, and my career was taking off. From the very beginning, it seemed that my life was going along a smooth, well-trodden path. I grew up in a loving family. Success in scientific affairs came easily to me, and in my second year I decided to become a psychiatrist. In 1966, I graduated from Columbia University in New York with Pi Beta Kappa honors. I then attended Yale University School of Medicine and received my M.D. in 1970. After an internship at New York University Bellevue Medical Center, I returned to Yale to complete my education in psychiatry. After that I got a teaching position at the University of Pittsburgh. And two years later he began working in Miami and headed the department of psychopharmacology. There I received general recognition in the fields of biological psychiatry and addiction medicine. After four years at the university, I was promoted to an associate professor of psychiatry in a medical school and also appointed to the position of head of the psychiatry department of a large hospital affiliated with the University of Miami. By that time I already had more than thirty-seven publications on psychiatry.

Years of diligent study taught me to think like a scientist and physiologist, thus forcing me to follow the narrow path of conservatism in my profession. I didn't believe anything that couldn't be proven traditionally. scientific methods. I knew of some research in the field of parapsychology that was being conducted at the best universities in the country, but it did not attract my attention. All this seemed unattainable to me.

And then I met Katherine. For eighteen months, I used basic psychotherapy to help her cope with her illness. When I realized that everything was useless, I decided to resort to hypnosis. While in a trance state for several sessions, she recalled some events from her “past lives,” which turned out to be the key to her recovery. She became something of a conductor of information from the “higher spheres” and with their help discovered some of the secrets of life and death. In just a few months, her symptoms disappeared and she began to live again life to the fullest, much happier than before. I was not ready for this and was shocked by everything that happened.

I don't have a scientific explanation for everything that happened. Apparently, too many factors of human consciousness remain beyond our understanding. It is possible that during hypnosis, Katherine was able to concentrate on the part of the subconscious that contained real memories from a past life, or perhaps she penetrated into what Carl Jung called the “collective unconscious” - the source of energy that surrounds us and contains the memories of the entire human race.

Scientists are just beginning to look for answers to these questions. But today it is clear that society will gain a lot from studying the phenomena of consciousness, soul, life after death and the influence of experience from past lives on our behavior in the present. Obviously, deviations from the norm are allowed within very narrow limits, especially in the fields of medicine, psychiatry, theology and philosophy. Scientifically reliable research in this area is in its infancy. And despite the fact that certain steps are being taken to obtain the necessary information, everything is happening very slowly and, moreover, is meeting resistance from scientists and a number of conservative people.

Throughout human history, people have always resisted new ideas. There are many examples of this. When Galileo discovered the existence of the moons of Jupiter, the astronomers of that era refused to believe it and did not even want to look at these satellites, because the recognition of the latter went against what was considered correct. The same thing is happening now with psychiatrists and other doctors who refuse to take into account the evidence of life after death and reject the possibility of studying memories from past lives. They simply turn a blind eye to it.

This book is my small contribution to the research that is now being carried out in the field of parapsychology, especially those that relate to the experiences we have before birth and after death. Every word you read is true. I didn't add anything, just cut out the repeating parts. I have also changed Katherine's name to maintain confidentiality.

It took me four years to write this book, which means it took me four years to muster the courage to reveal this unconventional information to academia at the risk of my professional reputation.

Chapter 1

When I first saw Katherine, she was wearing a bright scarlet dress, sitting in my waiting room, nervously flipping through a magazine. It was noticeable that she was hardly breathing. For the previous twenty minutes, she had been pacing up and down the corridor outside the psychiatry offices, trying her best to convince herself not to run away.

I went out into the reception area to greet her with a handshake. The woman's hand was cold and wet, which confirmed great nervous tension. Despite the fact that two doctors at our clinic had long advised her to turn to me for help, in fact it took her two months to gain the courage to come to me for a session. And now, finally, she was here.

Katherine – exceptional attractive woman with medium-length blond hair and hazelnut-colored eyes. At that time, she worked as a laboratory assistant at the hospital where I headed the psychiatry department, and also worked part-time as a swimsuit designer. I led her into the office and sat her in a large leather chair. We sat opposite each other, separated only by my semicircular table. Katherine sat back in her chair and was silent, not knowing where to start. I waited, preferring that she decide on this herself, but still, after a few minutes, I myself began to ask about her past. We had to devote our first meeting to finding out the nature of her personality and what brought her to me.

In response to my questions, Katherine told her life story. She was the middle child in a conservative Catholic family living in a small town in Massachusetts. Her brother, three years older than her, was very athletic and enjoyed complete freedom in life. Her little sister was the favorite of both parents.

When Katherine began to talk about her symptoms, she became noticeably tense and nervous. Her speech accelerated, the woman leaned forward and leaned her elbows on the table. It turns out that the unfortunate woman’s life was always filled with fears: she was afraid of water, she was afraid of choking on pills that she found difficult to swallow, she was afraid of airplanes and the dark. And she was terrified of death. And recently her fears have intensified. To feel safe, Katherine often went to bed in her dressing room. Before falling asleep, she suffered from insomnia for two or three hours, and the sleep that followed was very superficial and intermittent. The nightmares and sleepwalking that plagued her childhood years returned again. Day by day, Katherine became more and more depressed.

As Katherine spoke, I felt how much she was suffering. For many years I had helped patients like her cope with their fears, and I was completely confident that I could help her too. I decided that first we would delve into her childhood and try to find the origins of the problem there. Usually, awareness of certain moments of the distant past helps reduce anxiety. If necessary, I could prescribe her a mild anti-anxiety medication to help her feel better. This is the standard treatment for symptoms such as hers, and I usually do not hesitate to recommend tranquilizers and even antidepressants for the relief of chronic and acute attacks of fear and anxiety. Now I try to prescribe these drugs very selectively and only from time to time, if at all - not a single medicine can eliminate the root of the problem. My experience with Katherine and patients like her convinced me of this. Now I know exactly how to treat these symptoms, and not just reduce their severity or suppress them.

So, in the first session with Katherine, I gently tried to push her to memories from her childhood. She did not remember a single episode that was even the slightest bit traumatic for herself, which would help explain where such an avalanche of fears in her life came from. Because she had surprisingly few of them, I thought I might try hypnosis to retrieve repressed memories.

While she was trying to force herself to remember at least something, certain fragments surfaced in her memory. So, when she was about five years old, she was very scared when someone pushed her from the pool tower into the water. However, she said that even before that incident she did not like being in the water. When Katherine was eleven years old, her mother fell into severe depression, for which she was forced to be treated by a psychiatrist and subsequently given electric shock, as a result of which her memory was damaged. What happened to her mother greatly frightened Katherine, but as her mother got better and, in Katherine’s own words, she became “herself” again, her fears went away.

Katherine's father was an experienced alcoholic, and her older brother had to periodically bring him home from the local bar. His binges became more and more frequent, which provoked frequent fights with his mother, after which she became withdrawn and depressed. But Katherine saw that in the family this was considered acceptable.

Things were looking up outside the home. In high school, she met her classmates and easily communicated with friends, most of whom she had known for many years. However, she found it difficult to trust people, especially those outside her small circle of friends. Her religion was simple and unquestionable: she was brought up in strict Catholic traditions and never questioned the plausibility and reasonableness of religious beliefs. She believed that if you were a good Catholic, lived righteously and followed all the rituals, then a person would go to heaven after death, and if not, then to hell. The decision about who goes where is made by God the Father and his Son. I later learned that Katherine doesn't believe in reincarnation. However, apparently she simply lacked knowledge about it, although she had read some Hindu literature. The concept of reincarnation simply went against what her family had taught her all these years. She never read metaphysical or occult books, simply because she was not interested in them. She felt safe within her faith.

After graduating from school, Katherine studied at college for two years and graduated as a technical laboratory assistant. Armed with her profession and inspired by the example of her brother, who had moved to Tampa, Katherine got a job in Miami, at the hospital affiliated with the university's School of Medicine. She moved to Miami in the spring of 1974. She was 21 years old then.

Katherine's life in a small town was simpler than the life that opened up for her in Miami, but she was happy because she was able to escape from family problems. During her first year living here she met Stuart. He was Jewish, married, with two children, and very different from the men Katherine had met before. He was a successful doctor, with a strong and aggressive character. A strong chemical attraction arose between them, their romance was stormy and complex. Something about this man awakened passion in her, as if he had bewitched her. By the time Katherine began therapy with me, her affair with Stuart had lasted for six years and was very stormy. Catherine could not resist Stuart, although he treated her badly, and his constant lies, broken promises and manipulations infuriated her.

Several months before our meeting, Katherine needed surgery to remove a node on her vocal cords. She was very nervous before the operation, but after waking up from the anesthesia in the recovery room, she was completely terrified. It took medical staff several hours to calm her down. After being discharged from the hospital, she began to look for Dr. Edward Poole, a pediatrician and very kind person. Katherine met him while working at a hospital. They understood each other well and became strong friends during that time. Katherine was free to talk to Ed about anything. She told him about her fears, her relationship with Stuart, how she felt, how she was losing control of her life. It was he who insisted that Katherine contact me, only me and no one else from my colleagues. When Ed called me and told me that he had referred his friend to me, he added that only I could fully understand Katherine. However, Katherine did not call me.

Eight weeks have passed. As the head of the psychiatry department, I was so caught up in business that I completely forgot about Ed's call. During this time, Katherine's fears intensified. Dr. Frank Ecker, the head of the surgical department, was superficially acquainted with Katherine - when Frank came into the laboratory, they often teased each other good-naturedly. So, Ecker noticed that she looked unhappy lately and felt that she was tense. He wanted to talk to her several times, but did not dare. One afternoon Frank was driving to a small hospital to give a lecture. On the way, he noticed Katherine's car, which was heading home, and, obeying an unconscious impulse, caught up with her and honked the horn. “You must meet Dr. Weiss! – he yelled through the window. - Immediately!" Although surgeons often act impulsively, Frank himself was surprised at how subtly he felt everything - Katherine’s panic attacks and anxiety became more frequent, becoming more intense and longer lasting. The woman was haunted by two recurring nightmares. In one, she saw herself driving a car across a bridge that was collapsing under her wheels; The car falls into the water, Catherine cannot get out of it and drowns. In the second nightmare, she found herself in a room where it was pitch black. Bumping into various objects, she stumbled and fell, but could not find a way out...

And finally she came to me. During our first meeting with Katherine, I had no idea that my life would be turned upside down, and that the frightened, lost woman sitting across from me would become the catalyst for these changes, and... that I would never be the same.

Brian L. Weiss

We do not die, but are born again! Proof of reincarnation made by a famous psychiatrist and documented

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

A fascinating fusion of mysticism and psychiatry

This book connects psychiatry with mysticism, the search for truth with the existence of eternal life. It reads like a gripping novel and is so captivating that I just couldn't put it down.

Harry Prosen, M.D., Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, Medical College of Wisconsin

Innovative and highly effective treatment

Edith Fiore, PhD, clinical psychologist

Does our life depend on past incarnations?

Andrew I. Slaby, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Fair Oaks Hospital

Reading – A must!

A touching story about a man who experiences an unexpected spiritual awakening. This courageous book opened the possibility of a union between science and metaphysics. A must read to find your soul.

Jeanne Avery, writer

A fascinating case story proving the effectiveness of psychotherapy of past incarnations. The book will be a real discovery for many who doubt the possibility of reincarnation.

Richard Sutphen, writer

For everyone who is having a hard time

Read this book! It is absolutely clear that five stars is not enough to give this book a fair rating. This book completely changed my views on what is important in this life - no matter how hard I want, I simply cannot do it justice. This is one of those books that I keep several copies of to give to someone who is having a really hard time to read, especially those who have experienced the death of a loved one or are close to someone who is dying. There is nothing more effective when counseling and working with grief; all the fiction on this topic simply did not stand close. Read it, even if everything is fine in your life, believe me, everything will get even better! Throw out all the self-help books and buy several copies of this book.

Ameesha Mehta

Still don't believe in reincarnation?

Janice Taylor

A book that changes your outlook on life

Dr. Weiss integrates concepts from traditional psychotherapy into the exploration of her patient's spiritual unconscious. My outlook on life and myself will never be the same.

Joel Rubenstein, MD, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and practicing psychiatrist

Acknowledgments

Dedicated to Carol, my wife, whose love has nourished and supported me for as long as I can remember. We are together until the end of our lives.

My thanks to the children, Jordan and Amy, who have forgiven me for neglecting them so much during the writing of this book.

I also thank Nikolai Pashkov for transcribing audio recordings of therapy sessions.

I found the advice of my editor, Julie Rubin, very valuable after she read the first part of my work.

My heartfelt thanks to Barbara Hess, my publisher at Simon & Schuster, for her expertise and courage.

I am also grateful to all those who helped this book come into being.

Preface

Years of diligent study taught me to think like a scientist and physiologist, thus forcing me to follow the narrow path of conservatism in my profession. I didn't believe anything that couldn't be proven using traditional scientific methods. I knew of some research in the field of parapsychology that was being conducted at the best universities in the country, but it did not attract my attention. All this seemed unattainable to me.

And then I met Katherine. For eighteen months, I used basic psychotherapy to help her cope with her illness. When I realized that everything was useless, I decided to resort to hypnosis. While in a trance state for several sessions, she recalled some events from her “past lives,” which turned out to be the key to her recovery. She became something of a conductor of information from the “higher spheres” and with their help discovered some of the secrets of life and death. In just a few months, her symptoms disappeared and the girl began to live her life to the fullest, much happier than before. I was not ready for this and was shocked by everything that happened.

Brian Weiss (1944, Brian Weiss) - psychotherapist.

In 1966 he graduated with honors from Columbia University in New York. I received my M.D. degree from Yale University School of Medicine in 1970. He continued his internship at Bellevue Hospital at New York University Medical Center and returned to Yale University to complete his residency in psychiatry.

Upon graduation, he began teaching at the University of Pittsburgh, and two years later headed the psychopharmacological department at the University of Miami. While occupying this position, he achieved recognition in the field of biological psychiatry and the study of drug and alcohol addiction. Four years later he was promoted to the position of professor of psychiatry at a medical school, and he was also appointed chief psychiatrist at a large university hospital in Miami. By that time, he had published thirty-seven scientific articles and book chapters in his specialty.

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How often have you had the desire to look into the future?

Brian Weiss talks about how to do this for the first time in his book “One Soul, Many Incarnations.” It turns out that we can travel into our future lives and influence their outcome, while finding joy and healing in real life. As one of the founders of regression therapy, which immerses people in their past lives, Dr. Weiss went even further by demonstrating and scientifically substantiating the therapeutic effect of traveling not only into past lives, but also into future ones.

Citing dozens of stories containing detailed descriptions journeys into past and future lives, Dr. Weiss shows how the choices we make today will determine the quality of our lives in the future. Using our own examples patients doctor Weiss demonstrates how the therapeutic methods of regression and progression can transform human life.

Brian L. Weiss

We do not die, but are born again! Proof of reincarnation made by a famous psychiatrist and documented

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

A fascinating fusion of mysticism and psychiatry

This book connects psychiatry with mysticism, the search for truth with the existence of eternal life. It reads like a gripping novel and is so captivating that I just couldn't put it down.

Harry Prosen, M.D., Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, Medical College of Wisconsin

Innovative and highly effective treatment

Edith Fiore, PhD, clinical psychologist

Does our life depend on past incarnations?

Andrew I. Slaby, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Fair Oaks Hospital

Reading - A must!

A touching story about a man who experiences an unexpected spiritual awakening. This courageous book opened the possibility of a union between science and metaphysics. A must read to find your soul.

Jeanne Avery, writer

A fascinating case story proving the effectiveness of psychotherapy of past incarnations. The book will be a real discovery for many who doubt the possibility of reincarnation.

Richard Sutphen, writer

For everyone who is having a hard time

Read this book! It is absolutely clear that five stars is not enough to give this book a fair rating. This book completely changed my views on what is important in this life - no matter how hard I try, I simply cannot do it justice. This is one of those books that I keep several copies of to give to someone who is having a really hard time to read, especially those who have experienced the death of a loved one or are close to someone who is dying. There is nothing more effective when counseling and working with grief; all the fiction on this topic simply did not stand close. Read it, even if everything is fine in your life, believe me, everything will get even better! Throw out all the self-help books and buy several copies of this book.

Ameesha Mehta

Still don't believe in reincarnation?

Janice Taylor

A book that changes your outlook on life

Dr. Weiss integrates concepts from traditional psychotherapy into the exploration of her patient's spiritual unconscious. My outlook on life and myself will never be the same.

Joel Rubenstein, MD, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a practicing psychiatrist

Acknowledgments

Dedicated to Carol, my wife, whose love has nourished and supported me for as long as I can remember. We are together until the end of our lives.

My thanks to the children, Jordan and Amy, who have forgiven me for neglecting them so much during the writing of this book.

I also thank Nikolai Pashkov for transcribing audio recordings of therapy sessions.

I found the advice of my editor, Julie Rubin, very valuable after she read the first part of my work.

My heartfelt thanks to Barbara Hess, my publisher at Simon & Schuster, for her expertise and courage.

I am also grateful to all those who helped this book come into being.

Preface

Years of diligent study taught me to think like a scientist and physiologist, thus forcing me to follow the narrow path of conservatism in my profession. I didn't believe anything that couldn't be proven using traditional scientific methods. I knew of some research in the field of parapsychology that was being conducted at the best universities in the country, but it did not attract my attention. All this seemed unattainable to me.

And then I met Katherine. For eighteen months, I used basic psychotherapy to help her cope with her illness. When I realized that everything was useless, I decided to resort to hypnosis. While in a trance state for several sessions, she recalled some events from her “past lives,” which turned out to be the key to her recovery. She became something of a conductor of information from the “higher spheres” and with their help discovered some of the secrets of life and death. In just a few months, her symptoms disappeared and the girl began to live her life to the fullest, much happier than before. I was not ready for this and was shocked by everything that happened.

I don't have a scientific explanation for everything that happened. Apparently, too many factors of human consciousness remain beyond our understanding. It is possible that during hypnosis, Katherine was able to concentrate on the part of the subconscious that contained actual memories from a past life, or perhaps she penetrated into what Carl Jung called the “collective unconscious” - the source of energy that surrounds us and contains the memories of the entire human race.

Brian Weiss

After death we will be born again! Irrefutable evidence

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

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This book connects psychiatry with mysticism, the search for truth with the existence of eternal life. It reads like a gripping novel and is so captivating that I just couldn't put it down.

Harry Prosen, M.D., Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, Medical College of Wisconsin

Janice Taylor

This somewhat provocative and beautifully written book goes beyond the usual psychotherapy books and presents an innovative and highly effective treatment. The book is a must read for those involved in psychiatry.

Edith Fiore, PhD, clinical psychologist

Read this book! It is absolutely certain that five stars is not enough to rate it fairly. This book completely changed my views on what is important in this life - no matter how hard I want, I simply cannot do it justice. This is one of those books that I keep several copies of to give to someone who is having a really hard time to read, especially those who have experienced the death of a loved one or are close to someone who is dying. There is nothing more effective when counseling and working with grief; all the fiction on this topic simply did not stand close. Read it, even if everything is fine in your life, believe me, everything will get even better! Throw out all the self-help books and buy several copies of this book.

Ameesha Mehta

Andrew I. Slaby, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Fair Oaks Hospital

Dr. Weiss integrates concepts from traditional psychotherapy into the exploration of her patient's spiritual unconscious. My outlook on life and myself will never be the same.

Joel Rubenstein, MD, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a practicing psychiatrist

A touching story about a man who experiences an unexpected spiritual awakening. This courageous book opened the possibility of a union between science and metaphysics. A must read to find your soul.

Jeanne Avery, writer

A fascinating case story proving the effectiveness of psychotherapy of past incarnations. The book will be a real discovery for many who doubt the possibility of reincarnation.

Richard Sutphen, writer

Acknowledgments

Dedicated to Carol, my wife, whose love has nourished and supported me for as long as I can remember. We are together until the end of our lives.

My thanks to the children, Jordan and Amy, who have forgiven me for neglecting them so much during the writing of this book.

I also thank Nikolai Pashkov for transcribing audio recordings of therapy sessions.

I found the advice of my editor, Julie Rubin, very valuable after she read the first part of my work.

My heartfelt thanks to Barbara Hess, my publisher at Simon & Schuster, for her expertise and courage.

I am also grateful to all those who helped this book come into being.

Preface

My life at that time, unlike hers, flowed measuredly and calmly. My marriage was strong, we had two small children, and my career was taking off. From the very beginning, it seemed that my life was going along a smooth, well-trodden path. I grew up in a loving family. Success in scientific affairs came easily to me, and in my second year I decided to become a psychiatrist. In 1966, I graduated from Columbia University in New York with Pi Beta Kappa honors. I then attended Yale University School of Medicine and received my M.D. in 1970. After an internship at New York University Bellevue Medical Center, I returned to Yale to complete my education in psychiatry. After that, I got a teaching position at the University of Pittsburgh. And two years later he began working in Miami and headed the department of psychopharmacology. There I received general recognition in the fields of biological psychiatry and addiction medicine. After four years at the university, I was promoted to associate professor of psychiatry at the medical school and also appointed to the position of head of the psychiatry department of a large hospital affiliated with the University of Miami. By that time I already had more than thirty-seven publications on psychiatry.

Years of diligent study taught me to think like a scientist and physiologist, thus forcing me to follow the narrow path of conservatism in my profession. I didn't believe anything that couldn't be proven using traditional scientific methods. I knew of some research in the field of parapsychology that was being conducted at the best universities in the country, but it did not attract my attention. All this seemed unattainable to me.

And then I met Katherine. For eighteen months, I used basic psychotherapy to help her cope with her illness. When I realized that everything was useless, I decided to resort to hypnosis. While in a trance state for several sessions, she recalled some events from her “past lives,” which turned out to be the key to her recovery. She became something of a conductor of information from the “higher spheres” and with their help discovered some of the secrets of life and death. In just a few months, her symptoms disappeared and the girl began to live her life to the fullest, much happier than before. I was not ready for this and was shocked by everything that happened.

Brian Weiss proof of reincarnation read. “We do not die, but are born again! Proof of reincarnation made by a renowned psychiatrist and documented." Brian Weiss