Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and Past-Life Therapy

Amazing book. Can’t wait to read the rest. WOW.

This book gave me a lot to think about. It follows a psychiatrist and his patient through an unexpected healing journey that challenges the way we understand life, faith, and what comes after. While it explores ideas outside traditional Christian teachings, I still found value in the underlying message about love, compassion, and spiritual growth. What stood out most was how deeply it explores healing, not just of the mind, but of the heart. It reminded me that faith and openness can both lead to peace, even when the path looks different from what we expect. Whether you read it out of curiosity or reflection, it’s a unique story that invites deeper thought about God’s role in our lives and the mysteries of the soul. Pro tip: approach it with an open heart, it’s more about hope and healing than doctrine.

I loved this book and believe in the truth it is providing. I am comforted to know that we are all on a journey both shared and intensely personal. As a faithful Catholic, I find the lessons imparted to be consistent with my faith and a confirmation that God’s plan in in action.

Very good book if you are starting on your spiritual path,it will be a good read. it’s intriguing, has a lot of good information, I’ve read in one afternoon and I’m a lazy reader. However there is something about how the story is told that gives me a feeling that a lot of what was written had some sort of ego driven translation of messages by a brain conditioned to religion, later on Dr. Weiss cites the kabalah which in my opinion is the message from spirit to highly religious individuals. There are some fear, hierarchy and some sort or punishment vibe the way the story is told, that I don’t think it translates the absolute love in the spirit world. Both of the Psychiatrist and patient were religious people I believe this is why a lot of messages probably got lost in translation thru their religious filter. Also I think he did not take proper care of Catherine because he was too fascinated with himself and messages that he tried to gather more information about his past lives and his loved ones than focus solely on his patient. Spirit needed him to stop being skeptical and help her using their guidance, that’s why they had to talk about his son but he understood it was about him, when it was just a synchronicity to wake him up. I also believed he had a pre conception of Catherine to be less intelligent therefore less worthy of the spiritual messages. This book is about his first time and contact with the spiritual world we understand and I hope he got better with time.

To read this book, You must suspend any preconceived notions about reincarnation. If you absolutely don’t believe that it’s possible, then this book may not be for you. If you have an open mind & think there is still much in this world that we don’t know & can’t explain, you will enjoy it very much.

I have had a Near Death Experience where I encountered my younger brother, David, who passed away a month before his sixteenth birthday. He was there waiting for and welcoming me. The experience has changed my priorities in my living experience.

My brother recommended Many Lives, Many Masters to me. Had he not, I probably would not have read it. But this is one area where we really connect (intellectually) when we fail in other areas (emotionally, spiritually). I used to believe in psychic phenomena. I used to believe I was actually psychic to a degree, all topics addressed in my memoir. I was born and raised Catholic but shied from Catholicism as the Church illustrated God as something to be terrified of and terrorized by. This was back in the 80’s when I was a wee child but I still never was able to get over the psychological trauma and the indelible God impression that was imprinted in my mind and soul with more fearful connotations than Satan. I always preferred to believe in the mystical things, but whatever I believed in shattered when my mother died young of a heart attack at the age of 52. For over a decade, I’ve struggled with this impossible grief and inability to make sense of anything. I never asked my brother why he read this book. He never told me. He just said to read it and that it might change my perspective on things. So I read it—in almost one sitting, which is practically damn near impossible with an 8 month old at your heels. I read some of it to him (because who says you can’t read a baby “adult” books?). At first I questioned whether this was some grand scheme that was concocted for mild fame and fortune… or at least some best selling recognition. But as I read more, the story rang true. It was either brilliant concocted with randomly missing pieces and gaps that just never were filled in to give it a ring of truth to it… or it just was… possibly true. I’ve decided that I’m going to believe it’s true. I am glad I have made that decision because in doing so it has given me the first kind of peace I have felt in over a decade. I have a little bit of hope that one day I will be reconnected with my mother, my best friend and that we will have the chance to work though our relationship in a way we didn’t get to in this life time. I’ve decided I’m going to use this life and not waste another second of it. I feel so much lighter making that decision. I have more patience with my little baby. It’s hard. I am not a single mother but I live like one. I only see my fiance on the weekends and my precious little baby zaps all of my energy but I started to see things differently, even in my moments of exhaustion. I’ve started to view him as a little being who chose to come back to this earth to be reunited with me and I have to do whatever is in my power to guide him on this journey and to help him learn his life lessons so we can both reach higher planes when we transition. I feel blessed that my little man chose me, not burdened anymore – which I was sometimes feeling in my isolation. I even like to think that my mother and my grandmother had a hand in sending him down to me from “Heaven” or another plane/dimension…. somewhere up there. It has given me this immense appreciation for my little one and this book has given me a new way to look at life. I saw a mother behind me in the Starbucks drivethru today and I picked up the tab for her order. I just wanted to share something with her – mother-to-mother, to do a nice deed for someone else. I want to learn these life lessons not only for myself but I think it’s important for anyone that knows this information to share it and help others to reach their potential on this plane so they can transition over with ease when the time comes. I have enough burdens in this life. I don’t want to carry them over when I cross. Maybe it’s all BS. But maybe it’s not. And the worst thing that can happen if it is BS and living like it’s not – is that we make the world a better place, regardless of what happens when it ends or when we end.

To be honest, I never believed in reincarnation in my life. I have always been very closed-minded about it, and dismissed it every time it was brought up. Whenever people tried to talk to me about it, I just shut down my mind, believing it was ridiculous, and couldn't understand how anyone could believe in it. My wife convinced me to buy the book, but before we started reading it, I was very skeptical and didn't think it was going to be any good. I figured it was just another gimmick or hoax. However, once we started it, my mind began to open. In the first few chapters, I was still a little skeptical, but as we read the book, I started believing in reincarnation more and more. It just started to make sense, and now I really truly believe in reincarnation. And I want to try to figure out how to be a better person and fix my traumas/faults, so I don't have to carry them into my next life. The story is very well written, easy to read, and easy to understand. It is written like a novel, but the story is a true account detailing therapy sessions of Dr. Weiss and past lives lived by one of his patients. The more we read, the more I wanted to keep reading. This is a great book that I recommend everyone read, even if you are closed-minded like I was. Thank you for changing my mind and changing my life Dr. Weiss!

Amazing book. Mind opening.

日本語訳で読んだところ、とても感銘しました。。霊感超スーパー保持者の自分が癒される思いでした^^。すぐれた文献を世にだしてくださったワイス博士と日本語訳にしてくださった山川夫妻に感謝の気持ちでいっぱいです。なんか、不思議なことが起きる・・・・と感じていたのは自分だけじゃないんだーとほっとしました。

Sehr gute Produktqualität. So ein tolles Buch, die Geschichten sind sehr interessant. Absolut empfehlenswert. Versand in Ordnung und schnell angekommen.

This books give you the humbleness and actually we can relate with own self and our situation..I wish everyone can read this book

This books only reinforces what Allan Kardec's Spiritism teaches us about death, reincarnation, moral evolution, love, charity, etc. Excellent book.