Voice of the Spirit

Mystical Experiences -- BRIAN WEISS, M.D. on Past Lives and Reincarnation

In March, 2007, I had the pleasure of attending a lecture by Brian L. Weiss, M.D.  Weiss is the author of numerous books, one of which I’d read a few years earlier entitled Many Lives, Many Masters. In this book, he describes his initial skepticism and subsequent belief in the existence of past lives and reincarnation.

While treating one of his patients, a girl in her 20s by the name of Catherine, the girl started recanting things while under hypnosis that she couldn’t possibly have known. With Catherine’s permission, Dr. Weiss began to record their sessions. Through regression under hypnosis, Catherine’s symptoms eventually disappeared one by one until she was completely cured of every one of her ailments.

At first Weiss couldn’t believe what he was seeing. His medical training prevented him from believing in such things as reincarnation or past lives. But through his work with Catherine, he became convinced without a doubt that these concepts were authentic and the results provable.

And as he began to adopt these notions, he too, began to change as a person. He felt a new sense of joy, hope, and purpose in his life. Others remarked how much happier he seemed.   

This is similar to what happened to me, but in my case, the change didn't sneak up quietly, it was more like the “Big Bang!”

Other Worlds

A friend I hadn’t seen in over a year dropped by unexpectedly today. He is a highly intelligent, scientific-minded person. We talked about being morally responsible to our fellow human beings because we are all connected to one another.

He said his wife had a quote taped to their refrigerator that read: “We’re here not to see through one another, but to see one another through.”

“Ah, yes, I believe that too,” I said, familiar with the quote.

During our conversation, he mentioned some astonishing discoveries made by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (HST):

“They pointed the telescope into black space, where they couldn’t see any light at all. And what the telescope showed were 100 billion galaxies. One hundred billion galaxies they had no idea existed!"

I checked on NASA's website to learn more about it:

“…in 1999 the Hubble Space Telescope estimated that there were 125 billion galaxies in the universe, and recently with the new camera HST has observed 3,000 visible galaxies, which is twice as much as they observed before with the old camera. We're emphasizing "visible" because observations with radio telescopes, infrared cameras, x-ray cameras, etc. would detect other galaxies that are not detected by Hubble. As observations keep on going and astronomers explore more of our universe, the number of galaxies detected will increase.”

Over 125 billion galaxies? I found it odd that earlier in the day I had written the following in my notebook:

“There are times when I seem to see the world through different eyes, as if there is a transparent film coating my field of vision and everything looks different. But it’s more than that. What I’m perceiving with my eyes doesn’t just appear different, it also feels different, as if this transparent film I’m looking through is part of me and yet separate. It feels like it’s hovering above the world, above the physical me that’s here being the observer. This “extension” of me is floating above my immediate consciousness and telling me to quit taking everything so seriously because it’s all just a game anyway. And what we are meant to do with this life is enjoy the game. Suddenly it doesn’t matter what I eat, what I drive, how I look or where I live because it’s all impermanent. It’s icing on the cake.