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Understanding God
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Dr. Michael Newton's
Research
Past-Life Regression &
Life-Between-Lives
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Dr. Michael Newton
developed and pioneered the most advanced form of
hypnotherapy techniques in spiritual regression. He spiritually
regressed over 7000 individuals in a span of 40 years. The most
important findings were highlighted in his two best-selling books,
Journey of Souls with spiritual regressions of 29 subjects,
and Destiny of Souls with spiritual regressions of 67
subjects.
All of his subjects
recalled their stunning past-life experiences and life between lives and
articulately
revealed the graphic and groundbreaking details. Amazingly all his
subjects witnessed and revealed very similar experiences and even
used the same words to describe the spiritual events.
Dr. Michael Newton's startling discoveries can be summed up as
follows:
How
It Feels to Die
Journey
and Destiny of Soul Right After Death
How
Your Life Will Be Reviewed by Council of Elders (Wise Beings)
How
Spirits Live in Small Soul
Groups/Clusters in the Spirit World
How
Spirits in the Spirit World Connect with and Comfort the Living
What
Souls Do During Life Between Lives in the Eternal Realm
The
Different Levels of Souls: Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced
The
Truth about Soulmates, Spiritual Guides, Council of Elders
The
Truth about
The Higher Presence
(Divine Purple Light),
Oneness or Creator
The
Purpose of Life on Earth (Karma is there!)
The
Soul-brain Connection
How
Disturbed Souls Become Ghosts & Demons and Attack Innocent Humans
How &
Why You Choose Certain Body to Return to Earth
And
Many Other Graphic and Groundbreaking Details
In coming decades, if not in years from now, this kind of clinical research should be built and
expanded until we have a detailed understanding of life on the higher
dimensions. With Dr. Michael Newton's work and those of similar
investigators we are finally gaining an understanding of life in
higher dimensions based on research and first-hand reports, rather
than speculation and blind belief.
Biography of Dr. Michael Newton
Michael Duff Newton, PhD (75-year-old in 2007), holds a doctorate in
Counseling Psychology, and is a
California State-certified Master Hypnotherapist, a member of the
American Counseling Association and founder of The Newton Institute
(TNI).
He has been on the faculty of higher educational institutions as a
teacher while active in private practice in Los Angeles. In
addition, Dr. Newton has been a corporate consultant and worked as a
behavioral counselor and group therapy director for community mental
health centers and spiritual renewal organizations in cooperation
with hospital and social service agencies. He has been a
hypnotherapist for over 45 years and a LBL therapist for over 30
years. He is considered a pioneer in uncovering the mysteries about
life after death through the use of Spiritual Regression. He devoted
his private hypnotherapy practice to behavior modification and
helping people access their higher spiritual selves. Through the
development of his own age-regression technique, Dr. Newton
discovered that it is possible to take his clients beyond their
past-life experiences to uncover a more meaningful life—that is the
soul existence in the spirit world between lives.
He has taught and certified over 100 practicing Hypnotherapists the
Life Between Lives training course around the world.
Three of his best selling books “Journey of Souls, Destiny of Souls
and Life between Lives” have been translated into over 25 languages:
Dr. Newton has appeared on numerous radio and television shows and
is an active speaker on the lecture circuit explaining his
discoveries and beliefs about our immortal life in the spirit
world. You can see him speaking on You Tube. Click on the link
below:
Watch Dr. Michael
Newton Speaking About His Experience on You Tube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QDT58Q6Zxo
As
of November 2003, Dr. Newton has officially retired from active
clinical practice of seeing clients; He no longer teaches the entire
coursework personally; However he still works parttime, lecturing
and training.
Dr. Michael Newton is an author, a historian, amateur astronomer and
world traveler. Dr. Newton and his wife, Peggy, now reside in the
Sierra Nevada Mountains Range (In Spanish, it means Snowy Range) of
northern California—the highest mountain peak in the United States
outside Alaska.
Awards
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In 1998
Dr. Newton received the National Association of Transpersonal
Hypnotherapists (NATH) annual award of "Most Unique Contribution by
a Hypnotherapist in Bridging Mind, Body and Spirit."
He was also honored for his years of clinical soul memory research
and discoveries into the cosmology of the afterlife.
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In 2001 he was a winner of the annual Independent Publishers
Association Book Award, at the Annual Book Exposition for his 2nd
book “Destiny of Souls.”
Dr. Michael Newton’s Best-Selling Books
1. Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives (1994),
[Examined
29 subjects under special clinical hypnosis techniques]
2. Destiny of Souls: New Case Studies of Life Between Lives (2000)
and
[Examined
67 subjects under special clinical hypnosis techniques]
3. Life Between Lives (2004) published by Llewellyn.
[A
Step-by-Step Guide Written for Practitioners]
All these three books have been translated into over 25 languages
thus far.
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Dr. Michael Newton’s First Case of Past-Life-Regression
Dr. Michael Newton began studying
traditional hypnosis at a very young age and placed his first subject in a
hypnotic trance in 1947 (He was close to 15-years-old at that time).
Dr. Michael Newton was skeptic by nature and focused on traditional
hypnotherapy, as his training was mostly on pain management to help
uncover and heal childhood trauma. At the beginning he used to
refuse requests to do past-life-regression, believing
that this was
unorthodox and rather unethical.
However, one day this all changed when he was stumbled into past
life regression by accident while performing a routine hypnotherapy
session for pain management. A young man came to Dr. Newton’s clinic
complaining of chronic pain on his right side.
Dr. Newton first tried a regular hypnotherapy session in which the
client made stabbing motions to describe the kind of pain he has
been feeling throughout his life. Dr. Newton instructed the client
to go to the source of the pain and was actually searching for an
explanation of this pain in his childhood of the current life, but
the client took a brave step and suddenly regressed himself into his
past life as a First World War soldier who was killed by a fatal
wound from a bayonet in France. As the client was regressed into his
past life, the source and root cause of pain was discovered and
immediately the pain disappeared. This experience changed Dr.
Michael Newton’s career as hypnotherapist forever. Since then, he
has begun working
on past life regressions extensively.
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Dr. Michael Newton’s First Case of Life-Between-Lives-Regression
Dr. Newton stumbled onto life-between-lives-regression by
accident through a routine past-life-regression hypnosis session.
Dr. Newton described about his first experience with his client as
follows: One day a woman walked into his clinic complaining
about a problem of depression, claiming she has been experiencing a
sense of deep loneliness and finding herself isolated from the
society and that she has been missing and feeling a terrible
obsession to be with her old friends. When Dr. Newton asked her if
those old friends were childhood friends of this life, she replied
quickly with a “NO” answer.
Dr. Newton took her to deep hypnosis session. He walked her through
several past lives and based on her answers, Dr. Newton determined
that those friends were not from any past life. Dr. Newton later
took her to super-conscious state and inadvertently used the word
“group,” which he later found that as the “key word” in spiritual
regression process, inquiring if she ever lived in a group of
friends. Dr. Newton finally asked her if there was ever a time in
her existence that she was not lonely because she was with her
“group” of friends. She immediately replied with a big YES. Dr.
Newton instructed her to travel to the source of that group. Immediately after
that, she exclaimed that
“THEY ARE THERE, MY COMPANIONS, I SEE THEM ALL RIGHT NOW,”
pointing her finger towards his office wall. When Dr. Newton asked
her if they were her friends in her past life, she replied NO with
confidence, and described that she is in her spirit world at her
eternal home with her eternal soul mates (there were 8 of them),
whom she has been deeply missing throughout her life. She cried with
overwhelming joy after she visited her eternal group/cluster of companions
in that spiritual regression session.
This experience opened the door for Dr. Newton’s new research
interest on “Life-Between-Lives.” Since then, Dr. Newton has become
obsessed with what had occurred, replaying the tape over and over
again, making refinements with other clients, and slowly this
complex jigsaw puzzle began to come together. After this amazing
experience, he intensified his research interest on Life-Between-Lives session with his clients, and discovered the detailed,
stunning and groundbreaking details about the Spirit World¾a
Realm where souls travel to and live after death.
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Books of Dr. Michael Newton |
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1. Journey Of Souls: Case Studies of Life
Between Lives
(Oh, My god I am not Really Dead, Am I?)
Author: Michael Newton, PhD
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$14.95
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2. Destiny of Souls: New Case Studies of Life
Between Lives (Paperback)
Author: Michael Newton, PhD
List Price:
$16.95
Price: $11.53 |
3. Life Between Lives: Hypnotherapy for
Spiritual Regression (Paperback)
Author: Michael Newton, PhD
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$14.95
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Dr.
Brian Weiss's Research
Past-Life Regression &
Space-Between-Lives or Life-Between Lives
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Biography of Dr. Brian Weiss:
Brian L. Weiss, MD (born in Brooklyn in 1944) is one of the
world's foremost experts in the hypnotic past-life-regression therapy,
and one of the first medical doctors to explore the past lives of his
patients as a means of therapy. Dr. Weiss owns a private practice in
Miami, Florida, USA, staffed with highly experienced hypnotherapists,
psychologists and social workers who conduct past-life-regression
sessions and spiritual psychotherapy sessions to those in need. In
addition, Dr. Weiss conducts national and international seminars and
hands-on training workshops on past-life-regression therapy. His wife
Carole K. Weiss, MSW, has worked with him since 1981 and has been
co-training on past-life-regression therapy with him since 1995.
Dr.
Brian L. Weiss is a psychiatrist by profession and bestselling author
who currently lives in Miami, Florida, USA. He holds a BA in Chemistry
from Columbia University in 1966, a Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude,
graduate and received his medical degree (MD) at Yale Medical School
in 1970. At the age of 35, he became the first Chief of Psychiatry at
Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami, Florida, and a professor at the
University of Miami's medical school.
He
is currently the Chairman Emeritus of psychiatry at the Mt. Sinai
Medical Center, Miami, Florida.
Dr.
Weiss Met Catherine in 1980 Who Changed His Life
As a traditional psychotherapist, Dr. Weiss spent years in the
disciplined study of the human psychology, training his mind to
think as a scientist and a physician. In his earlier life, Dr. Weiss
considered himself as a materialistic person who rarely gave much thought
to anything mystical, philosophical or spiritual.
He
held steadfastly to conservatism in his profession, and used to argue
against any spiritual thing that could not be proved by traditional scientific
methods.
But this all
changed when he met his 27-year-old patient named “Catherine”, in
1980, who came to his office desperately seeking help for her anxiety,
panic attacks, and phobias.
For 18 months, Dr. Weiss used conventional methods of treatment to
help Catherine overcome her traumas. When nothing seemed to work, he
tried traditional hypnosis, which, he explains, is an excellent tool
to help a patient remember long-forgotten incidents. There is nothing
mysterious about it. It is just a state of focused concentration.
Under the instruction of a trained hypnotist, the patient’s body
relaxes, causing the memory to sharpen, eliciting memories of
long-forgotten traumas that were disrupting their lives.
After inducing a trance, Dr. Weiss asked Catherine to go back to the
origin of the time from which her symptoms arose. Much to his
astonishment, that hypnotic suggestion regressed her back to a time
approximately 4000 years ago
in a place like Babylon where she died in a flood,
and had originally suffered the traumatic experiences that were the
root causes of her present-day problems.
At first Dr. Weiss, influenced by his own skepticism, thought
Catherine was experiencing a fantasy of some false memories, or maybe
remembering a movie. In any case, her fear of drowning disappeared.
Over the next few months, in a series of trance-like states, Dr. Weiss
regressed Catherine to many more past lives and with each regression,
another fear disappeared. Painful acts of past life memories were
proved to be the causative factors of her recurring nightmares,
anxiety attack and panic attack symptoms. She remembered altogether
86 past lives in physical state, and discovered that she lived in
different places on the planet Earth both as female and male. She
recalled vividly the details of each birth, her name, her family
members, her physical appearance,
the landscape, and how she was killed by stabbing in one life, by
drowning or by illness in another. And in each lifetime she
experienced myriad events making progress to fulfill all of the
agreements and all of the Karmic debts that were accumulated by her
actions.
Catherine
Revealed Startling Details to Dr. Weiss
During a past-life-regression session, Catherine found herself
unexpectedly regressed to a spiritual state of space-between-lives or
life-between-lives where she met with many Masters, highly evolved and
enlightened higher beings. From this spiritual state, Catherine
delivered the following two stunning messages:
1.
Catherine delivered a message to Dr. Weiss from his father, who died
long ago, by revealing his father’s name (Avrom) correctly in
Hebrew language—a name she could not have known.
2.
Catherine delivered another stunning message to Dr. Weiss from his
first-born son (Adam) who died when he was just 23 days old
from a very rare heart condition.
Dr. Weiss’s skepticism was totally eroded
as a result of these astonishing messages from Catherine.
He was fully convinced that the past life memories, reincarnation and
the spiritual state of life-between-life are indeed true. And his life
would never be the same. He has done detailed past-life-regressions of
multiple lives in dozens of more patients. None of these patients was
psychotic, hallucinating, or experiencing multiple personality
disorders.
After twenty years of diligent research through conducting hypnotic
sessions, he produced five remarkable books, as listed below,
publishing his groundbreaking discoveries of past-life-memories and
life-between-life revelations.
1. Many Lives, Many Masters
2. Through Time Into Healing
3. Only Love Is Real
4. Messages from the Masters
5. Same Soul, Many Bodies
Dr.
Weiss's 1st Book “Many Lives, Many Master"
In his 1st book, “Many Lives, Many Masters,” Dr. Weiss
reported the true story of a prominent psychiatrist, Himself, his
young patient Catherine, the results of Past-Life-Regression therapy,
and Messages (Remarkable Revelations) from the Masters that changed
both their lives.
Messages From the Masters
Catherine during her regressions floated out of her body after her
death of past lives. Dr. Weiss knew that she never read the studies of
Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross or Dr. Raymond Moody, who have both written
books about Near Death Experiences. Yet she revealed similar or even
more experiences to those described in those publications. As she
floated out of her body after each death, she repeatedly said: “I am
Aware of a Bright Light; It’s the Wonderful Light; You Get Energy from
this Light.” Then, while waiting to be reborn in the in-between-lives
state, she met with the Masters and learnt from them the great wisdom
and became a conduit for transcendental knowledge. From what Catherine
said she learnt from the Masters, Dr. Weiss summarized her sacred
revelations as follows:
Teachings
From the Voices of the Master Spirits:
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1.
Our task is to learn on this planet, to become God-like through
knowledge. By knowledge we approach God, and then we can rest. Then we
come back to teach and help others.
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2. There are many gods, for God is in each of us.
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3. We have to be on different planes at different times. Each one is a
level of higher consciousness. What plane we go to depends upon how
far we’ve progressed.
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4. We must share our knowledge with other people. We all have
abilities far beyond what we use. You should check your voices, if you
do not, you carry them over with you to another life, when you decide
you are strong enough to master the external problems, then you will
no longer have them in your next life.
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5. Everybody’s path is basically the same. We all must learn certain
attitudes while we’re in physical state. “Charity, Hope, Faith, and
Love”
are the topics that we must master in order to know them
full well.
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6.
Everything is energy. Humans can only see the outside, but you can go
much deeper. Being in a physical state is not normal. Being in
spiritual state is natural. When we are sent back to this physical
life, it’s to learn new things in life. In the spirit world you have
to wait, and then your going back to physical life is renewed.
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7. The fear of death, that no amount of money or power can neutralize,
remains within us. But if people knew that life is endless so we never
die; we were never really born, this fear would dissolve. We have
lived countless times before and would live countless times again, and
spirits are around us to help while in physical state and after death,
in spiritual state. We and our deceased loved ones would join these
guardian angels.
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8.
Acts of violence and injustices against people do not go unnoticed or
unnoted, but those evil people will pay their accumulated Karma in the
future lifetime or lifetimes to come.
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9. Everything comes when it must come. A life cannot be rushed. We
must accept what comes to us at a given time, life is endless, we just
pass through different phases. There is no end. Time is not as we see
time, but rather in lessons that are learned.
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10. After death, we get to the spiritual plane, we keep growing there too. When we arrive, we’re burned out. We have to go through a renewal
stage, a learning stage, and a stage of decision. We decide when and
where we want to return to physical body, and for what reasons.
Our body is just a
vehicle for us in that life while we’re here on Earth. It is our soul and our
spirit that last forever.
How Did
Catherine Reach the Masters?
To reach or attract ”Messages From the Masters,” the subject should
travel much deeper levels beyond past-life-regressions and
reincarnation. Dr. Weiss called this field “psychospiritual
psychotherapy” which includes all elements: regression therapy,
understanding at a deeper level, spiritual roots and understanding a
lot about love. Love is the basic energy, binding force and it is the
love that can help to dissolve fear and anxiety disorders. Catherine
successfully traveled through those levels when she revealed Messages
from the Masters. As a result, her anxiety disorders were wiped out by
the divine love.
Dr. Weiss believes that, under hypnosis, Catherine was able to focus
in on the part of her subconscious mind that stored actual past-life
memories, or perhaps she had tapped into what the psychoanalyst Carl
Jung termed “the Collective Unconscious,” the energy source that
surrounds us containing the memories of the entire human race.
Hinduism
Versus Dr. Weiss’s Research Findings
Reincarnation and past-life–experiences maybe new to Dr. Weiss and his
client Catherine in 1981, but they were not new to human race on the
planet Earth. In the primitive religion such as Hinduism, “the
reincarnation, cycle of life and death (countless times), the concept
of Karma (the universal principle of cause and effect), purpose of
life, divine knowledge, how evil deeds are punished and good deeds are
rewarded” are very commonly known to and highly believed by Hindu
people. In the Holy Bhagavat Gita (which was written 5000 years ago in
Sanskrit by Sage Vyasa Maharshi) and Vedic Scriptures (which were
written 5000 years ago in Sanskrit by Vedic Rishis), the concept of
reincarnation and cycle of birth and death were very well described in
detail. That is to say Dr. Weiss’s discoveries merely coincided with
the revelations already illustrated in detail in the Holy Bagavat Gita
and Vedic Scriptures of Hinduism 5000 years ago. The same is true
with Buddhism.
In 1881, Swami Vivekananda was brought to the trance state by Sri
Ramakrishna, and Swami Vivekananda revealed to Sri Ramakrishna the
purpose of his life on the planet Earth and the nature of his future.
And these revelations were later found to be true. The life of Swami
Vivekananda is described in the section Understanding God (East).
Please click on East button and scroll down.
Dr. Weiss’s 2nd
Book: “Through Time Into Healing”
This book contains numerous case histories which illustrate the
healing potential of past life regression therapy, and it provides
several techniques for eliciting past life recall.
This book shows readers how to
help themselves lead healthy and productive lives, secure in the
knowledge that death is not the final word and that the doorways to
healing and wholeness are inside us.
In this book, "Through Time Into Healing,"
Dr. Weiss demonstrated how to utilize safe and rapid techniques to
heal clinical symptoms. Now, drawing on the wisdom of the Masters, the
spirit guides who shape our destinies, bestselling author Dr. Brian
Weiss gives us his most outstanding achievement to date. He reveals
the essential life force in the universe and the ultimate healing
energy. Its name is love. And he shows us how to harness its awesome
power.
Dr.
Weiss’s Mind Blowing 3rd Book: “Only Love is Real”
Anybody will be blown away by reading through the breathtaking
contents of this book. In “Only Love is Real,” Dr. Weiss identified
two Soulmates “Elizabeth & Pedro” who have been lovers over many
lifetimes prior to 2000 years ago, but never had been re-united in the
current lifetime or in the lifetimes of preceding 2000 years. Prior to
2000 years ago: both of them had been lovers in many previous
lives, they had been husband and wife, childhood lovers, father and
daughter in another life. Now they had traveled nearly 2000 years to
be together again and re-united in the same therapist’s clinic in
the same city at the same time but scheduled apart from each other,
each unaware of the other's existence but both in their separate
therapy sessions. Both Elizabeth & Pedro were suffering from grief,
anxiety attacks, depression, dejection and unable to pursue a loving
and meaningful relationship in the current life.
When Dr. Weiss regressed them to their past
lives, both Elizabeth and Pedro revealed the exact same breathtaking
information regarding their past lives.
Only Dr. Weiss knew this information and both of them had never met in
their current lives and neither had a hint about how their destiny
would unfold. It was a difficult decision for Dr. Brian Weiss whether
he should cross the boundary of psychiatric ethics and nudge the
destiny to help them meet or let them go separated and be unhappy
forever in this lifetime.
However, the
astounding truth is that Soulmates will re-unite as the fate brings
them together whether it takes 50, 100, 500, 1000 or 2000 years. Your
spirit will recognize just by looking into the eyes. You will be one
again, because Only Love is Real.
Dr.
Weiss’s 4th Book: “Messages from the Masters”
In his 4th book,
Dr. Weiss reveals many messages from the Masters received through his
own meditations and through the past-life regressions and
life-between-lives regressions of his own clients. Each chapter
opens with a quote from the Masters.
The messages from the Masters can be summed up as follows: We should
allow our minds to return to what is important—love,
peace, eternal life, spiritual thoughts and practices;
We should put
aside what is unimportant such as material things, money, pride and
ego, violence, jealousy, fear, worry, anxiety and hatred.
Dr.
Weiss’s 5th Book: “Same Soul, Many Bodies”
In this miraculous book “Same Soul, Many Bodies,” Dr. Weiss reveals
his research findings on how past and present lives can affect our
future lives, and how our future lives can transform us in the here
and now. We have all lived past lives. All of us will live future
ones. What we do in this life will influence our lives to come as we
evolve toward immortality. Dr. Weiss knows this is true because
recently he has not only regressed his patients into the past, but has
progressed them into the future. And what they have discovered is that
our futures are variable, so the choices we make now will determine
the quality of life when we return next time into this human body.
By regressing his patients to their past lives. Dr. Weiss healed their
sicknesses and improved their current lives to much healthier levels.
As a result, Dr Weiss believed that, their future lives would
automatically be refined. Using dozens of case histories of his
patients, Dr. Weiss demonstrated the therapeutic benefits of
future-life-progression, just as he has proved that journeys into our
past lives can alleviate or cure our physical and emotional wounds in
the present.
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Cycle of Birth and Death Continues Until We Evolve Fully! |
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We have all lived past lives. All of us will live future
ones. What we do in this life
will influence our lives to come as we evolve toward
immortality. Dr. Brian L. Weiss
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Books of Dr.
Brian Weiss |
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1.
Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist &
His Young Patient
Author: Brian L. Weiss
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$14.00
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2. Through Time Into Healing (Paperback)
Author: Brian L. Weiss
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$14.00
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Only Love Is Real: A Story of Soulmates Reunited (Paperback)
Author: Brian Weiss
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$13.95
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4. Messages from the Masters: Tapping into the
Power of Love (Paperback)
Author: Brian Weiss
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$13.95
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5. Same Soul, Many Bodies: Discover the Healing
Power of Future Lives through Progression Therapy
Author: Brian L. Weiss
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$14.00
Price: $11.20 |
6. Meditation: Achieving Inner Peace and
Tranquility In Your Life (Little Book and CD)
Author: Brian Weiss
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$17.95
Price: $12.21 |
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7. Eliminating Stress, Finding Inner Peace
(Hardcover)
Author: Brian Weiss
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$17.95
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8.
Mirrors of Time: Using Regression for Physical, Emotional, and
Spiritual Healing
Author: Brian L. Weiss
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$17.95
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Dr.
Ian Stevenson's Research
The World's Best-Known Investigator of Reincarnation
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Biography of Dr. Ian Stevenson:
Ian Pretyman Stevenson,
M.D., (born on October 31, 1918, in Montreal, Canada, died on February 8,
2007, in Charlottesville, Virginia), was a Canadian-American
psychiatrist. He was the son of a Scottish lawyer, John Stevenson, a
writer at heart who became chief correspondent in Ottawa, Canada for Times of
London. Dr. Stevenson studied medicine at the University of St.
Andrews in Scotland and then transferred to McGill University,
Montreal, Canada after the outbreak of World War II. His studies in
internal medicine led to an interest in psychosomatic illness and then
in psychiatry.
In 1957, Dr. Ian Stevenson, M.D. became the Director, Division of
Personality Studies and Carlson Professor of Psychiatry, both a part
of the Department of Psychiatric Medicine, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, Virginia. Dr. Stevenson's research into the
possibility of reincarnation began in 1960 when he heard of a case in
Sri Lanka where a child claimed to remember a past life. He thoroughly
questioned the child and the child's parents, as well as the people
whom the child claimed were his parents from his past life. This led
to Dr. Stevenson's conviction that reincarnation was possibly a
reality.
His
Research Interests Included:
Children Who Claim to Remember Previous Lives, Near-Death Experiences,
Apparitions (death-bed visions), Telepathy, The Mind-Brain Problem,
and Survival of the Human Personality After Death.
Dr. Ian Stevenson's Research:
Dr. Ian Stevenson, the world's best known investigator of
reincarnation, conducted field research and studied over 3000 real
cases in a span of 40 years about reincarnation, and meticulously
documented the scientific proof along with testimonies for each case
in India, Burma, Africa, Alaska, British Columbia, South America,
Lebanon, Turkey, and many other places. The children studied usually
started recalling their past life memories between the ages of two and
four, yet seem to have forgotten it by seven or eight. There were
frequent mentions of having died a violent death, and apparently clear
past life memories of the mode of death. The description of the
children’s memories has been matched with the data of their former
identity, family, residence and manner of death. Birthmarks and scars
on the children have been found to match the experiences from the past
life. Stevenson also gathered testimonials as well as medical records
of information on birthmarks, birth defects, and other physical
evidence that supports reincarnation.
Dr. Ian Stevenson’s has devoted some 40 years of his career and his
collection of scientific data that appears to provide scientific proof
that reincarnation is real.
Dr. Stevenson
published over 200 articles and about 10 or more books, densely packed
with scientific protocols of each occurrence accompanied with
witnesses and testimonials surrounding each case.
Instead of
relying on hypnosis to verify that an individual has had a
previous life, he instead chose to collect thousands of cases of
children who spontaneously (without hypnosis) remembered a past life.
Dr. Ian Stevenson used this approach because spontaneous past life
memories in a child can be investigated using strict scientific
protocols. Some skeptics say that Hypnosis, while useful in
researching into past lives, is less reliable from a purely scientific
perspective. Therefore, in order to collect his data, Dr. Stevenson
methodically documented the child's own statements of a previous life.
Then he identified the deceased person the child remembers being with,
and verified the facts of the deceased person's life that match the
child's past life memory. He even matched birthmarks and birth defects
to wounds and scars on the deceased, verified by medical records.
Reincarnation: How Does
a Case Unfold?
Typically a case begins when a child around the age of 3 without any
kind of prompting begins to speak of a former life. The child will
mention people and places that nobody in his/her family has heard
about before and will, in certain cases, describe details of his/her
former death. The child will be quite insistent in claiming to have a
different name, and he/she will tell his astounded parents that he/she
is, in fact, somebody else. He/she may also say that he/she has other
parents or a wife/husband or children that live in a different city or
even a different country. The child continues talking about it for
several years, generally to the great annoyance of the parents.
Finally the parents will be amazed to discover that it was all indeed
a true case of reincarnation, and start treating the child as
God-like.
Reincarnation: A Few
Fascinating Stories
1.
This is the best-documented and subsequently authenticated case of
reincarnation. Lugdi Devi was born on January 18, 1902 in a town
called Madhura, located 15 miles south of Delhi, India. On September
25, 1925, she gave birth to a child (a son) in a hospital in Agra, and
died on October 4, 1925 due to birth complications. After 14 months on
December 11, 1926, she reincarnated in Delhi into another family and
was given the name Shanti Devi. At the age of four she started talking
about her past life experiences, about her husband and asked how her
son was doing. At six years old, while being dressed by her mother,
she gave a detailed account of what kind of clothes she used to wear
and what kind of food she used to eat in her previous life, and
further provided a very detailed description of her former husband and
the location of his clothes shop. Both families joined together and
were able to verify the facts of this remarkable story of Shanti Devi.
Her real-life story was published in a book: “I Have Lived Before: The
True Story of Reincarnation of Shanti Devi.”
2. One 2-year-old boy in India was insistent that he didn't belong in
the home of his parents, wanting instead to return to his own home, to
his wife and brothers. He said he had a bread store. He even described
the house and store. The parents put him in the car and followed his
directions. Soon they arrived at a bread store the boy could not have
known about. He ran to a woman he said she was his wife and greeted
three grown men whom he said were his brothers. The parents discovered
that the woman's husband – the men's brothers had been hit in the head
and murdered two years earlier, shortly before the toddler was born.
The boy also had a birthmark on the back of his head, which matched,
with the deathblow of the baker.
3. From Stevenson's book "Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation"
the case of Swarnlata can be the most breathtaking.
Swarnlata
was born in 1949 in Pradesh in India into a middle class family. She
started to talk about a former life at the
age of three when
one day her father was taking her for a ride and they passed the town
of Katni, which was more than 100 miles from their home.
Swarnlata suddenly pointed out the window and asked the chauffeur to
turn down a street to "my house", where she said they could get a
better cup of tea than on the highway. She told her father more than
50 facts about her life in Katni and the father made a note of these.
She said that her name in the former life was
Biya Pathak and
that she had two sons. She described every detail of her home and how
there was a railway behind her house. She said that she had died from
a throat disease and was treated by a Dr. S.C. Bhabrat in Jabalpur. In
1959, when Swarnlata was 10 years old, news about the case reached Dr. Ian
Stevenson and he initiated an investigation. He found the house where
the Biya Pathak's family lived using only Swarnlata's description and he
found everything just as Swarnlata had described it. He interviewed
the Pathak's family and they informed him that
Biya Pathak had died in 1939
and had left two sons and a husband. A few months later Biya's
husband, her brother and one of her sons traveled to the town where
Swarnlata lived in order to see her and test her memories. Swarnlata
knew nothing about their arrival and they arrived at her house in the
company of nine other persons and hid their identity. Swarnlata
immediately recognized her (Biya's) brother and called him by his pet
name. Afterwards she recognized her husband and behaved in a
subservient manner as befitted a Hindu wife. She also recognized her
son who had been 13 years old when she died. She reminded her husband
that he had hidden money (1200 rupees) from Biya before she died and
that the money had been in a particular box when he took it, which he
confirmed to be true. A few weeks later Swarnlata visited her "former
home" in Katni for the first time and she immediately commented on
changes in the house and she identified the room where Biya had died.
She revealed intimate details from the life of the family, she
recognized old servants and commented in a good-humored way on how
things had changed during the last 20 years. She had no knowledge of
events after 1939.
Swarnlata's story is so well documented that it clearly points to her
being the reincarnation of Biya Pathak. Dr. Ian Stevenson investigated
the case and came to a conclusion that Swarnlata had no way of knowing
the intimate details she revealed about Biya. She had never been to
Katni in her life. Dr. Iam Stevenson verified with certainty
that Swarnlata had no knowledge about the Pathak family. Yet she knew
their most intimate secrets and a large number of details about their
life. This strongly suggests that reincarnation indeed took place.
There were thousands, or even millions, of these cases in India alone
and many of them were left unnoticed and undocumented.
Some Miraculous
Discoveries of Dr. Ian Stevenson:
State Between Incarnations:
Dr. Michael Newton termed it the
“Life-Between-Lives” while Dr. Brian Weiss termed it the “Space-Between-Lives” and the Toronto psychiatrist Dr. Joel Whitting termed it
the "State of Bardo" or the "Life-Between-Life" or the "Between-Life State" or the "State of Metaconsciousness" or
the "Interstate" or the "Next World" or the "State Between
Incarnations." Dr. Ian Stevenson however chose the term carefully and
termed it the "State of Intermission.”
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From his extensive
research findings, Dr. Ian Stevenson found that many of
his subjects in Thailand claimed that they had seen their physical bodies, while
floating above, and had observed their own funeral rites (similar to
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being greeted in the "next world" by a man-in-white or
being-of-light (similar to the findings of Dr. Raymond Moody), and
were offered the fruit of forgetfulness before rebirth. Eating this
fruit would erase the memories of the previous life and; several other
subjects further claimed that their past-life recollections were preserved only
because they had managed to evade the tempting offer. |
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Ian Stevenson’s subjects recalled that their previous physical bodies
were cremated while some others claimed that the cremations of the
physical bodies of their previous lives were directed to the home of
their future birth. |
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maintained that he had flitted through the air and rested on the tops
of tree between his death in 1928 and his rebirth in 1947. |
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A relatively more
fascinating feature of Dr. Ian Stevenson’s casework is "the announcing
dream" in which a mother-to-be, usually before conception, learns
someone she already knew (maybe one of her dead relatives) would be
reborn in her womb. This dream supposedly represents direct contact
with the personality’s disembodied awareness and would oftentimes
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Occasionally some
subjects of Dr. Ian Stevenson claimed to remember appearing to their
future mothers while in a transitional state between incarnations. |
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About half of
the 200 subjects studied by Dr. Ian Stevenson said that they didn’t
go directly to heaven but had to wait in another place first,
which corresponds to the
cross over phase.
They reported making decisions about their next lifetime once
they got to heaven, choosing a new family and new challenges.
As one girl put it:
“HEAVEN ISN’T EASY. YOU HAVE TO WORK THERE.”
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Books of Dr.
Ian Stevenson |
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1. Children
Who Remember Previous Lives: A Question of Reincarnation (Paperback)
Author: Ian Stevenson
List Price:
$45.00
Price: $36.00 |
2. Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation:
Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged
Author: Ian Stevenson
List Price:
$29.95
Price: $29.95 |
3. European
Cases of the Reincarnation Type (Hardcover)
Author: Ian Stevenson
List Price:
$75.00
Price: $60.00 |
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4.
Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect (Hardcover)
Author: Ian Stevenson
List Price:
$125.00
Price: $125.00
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5.
Reincarnation and Biology:
A Contribution to the Etiology of Birthmarks and Birth Defects Volume
Author: Ian Stevenson
List Price:
$175.00
Price: $175.00 |
6.
Ordered to Return:
My Life After Dying
Authors: George G. Ritchie and Ian Stevenson
List Price:
$14.95
Price: $13.46 |
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7.
Claims of Reincarnation:
An Empirical Study of
Cases in India (Over
two decades, she has researched over 500 cases).Author:
Satwant Pasricha
(Asst
to Dr. Ian Stevenson)
Price:
$53.72 |
8.
I Have Lived Before:
The True Story of the Reincarnation of
Shanti Devi (Paperback)
Author: Sture Lonnerstrand
List Price:
$14.00
Price: $14.00 |
9.
Life Before Life:
A Scientific Investigation of Children's
Memories of Previous Lives Author: Jim
Tucker
(worked with Dr. Ian Stevenson)
List Price:
$23.95
Price: $16.05 |
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