MANY MASTERS, MANY LIVES by DR BRIAN WEISS(book review)
October 20, 2009 § 15 Comments
Image from here.
First I should thank Shivya for recommending this book(click on the ‘image from here’ link) 🙂
Past life therapy, hypnotics, philosophy, past lives, planes etc. This book is one adventure. First of all, this is a true story, but I found it tough to read it that way- I approached like how I would read a Coelho.
The book is a first person account of the ‘case’. Dr.Weiss talks about messages from ‘masters’ in a higher plane, given through a girl when he was hypnotized. There is nothing which stops you from believing(I do wonder how people in the ancient world know they lived in 1863 B.C.).
Of course, if this book is to believed, then many things which I believe in are true. I do believe that we hold enough knowledge within and we can tap it. If you are interested the psyche then I recommended it too.
And the patient is ‘cured’ through it. I have come across enough of ‘experiences’ to believe in the book. But I am curious about the fact that everything seems unidimensional in certain ways- that is there is no exploration into the messages or trying to appreciate them in the larger sense.
One funny thing I noted though, it must be a common perception – Hindus practise meditation, now that is good stereotype 🙂 If we all did meditate, I don’t we will have all those fights 😛
Rating:- 7/10( the book is nice, read it, but this is not the book which I am in love with 🙂 And ya the book is pretty small too, about 200 pages, so you can grab it and read it at a shot 🙂 )
Much as I try to read books as these, I can’t. I have never been able to finish such ‘inspirational’ books.
I read this book in 2007…so far I have recommended it to people who were grieving some personal loss. This is a good read but i don’t consider it a great one….
I read this book twice , the first time i read was more than 10 yrs ago & was fascinated by the contents & ,i was not that surprised b’cos i have read ” the autobiography of a yogi” & knew that any thing is possible when u master the mind.(mind over matter)these books should be taught in schools & universities .
seems to be a different one… will try by sometime.. 🙂
Hey yeah, I had been planning to read this book as well, ever since I saw this man on Oprah doing the past life regression. Thanks for reminding!
Sounds interesting and a light read. Will keep an eye out. Maybe I can just finish it at crosswords. And btw, mediation did originate here. In Hinduism.
Hmm looks like another book which I should try reading. Btw I dont have the link to your poetry blog. I couldnt find a link to it on your blog too! Can you give me the link?
no serious stuff for me 🙂
Nice review but yet again to my kind 😦
I’m going to go out on a limb here and stereotype Indians…
When I lived in the DC area I knew people from all over the world. Either it was a statistical oddity or it’s true that there’s a tendency for people from India to be really polite and considerate. At the school where I was counselor, I never had one Indian child that ever needed to be referred to me.
@poonam: first time, I tried reading something like this 🙂
@mahak: I agree 🙂
@kanagu: 🙂
@dinesh: you are welcome 🙂
@nita: of course yes, but how many practise it?
@avada: its visheshunni.com 🙂
@reema: 😛
@smita: lol I guessed that 🙂
@Paul: maybe that is because parents are more involved with their kids here?
I generally like true stories, but this book’s theme is not to my taste!
Destination Infinity
I’ll give this one a miss 😐
I did get that sense – seemed like I wasn’t running into Indian familes where the children came from the sorts of troubled home situations that occur quite often here.