Many Lives, Many Masters
This is the second time I have read “Many Lives, Many Masters” by Dr. Brian Weiss. The first time I simply skimmed, and I think I have even given away the book to a library because I didn’t think I needed to keep it forever! A friend recommended reading the book again to understand it better and so I downloaded a pdf version and read it in straight 3 days.
Now, I do believe in reincarnation and I do not have any issues with this concept. In fact, I wish I get to know more about passage of life and know more about what happens after we leave our physical body.
I also understand hypnotism, I understand the depth and possibilities that happen in semi-conscious state and I know the benefits of meditation and therapy.
However, Catherine, the patient around whom the incidents on this book revolves, seems to remember so many of her past lives in a span of 6 months therapy which seemed hard for me to digest. The way her remembrances repeated during the end of the therapy seems to suggest that there was nothing more to convey and perhaps the author had nothing more to say.
( I say this with due apologies to an author who is so renowned and has conducted multiple sessions and seminars to this effect and whose work might have had an impact on many a life. Perhaps it’s my ability or lack thereof, to connect the dots.)
Some of the lessons of the masters are worth many a thought and for my purpose of learning I would like to revisit these:
1. We also must learn not to just go to those people whose vibrations are the same as ours. It is normal to fee l drawn to somebody who is on the same level that you are. But this is wrong. You must also go to those people whose vibrations are wrong . . . with yours. This is the importance in helping these people.
2. Groups of souls tend to reincarnate together again and again, working out their karma (debts owed to others and to the self, lessons to be learned) over the span of many lifetimes.
3. We have lessons to learn . . . each one of us. They must be learned one at a time … in order. Only then can we know what the next person needs, what he or she lacks or what we lack, to make us whole.
4. We all must learn certain attitudes while we’re in physical state. Some o f us are quicker to accept than others. Charity, hope, faith, love…we must all know this thing. It’s not just one hope and one faith and one love — so many things feed into each one of these. There are so many ways to demonstrate them. And yet we’ve only tapped into a little bit of each one.
5. Patience and timing . . . everything come when it must come. A life cannot be rushed, cannot be worked on a schedule as so many people want it to be. We must accept what comes to us at a given time, and not ask for more. But life is endless, so we never die; we were never really born. We just pass through different phases. There is no end. Humans have many dimensions. But time is not as we see time, but rather in lessons that are learned.
6. There was much practical advice along the way: the value of patience and of waiting ; the wisdom in the balance of nature; the eradication of fears , especially the fear of death ; the need for learning about trust and forgiveness; the importance of learning not to judge others, or to halt anyone’ s life; the accumulation and use of intuitive powers; and, perhaps most of all, the unshakable knowledge that we are immortal. We are beyond life and death, beyond space and beyond time. We are the gods, and they are us.
7. What goes around truly does come around.
As I was reading this book this second time, there have been instances of
…Telepathy or the same subject being spoken about at another space…
…Relevant message from some unexpected sources…
Perhaps there is more to the book than what I have gathered…
And since I asked for more, this old article popped up. Good read but I will require more reading to understand and grasp…
https://jayasreesaranathan.blogspot.com/2016/07/how-jiva-is-born-as-human-being.html?spref=tw
