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Healing Through Past Life Memories
Participants not only remember past lives but have amazing spiritual or healing experiences, find soul mates, receive messages from departed loved ones, access profound wisdom and knowledge, or encounter some other mystical and marvelous event. Carole and I have witnessed such life-transforming occurrences over the years in these workshops and trainings, and we feel blessed to be able to facilitate and observe them. Often we do not know that a particularly powerful experience has just transpired in the workshop. The person may need time to process it, and we will only hear of it in a later e-mail or letter. At that moment on the sun-dappled highway, Carole’s BlackBerry buzzed with an e-mail describing another one of these wonderful workshop healings, a message relaying such ancient wisdom yet arriving to us through this most modern technology. The timing was perfect, for we were about to re-enter the very place where we had observed so many similar happenings. We never know exactly which amazing events and changes will transpire—only that they will. Carole turned to me and observed in her wise, understated way: “Sometimes miracles happen.” Indeed, sometimes they do. The miracles may be large ones that affect the entire group. They may be small and silent. No matter their scope, the transformation is permanent. Relationships are repaired. Souls are nourished. Lives acquire newer and deeper meaning. Miracles happen. A miracle happened for me on the day that a patient named Catherine walked into my office and introduced me to an entire spiritual universe that I had never believed to exist. My earlier books contain a very detailed account of her experiences, and they describe how her life was permanently altered for the better as a result of them. My own life was affected at least as much. Prior to uncovering her amazing past-life memories, I had been a left-brained, obsessive-compulsive academic. I had graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with a degree in chemistry from Columbia University. I earned my medical degree from the Yale University School of Medicine, where I was the chief resident in psychiatry. Completely skeptical of “unscientific” fields such as parapsychology and reincarnation, I was the chairman of a prestigious psychiatry department at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami, and I had authored more than forty scientific articles and book chapters in the fields of psychopharmacology, brain chemistry, and Alzheimer’s disease. Catherine turned my skepticism, and my life, upside-down. Although it has been over thirty years since that day, I still remember the very first time that she crossed the invisible boundary of her current life and entered the realm of other lifetimes. She was in a deeply relaxed state, her eyelids lightly shut but her concentration intense. “There are big waves knocking down trees,” she whispered in a hoarse voice as she described an ancient scene. “There’s no place to run. It’s cold; the water is cold. I have to save my baby, but I cannot … just have to hold her tight. I drown; the water chokes me. I can’t breathe, can’t swallow … salty water. My baby is torn out of my arms.” Her body had tensed; her breathing accelerated. Suddenly, her body and her breathing relaxed completely. “I see a cloud … my baby is with me. And others from my village. I see my brother.” My skepticism needed more time to erode, but the process had begun. Catherine’s severe symptoms began to disappear as she remembered more scenes from this and other prior lifetimes. I knew that imagination could not dissolve such chronic symptoms; only actual memories could. Catherine would go on to remember many historical facts and details from her past lives, which we were sometimes able to confirm. She was also able to relate private truths from my own life, truths that she had no obvious way of knowing or discovering. She would tell me these personal facts while she floated in that beautifully relaxed state in-between physical lifetimes. In the workshops that I conduct, approximately two-thirds of the audience successfully remembers episodes from previous lives. Their memories and recollections frequently heal emotional and physical maladies. Symptoms resolve even though the memory may not be absolutely accurate, for an error in recall does not negate the truth and importance of the memory. As an example, in a regression you may recall the trauma, chaos, and even the entire emotional reaction of your mother when you were three years old and ran into the street, almost getting hit by a black Buick. When you check with your mother, it turns out that the car was a navy blue Cadillac. Otherwise, everything else in your recall was accurate. This slight degree of distortion is acceptable. Memory is not literal time travel. And if, in describing the memory of the near accident, you used a word that you did not learn until you were twelve, this is also fine. Your observing and describing mind is your presentday consciousness, not your three-year-old brain. You never actually stepped into a time machine. Hypnosis is the tool I use to help people recall such childhood events, and more. Many of my patients and the people who have attended my workshops are able to remember not only events from their childhood but also from when they were in their mothers’ wombs, from that mystical state when they were in-between lives, and from past lives. Throughout the years, I have encountered people whose preconceived notions about past-life regression therapy have compelled them to dismiss the concept entirely. They argue that the memories are distorted or inaccurate, as I have addressed above, or that its therapeutic effects can be ascribed to wishful thinking, or that everyone who has a regression erroneously identifies themselves as a famous historical figure in a past life. Such critics are vocal but misinformed. Whenever my patients and workshop participants successfully remember one of their past lives, a direct avenue to divine wisdom and to physical or emotional wellness is established. The awareness that we have had multiple lifetimes, separated by spiritual interludes on the other side, helps to dissolve the fear of death and to bring more peace and joy into the present moment. Sometimes, just the remembrance of past-life traumas leads to incredible insights and healings. This is the rapid route. Those who have not had a past-life memory can attain understanding and an enhanced perspective by witnessing or reading about the experiences of others. An empathic identification can be a powerful transformative stimulus. This is an alternative route, where the direction of progress is more important than the speed. We will all eventually reach a state of enlightened awareness. At that moment of awakening, when we discover our inherent nature as eternal beings, doubt disappears. As if an ancient alchemist sprinkled his magic dust on us, fear is permanently transmuted into inner peace, despair into hope, sadness into joy, hate into love. At the level of the soul, anything can happen. Excerpted from Miracles Happen: The Transformational Healing Power of Past Life Memories © Brian Weiss, MD and Amy Weiss, M.S.W, reprinted with permission of HarperOne.
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On a beautiful summer
afternoon in New
York in July 2010, my
wife, Carole, and I were driving
up the tree-lined Taconic
Parkway toward the Omega
Institute, a rustic retreat center
where we teach an intensive
course on past-life regressions.
We love teaching this course.
Incredible events happen every
day, again and again.