The Views of Brian Weiss

[earl]

Looks like this little corner of this place hasn't gotten much seeding, so guess I'll see if I can get some started. If I were going to point to 1 book that I see as laying out the contemporary "New Age" manifesto it might be "Messages From the Masters," (2001) by Miami psychiatrist, Brian Weiss. He became well known for his work in past life regression therapy, (actually a conventionally trained Yale U. MD). I have never been particularly interested in past life stuff & what interests me about this book is more the messages he has supposedly obtained via a number of folk undergoing that therapy than the subject of past life per se, (book does contain transcripts about his hypnotic methods however for those interested). Anyway, thought I might start a thread where I simply toss out various views from that book for general consideration with other points from the book to follow which are illustrative of his and a general "New Age" view. Here's a rather minor but intriguing view to start it off with on the subject of deja vu experiences. His position involves the rather standard New Age view that prior to incarnating the "soul" plans out a general life plan. He posits that when someone has a deja vu experience what makes it seem familiar is that 1 is vaguely recalling having "seen" that scenario before during the "pre-incarnation planning session." Earl

[sendy47]

I have heard that myself..i think it is Sylvia Brown who says the same thing...looking forward to your posts...

[Lightkeeper]

Hi Earl, it's great to see you here. Wonderful idea for a thread and I'm looking forward to hearing more. It's very interesting that a psychiatrist supports past life experiences.

[vivamis123]

I read that book and did like it. I agree with L.K. that it's nice to hear that a psychiatrist supports past life experiences. As far as I remember Brian Weiss was very skeptical when his patients first started to recall past lifes. Good for him that he was open enough to "dig deeper".

[earl]

I have not read all of his books but as I understand it he accidentally got into the past life business when attempting to do more conventional hypnotic regression work to discover the psychdoynamic etiology of patients' current difficulties-i.e. some of those folks spontaneously in trance didn't just stop the regressing with this life. While obviously his patients' expereinces are anecdotal and in no way would meet the test of scientific research (don't believe the rigors of science can ever be successfully applied to most of this kind of thing), what I find fascinating is the relative consistency of experience of some he writes about regardless of their overtly stated belief systems. Adding further credence for me as to the possible merit of what he writes is that some of those same experiences are also consistent with other paranormal experiences occurring to "non-New Agers"-i.e. many near death experiences involve many of the same elements his experiencers report when regressed-in the book he writes of how he regresses them through this life to a past life forwarding them through that previous life to and through the death in that life to what is experienced thereafter. My plan is to put out his thoughts on various "New Age" subjects he discusses in this book for our dialogue which may branch out in a variety of directions, perhaps to these related other paranormal sources of information. As he would say, a lot of what gets lumped into the rubric "New Age" is probably a load of hooey but the real core of New Age-the stuff he writes about-he (and I) believe has some substance. I think there are experiences humans have that no 1 religion can successfully encompass or explain which New Age thought attempts to do so in essentially logical manner. At any rate, let's dialogue some more later. Looking forward to it. Have 1 question though-how come when I go to click on subscribe to the thread, all I get is the unsubscribe option? Earl

[Lightkeeper]

Since a past life has taken on a new body and new brain, what is it that is doing the remembering?

Have 1 question though-how come when I go to click on subscribe to the thread, all I get is the unsubscribe option? Earl

I don't know. If you go to Thread Tools at the top of the thread the drop down box has an option to subscribe to that thread. Maybe after you have subscribed you then have the option to unsubscribe.

[sendy47]

LK...shh..it is the mind that schizophretard is looking for...

[Schizophretard]

Originally Posted by sendy47

LK...shh..it is the mind that schizophretard is looking for...

There you go teasing me again! I've been thinking about where it could be and I've narrowed it down some.

1)I have a very filth mind. So, it must be on the ground a whole lot.
2)It malfunctions and I get headaches. So, someone must be hitting it.
3)I always have a feeling that someone is watching me very carefully and maybe it is the same person that keeps hitting it.
4)It is hard to find. So, it must be small.
5)Since I can't find it, it must be somewhere I would never go.

It is obvious! Some idiot thinks my mind is a golf ball! When I find that rich bastard I'm going to sue him for all he has!

[Schizophretard]

I think that deja vu is either caused by a malfunction in our brains that causes us to remember something before we perceive it which gives the illusion of it happening before it did or it is a glitch in the Matrix.

[sendy47]

Originally Posted by Schizophretard

There you go teasing me again! I've been thinking about where it could be and I've narrowed it down some.

1)I have a very filth mind. So, it must be on the ground a whole lot.
2)It malfunctions and I get headaches. So, someone must be hitting it.
3)I always have a feeling that someone is watching me very carefully and maybe it is the same person that keeps hitting it.
4)It is hard to find. So, it must be small.
5)Since I can't find it, it must be somewhere I would never go.

It is obvious! Some idiot thinks my mind is a golf ball! When I find that rich bastard I'm going to sue him for all he has!

Have you thought to look in a barn....cattle or horse herd can make a ruckus....a chicken pecking it...ouchie..ouchie...then there are the mice...gnawing grrr...you forgive them they look with such innocence...

you are being watched silly...as is everyone ...go type your addy in a virtual map and you can see you on your front porch...umm...was that your front porch...oopsie...no..that was my front porch...sorry...do you have a front porch......

oh and it is everywhere you are.....so of course you go where it goes...

hope the weekend is treating everyone great...

going to tell my brother...hide them golf clubs...dumb hit and fetch game anyway...told him it would get him into trouble...knew he was diving in the pond for golf balls...but didn't know he was hitting folks in the head...geesh....