Many Lives, Many Masters: The true story of a prominent psychiatrist, his young patient and the past-life therapy that changed both their lives

by Brian Weiss, Brian L. Weiss

THE CLASSIC BESTSELLER ON A TRUE CASE OF PAST-LIFE TRAUMA AND PAST-LIFE THERAPY FROM AUTHOR AND PSYCHOTHERAPIST DR BRIAN WEISS

Psychiatrist Dr Brian Weiss had been working with Catherine, a young patient, for eighteen months. Catherine was suffering from recurring nightmares and chronic anxiety attacks. When his traditional methods of therapy failed, Dr Weiss turned to hypnosis and was astonished and sceptical when Catherine began recalling past-life traumas which seemed to hold the key to her problems.

Dr Weiss's scepticism was eroded when Catherine began to channel messages from 'the space between lives', which contained remarkable revelations about his own life. Acting as a channel for information from highly evolved spirit entities called the Masters, Catherine revealed many secrets of life and death.

This fascinating case dramatically altered the lives of Catherine and Dr Weiss, and provides important information on the mysteries of the mind, the continuation of life after death and the influence of our past-life experiences on our present behaviour.

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Published March 6, 2025

Reviews

[Sanjay Gupta · Rating 5 out of 5]

A college friend recommended me this book over a decade back. It left a lasting impression on me. In Many Lives, Many Masters, Dr. Brian Weiss recounts how he guided one of his patients into her past lives through hypnosis, helping her confront and heal present-day anxieties and fears.

[Alicia · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book walked me into something more complex than just dying, floating over your body and then being brought back by doctors. The concept of reincarnation isn’t something that was discussed within the religion that I was raised but I knew about it having studied other religions. This book could have probably been shorter - focusing on the one patient, Catherine. Or it could have contained additional patient stories and their experiences of reincarnation. Given the author having fully vested in Catherine’s regressions and helping her overcome her fears/challenges by doing hypnosis I would imagine he has had other patients who have had similar experiences. I plan to look further into Mr Weiss’s writings. I also plan to find other studies/experiences that have been published. The author presents that people have lived past lives. During his regressions with Catherine the author heard what he thought was valuable insights from the group of “Master’s” explaining how death, afterlife and rebirth actually happen - for someone who has felt the presence of people who have past and sees signs of people watching over us I find this line of research very interesting. I hesitate to recommend this book based on what I said earlier but if you have interest in learning about reincarnation then this might be something to pick up.

[Christine O’Neal · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fascinating insights. I like this book along with "Mind Magic", "The Body Keeps the Score" and "It Didn't Start With You" as all really hit a bit on this "beyond you" subject and the "masters wisdom nuggets" contained herein even if you aren't open to the possibility of reincarnation. But Einstein and Oppenheimer both seemed open to the idea and they were very "high IQ" so I remain open to knowing there's more than I don't know and that "magic" has always been what we don't have the words or science to explain!

[Patrice Renee · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was pretty captivated the first quarter of the book the concept and experiences were interesting. I’ll be honest halfway through, I grew pretty bored as it’s a lot of the same content. It’s almost like when you over tell a story and my daughter responds with “we don’t need the recipe to your grandmother‘s peach cobbler.” This could have been summed up in 100 pages .