Past Lives Therapy

by Morris Netherton, Nancy Shiffrin

This is a book

190 pages, Hardcover

First published February 25, 2013

Reviews

[Maria · Rating 2 out of 5]

I am often drawn to past life regressions, finding them fascinating. Back in the 1990's, there was Ian Stevenson who could prove certain children's memories of their past life were actually accurate. I have read Brian Weiss' books avidly. Then I bought this book on my Kindle...

My thoughts? Ugh, how to explain simply? I found it monotonous the telling of each patient's story. I felt the patients themselves were actually re-inacting a particular issue in their everyday lives and, in a sense, creating a life in the past. I simply found it uninspiring, to say the least. Some patients stating their in-utero feelings of their parent's fights or what-have-you made me sense this was just a load of tedious stories.

I did not see any research to validate the patient's stories. I found Dr. Netherton would jump the gun many times with the patient in leading them toward an answer to their lives.

Personally, I did not mind the book per se, it was still a very easy read, just one I wish I had not paid for.

[Jessica Elyse · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fascinating cases, amazing revelations. It truly makes you think about the great unknown between the space of life and death.

[Ebony · Rating 3 out of 5]

Part Two of Past Lives therapy was fascinating. I kept considering all of the possibilities for healing with such intensive therapy. I was sold but then Part Three happened, and I just couldn’t be convinced that in utero memories were all that significant/powerful. Granted, I read the book over several nights generally falling asleep on my tablet each night so maybe I was just in a different disbelieving place by the time I arrived at the end. I dig how he doesn’t sell reincarnation or past lives. Netherton writes that we can’t know and that’s not the point. If people believe the stories they tell themselves and they can heal from the telling then that’s all that matters. I agree with him. I also mistakenly thought that Dr. Weiss was the first therapist to put past lives therapy on the map, but this first edition was published in 1979 before any of it was popular. I also dig the focus on words to “regress.” As a rhetorician the way, Netherton focuses on language is much sexier than the Weiss hypnosis process. All in all, I learned more about the power of past life healing from a variety of patients but all though the lens of Netherton, who I imagine I’ll trust simply because more of the work than not gave me a reason to trust him.

[Gregory Williams · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well-constructed, rational chronicling of patients the author has treated involving past life recall. He makes no claim for reincarnation but allows it to occur as a therapeutic tool, while describing to the extent possible, seeds for further scientific research by others.

[Writerstewie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Review posted on Amazon.