I think because I naturally live my life in this way, I was especially drawn to Dr. Brian Weiss’s book: Many Lives, Many Masters. He is a well-respected psychiatrist who recommends that skepticism is a necessary part of life, and he still uses the scientific method in his own work today.
In his book (which I just finished and absolutely loved), he recounts his experience with one particular patient of his in the 1980s: Catherine. She came to him for various phobias and anxieties, and while he was trying all of the tools that medical school gave him, nothing seemed to help her. He ended up trying hypnosis to see if he could get to the root of her problems and in doing so discovered an entire world that he never believed in and certainly was skeptical about in the past: the spiritual world, reincarnation, and past lives.
Throughout their sessions, Catherine would describe in detail what she experienced in her past lives – she knew such specific information about the time and period – things she couldn’t have studied or read about or known without having actually been there. But beyond describing these lives, she also was able to relay messages from the masters – those in the spiritual world who had lessons and wisdom to teach Dr. Weiss in the hopes that he would spread their message of love and immortality throughout the world.
It’s amazing that by going through some of her past lives, Catherine was completely cured of her phobias and anxieties. And Dr. Weiss has spent the last 20+ years spreading the masters’ message to anyone who is receptive.
I am staying open to receiving these messages and allowing the possibilities of all that are around us seep into my soul. I’m sure that there is so much in our universe that I can’t see and can’t understand at the moment – and I am staying open to what is out there. I will continue filtering every new experience through my own skeptical mind.
But I have to say that after reading this book, my soul is open to the possibility…
I have experienced so many miracles recently that I am at the point where not believing is harder than simply believing.
This is where faith comes in, which doesn’t seem like such a stretch any more.
