Weiss - Messages from the masters: tapping into the power of love

Copyright 2000 by Brian Weiss

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PRAISE FOR MESSAGES FROM THE MASTERS

Brian Weiss parts the veil between the worlds and gives us a glimpse of the true beauty of the human soul.

Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., author of The Power of the Mind to Heal

Sheds light on a controversial topic worthy of serious attention.

Publishers Weekly

Fascinating thought-provoking there is much wisdom to be gleaned.

City Link (Ft. Lauderdale, FL)

AND FOR ONLY LOVE IS REAL

I recommend this beautiful and sensitive book without reservation.

Gary Zukav, author of Seat of the Soul

This book is a beautiful psychospiritual guide to finding and experiencing the depths of love with your lifemate. Read this book, please!

Harold H. Bloomfield, M. D., author of Making Peace with Your Parents

A gripping love story that transcends time as we know it. This book makes you truly believe that we all really do have soulmates and that Only Love Is Real.

Raymond A. Moody, M.D., Ph.D., author of Life after Life

Its a keeper. Part way through, I had to take a break [for] another project. During the entire time my mind kept returning to the book, because I wanted to get back to it.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The only problem with ONLY LOVE IS REAL is that [it is] so well written and filled with information, we still want more!

Lake Worth Herald

My wife, Carole, is a constant source of love, support, and encouragement for me. I cannot begin to express the depth of my gratitude to her. She has made my books possible and has reminded me how extraordinarily wonderful it is to live a life with a soulmate.

My deepest appreciation goes to Joni Evans, my literary agent, who is such a great and talented person. She is a constant joy to work with.

I am also indebted to Jessica Papin and Tina Andreadis at Warner Books. Jessica is my editor, and her insights and superb literary skills have helped this book immeasurably. Tina has done a masterful job with the publicity of all my books, and her skill and gracious heart are deeply appreciated.

I want to thank Larry Kirshbaum for bringing me to Warner Books. His enthusiasm and support mean a great deal to me.

There are so many others to thank. I am grateful to all of you.

The Beginning

Our task is to learn, to become God-like through knowledge. We know so little. By knowledge we approach God, and then we can rest. Then we come back to teach and help others.

F or those of you meeting me for the first time, a few words of introduction are needed. I have come a long way from that fateful day when I, a classically trained physician, professor of psychiatry, and confirmed skeptic, realized that human life is grander and more profound than even my rigorous medical training had led me to believe.

Educated as an academic, I received my undergraduate degree from Columbia University and my medical degree from the Yale University School of Medicine, where I was also the chief resident in psychiatry. I have been on the teaching faculties of several university medical schools, and for eleven years I served as chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, Florida. By the time I first met Catherine, the patient whose story is told in my first book, Many Lives, Many Masters, I had published more than forty scientific papers and book chapters, and I had achieved international recognition in the fields of psychopharmacology and brain chemistry. Not surprisingly, I was completely skeptical of unscientific fields such as parapsychology. I knew nothing about the concept of past lives or reincarnation, nor did I want to.

And then came my sudden and shocking introduction to the spiritual, the right-brain, the non-linear. Catherine inexplicably began recalling what seemed to be past-life memories. Somehow, all of her clinical symptoms improved via this regression process. I was amazed, but I was also beginning to find the harmony between science and intuition.

This process began twenty years ago. And since then I have regressed more than two thousand more patients to perinatal, in-utero, or past-life memories. I have already written three books about these experiences, and the books have been translated into nearly thirty languages.

Because my work deals with the themes of reincarnation, past-life regression therapy, and the reunion of soulmates, I have become the unofficial dean of reincarnation. I welcome this characterization, because I believe we do reincarnate until we learn our lessons and graduate. And, as I have repeatedly pointed out, there is considerable historical and clinical evidence that reincarnation is a reality.

But this book, which reflects what I teach my patients and audiences today, is about much more than reincarnation and regression therapy. These are important parts of the puzzle, but there are also other important pieces, and one must know them all and know them well. I have studied healers, mediums, psychics, and others involved in holistic and alternative practices, and I have learned that there are other avenues to ones spiritual awakening.

This book represents the culmination of twenty years of experience and studies, not only with reincarnation, but in the movement known as New Age. It is my attempt to remind you about love and joy and to teach you how to bring these qualities into your life now, while you are in physical state. You will learn techniques for achieving levels of inner peace and happiness that may be lacking in your present lives. You will find a great deal of material about the nature of the soul, about immortality, and about values. There are many practical tips and techniques for transforming your life, your relationships, your moods and mental states, your physical health and well-being, and your destiny. Knowledge of past lives is not necessary to achieve these positive changes. The ultimate key is understanding. As you understand your true nature and your true purpose, your life will be permanently transformed, and then you can begin to transform the world.

My life has been changing the same way. Past lives are still a significant concept and value for me, but understanding and experiencing and expressing love, joy, and inner peace in my everyday life have become more significant. I am extremely grateful that Catherine came into my office on that fateful day and opened my mind to the concept of past lives, as this became the avenue to my personal awakening. And this awakening led to spiritual growth and understanding.

A striking and important feature of Catherines regressions was her ability while deeply hypnotized to channel or transmit detailed and accurate information from higher sources of knowledge. This material has been inspiring and life-transforming to many thousands of people from all over the planet. Catherine attributed the source of this wisdom to the Masters, highly evolved souls not in physical form. They told her wise and wonderful things, and she relayed this information to me. After emerging from the hypnotic state, Catherine could remember many details from the past lives she had just experienced, but she never remembered anything about her contact with these Masters because the messages from the Masters were transmitted