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[Skye Severy]

The first time I saw Catherine she was wearing a vivid crimson dress and was nervously leafing through a magazine in my waiting room. She was visibly out of breath. For the previous twenty minutes she had been pacing the corridor outside the Department of Psychiatry offices, trying to convince herself to keep her appointment with me and not run away.

I went out to the waiting room to greet her, and we shook hands. I noticed that hers were cold and damp, confirming her anxiety. Actually, it had taken her two months of courage gathering to make an appointment to see me even though she had been strongly advised to seek my help by two staff physicians, both of whom she trusted. Finally, she was here.

Catherine is an extraordinarily attractive woman, with medium-length blond hair and hazel eyes. At that time, she worked as a laboratory technician in the hospital where I was Chief of Psychiatry, and she earned extra money modeling swimwear.

I ushered her into my office, past the couch and to a large leather chair. We sat across from each other, my semicircular desk separating us. Catherine leaned back in her chair, silent, not knowing where to begin. I waited, preferring that she choose the opening, but after a few minutes I began inquiring about her past. On that first visit we began to unravel who she was and why she had come to see me.

In answer to my questions, Catherine revealed the story, of her life. She was the middle child, reared in a conservative Catholic family in a small Massachusetts town. Her brother, born three years earlier than she, was very athletic, and he enjoyed a freedom that she was never allowed. Her younger sister was the favorite of both parents.

When we started to talk about her symptoms, she became noticeably more tense and nervous. Her speech was rapid, and she leaned forward, resting her elbows on the desk. Her life had always been burdened with fears. She feared water, feared choking to the extent that she could not swallow pills, feared airplanes, feared the dark, and she was terrified of dying. In the recent past, her fears had begun to worsen. In order to feel safe, she often slept in the walk-in closet in her apartment. She suffered two to three hours of insomnia before being able to fall alseep. Once asleep, she would sleep lightly and fitfully, awakening frequently. The nightmares and sleepwalking episodes that had plagued her childhood were returning. As her fears and symptoms increasingly paralyzed her, she became more and more depressed.

During the first session, I kept trying to gently nudge her back to her childhood. Because Catherine remembered amazingly few events from her early years, I made a mental note to consider hypnotherapy as a possible shortcut to overcome this repression. She could not remember any particularly traumatic moments in her childhood that would explain the epidemic of fears in her life.

Things were better outside the home. She dated in high school and mixed in easily with her friends, most of whom she had known for many years. However, she found it difficult to trust people, especially those outside her small circle of friends.

Her religion was simple and unquestioned. She was raised to believe in traditional Catholic ideology and practices, and she had never really doubted the truthfulness and validity of her faith. She believed that if you were a good Catholic and lived properly by observing the faith and its rituals, you would be rewarded by going to heaven; if not, you would experience purgatory or hell. A patriarchal God and his Son made these final decisions. I later learned that Catherine did not believe in reincarnation; in fact, she knew very little about the concept, although she had read sparingly about the Hindus. Reincarnation was an idea contrary to her upbringing and understanding. She had never read any metaphysical or occult literature, having had no interest in it. She was secure in her beliefs.

During her first year in Miami, Catherine met Stuart. Married, Jewish, and with two children, he was totally different from any other man she had ever dated. He was a successful physician, strong and aggressive. There was an irresistible chemistry between them, but their affair was rocky and tempestuous. Something about him drew out her passions and awakened her, as if she were charmed by him. At the time Catherine started therapy, her affair with Stuart was in its sixth year and very much alive, if not well. Catherine could not resist Stuart although he treated her poorly, and she was furious at his lies, broken promises, and manipulations.

Several months prior to her appointment with me, Catherine had required vocal cord surgery for a benign nodule. She had been anxious prior to the surgery but was absolutely terrified upon awakening in the recovery room. It took hours for the nursing staff to calm her. After her recovery in the hospital, she sought out Dr. Edward Poole. Ed was a kindly pediatrician whom Catherine had met while working in the hospital. They had both felt an instant rapport and had developed a close friendship. Catherine talked freely to Ed, telling him of her fears, her relationship with Stuart, and that she felt she was losing control over her life. He insisted that she make an appointment with me and only me, not with any of my associate psychiatrists. When Ed called to tell me about his referral, he explained that, for some reason, he thought only I could truly understand Catherine, even though the other psychiatrists also had excellent credentials and were skilled therapists. Catherine did not call me, however.

At the time of my first session with Catherine, I had no idea that my life was about to turn upside down, that the frightened, confused woman across the desk from me would be the catalyst, and that I would never be the same again.

If you ever come across peer-reviewed, double blind studies that show the efficacy of this type of treatment, or show the accuracy of past life memories, please pass them along. Until then, I have to call BULLSHIT!

Did you ever go through past life regression yourself?There are many professionals doing it with success. You claim it this is all a lie,yet you never tried. Typical skeptic. If you would ,you would be surprised by the power of it.When all those memories are coming forward and you know that it happened to you ones long time ago in another body. Try it and then you wont talk like this.

There was an Englishman who (Cecil something) claimed to have been a Tibetian Monk in his past life. He wrote many books and made a lot of money. He called himself Tuesday Lobsang Rampa. Classic case of going overboard with a fascination.

My thanks for Wes Hagen for providing this website. I too found it rather odd that I could not find easily a skeptic site for the claims of Dr. Weiss. The observations of many reviewers are spot on, as it regards the mythic, new-age spiritualism wrapped in a cocoon of exalted consciousness.

At first I thought your critique was interesting but then I quickly realized you were making a correlation fallacy. Just because there are similarities between myth and the story presented in the book means nothing. Under this reasoning all stories of history that mirror the human condition would be fiction. Then I discovered something far more sinister in your critique.

You didnt do your homework, if you had you would know that in the second book he makes a big effort to squash your obseravtion of an error when catherine states the date, WHEN YOU SEE YOUR PAST LIFES YOU ARE STILL YOU,. YOU DONT LOOSE THE INFORMATION YOU HAVE NOW OR HAVE FROM OTHER LIFES, ITS LIKE A VIDEO YOU CAN REWIND WHILE YOU WATCH IT, YOU ARE NOW AND THAT WAS THEN BUT YOU FEEL AND SEE ALL LIKE ITS NOW, BUT DO NOT LOOSE THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE DATE, TIME AND PRESENT, SO THEREFORE CAN SAY IT WAS 1853 BC

I was also doubtful when she mention the year 1863 BC. I am currently reading this book and havent finished it yet. I will however say that I am open minded and I will leave the possibility of it being true hanging. My explanation for her knowing the year is that while she is under hypnosis she is a Channeler as well. She has knowledge that she is not aware of. So perhaps the knowledge of the year came to her from the Masters. I dont doubt that the Masters, if they really exist, would not know what the year is. I have a question though. Does she live these different lives in chronological order, or does she move through time changing thus its boundaries?

Thanks for the read and I would hope you hold concepts like this to a standard of evidence that is appropriate to the claims. Your last question/sentence shows that you atre, indeed wonderfully skeptical. ?

How wonderful. How refreshing and how gentle you were. To say that Wiess causes no harm is understandable but I would suggest that he does. Wherever the supernatural gains a foothold, no matter how apparently contemporary, no matter how many appearances on TV or indeed any where, peddling supernatural explanations has the various affect of frightening vulnerable minds, grossly misleading reasonable but uncertain minds and, perhaps worst of all, aligning science with mysticism such that so many are free to make the dangerous claim that science is just a way of testing reality but far from the only one. And as for what it does for psychiatry, one can only hope that he is alone in his beliefs.

No doubt that this book was written with noble intentions.However the end does not justify the means.The book was written totally on blind religious faith and isnt it blind faith which is the root cause of religion based terrorist activities.All the religions were mostly founded on faith for spiritual development of human beings,but gradually almost all of them fell into the grip of fanaticism.This book if read by people with limited knowledge and a lesser analytical mind may lead to more superstitions and normal psychiatric probles may be related to the reincarnation theories and people would be further fooled and tricked as done by the soothsayers,snakecharmers,astrologers,palmists etc.Such books instead of contributing to spiritual development,may lead to grave consequences.

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