Dr. Brian Weiss: Past-Life Skeptic to Past-Life Expert | SuperSoul Sunday | Oprah Winfrey Network

back in 1980 dr. Brian Weiss was using hypnotherapy with a patient named Katherine to discover the roots of her paralyzing phobias in his book many lives many masters he writes that during one of their sessions Katherine regressed back to a time before she was born recounting a past life as an 18 year old girl named Rhonda from the year 1863 BC sounds crazy I know so okay you are a Yale trained Columbia trained doctor psychiatrist agnostic and this woman is saying these things things are coming out of her mouth that are literally unbelievable what did you make of that I mean so she finishes her hour session I mean I would have let her go two hours that day if I were you she finishes her session and you say what said I don't know what this is but I could already see it was intense it was cathartic it was emotional and I didn't know why cuz when Asia ties you you remember everything you're saying yes yeah it's it's not something that you forget you remember it and so she probably couldn't believe it herself for her it was easier than for me because we so yet to believe in it was so intense for her she was experiencing it with emotions and visually and and sounds and other senses that it became easier over the weeks that followed for her to change her worldview but for me I needed more because I was such a skeptic so left brain so academic and I started already explaining it away like oh maybe she saw movies were read about this or maybe it's the collective unconscious that the psychoanalyst Carl Jung wrote about something else going on but when she came back in the next week her symptoms were disappearing despite his skepticism dr. Weiss started to notice a connection between Catherine's paralyzing phobias and the traumas she says she suffered in her past lives remember her fear of water well in one of her past life she remembered drowning in a tidal wave could that explain her phobia and that was even weirder to me as a formally trained psychiatrist said how does imagination or fantasy cure symptoms that had been there since she was a little girl it doesn't so there had to be something deeper and that was the beginning for me but it still took that other stuff for me too so what was the moment that you were convinced that what she was saying was real and that this was something bigger than you had expected was about the fourth or fifth time and she died in one of these lifetimes in the past floated above replicating all of the near-death experience work she had never heard of that or read anything and then had you I had I had read heart of Indies yes I had read Raymond Moody's Raymond Loewy from the 70s yeah and so life after life yes Raymond Moody is a psychologist author and researcher who coined the term near-death experience in the late 70s by interviewing people who had in DES he found they'd experienced many of the same things like floating above their bodies watching the scene below meeting friends and relatives who'd previously passed travelling through a long tunnel feeling no pain and a sense of peace so I was aware of that but in a clinical academic sense because I I didn't really experience that myself I didn't know if I believed it mm-hmm but I knew about his work mm-hmm and I remember my office feeling very cold icy cold at this moment she said there are two people here to see you your father and your son now she's in this hypnotized state she's in between lifetimes now just floating there but still in a deep state and she didn't know anything about me I don't even have diplomas hanging in my office so she's telling me your father's here and your son so she doesn't know that your father has passed or not passed no this was before you could Google your doctor it was before the Internet it was not yet before you could google your doctor yes before all this she didn't know anything about my father she tells me my daughter is named after him amy was she's here now and she was named after him his english name was alvin his Hebrew name was Avram she didn't know this she's a Catholic one from New England he had she said your father is here he died from his heart his heart was important your daughter is named after him and she went into other medical details he died in New Jersey a year and a half before I began with Catherine just before Amy was born Amy was named after him and Catherine's telling me this the room still feeling icy cold and I'm thinking what is this how does she know this because he never had an obituary there's it's not only before the internet there's no place to look it up there's no obituary it's not written down our best friends didn't know these details and then she said your son is with him he's here - he's very tiny shining brightly and his heart is important also because it's turned around backwards and she went into why he died medical details that was the son my first child who died in 1971 this is happening around 1981 this was a son who had lived 23 days yes she's telling me about him and the very rare congenital heart

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Length: 5min 54sec (354 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 02 2013