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Larry's Reviews > Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives
Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives
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One indication that past life regression through hypnosis is nonsense is reflected multiple times in this book. The hypnotist asks the hypnotized patient what year the memories that she is now experiencing are from, and she replies something like, "1568 B.C." Even if one believes that reincarnation is real (and it may be) and that people can remember past lives through hypnosis (which may not be impossible), it is impossible to have a memory of date like 1568 B.C. Our current calendar didn't exist then, and whatever date the regressed patient may have known about way back then would have been completely untranslatable by the patient into a date in our modern calendar system.
I'm not saying that the patient is outright lying. I'm just saying that what the patient is relating to the hypnotist has nothing to do with fact.
I'm not saying that the patient is outright lying. I'm just saying that what the patient is relating to the hypnotist has nothing to do with fact.
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Feb 09, 2014 02:13PM
Just about to read this. Your review is revealing of a fact that I may not have realized on my own. Still planning to dig in but with a different perspective. Thanks.
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The date totally blew apart any credibility this book may have had. Weiss should have been clever enough to edit himself on that issue!
Good observation. This book was recommended to me, but it's not my usual sort of subject matter. Having read your review I ll pass over this recommendation. I ll stick to literary fiction... rather than snake oil fiction.
This criticism did occur to me while reading the book, however one could explain it this way: in the timeless state of the higher consciousness describing different lifetimes, the current year relative to the one being described is not lost to it and therefore it can still relay the year in a way meaningful to this current year. I’m also skeptical but I don’t think this objection is enough to invalidate the claims this book is making.
I thought the exact same thing
