Helpful for mental health workersApril 25, 2008 This is Dr. Weiss's second book in which he goes into different case histories and how the hypnotic techninique can help certain types of patients and illnesses. It's really more for the practioner, but still a good read.
Worked for me!!!March 5, 2008 3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Yes some of the stories are a little mundane, and some of the stories are fascinating. However I had been getting severe migraines for ten years. My friend introduced me to this book; I followed the Regression steps and have been migraine free for 6 months now. (It hasn't been very long since I've done this) The doctors couldn't find out why I was getting my migraines, the MRI didn't show anything, there were no triggers, no doctor could figure out why I was getting them. Thanks to Dr. Weiss and the Regression steps I found out that I was killed numerous times from head wounds, after that regression I have not gotten a migraine since. I am looking forward to continuing my regression to see why else I have some problems that the doctors can't just seem to figure out. This book is to help yourself, along with stories of proof that have helped other people. If you're looking to figure out why you have some of the problems that you do and that the doctors can't figure out, this book is for you.
Overcoming problems with past life regressionDecember 29, 2007 After reading this book, you may want to jump onto Dr. Brian Weiss' couch for a past life regression! The stories of how past life regression helped many people overcome problems in this life is truly inspiring. (Unfortunately, Dr. Weiss isn't taking any patients!)
Another ground breaking workAugust 8, 2007 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In his first best-seller "Many Lives, Many Masters," Dr Brian Weiss chronicles the first case in which he employed past life regression as a therapeutic treatment. In his second "Through Time Into Healing" we learn how this technique evolved to transform his entire practice. Citing dozens of case histories as evidence, Dr Weiss claims that re-experiencing past life trauma can heal not only psychological maladies but actual physical disease as well.
For those whose consciousness remains grounded in the materialism of consensus reality such claims may be hard to swallow. Not so for anyone aware of current research involving the relationship between consciousness and quantum theory, or the history of Russian research involving the application of "torsion waves" to modify the DNA of an embryo of one species into another.
While Dr Weiss appears at a loss to explain how such cures occur, I suggest he consider this. According to many spiritual traditions all disease is a manifestation of karma, and both karma and disease are illusions, which in turn may be dispelled by simply forgiving the error of understanding which precipitated both, which is precisely what often happens quite spontaneously during the regression process, whether involving hypnosis or not.
My own personal experience with this dynamic began in the spring of 1975. My third wife was sitting in front of me reciting an 800-year-old Greek Orthodox prayer that was reputed to dispel evil and quiet the mind when she was suddenly plunged into a spontaneous psychic vision. Before her she saw a shaft of electric blue light coming down through the top of my head and engulfing my entire body, and a very old monk dressed in red robes standing to my right.
As soon as she described the monk I was immediately struck by his similarity to what a previous psychic had referred to years earlier as my "very powerful spirit guide." But before I could speak of this she reported that my features were morphing, first into a Prussian General, then into a Mongolian Warlord from the time of Genghis Khan. Next she reported seeing an inextricably terrifying amorphous blob of grayish-white energy off to my left.
A few months later we decided to take a seminar in psychic healing given by legendary psychic healer Ben Bibb, and during an aura reading exercise, in which I was the subject, the entire class reported seeing everything she had seen months earlier, and in exactly the same order and detail. According to Bibb the man in red robes was indeed my spirit guide, the Prussian and Mongolian were personas from two of my past lives, and the blob of energy was a "familiar spirit," an artificial being created during a past life of high psychic development.
This is the point at which I probably should have sought the help of someone like Dr. Weiss. Unfortunately, I decided to tough it out on my own and for the next 25 years was continuously plagued by spontaneous encounters with "psychics" who seemed bent on answering all the questions I was too reluctant to ask about the events of these two previous lives. Ironically, many of the people at the center of these psychic events had no inkling of any special gifts prior to their spontaneous encounters.
As the evidence continued to mount I eventually discovered my own tragic role in Genghis Khan's conquests as his nephew Yegu, and my role in Germany's involvement in World War I as its Chief of the General Staff. As the specifics surfaced I began to realize how the tragic events of these prior lifetimes had in fact shaped both the events and the relationships of my current life. Almost everyone in my current life it seemed, friends, lovers, wives, business partners, had played some pivotal role in these former incarnations and had now returned to help me resolve the karmic issues, whether I consciously wanted to or not. But what's important here is that with each new revelation I was able to grasp how my errors of the past we're directly related to my own emotional suffering in the present. By forgiving those errors, both mine and others, I learned I could move beyond the pain and heal.
But what about healing physical disease, you say? Let me illustrate. One principal character in my story was my fourth wife who had been the younger brother in Mongolia that I had allowed to be put to death. Understandably, during our present life together she never felt she could rely on me. A few weeks after we separated, I went into trance to psychically check on how she was doing. I awoke in severe pain as a stone ripped through my kidney, only to get stuck in my ureter. For weeks I was on pain pills, until I ran out. Desperate, I directed psychic energy into my bladder until I went again into trance. When I awoke I stepped off the bed just as my bedroom window "exploded" in a vision of my ex-wife draped in ice. "I need to let go of that" is all I said. Then I walked into the bathroom and the stone came out. The stone was nothing more than the physical manifestation of an earlier negative psychic vision I couldn't remember, but I still have it to this day.
Amazingly, after documenting all these events in my spiritual autobiography I was even able to substantiate many of the events described through historical research. My only regret is that for too long my Guide had to drag me "kicking and screaming" just to get me to listen to what he was trying to tell me. In retrospect, if I had it all to do over again, I would call Dr. Weiss. I'm sure the whole process could have been handled a lot faster and less painfully with his help.
Maxwell Austin van Lack, Author of The Vortex: A True Story of Passion and Karma
Through Time into HealingJanuary 10, 2007 This another excellent work by Dr. Brian Weiss about how understanding our past lives can explain what is happening in this lifetime....amazing stuff.
