We have been reading Many Lives Many Masters by Dr Brian Weise and today I’ll do a review of the book. Welcome to a new episode of Inner Wisdom Life Guidance. Today we’re going to be talking about Many Lives Many Masters from Dr Brian Weiss. This is the book that we have been reading this month of January.

I’m assuming that you already read the book. I’m not going to go over all the details on what happens. I’ll share why I like it, I’ll give it a rating and then I’ll talk about the key concepts that the book has that I believe are very important.

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All right, so now let’s talk about the book Many Lives Many Masters. First, like a very high level recap on what happens. So you have Dr Weiss, he is a prominent psychiatrist. He has crazy credentials, basically he is amazing and he has this client, this patient Catherine who suffers from phobias and anxiety and other mental health issues that she has.

Dr Weiss treats her like for 18 months, nothing changes. They do hypnosis and they’re able to go back when she was little and they recognize a few traumatic experiences, nothing changes. And then after that in a different session she has a past life regression and Dr Weiss is extremely shocked at what’s going on. He doesn’t understand and then that starts this beautiful process where Katherine shares her experiences in past lives that are linked to her trauma but also between lives when she’s in the spirit realm. Let’s say she’s able to pass down these messages from Master spirits to Dr Wise.

And yeah I find the knowledge and the wisdom, the messages to be just wonderful. So if I well before I do the rating why I like the book or why I think it’s such a great book to read and that’s why and why I chose this book as the first book that we’re going to read this year here and the first book in my channel actually.

I think it has all these core principles on spirituality that are communicated in such a good way, very clear, very easy to understand and the story itself is just fascinating. If you think about this you have Dr Wise who is a scientist and when all this is happening he is constantly questioning what is this, I don’t understand it or I don’t believe it right. He is applying this scientific approach to everything that is going on but he keeps an open mind and this is so important and it’s one of the perhaps core messages that I believe is worth remembering.

He keeps an open mind. As a result of that he’s able to document, analyze, look at the evidence, see if there’s any correlations and based on that he changes his beliefs and he starts adopting this new knowledge or these new beliefs that transform his life. And he waited for years between the last session and when he started writing the book and it shows you how much he was doubting from doing this because of course a scientist, a psychiatrist publishing something about past lives and spirit and stuff like that it wasn’t going to go well because of how in society this is not let’s say accepted right but he did it and it’s been amazing.

I think this book deserves five stars out of five that will be the rating that I have and I have something funny to show you. The first time I read this book was in Spanish when I was a teenager. Here’s the version, it’s pretty old like the pages are even yellow and yeah I think again it to me, for me it kind of brought this knowledge that I couldn’t find in religion.

I was born and raised a Catholic and usually I had a lot of conflicts with religion and things that were explain I didn’t agree with them or they didn’t make sense to me and this book totally fills that gap and yeah that’s why I really like it and that’s why I have recommended this book to many people as the first book that you should read when you start your spiritual journey.

Now let’s look at some of the key concepts that the book has. I think the first one that I’m going to touch on is the fact that what are we – we are Spirit. We are not our bodies, our bodies are just a vehicle for us to learn but we are spirit and that makes us Immortal. We are Eternal and we incarnate on different lives and we come into this world into this realm with the purpose of learning. We come into this world to learn, that’s the reason why we are here.

Why we do it in physical form is because through physical form we are able to experience things and we’re able to learn in a way that you can’t in a spirit form and that learning is very important for our growth as Spirits. We can also learn and that’s explained in the book and you learn faster however it’s different right. You need your body, you need your physical experience to properly learn the lessons related to being in a physical body.

Our Spirits we come from God but the way I like to say it is that we are God and many books explain this. We are God, God is in everything, we’re interconnected, we are one right. So our spirits come from God and the other thing that I explain very well in the book that I really like is that at our core we are pure, we are perfect. We’re like a diamond so everyone is the same. The difference is that well we’re growing right, everyone is growing at different stages in their lives but at the core we are the same and the analogy they use is that of a diamond with different faces let’s say.

And the way this works when you come into this world there’s certain faces of the diamond that you already developed or you’re already let’s say revealed, they’re exposed and those are usually your strengths. Perhaps you’re very kind or perhaps you are I don’t know you’re good at math, I don’t know there’s all these different aspects that you have. Maybe you’re very good at art or music or whatever right, everyone you can see it very early in stages kids are very good at different things.

And as you come into this world you develop the other faces of the diamond basically what you’re doing is removing let’s say layers that are obstructing or covering those other faces and as we go through different lives you clean and expose all the faces of the diamond.

The other thing that I want to add here that I believe is very important is that when we come into this world and we are this pure child the diamond it starts getting covered by all these layers of beliefs and conditioning that we have in society and part of our process more than learning or besides learning new things part of the process that we have to go through is to unlearn and question the beliefs that we have that our layers that are covering our core our diamond and expose these other faces or these other sides of the diamond itself.

So it’s something very important to remember two key things: you’re learning new things but also you have to question things that you have learned and beliefs that you have so that you can properly grow. A key question that I want you to ask yourself and this is for everything that you know or everything that you believe is why do you believe the things that you believe in. It’s not what you believe in that’s important, it is important okay I Believe In A B C or D but more than that is understanding why do you believe in those things and when you do that analysis you’re going to go to the core of potentially this conditioning that has been um I don’t know like forced upon you and you never had the chance to question it.

And that’s something that happens with religion a lot. You believe in a religion or you start practicing a religion but that’s what it was given to you. You couldn’t choose, you were forced to go to church for example and pray but you never had the option right. So that’s something just to keep in mind there’s many more in society and the culture depending on where you have where you were born these things that you believe that you believe in these beliefs that you have you have to question them and try to better understand if it’s something that actually you know makes sense to you or not.

Now the concept of Karma – the actions that we take are going to result in our future. The actions that we take Define our future. Okay so if you do good things and you’re a good person and you take good actions then good things will come to you in the future. If you don’t then bad things will come to you in the future.

If we take this concept and we look at it at the reincarnation and multiple lives perspective what’s happening is you live your life you die and after you die you’re the one who does an assessment of your past life. What things did you do well, what things you didn’t, what things you learn in which things you failed in which things you have to grow what experiences you’re lacking. It’s you, it’s us we are the ones who assess ourselves after we die and then in Guidance with Master spirits who are basically more evolved beings let’s say or more evolved Spirits or more evolved Souls however you want to call them we Define what are the experiences that we need in this next life. We are the ones deciding that.

So when you are in this super conscious State let’s say which is basically your inner wisdom which is what I’ve been talking about through my different videos and on my website when you are in touch with this when you are in this state after you die you have this massive wisdom to understand what was done right and what wasn’t what things you’re lacking what things you have to go through again because you still need to learn.

In essence the life that you have today is a result of your past choices and actions and you decided this is what I need to go through because this is what I still need to learn. This is so I will say in a certain way liberating but also it gives you this sense of accountability. You don’t it’s not this I don’t know like magical being that is sending this challenges to you it’s us we are the ones to Define this when we come into this world.

And what I would like you to do when you think about a challenge that you’re facing or things that happen in your life I would like you to remember that or I would like you to have a different perspective rather than thinking as a victim try to think about the learning opportunity that you have because of this experience of this challenge that you’re facing and see what can you learn from it what should you learn from it how is this going to make you a better person.

That’s going to totally change your perspective in life and whenever you have a challenge you’re going to see it in a very different way. The suffering that you might have from The Challenge is probably going to go away because now you’re going to go through it but you’re going to be conscious and aware that you are learning from it. It’s a gift the challenges that you have are a gift for you to learn and grow remember that is so important.

Throughout this life and throughout this process we are Guided by other spirits and these are our Spirit guides or these Master spirits that we have been talking about in the book that Dr Weiss talks about in the book. We have in a way guarding Angels if that’s how you want to call them. We have spirits that are with us Spirit guides that are with us helping us we can’t see them but they are there and there’s different ways in which they can manifest their presence and we’re not going to get into it there’s different things that could happen in your life.

But the main thing that I believe is important to mention is that you want to be aware and you want to listen to your intuition because when you do that it will be easier for you to catch if there’s a message being sent to you and what could that be maybe there is an opportunity that’s coming to you and what that opportunity is and when you’re aware and it comes to you take advantage of it but be aware and follow your intuition.

I think that’s very important to remember and part of these Spirit guides that might be in your life be part of your life are perhaps people that were close to you your relatives or friends that were very close to you and they come back to help you to guide you in spirit form so remember that people that pass away they’re still with us they’re somehow helping us and guiding us and once we die we will see them again right and then after we die and we see them again we decide again okay what are we going to do next life.

And when you think about your family specifically I think this is so important we decide who our is going to be that’s something that it’s an agreement that happens in this Spirit realm before we incarnate into this world. We also decide based on this again concept of Karma we also decide where we’re going to be born in which country which city which region there is a shared Karma that you have with other people and that’s why you are born in specific place.

And then you also decide what’s your gender you also decide what’s your body like what do you look like you decide all these things because all these things are the parameters let’s say that are going to Define what’s the experience that you’re going to have in this life in this world and what you’re going to learn. This is so important very important to remember you decide this and now you have to it’s like a video game if you want to put in that way you build your character and then you go into whichever world you’re going to be playing saying and you have all these tools or all these weapons all these skills you decided all that before you came into this world you have all these allies and then you go and live the adventure of life okay when instead of video game we do it in real life so it’s a I think it’s a very good analogy I hope you like it.

The other thing that’s very important that I want to mention is that everything comes at the right time maybe not everything that’s something that Dr Weiss says in his book. I’ll say things certain things come at the right time and we have to be patient for them and I guess a very good example that I like to use is your spouse in society depending on where you’re from in society usually you have this pressure to be with someone to have a partner and if you don’t there’s a problem with you how come you don’t have a partner what’s going on right and there’s all this pressure.

And you have to remember that everyone is living their lives in their own timeline and things are going to come to you at the right time. Now with that said it doesn’t mean that if there is a partner that you made a contract with before you come into the before before you came into this world and you’re going to be together it doesn’t mean that you’re going to hide in a basement and magically your partner is going to show up I don’t believe that that makes sense but you need to leave your life to the fullest you need to do the things that you love and then at the right time your partner is going to come to you and you will know it.

And I for those who know me personally I usually tell the story or when we talk about these kind of topics I share the story on how I met my wife and it’s just crazy how all these things lined up so that we could meet each other and start having a relationship she’s from Canada and I’m from Costa Rica it was just wonderful all these coincidences.

And I would like you to think and analyze if this is something that has happened in your life look at something as meeting your partner and how you met your partner and realize are there coincidences here are there things that seem too good to be true and that will everyone is different of course we all have we are we are all going to have a different experience on how we meet our partner but you’re going to probably realize that there’s things that had to line up in a very specific way so that that could happen and to me that’s a good example at least in my life is a very good example on how I can tell that things were decided it was we were meant to be together.

I believe that I ain’t seen it that’s what I have learned and that’s part of the knowledge that I’m sharing with you based on the knowledge from the book. The fact that things come at the right time it doesn’t mean that you don’t take action as I said before with a with a spouse or your partner example you have to leave your life to the fullest you have to do the things that you like you have to do the things that you love you have to do the things that you enjoy do it and through through that experience you’re going to be exposed to situations where eventually you’re going to meet your partner so that’s my point of view here it’s not that you don’t do anything and things come to you no you have to live your life and and the things that are meant to come to you they will.

Another concept another key concept that I want to mention here is knowledge as I said before we come into this life to learn that’s the purpose knowledge is what help us be Godlike the more we know the more we grow the more we know the more we grow the more we know the more wisdom we develop the wiser we are the wiser the choices that we make and the better choices or wiser choices that you make the better your life is going to be.

Going back somewhat to the karma concept the karma principle and all these multiple lives and how you learn and how you decide what are the experiences that you’re going to go through there’s a saying that goes powerful people make powerful choices. I prefer to or I can add or say in a different way wiser people make wise choices and these choices these decisions these actions are going to shape your future but before that what you decide today is going to shape your reality your present.

So your thoughts your actions are going to shape your world and that’s going to also manifest in the future so remember that and when I say actions it’s not only what you do it’s also what you think that’s why it’s so important important to make sure that you have healthy good thoughts that you focus on good positive thoughts because that’s going to that’s going to influence your present moment that’s going to influence your life right now it’s going to help you as I said before make better decisions and that’s going to have a key impact on your future.

Remember that to wrap up the episode there’s a key practice that I would like you to follow moving forward since we are here to learn I would like you to start having this learning mindset in your life with everything that happens to you and right away do an assessment on how well you did evaluate yourself right away don’t wait until what I’m trying to say is in the process that I explain that’s explained the book we die and then we look back and we say okay this was good this was not and then in our next life I’m going to do ABC and D to grow to be better right.

What I’m telling you is do this every day every day sit down and think today what did I do in a right way which things I didn’t do in in a good way and I can be better at you don’t want to do it every day do it once a week and there’s different tools that you can use to do this like journaling sit down meditate on your actions meditate on your decisions.

If you got angry at someone think about why you were angry what what happened what triggered you that’s something inside of you what’s what what is it inside of you what belief do you have that triggers anger where do you learn that why is that happening how can you overcome that what help do I need what actions can I take so do this assessment on what are things that you’re doing well what are things that you can still improve on and Define key actions that you can take to be better and do this regularly.

The more you do this the better your life will be and I can guarantee this because you are basically in this life In This Moment you’re doing that self assessment that you do at the end of your life but you’re coming back and doing it in the present moment and you’re trying to see how you can get better and better every day.

So that’s I will say one of my main messages or one of my main recommendations after reading the book doing the self assessment constantly and trying to see how you can be more virtuous how can you be better what are values that you should develop in yourself what practices and habits you need to cultivate so that it they help you with your growth right now in this life.

With that my friends thank you for watching if you like the book let me know in the comments below if you don’t understand certain things ask away and I will help you with my knowledge and will provide the answers to the best of my abilities and remember to like And subscribe if you think someone else could benefit from this video you can share with them and as usual if you want to have a one-on-one session with me you can book an appointment at IWlifeguidance.com. We will read another book in February I will share that in my other social media channels and I’ll see you in the next episode bye for now.