Dr. Brian Weiss, a psychiatrist with 20+ years of past-life regression research, reveals cases like concentration camp survivors matching historical records and xenoglossy—speaking unknown languages—supporting reincarnation’s plausibility, including a blind patient describing cardiac arrest events. He links modern fears (e.g., claustrophobia) to past traumas, from medieval torture to prenatal memories, with physical ailments dissolving post-regression, backed by MRI evidence. Weiss argues consciousness is non-local, evolving spiritually across lifetimes, while acknowledging biblical and mystical traditions suppressed or overlooked reincarnation. Callers debate theories like genetic memories, soul migrations (e.g., a Miami OBGYN recalling 100,000-year-old Aboriginal life), and trauma absorption via "recorded" lives, with Weiss cautioning against attributing motives to divine processes. Ultimately, regression therapy suggests healing through forgotten lessons, challenging Western skepticism while offering hope beyond physical death. [Automatically generated summary]
From the high desert in the great American Southwest.
I did you.
Good evening, good morning, good afternoon, whatever the case may be in all 24 time zones covered by Coast to Coast AM.
I'm Art Bell.
It's Friday night, Saturday morning, everybody.
In the next hour, Dr. Brian Wise, who is one of the...
There's only one real, ultimately important question for every single one of us alive.
And that is, what happens when we die?
And the answers range all the way from not seeing the worms crawling in and the worms crawl out to heaven or hell.
And then a small range of additional possibilities involving being bound to earth as a ghost and that sort of thing.
But there's one other really big one out there that deserves examination.
And that's reincarnation.
It's not something we talk a lot about here, but tonight we're going to...
I had viewed him many, many years ago on Dreamland, and now we'll have the honor to do so again.
He's really something.
You're going to enjoy this.
I know I am.
It is the biggest question we all have.
Lesser items, but nevertheless, I suppose, important.
Today, an interceptor rocket smashed into a dummy warhead 140 miles over the Pacific Friday night in the county folks, the fourth successful test of part of the planned U.S. missile defense system.
The interceptor, launched from a tiny Pacific island near the equator, destroyed the dummy warhead at 9.41 p.m.
Now the test was the sixth of a prototype of ground-based missile defense system.
The interceptor successfully destroyed the dummy warhead.
In three of the previous five tests, including the most recent in December, the military also developed ship-based radar and other types of anti-missile systems.
Now, the military launched the target missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 9.11 p.m.
Interceptor took off from Mech Island in Kwajalan Atoll at 9.32 p.m., then collided with the dummy warhead in space nine minutes later.
Friday's test was yet the most complex of its kind.
The dummy missile jettisoned three balloons to try to fool the interceptor, but our interceptor was not fooled and destroyed the right target.
Now, a lot of people have problems with this program.
It's going to cost a lot of money, for one thing.
$23 billion.
$64 billion by the year 2015.
Now, critics, including, of course, China and Russia, and our potential enemies, I don't know if Russia, Russia is still a potential enemy.
You'd have to put them in that class, wouldn't you?
You never know, right?
They're suggesting that it will destabilize everything because they'll just have to look at ways to defeat it, including sending so many missiles that we couldn't possibly knock them down, so we're going to spend a lot of money for something relatively easily defeated.
The other side of the coin is a rogue nation launching a missile, which is probably more likely than World War III.
There, such a defense system would be pretty important, and I would imagine there would be a lot of questions if one of our cities, one of our big cities, was incinerated in a nuclear nightmare and, you know, some rogue nation.
By the way, I hear that we're preparing nuclear weapons right now.
That we're adopting some new kind of policy about nuclear weapons.
And apparently, it would allow for their use in the new kind of situation that we face right now after September 11th.
So, you know, I don't know fully what that means, but it sounds a little bit ominous, especially if you're one of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, the guy who's got his hand on the clock up there.
The father of two accused September 11 hijackers has denied that his sons were terrorists, but said in a TV interview Friday that he would never forgive them should it be true that they are.
That would be two of his sons.
Now, he's a prominent real estate developer.
He said he's seen no proof his sons were involved.
He's tried to contact them lately.
A jury rejected the death penalty, handed rather the life sentence to Andrea Yates.
I guess you know that by now, that the tormented mother who drowned her five children in a bathtub.
And in a way, I think it's more of an appropriate sentence than a death sentence.
It was truly a horrible thing she did, mentally with it or not.
And if the answer is not, and I believe it to be not, because nobody mentally sane would do such a thing, then we don't need to be executing people like that.
Plus, if she's kept in jail to think about what she has done for the rest of her life, that's probably a more hellish sentence than death, don't you think?
U.S. and Canadian troops found a cache of mortars, grenades, and rockets Friday as they scoured the mountains of eastern Afghanistan for any escaping al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda rather, and Taliban fighters who fled the U.S. offensive.
Now, as far as I know, we are fairly bereft of finding any of the big guys, the ones close to our number one enemy, nor have we discovered his DNA yet, although they continue to gather DNA.
Nevertheless, he's been marginalized as an enemy of the U.S. That was our latest statement.
Again, I believe that statement to be kind of a perhaps conditioning for all of us to accept that marginalizing him is the next best thing to killing him.
And I suppose in a way it is.
Still, killing him would be good.
Maybe.
There are many who would say, maybe we'll know he's dead and we'll never say anything.
In other words, being, what do you think we would do?
Being afraid of the retribution of escalating Osama bin Laden's martyrdom to the very top of the heap of martyrs, that might not be a good thing, and it might be that if we killed him, we'd better keep it quiet and let it be a mystery, and he would just never be heard from again.
It would be something you tell the American people another 10 or 20 years.
Yeah, we got him.
But you wouldn't say it now.
Because that would likely generate all sorts of attempts at satisfying the debt, you know, which could be bad news.
So I don't know, that's worth a little thought.
Well, here's one you're going to really love.
This is one I've been telling you about for years, and I always get stories like this.
And the headline is, this is, so you know, it's a mainstream new scientist.
The headline is, asteroid buzzes Earth from blind spot.
Now, blind spot here is in quotes.
One of the, listen to this, one of the largest asteroids known to have approached the Earth zipped past about 450,000 kilometers away on March 8th, but nobody recorded it until four days later.
The object now called 2002EM7 was very hard to spot because it was moving outward from the innermost point of its orbit 87 million kilometers from the Sun.
You see, when it passed closest to the Earth, just 1.5 times the distance to the Moon, it was too close to the Sun to be visible.
Asteroids approaching from this blind spot can't be seen by astronomers.
If a previously unknown object passed through this zone on a collision course with Earth, it would not be identified until it was too late for any intervention.
Astronomers have made numerous calls in recent years for more funds to catalog near-Earth objects and refine their orbits.
This would reduce the number of unknown objects that could catch us unaware, giving early warning of potential future collisions.
So this one has, let's see, a 323-day orbit that takes it as far as 188 million kilometers from the Sun.
Now, it's between 50 and 100 meters across, making it larger than the object that exploded in 1908 over Tunguska.
So I'm used to these kinds of stories.
In this case, we found out four days after the fact that we could have really been slammed hard, or it could have been slammed hard.
That was very, very close.
And when do we find out?
Four days later, why?
Because it comes from the blind spot.
Incidentally, it could be that we were seeing this interceptor thing tonight, but Prescott, Arizona is reporting bright, glowing, moving, then apparently vaporizing something or another, leaving smoke rings, secondary smoke sighting on Ridgeline, seen by many, many, cars pulling over, that kind of thing.
Now, this claims it was 7.15 p.m., which would not coincide with the launch.
So I'm not sure what we've got there.
I'll need more people emailing me, telling me what they have seen.
But there is a bit of a flap going on there.
More news about this stinking rash coming up in a moment.
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You'll find it on Coast2Coast AM with George Norrie.
I really believe that my role is to inform people, to try to bring them the truth.
Yes, this is a program where we have some fun and sometimes it's very, very unusual and strange.
But I want them to understand what's happening in the world around them, whether it's climate change, economy, war, and the reasons for all these things.
So that's what I think my mission is.
Now we take you back to the night of March 15, 2002, on Art Bell, Somewhere in Time.
Art Bell Well, I'm just getting hundreds and hundreds, thousands actually, of emails about this rash.
Here are two wire service stories.
This one, not wire service, New York Post.
25 students and staff at Fort Hamilton High School in Brooklyn have become the latest victims of rashes breaking out in schools, and the cause remains a mystery.
Authorities said yesterday.
City Health Department and Board of Education officials said students exhibited, quote-inquote, slight rashes, itching, and swollen eyes yesterday and Monday.
The officials said the rashes appearing as red spots on arms are not contagious and the school there remains open.
Not so though.
In Connecticut, local health department officials are saying no need to panic after 70 students and two teachers at, let's see, it's Harwinton Consolidated Schools contracted a rash that closed the school today.
The rash, similar to others reported elsewhere in Connecticut, and now they say you'll notice throughout the nation, developed quickly.
It had a quick onset and a number of cases, the number of cases, climbed to 70, but 70 by the end of the day.
Both the Torrington Area Health District and the Connecticut Department of Public Health were called in to investigate the outbreak.
Now, of course, they still have no real idea what's doing this, but it's everywhere.
Even though they're now admitting that it's nationwide, I'm saying it's more than that.
With the amount of mail that I'm getting on this subject, there is something out there that, let's see, hits masses of people at one time, 70, 80 people at a time, and they get these rashes.
And in most cases, they go away.
But the little worrisome thing here is that you don't really know what it is that you just got.
And I suppose what they're not telling you is that it could be something else.
In other words, something now, sort of a reaction to whatever it is, and then something else could come along later.
It's kind of like a pre-earthquake, you know.
You never know that could be a bigger earthquake later, right?
You know, it's happening across the whole country.
Maybe it'll turn out to be milk, you know, some common denominator like that, but right now, you just don't know.
Got a series of things that I would like to read you here.
This is a list of the top eight morons.
Now, who constructs lists like this?
I have no idea.
But the top eight morons.
One.
Will the real dummy please stand up?
AT ⁇ T fired President John Walter after nine months saying that he lacked intellectual leadership.
He received a $26 million severance package.
Perhaps it's suggested it is not Walter who's lacking intelligence.
Lacked intellectual leadership, and they handed him $26 million.
With a little help from our friends, police in Oakland, California spent two hours attempting to subdue a gunman who had barricaded himself inside his house.
After firing ten tear gas canisters, officers discovered that the man in question was standing beside them in the police line, shouting, please come out and give yourself up.
So he was out there cheering himself on.
This one's entitled, What Was Plan B?
An Illinois man pretending to have a gun kidnapped a motorist and forced him to drive to two different automated teller machines, wherein the kidnapper proceeded to withdraw money from his own bank accounts.
This is called the getaway.
A man walked into a Topeka, Kansas quick shop, or quick stop rather, and asked for all the money in the cash drawer.
Apparently the take was too small, so he tied up the store clerk and worked the counter himself for three hours until police showed up and grabbed him.
He was selling as much as he could.
This is entitled, Did I Say That?
Police in Los Angeles had good luck with a robbery suspect who just could not control himself during a lineup.
Get this.
When detectives asked each man in the lineup to repeat the words, Give me all your money, or I'll shoot, the man shouted, That's not what I said!
This one's called, Are We Communicating?
A man spoke frantically into the phone.
My wife is pregnant and her contractions are only two minutes apart.
Is this her first child?
The doctor asked.
No, the man said.
This is her husband.
In Modesto, California, Stephen Richard King was arrested for trying to hold up a Bank of America branch without a weapon.
King used a thumb and a finger to simulate a gun, but unfortunately he failed to keep his hand in his pocket.
So he brought out the finger gun, I guess, and that was his undoing.
And now the grand finale.
Last summer, down on Lake Isabella, located in the high desert, an hour east of Bakersfield, California, some folks new to boating were having a problem.
No matter how hard they tried, they just couldn't get their brand new 22-foot going.
It was sluggish in almost every single maneuver, no matter how much power was applied.
After about an hour of trying to make it go, they pulled to a nearby marina, you know, thinking somebody there might be able to tell them what they were doing wrong.
A thorough topside check revealed that everything was in perfect working condition.
The engine was running fine.
The outdrive went up and down as it should.
The prop was the correct size and hitch, so one of the marina guys, I guess in desperation, jumped into the water to check under the boat.
He came up choking on water.
He was laughing so hard.
Now remember, this is true.
Under the boat, still securely strapped in place, was the trailer.
You just know that your speedboat is not going to, it's not going to do real well with the trailer being hauled long underneath it.
And you can imagine the poor guy who dove under there, got all the way under, still holding his breath, to be greeted by the sight of the entire trailer under the boat.
I mean, you can imagine he would begin cracking up.
He would begin losing air and have to rise quickly to the surface.
Open lines coming right up.
And then Brian Weiss.
Dr. Brian Weiss at the top of the hour on reincarnation.
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You're listening to Art Bell somewhere in time on Premier Radio Networks.
Tonight's an encore presentation of Coast to Coast AM from March 15th, 2002.
But he left me much too soon, his ladybird.
He left his lady bird.
Ladybird, come on down.
I'm here waiting on the ground.
Lady Bird, I'll preach it good.
Lady Bird, I'll preach it good.
A man is going mixing.
Double calls, huh?
You feel alright when you hear the music ring You feel alright when you hear the music ring A nice step inside, but you don't see too many things.
Coming in out of the rain, they get the cabs go down.
Competition in a birthplace.
About the home, they blow in that sound.
Way on down south.
Way on down south.
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You're listening to Art Bell Somewhere in Time, tonight featuring a replay of Coast to Coast AM from March 15th, 2002.
A group of girlfriends went on a vacation during which they see a five-story hotel with a sign that reads, for women only.
Since they were without their boyfriends, they decide to go in.
The doorman, a very attractive guy, explains how it all works.
He says, we've got five floors.
Go up floor by floor.
Once you find what you're looking for, you can stay there.
It's easy to decide because each floor has a sign telling you what's inside.
So they start going up.
First floor, sign reads, all the men here are horrible lovers, but they are sensitive and kind.
The friends laugh and without hesitation move on to the next floor.
The sign on the second floor reads, All the men here are wonderful lovers, but generally treat women badly.
That wasn't going to do, so up they go.
Third floor.
Sign there says, all the men here are great lovers and sensitive to the needs of women.
Now, this was good, but still, there are two floors yet above.
So on the fourth floor, where the sign was absolutely perfect, it read, all the men here have perfect builds, are sensitive and attentive to women, are perfect lovers.
They are also single, rich, and straight.
The women seem very pleased, but they decide that they'd rather see what the fifth floor has to offer before they settle for the fourth.
When they reach the fifth floor, all that's there is a sign that reads, there are no men here.
This floor was built only to prove there is no way to please a woman.
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The End Now we take you back to the night of March 15, 2002, on Art Bell, Somewhere in Time.
Oh, by the way, kind of a cute picture of our Yeti on the website webcam.
If you go to the webcam, I adjusted it so the focus was a little bit closer and got Yeti pretty close to the screen.
That's kind of a cute picture.
And you'll notice his whiskers are definitely longer than mine.
All right, to the phones we go.
Now listen, top of the hour, Dr. Brian Weiss, serious stuff.
If you really are curious about what happens to us, or at least one of the major options that's out there that looks like it might be real that occurs to us when we die.
And at 7.10 p.m., I saw something that seemed particularly odd in the sky.
Me and my mom were going outside to go to a Chinese restaurant, and I noticed this bright white light that was moving up in the sky.
And it had, it had this kind of, it was weird.
It looked like it had a cloud surrounding it and it was shining light through it, but it wasn't a cloud.
It must have been a light that was just so bright that it seemed like a cloud and it had this wide light that was reaching down from under it and it seemed to be streaming down, but it wasn't quite touching the ground.
How big, if you were to describe it, you know, people usually use the, if you hold your thumb out at arm's length or your hand out at arm's length, or how big was it?
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Well, you know, we talked about that and because of its apparent closeness, if it happened to be a commercial jet, uh it uh would have probably appeared larger than this craft.
So I I think that this that this craft was smaller than a commercial jet jet airliner.
You're pretty sure this wasn't a missile launch or an interception.
No, no, no.
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Not at all.
Not at all.
And the times don't jive and you you you stand by the same time and same description as the that's right because I placed a call to the person that we were going to meet and told him that we were just a minute or two away and it was specifically 710 p.m. when that call was made.
All right, well, obviously we've got a situation on our hands here.
The minutes just about match with regard to the launch.
But what they're describing does not match the launch.
And you would certainly think that others would have seen it, had a much better vantage point to see it than down in Arizona, wouldn't you?
East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
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Hello.
Hello?
Yes.
Hi, Art.
This is Rita from Rochester, New York.
Hey, Rita.
Hi, I'm T. I'd like to see one of these things that these people are talking about all the time.
I never have, but then I keep my drapes closed at night, too.
I'll try to be as concise as possible.
There are a few things I would like to discuss with you.
First of all, you're shortening my life.
I've been with you about six years or so and often stay up all night until the very end, and I'm 71, and I can't lose that much sleep, but I can't turn you off.
Well, when that terrible tragedy happened on that infamous day, and they showed pictures of the plane which crashed in Pennsylvania, my first reaction was, where's the plane?
Somebody, a caller, I guess, mentioned last night that maybe it vaporized.
I don't know if such things happen, but that plane in Pennsylvania was just gone, and I don't think the ground was that marshy that it could have sunk all the way through not to be seen anymore.
Well, I think there are interesting questions surrounding both of these, but particularly the Pentagon.
I've had probably 500 pictures so far, and here's the deal.
Every one of them show either the impact or where the hole is after the impact.
I've got them with the fire plume.
I've got a million pictures, but I've only got one photo with a piece of an airplane, or what even appears to be a piece of an airplane, and it's small.
So I still think that they were airplanes, hon. I believe that it's true.
It's just kind of an interesting thing.
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The next thing is, could you tell me, us, maybe, why the announcer never gives the number where tapes can be ordered?
Okay, I'm laying money on the fact that what we've got reported here is the launch from Vandenberg and the successful destruction, I might add, of that missile that you saw launched.
And it threw out three decoys, and they nailed it anyway.
How do you feel about the U.S. developing space-based defenses like this?
Good idea or bad?
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I'm not sure.
My heart's just broken because I thought I saw a UFO.
Confirming for you that was a missile launch you all saw.
The missile, in fact, did launch at about 6.11 Pacific Time.
Now, to me, this story that I hold in my hands about the missile launch, quoting the missile launch time at 9.11 p.m., and talking about Vandenberg Air Force Base is another example of East Coast media elitism.
They don't even bother to tell us that's East Coast time they're talking about.
That's elitism.
They ought to at least every now and then use Pacific time or at least say it's Eastern time so the rest of us can compute.
Anyway, good powers of observation.
That's what you all saw was a missile and interception, I might add, a successful destruction of a missile launched from Vandenberg.
Whether you saw the launch itself only or saw the interception, which seems unlikely, that was over quadrillion, though you could have, that folks is indeed what you saw.
Now, coming up, the greatest question that mankind can have.
what happens when you die?
Is it the As I said earlier, there's the worms crawl in, worms crawl out.
It's all over routine.
Then there's heaven and hell.
And then there's the possibility of reincarnation.
And there are probably one or two others.
But, you know, basically the options boil down to that.
Is it the big blackness, the big nothing, the big sleep, or is there something yet to come?
That's what we're going to explore with Dr. Brian L. Weiss, who was trained in traditional psychotherapy, received his medical degree at Yale University of Medicine, interned at New York University's Bellevue Medical Center, and became chief resident at the Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, founding chairman and chairman emeritus, Department of Psychiatry Mount Sinai Medical Center.
Dr. Weiss is a heavyweight.
He maintains a busy private practice in Miami, travels extensively, giving lectures and workshops based on his best-selling books.
He outlined his conversation to regression therapy in his best-selling book, Many Lives, Many Masters, about a difficult patient who under hypnosis began talking of events in her other lives.
Many Lives, Many Masters, you might be interested, has sold more than 2 million copies worldwide.
That's a lot, and has been translated into over 30 languages.
During the past 15 years, he has practiced regression therapy with patients of diverse religions and occupations.
This is going to be very interesting.
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You know, when I started doing this radio program, Jesse, half of the subjects I was really into, the paranormal, the unusual, ghosts, and things like that.
The conspiracy stories, you know, I was a little weary about these, other than the Kennedy assassination.
And all of a sudden, I woke up.
I simply woke up.
Is that what happened with you two?
Yeah, that's when I really started to say, what is going on here?
And I started to truly then investigate 9-11.
And today, I don't believe the government story of 9-11.
Here's the three options.
Either we knew about it and allowed it to happen, or we knew about it and participated in it, or these were the dumbest buffoons that could have ever been in charge of our country who could have all this pre-information.
And I started to think they knew it was going to happen.
They either are part of it or they allowed it to.
There's no doubt in my mind.
Now we take you back to the night of March 15, 2002, on Art Bell, Somewhere in Time.
So, 10 years ago, we're going to virtually begin at the beginning.
You may have heard what I said, you know, at the top of the hour.
I think it's the most important question for mankind, individual mankind.
Every man and woman on the face of the earth will want to know what's going to happen when their physical body expires, and it's not going to be very long, no matter how old or young you are.
Our stay here is very short indeed.
And the options are, I don't know, eternal blackness, heaven, hell, and maybe a trip back.
That's certainly one of the big possibilities, and that's what you're here to talk about, right?
That's what I've been doing for the past 20 years, really, studying about people who have died and come back here, and accumulating evidence, accumulating data, but also, since I'm a psychiatrist, also working at the therapeutic level, watching them get rid of symptoms, feel better, remove obstacles and blocks to their inner peace, and get rid of anxiety, psychosomatic disorders, things like that.
So two levels.
One, the validation, but also at a healing level, it's very powerful.
In other words, if you, oh, I don't know, were thrown in the ring with the lions back in the days of Rome's ascension, then maybe you have a particular fear of lions, right?
And he was on medications for it, which he really didn't like.
It made him very groggy.
And when he had a regression, we discreet safe, just like the HGH you talked about.
There's no danger here, it's very safe.
He went back in time and had a vivid memory of being lanced or speared in the back in a medieval battle.
And we couldn't prove that one.
It was too long ago.
There wasn't anything to look up.
But for him, it was very profound because of the vivid nature of the recall.
But also his back pain disappeared.
And this is without using any medication.
It hasn't been back since.
So at the cosmic level, yes, we have to find out about life and death and what happens when we leave these physical bodies, what happens to our consciousness.
These are very, very important questions, as you said.
But also at the physical level, there's a great deal of healing going on.
You've got another 10 years of investigation under your belt since we last talked.
If I were to just ask you, doctor, to lay it on the table and give me what you consider the best evidence for reincarnation, what kind of things would you tell me?
But when we look at the validational things, it's important to remember that this is not done in the laboratory.
This is like a social science.
We're not going to get DNA tests.
We're not going to get chromosome analysis.
So when somebody during a regression in my office comes up with names, dates, details, someone comes up, for example, with a concentration camp number that they're reading from their arm.
But they're only 30 years old now.
And it turns out that that number completely connects to the person they're describing, the name, the city, the occupation, the store, the relatives.
One that was really blew me away was, and I'm a very left-brain scientific type, as you remember, Columbia, chemistry major, Yale, all the old academic ways.
And I was seeing a physician from mainland China.
She had come over to the U.S., her first trip out of China.
She didn't speak one word of English, couldn't even say hello.
She came with a translator.
And regressions work very well with interpreters, too, because it doesn't get in the way.
It just actually is like a one-two thing.
They hear 10-9-8 or whatever twice.
So they can go very deep.
She went very deep in this regression.
And she went back and was remembering an argument with her husband in a past life in the Northern California area about 150 years ago.
Again, it wasn't enough data to prove it in a laboratory, but this is the interesting part.
She's having this argument, and she begins to speak in very colorful English.
The translator, who isn't aware of what's happening yet, he does what translators do.
Well, one can never be 100% sure, but in that case, and again, it helps to, I've been a psychiatrist for the past 30 years, to really observe human behavior, and I have come across all kinds of people, as you have, and I look at them clinically.
She was not acting.
She couldn't speak English when it ended.
And I know that.
And the interpreter was not acting.
He nearly fainted.
This was real.
And these kinds of things happen rarely, xenoglossy that's called.
But the other things, the concentration camp numbers, these kinds of validation cases, they're not so rare.
Usually the critics, though, the skeptics, have never done their homework.
I remember debating once Carl Sagan, the astronomer.
And he came with these very intellectual arguments.
But when I pointed out that he hadn't really done his homework, he hadn't prepared, he hadn't tried it, he hadn't really read about it, he was not being a scientist.
Being a scientist means keeping an open mind so that you can learn new things.
You can evaluate data as it comes in in a dispassionate way.
Usually they have lots of intellectual arguments, but once you start telling them what the research really indicates, because they have no idea about these cases, or zero,
She had a lifelong fear of gagging or choking, and her symptoms were depression, phobias, and panic attacks.
She wouldn't take any medicine because of this fear of gagging.
So I wanted to use hypnosis, which I had learned when I was at Bellevue, to take her back into her childhood where I felt there must be traumas that she was not remembering.
Is these stage hypnotists, just as a quick question here, that we see having people barking up there and doing all kinds of weird things, can that really be done with hypnosis?
But I couldn't understand why she was remembering with such detail and with such emotion.
And within a week, her lifelong fear of gagging or choking, the reason she wouldn't take any medicines, I would usually use antidepressant medicines for symptoms like hers, this choking phobia had disappeared.
She remembered gagging in the water.
And after that memory, the symptom, which had been with her since she was a little girl, disappeared.
So as a psychiatrist, this was extremely important to me.
And even though I was having a difficult time intellectually understanding that this could be more than imagination or fantasy, maybe even more than metaphor or symbol, she was getting better.
Dr. Weiss, I'm trying to figure out how to knock a hole in all of this, and so I'm going to ask you a question.
I take it you're probably familiar with some of the interesting results from transplant surgery, where heart and lungs were implanted into a woman who then began to have the cravings of an 18-year-old that had donated these organs, that sort of thing, right?
Yes.
And you're also familiar with the concept of or the possibility of genetic, some sort of genetic memory.
So I wonder if you consider any of these anomalies, you know, as one possible answer for what you're finding.
Yes, as scientists, I have to look at other explanations.
I always do this because if you don't do that you're not acting in an intelligent way.
It's just that there's a saying in medicine also that when you hear hoofbeats don't look for zebras.
So reincarnation seems to fit as the most economical answer.
Take genetic memory for example.
I've had so many patients who have died as children or died childless not passing on any genetic material and yet they go directly to that person who has anything on.
Well, their test is bringing artifacts and instruments and everyday things, cups, whatever, from the old Dalai Lama.
They carry that with them.
And if the child, who's usually about two or three, is able to identify these objects, the correct ones, they may have four or five cups, and he picks the correct one.
He knows names, like of elderly Lamas who were close to the previous Dalai Lama.
So that's the kind of test they give him, a kind of recognition names.
Dalai Lama after Dalai Lama, unless they made a mistake somewhere along the line.
Right.
That's fascinating.
Well, if reincarnation is real and the evidence that you talk about is pretty strong, then the next thing that I'd like to know, I guess, is how it works.
And I can't think of anybody better to ask than somebody who's done this research about the nature of reincarnation itself.
Well, I'll tell you what, I'm just talking from my own research, and this is with 3,000 patients since Catherine, and more than that, individually, many more in groups, but just 3,000 in my office.
And we seem to go on.
This is the whole idea of consciousness being non-local, being greater than the physical brain or the physical body.
But it seems to be, in my research, that whatever you want to name this, some people call it the soul, the spirit, consciousness, awareness, doesn't matter what we call it.
This goes on.
And learns, seems to have lessons and life review, all the things that the near-death experiencers, researchers like Kubla-Ross and Melvin Morse and Raymond Moody and the others, they also find this too.
And it's the same thing with the after-death experience, except that you don't come back into the present body.
And that's the whole concept that consciousness, and you've been into this a lot, I know, with remote viewing and with the near-death experience.
two most common answers to this and and there really are always answers to all of these questions and if if people just keep an open mind i don't mean you you have a very open mind but the these So what answers do you get?
And in Kabbalah and in certain mystical traditions, the concept that the soul can have simultaneous experiences, can split, actually be in more than one body at the same time.
In that case, then there should be some regressions literally to something that does not make any sense to you at all because you don't have a reference for it.
I mean, you might be able to talk to somebody, for example, who was there 2000 B.C. and be able to converse, but gee whiz, if you go back to somebody who was on Zeta Reticuli or something like that, then you're going to be into a frame of reference you would not understand.
I think this world, this physical dimension, here we have time, here we have past lives.
But when you get outside of here, maybe everything is even simultaneous.
And maybe longitudinal here.
And I think the same thing with the future, because sometimes, again rarely, but sometimes, a patient will flip into a future life, something that seems not to have happened yet.
And that may not be the actual future.
It could be a distortion.
It could be probable futures and possible futures.
I think what happens is that we graduate, that this is like a big school here.
And we eventually graduate.
We've learned our lessons, and we graduate.
We don't have to come back here anymore.
We may be helping out from the other side.
But then I find that some people volunteer to come back here.
They don't have to come back, but they come back voluntarily to help other humans progress.
And so really we don't all completely graduate until everybody has graduated.
But this is kind of like a school.
Maybe it's a junior high school or a high school.
This is not the only place.
And as we graduate this school, we may go on to other schools which perhaps have different characteristics, such as mind-to-mind contact, no illness, maybe bodies are lighter, higher vibrational rate, these kinds of things that people describe to me as I sit there listening in my office to all of this.
But of course, if you were born in India or Japan or China and you had other holy books which espouse reincarnation, you would believe something completely different.
But there is the Bible, and what I've done, I've of course debated many, many religious people, and there are two approaches I take to it.
One, and I'm not a religious scholar, but I have read carefully the New Testament, the Old Testament, and I point people to Jesus talking about, do you recognize that John the Baptist is Elijah returned?
Yes, the belief in reincarnation was there for several centuries after Jesus.
And Jesus believed in reincarnation.
That's very clear from reading the New Testament.
He talks about it in seven or eight different places.
But beginning with Constantine in the 4th century and ending at the Council of Nicaea in the 6th century, references to reincarnation were deleted for political reasons.
The Romans thought, as they began to embrace Christianity as the state religion, that without the whip of Judgment Day, people wouldn't listen.
They wouldn't obey.
The Romans were into control.
That's fine.
That's politics.
But they took it out, and this was 600 years after Jesus.
But as I said, the original writers, the original followers and apostles, and Jesus himself, they seem to all have believed in reincarnation.
And that was also an Essene belief at the 2,000 years ago.
So I've kind of, this is the other thing I say to religious people and to other people who may have intellectual beliefs that block them from experiencing.
I say, now, why don't you experience it for yourself?
I mean, where the culture has always believed in this would be one thing.
They've somehow adjusted, but to suddenly be aware that you have no reason to fear death, that seems to me potentially very dangerous for the West.
Doctor, hold on.
We're at the top of the hour.
Dr. Brian Weiss is my guest.
Would you be afraid of death?
Maybe not, if you knew you were coming back.
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You know, when I started doing this radio program, Jesse, half of the subjects I was really into, the paranormal, the unusual, ghosts, and things like that.
The conspiracy stories, you know, I was a little weary about these, other than the Kennedy assassination.
And all of a sudden, I woke up.
I simply woke up.
Is that what happened with you two?
Yeah, that's when I really started to say, what is going on here?
And I started to truly then investigate 9-11.
And today, I don't believe the government story of 9-11.
Here's the three options.
Either we knew about it and allowed it to happen, or we knew about it and participated in it, or these were the dumbest buffoons that could have ever been in charge of our country who could have all this pre-information.
And I started to think they knew it was going to happen.
They either are part of it or they allowed it to.
There's no doubt in my mind.
Now we take you back to the night of March 15, 2002, on Art Bell, Somewhere in Time.
Art Bell, Somewhere in Time Well, all right, this is kind of an interesting question, so let's follow up on it a little bit.
And it is, here in the West, where we don't particularly by majority embrace reincarnation, if proof enough was laid on the table that masses began to convert to the concept, it just seems as though there would be possible anarchy here because we have not been brought up in a culture where we understand reincarnation via fact and have learned to act sociably
Well, I can look at the patients that I've had over these years, more than 3,000, and many more in groups or using the CD who have had their own experiences.
I don't find that they're more violent.
I don't find that there's a danger there.
They seem to be happier.
That is, they know that they're immortal, is another way of putting it.
They don't die when their bodies die.
There's something to look forward to in that sense.
They know that their loved ones, too, go on, so that they're going to be reunited either on the other side, after death, or back here again.
So people seem to have the reaction of losing fears, of losing symptoms, of feeling better, and of not grieving so much, because they know that death is not what they thought it was.
Actually, we never die because we're never really born.
We exist before we come into the bodies too.
So I think our culture is mature enough to handle this information in a better way than perhaps the ancient people.
Well, it seems in this world, again, this three-dimensional world, this physical world, this is the difficult place, by the way, where we have relationships, physical bodies, motion, pain.
It seems that the past is more fixed, that as we come through it, it's almost like it solidifies, in a sense, and the future is not.
That depends on our choices.
It's kind of an interplay of free will and destiny all coming together.
But the past, since it's already happened in this three-dimensional world, seems much more fixed than the future.
Another researcher who's not alive now in terms of physical body, Helen Wombach, did this research of taking groups of people into the future, doing these progressions.
And she had no trouble taking people 500 years, 1,000 years into the future.
I remember the five ones that were short-term, like the next hundred years, there was still a lot of turmoil.
But it seemed to me, as I'm recalling, much more peacefulness, that's what I remember, somewhere like 500 years out, but a great technological progress as well.
And somehow, although this seems like a difficult situation right now, somehow we had caught up spiritually or morally or ethically with our technology.
That is, we weren't just abusing it for destructive purposes.
If I were to do this, and I were to go back to a past life, doctor, would I have the option of immersing myself in that life, feeling it, seeing it, being it as close to what I now see as reality in front of me with my broadcast equipment and all the rest of it?
Could I see it that clearly, literally living it, or would I see it this passionately in a detached way?
And others kind of in a detached way, and some not physically at all.
They just kind of know things or feel things.
So everybody's a little bit different.
One of the most vivid I can remember is a professor of engineering.
And I took him out.
I was teaching at a group conference.
We were doing some group regressions.
And I picked him out as an individual volunteer.
Now, he didn't believe in this.
He came because his wife believed in it, and he was keeping her company.
And he went back to Roman times, and he was describing in infinite detail the armor and almost an arrogant attitude of how the arrows or spears or whatever the weapons were of the barbarians, I think it was a Germanic tribe, would not be able to pierce this kind of armor.
So the Romans were so technologically ahead.
And he described the battle strategy and what they would do.
And then she had a past life where her brother from this life was killed as a, her younger brother in this life was her older brother in the past life.
And he was shot and killed accidentally in that life.
Well, I came back to do the show the next week, and it's the night before the show, and I get a call from the producer that the higher-ups at the network decided to not air it because it was too dramatic.
It was too good, and they felt it would take away from her credibility.
She wanted to air it because she felt it was so real, and she believes in this, and it was so intense and so emotional, she did not agree that it would take away from her credibility.
Art Bell, Somewhere in Time Some of Dr. Weiss's books that you might be interested in, if you want to know more, and I imagine you do, would be Through Time into Healing, which that links up on the website, Many Lives, Many Masters, and of course, Mirrors of Time,
Using Regression for Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Healing.
Those are some of the books you might want to touch base with.
And of course, if you have the cojones for it, the CD, which will actually allow you at home to go through a regression.
Well, at any rate, back to where we were.
And they brought this skeptic on the show who said what?
Who said, and this was happening in Los Angeles, if Dr. Weiss were practicing medicine in California, he would institute proceedings to have my license removed.
I stood up and I took the microphone off because we had an arrangement, no skeptics.
And this was a real card-carrying PsycOps member who, I found out, of course, hadn't read my books, hadn't prepared, didn't know what he was talking about because he had never studied or researched the subject.
They just go in and blanket that.
So the producer came running out.
The show stopped.
There was a live studio audience, a lot of people.
A lot of money goes into this.
But we had a very clear agreement, no skeptics.
And the producer comes running out and says, what are you doing?
And I said, I'm leaving.
He said, you can't leave.
I said, why not?
I don't work for you.
You broke this agreement that we had.
And we were very clear about that.
He said, well, I'll take the skeptic off and we'll just re-tape from there.
We have, it is said, it's argued, but probably about 10% of the population is homosexual.
It's a natural question for you if perhaps we're not dealing with a male or a female that was the opposite sex in an immediate prior life or even one further back.
And simply, I mean, that's one of, there are certain animal things deep within us.
One of them is our sexuality.
And it seems to me that's one of the things that would very easily, very likely, carry forward.
Sometimes a recent lifetime has been an extremely powerful or pleasant one in the opposite sex, and some of those characteristics are retained.
Just the same way a musical ability may be carried over and a young Mozart may be writing symphonies at age five because he's carried over this talent.
The same thing with sexuality.
I don't know that it's true in all cases because sometimes it seems to be a strong physiological or genetic imprint also, but at least in some cases it has been a carryover of a very positive opposite-sex previous lifetime.
Well then if a homosexual person were regressed and realized the reason for their homosexual present lifestyle in that regression, would as you are able to cure other ailments, would that person perhaps become heterosexual?
I haven't found that in the research, probably because it's not like the usual symptom of a phobia or a panic attack or something that clears up that way.
It seems stronger than that.
And a lot of people, of course, do not want to change their sexual preference.
They may be coerced or there may be kind of pressure from outside, from culture, from families.
I mean, I don't know exactly what it is because we haven't done a regression, but I've had a different one, I'm thinking, of a woman from South America that I saw who had severe claustrophobia, so much so that she'd panicked whenever she was in a small enclosed space.
And it turned out that she had a very vivid past life memory.
It's too old to validate, but it was a strong memory for her of being buried alive, entombed alive in ancient Egypt.
Their culture believed that you could take it with you.
That when a noble person died, they often buried their slaves, their servants, took their gold, their money, their things, and buried them with them because they believed that when you woke up on the other side, you'd have access to all these things on the other side.
It's not the case.
So she died in that manner.
She was a servant, and she suffocated in that burial chamber.
And that was apparently one of the causes of her claustrophobia and panic attacks in this life, because they disappeared after that memory.
She didn't need Xanax, didn't need medication in her case.
And she realized also, maybe another thing, in addition to experiencing it, was that this was from the past.
It was over.
It was not something that was going to happen now.
And maybe that intellectually also had a healing effect for her.
So sometimes we do find the origins for these things, fears, panic attacks, phobias, in the past.
Sometimes it's in childhood.
Sometimes it's in infancy.
Sometimes it's in a past lifetime.
But we just go where the action is, that is, where is the trauma or where are the incidents that are responsible for causing this symptom?
I have another woman who dissolved two breast masses.
This is an interesting case.
She came to me for something else.
She was having anxiety attacks, and she needed to have a biopsy.
She had two breast masses in her right breast.
And she came on a Thursday, and the following Monday, she was scheduled for the biopsy.
This is a strange story.
And I gave her one of these C Ds.
This was before Mirrors of Time came out.
And I never saw these C Ds except through my office.
Really, they're for patients.
So she came down, she took the C D and she's playing it now about three times a day because she's intensely motivated to relax and to have this procedure.
And on the C D, it was a healing exercise using light and some other imagery.
And she went in for the biopsy on the following Monday, and another mammogram was done.
Now she had three previous mammograms and an ultrasound all documenting the existence and location of these two breast masses.
Well, I've told this story too many times, but this one impressed me so profoundly, Doctor.
I'm never going to get over it.
I interviewed such a nice lady who had been on 48 hours.
I'm sure you know of the case, or you should if you don't.
She had an aneurysm in her brain, and she was going to die.
I mean, it was just, you know, it was a ticking time bomb, big aneurysm.
And they couldn't figure anything out, so she went down to Arizona, and they removed all the blood from her body.
Doctor, they cooled her body off, took all the blood out, heart stopped, EEG zero, brainwaves, zero, dead, dead, dead.
They had her on the table for the better part of an hour.
And in every clinical sense, she was completely dead.
However, she was able to recount every single thing that occurred in that operating table, all the tools that were used that were not apparent when she was wheeled in, the conversation that went on, the entire linear hour she was able to account for.
I mean, they, of course, put the blood back in her body, put the paddles on her chest, started her heart, and back she came.
But not only did she remember all of that, she remembers viewing it from a detached location.
She also remembers having a very serious NDE experience concurrently with all of that, as though time for her had totally stopped.
But I mean, that lady was dead for an hour, Doctor, really dead.
When I was chairman of psychiatry at Mount Sinai Medical Center, a cardiologist, a very prominent cardiologist, came in to see me.
He had his shocking experience with one of his patients, an elderly woman who had been diabetic for many years and blind for the past several years as a complication of the diabetes.
And she was in the hospital for tests, and she had a cardiac arrest.
Her heart stopped.
The emergency team is in there.
The cardiologist in the hospital at that time is also working on her, part of the team.
He had a very unusual pen, very unique.
It was a gift to him.
And at some point during the resuscitation, it fell out of his pocket and rolled across the room.
She, meanwhile, had come out of her body and was watching the whole thing from a vantage point near a window and slightly above the floor on the other side of the room, near where the pen had rolled to.
She was eventually revived, and a few days later, he was making medical rounds.
He came to her, and she thanked him for saving her life.
She told him she had seen the whole resuscitation.
He said, you couldn't.
You were comatose.
You were unconscious.
You had a cardiac arrest.
And then she described accurately details that you would have to be there and see it to know.
And she described his pen, which was unique, was, as I said, a gift to him.
And she had never held it.
And that was shocking to this cardiologist because not only was she indeed comatose, but she's also blind.
And she's describing the whole thing.
So how is she seeing this?
And it's the same thing as the story that was on 48 Hours.
It's that part of our consciousness that is not limited to the physical body or brain.
It's amazing.
I have many of these cases, too, because they're really not rare.
It's just that doctors are reluctant because they're concerned of their reputation.
Is there any indication in all the regressions that you have done, Doctor, that there is a, I don't know, a staging area, a waiting area, a period of time, and we use the word time where there may not be a reference for time once you're outside your physical body, but is there any sense that there's a waiting period between lives?
One of the Strong and recurrent themes is that we have this life review.
I'm sure you've heard this before, where we go over our lives and how we affected people, what did we do, how did we act, what did we learn, did we accomplish the lessons, and then there's some progress, some learning on the other side, and then we come back here.
Now, the time can vary from a day, an hour, to more than a century, depending on the needs of the soul to learn.
Somebody passed blast me and says, hey, Art, stop talking about that woman with an aneurysm, Pam Reynolds, will you please?
You mention her on nearly every show.
I'm tired of her already.
Why do you idolize her?
I don't idolize her.
Roy in Alabama.
I was profoundly affected by her, so I don't idolize her.
And I will continue to mention and think of her, I'm sure, until I come up with some sort of answer to what happened to Pam Reynolds.
It's right there with what we're talking about tonight, you know.
It's too important.
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So that's what I think my mission is.
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Tonight, an encore presentation of Coast to Coast AM from March 15, 2002.
You can always watch from a kind of distant perspective.
You can do it without emotion if you want.
You have all of these options.
So I was watching myself and also being in this person's body at the same time as an ancient priest.
And I think it was Assyrian Babylonian time because it was a kind of odd geometric building.
I don't remember the name of these buildings, but they were sloping upsides, flat on the bottom and top, different levels, stairs going up the middle.
And I was a very powerful priest in that time.
I had the ear of the royal family if I wanted, but I was misusing the position for more power and greed and sex and things like that instead of teaching, well, like today.
In my first experience, I had that opportunity to confirm, so that was more powerful for me.
And that was my first experience.
And I think that I've had many lives in different religions, different areas of the world.
I'm Jewish in this life, but I had a powerful life in France several centuries ago as, oh no, it wasn't France, it was Scotland.
I didn't even know.
It was Europe somewhere, and later on I found out it was Scotland as a Catholic priest who was tortured and killed for teaching heretical subjects, such as we're talking about tonight.
I'm probably like a million other souls out there that we all worry about our immortal soul, where we're going to burn in hell or go to the Pearly Gate.
And this suggestion of reincarnation, you keep coming back to get it right.
That's kind of nice, kind of warm and fuzzy.
But I would come close to believing that it's I've even heard read about these, what you call genetic or DNA ghost memories from atomic structures from just like you said, that guy that got a heart transplant, that the structure of that heart is somehow causing memories.
Well, the thing that kind of scares me is I've had general anesthesia twice for some surgery.
And you would think that during that, when they, I've read one place that you actually brain rags go flat because they put you all the way under.
You know, they don't want you to, you know, and it was instantaneous.
In other words, they say count to one to five, and you're sat there on four, and then you fix them to say five, and they say, Mr. Williams, can you move?
And I said, you know, you want to say, sure, I can move.
As a matter of fact, the out-of-body experiences, Dr. Weiss, and the casual observations from the ceiling and all that, they're the exception, not the rule.
I mean, we're still studying the phenomenology of it.
We're describing these events.
We don't know why some people have out-of-body experiences, like the woman on 48 Hours or the blind diabetic women that I talked about, and others don't.
But anesthesia, drugs, could suppress some of these experiences, too, in some people.
They don't eliminate the brain waves or the respirations.
They're just brought down.
You weren't as deep.
You just didn't have a memory for it because that's what the drugs do.
Nevertheless, there's a great deal of evidence that people can still hear conversations and respond to that.
I had a patient who was having vocal cord surgery, and she was under general anesthesia, and she overheard the anesthesiologist and the surgeon talking about the possibility that her throat might swell as a result of this surgery.
And she woke up panicked in the recovery room, panicked that her throat might swell and she wouldn't be able to breathe.
So she heard that conversation.
But why she did and you didn't, I don't know that.
And the power of the subconscious mind, which is extremely strong, is that your intention or your expectation will have a large determining factor in your experience.
I mean, where you can reach a level of concentration within when you can actually put yourself in a different place in a different time, immerse yourself into it to the degree that it approaches the reality we now see.
Or they've chosen to come here with that kind of impairment to learn some other lesson, like how to receive love.
Or perhaps they were abusive of the mentally ill in another life, and now they have to experience it themselves to know that, hey, this is not something to be abused.
One of your fast blasts and or faxes, either this week or last week, brought up a subject which runs right along this line, but it didn't contain one caveat, which I would like to add.
The message had to do with a stage hypnotist who had a bunch of children up on the stage, and for some reason, he asked them to sing the Martian national anthem, and they did in a foreign language nobody had ever heard before.
However, the caveat is, upon having it sung in the foreign language, they should also re-sing it in English so you could get a translation.
How could several children be instructed under hypnotic suggestion to sing the Martian national anthem and all begin simultaneously in a language nobody ever heard start to sing?
Matthew Alpert said there's a God part of the brain, and like 92% of the people have to believe in God, basically, and 8% pretty much have to not believe in God.
And would it be possible, since he said some people do and some people don't, that some people have been here a long time and reincarnate, and some people showed up 6,000 years ago and don't reincarnate?
Yeah, but it seems to me then doing, again, I'm just talking about my own research, that there are new souls coming to this place because that's how the numbers fit.
So they must be coming from somewhere else.
There seem to be, again, this is some of the strange part, there were several large migrations of physical bodies to this planet long time ago in the past.
This is what my patients tell me.
I don't know much about this either, but certain discrete migrations, large, large-scale migrations.
We all reincarnate, though, once we're here.
Once you're here, let me tell you about an OBGYN physician that I saw, very prominent OBGYN doctor in Miami, and very well-known, very left-brained, down-grounded.
And she came in and had this unusual regression of crash landing almost, well, being in a scout ship maybe 100,000 years ago on the Australian continent and interacting with the Aborigines who were there at that time, and then having to stay on this planet because there was karma now or there was debt to pay.
And she entered the reincarnation cycle at that point and has been here ever since.
And she described this other world that I had really didn't have a frame of reference for.
And her father, independently having a regression in the different part of the country, came up with some same memories of that other world.
Since you are a psychiatrist, it's an unusual opportunity for me to run this by you.
There is a man named Matthew Alpert that I've interviewed a few times.
And he makes a kind of an interesting case that for most humans, the greatest fear we have is of death.
And I think that's probably a fair assumption.
Okay, fine.
Operating from that point then, he makes the case that the human brain, in an effort to protect itself from that fear, a natural thing for our brain to try and do, demands that we worship, demands that we concoct a God, whether it be the sun, the moon, the God of the Bible, Muhammad, whatever.
He makes his case by saying you even go down into untouched parts of the Amazon or wherever, and you find these untouched groups of people, and sure as can be, they worship something.
So he makes the case that perhaps there is not a God.
Perhaps it is just our brain doing what our brain naturally does to contend with something it cannot otherwise contend with.
It's an interesting hypothesis, but I think there's more to it because of this research, and you may not necessarily have to use the word God.
You can use energy or love or something like that.
I no longer think of God as an old man, for example, sitting on a cloud.
Because so many of my patients have told me about God being an energy that's in every cell, every atom, every subatomic particle, every piece of our being is really God.
I am a student of hypnotherapy, and I have seen regressions, and I believe in it.
And I have a theory, and I wonder if the doctor has heard it proposed before, that our lives are like an energy that is recorded like a radio or a TV signal.
And at birth, maybe we tune into a signal and experience that as a memory, which could explain why we internalize others' traumas as our own.
It could possibly explain a transplant patient's memory.
And one other is that we can know everything, all there is, that every thought, every event is somehow impressed on an ether or an electrical wave, that thoughts are reality.
Thoughts have a substance, and we can tap into them.
The great American psychic Edgar Cayce is said to have done that.
And, you know, just tapping into this, whatever you want to call it, Jung called it the collective unconscious.
Edgar Casey called it the Akashic Records.
The name, again, doesn't matter.
But perhaps we know everything.
This would be an interesting argument, also.
So what you're saying, I think, has some validity, that everything is energy.
Here's one that's always bothered me with regard to reincarnation.
It's the following.
If the goal of reincarnation is to strive toward perfection, to improve, then why not set it up?
Why didn't the Maker set it up so that we have conscious memories of prior lives, which would make the entire process ever so much easier, it would seem.
Either that, or then I might ask, perhaps it is not intended at all for very good reasons that we understand about our prior lives.
I think that this is my, again, coming just from my work and from my thinking about this, that we're here as a kind of school and a kind of test to see have we really learned the lessons.
And every culture has some sort of reason why we forget our past lives.
whether it's crossing the river Styx in the ancient Greek cultures, the Japanese have reasons, touching the little part of your face between the nose and the upper lip.
This is another way of why...
And I think it's to see, did we really learn the lessons?
For example, if you're non-violent now, because you remember being punished for it after a pretty miserable, violent, 14th century lifetime, and you want to avoid that punishment, that's not really learning the lesson.
But if you're violent because in your heart, somehow the knowledge, the learning has gotten into the depth of your being, into your heart, if you're non-violent because in your heart you know that spiritual beings are not violent, that it's against your nature to be violent, then you've really learned the lesson.
And I think it's that.
Otherwise, you know, we're trying to read into the, quote, mind of God.
And maybe God doesn't have a mind that we can conceptualize or understand.
Maybe it's so far beyond what we can even begin to conceptualize.
I guess, first of all, I'm finding a few contradictions between what you're talking about, and I would just like to know where you place mankind in the chain cycle of life.
Do you believe that we are developed from it, like evolved in it?
Or are we the spiritual beings in need of learning lessons?
The physical line, the Darwinian line that we know so well and the scientists have documented, and the spiritual line that isn't coming through the body and through the chromosomes.
And what happens around the time of conception is that the soul enters the body more or less, and it's completed around the time of birth.
But the soul is not the body.
And that's the distinction.
So there are two lines of evolution, the physical and then the evolution of the soul.
We know this in the research in the mind-body connection, how the mind controls the immune system, the health of the body, how stress can damage the body.
Somebody once taught me, Doctor, kind of a mild form of this, and I use it all the time, and maybe some of my audience can use it too.
And maybe you can verify it works, because it does work.
I'm a person who has very strange sleeping habits.
When you do this kind of program, you know, you sleep twice a day in the morning and then again in late afternoon, evening, in order to get a little nap before the program.
And I've learned, you know, having a terrible time getting to sleep.
I mean, terrible time.
And I learned that someone once told me, try this art.
Relax your finger.
Then relax your hand.
And then relax your arm.
And then relax your leg.
And then relax your other leg.
And just do it piece by piece.
And it actually works.
You can feel the tension leave them.
And by the time you're done running around your body, relaxing this part and that, guess what?
And what happens is as you relax your body, as you let go of muscle tension and relax all of your muscles one by one, it's called a progressive relaxation.
You will fall asleep because as you reach a certain point of relaxation, that's when sleep occurs.