Dr. Brian Weiss, a psychiatrist, recounts how hypnotherapy sessions—like Catherine’s 4,000-year-old Near East drowning memory—convinced him of past lives, with verified details such as hidden jewelry or lost languages (e.g., Aramaic by twins). He links future-life projections to an 85% consensus that Earth will become non-violent and green by the year 1000, with souls persisting beyond physical decline. Weiss’s work suggests consciousness transcends bodies, offering clinical tools for symptom resolution and spiritual growth, challenging materialist science while aligning with Princeton’s research on parallel realities. [Automatically generated summary]
Good evening, good afternoon, good morning, whatever the case may be in the time zone in which you preside.
Every single one of them covered by this program, Coast Coast AM, leading it for the weekend version.
I'm Mark Bell.
How you doing?
Great to be here.
Great to be escorting you through the weekend.
We're about to examine the world news very quickly.
And, you know, isn't there a newspaper that has a slogan that goes, all the news that's fit to print?
Well, I too wonder about this bad news thing.
I mean, it's nothing but bad news, of course.
And does that mean that good news, there is good news, but it's not fit to print?
I've often wondered about that.
Anyway, you be the judge as you listen.
Vienna.
Ukrainian presidential candidate, Viktor Yushchenko, was poisoned with dioxin, according to doctors Saturday adding, that the highly toxic chemical could have been put in the opposition leader's soup, producing severe disfigurement and partial paralysis of his face.
It's awful.
I've seen it.
It's absolutely awful.
Yushchenko was in satisfactory condition, was expected to be released from a Vienna private clinic Sunday or perhaps Monday.
And he'll go right back on the campaign trail in the Ukraine.
So the pictures are incredible.
Just incredible.
What they did to this man.
And he's not the only one suspected of being poisoned either, by the way.
Yasser Arafat's nephew said that on Saturday his uncle may have died a, quote, unnatural, unquote, death.
A statement certain to renew speculation among Palestinians and the rest of the Arab world, maybe the rest of the world, that suggests that perhaps the Israelis did it.
Of course, they deny it.
Nasser El-Kidwa, who is also Palestinian envoy to the UN, made the comments after he handed over a 558-page medical dossier to Palestinian officials in Ramallah.
No diagnosis or reason has been given for Arafat's death coming from the French.
And it is suggested perhaps that's why he went to the French, because they would refuse steadfastly to ever report the cause of death.
Insurgents pressed their attack on U.S. troops, and Iraq's security forces Saturday killed five Iraqi police officers, wounded 14 American soldiers in what seems to be just a relentless effort to take these elections, the coming elections off, you know, derail them.
We'll see.
President Bush will make air pollution a top priority in Congress early next year, starting with an aggressive push to build support for his pollution-cutting plan, according to senior administration officials.
At the same time, the administration will hold off no later than March on a rule to cut pollution from power plants and such.
So they're beginning to notice, and well they should, because the news that is not carried by the mainstream press is the news I'll have in a moment, and it suggests a very great deal indeed is going on.
By the way, in a moment, a few moments, actually next hour, we're going to have Dr. Brian Weiss on.
And he's going to be talking about, well, he's going to be talking about the next life.
What happens after we die.
And Stuart in Toronto, Canada, FastBlast Me.
You can do that by the way, up on the website.
Go to FastBlast and fire me a question.
Art, I'd be really grateful if you could answer this.
Afterlife.
From what you've heard regarding past life experiences and people like last week's guest scientists weighing the facts, do you believe in the existence of afterlife or not?
Thanks, Stuart.
Well, hard question, Stuart.
I'll tell you, I think I lean toward believing there is indeed an afterlife for a lot of reasons, most having to do with all the interviews I've done with very rock-solid people, like tonight's guest, I might add.
I mean, if you're trying to figure the whole question out yourself, you might want to listen tonight because that's exactly what we're going to talk about.
This is a very renowned scientist who has sort of stumbled into this himself.
Dr. Brian Weiss was doing some hypnotherapy, I believe, and ran into past lives.
I mean, just boom.
I mean, you're in the course of research trying to help a patient, and you run into something like this, and what do you do?
Do you ignore it, or do you begin to explore it, as any scientist should, And figure out what in the heck is going on.
That's what he did, and the results of his research are pretty astounding.
So stay tuned, as the saying goes.
Now, the rest of the news.
Also, not particularly good.
Mysterious tremors beneath the San Andreas Fault near the quake-prone town of Parkfield, I know it is, are shaking the Earth's brittle crust, far below the region where earthquakes normally would strike.
This is very deep stuff, folks, and scientists say they cannot understand what's happening or what the motions might mean.
Seismic researchers are monitoring these strange vibrations closely, but whether the faint underground tremors termed chatter, interesting term by some seismologists, portend an increased likelihood of a big quake in the area remain unresolved, a puzzle.
Robert Nandu, the geophysicist at the U.S. Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, has charted more than 110 of these weird faint vibrations since they were first detected by the lab's high-resolution seismic network in Parkfield three years ago.
What concerns him and his colleagues is that the epicenter of the great 1857 Fort Tahone earthquake, whose magnitude has been estimated at 7.8 to 8, was located almost exactly where they are now detecting these deep tremors.
So you make up your own mind, but the earth seems to be like a rattlesnake which rattles its tail just prior to demonstrating its displeasure with your presence.
Does, I don't know, you decide for yourself.
The media in this country is strange.
A story as big as the world's changing climate.
And somehow, by and large, they've managed to ignore it.
The following from unknowncountry.com, Whitley Streeber's webpage.
Despite the fact that the brutal number involving the temperatures, summer heat of 2003, brought with it the highest weather-related death toll in European history.
You would think that would be worthy, wouldn't you?
The highest weather-related death toll in European history.
Did you know that?
The catastrophe was largely ignored by the U.S. media.
Estimates of dead range from 22 to 35,000, and now a scientific group is warning that such summers could become the norm and not just in Europe.
Until now, it's been impossible to tell the degree to which heat generated by human activity might be responsible as opposed to natural weather processes.
However, Peter Scott of the UK Meteorological Office, Hardley Center, and Dastone and Miles Allen of Oxford University have been able using extremely detailed data from thousands of different temperature sensors located all across Europe to determine this, and their findings are sobering indeed.
After building a detailed computer model of the way the weather pattern built until it was recorded as the hottest summer in 500 years and possibly the hottest summer in recorded history in Europe, the researchers found that most, if not all, of the extra heat came from human activity.
When the weather in Europe is the hottest in 500 years, this probably means something.
Here's another interesting headline, same source.
Bizarre weather slams Japan yet again.
17 typhoons in one season followed by earthquake after earthquake has caused frightened Japanese to drive up the price of gold because they're buying it against hard times ahead.
Now, more extreme weather has struck the island nation, bringing gale-force winds, a sudden extreme temperature increase that's unprecedented in the climatic history of that country.
At 11.29 a.m. yesterday, listen to this, folks, the temperature in Tokyo rose 77 degrees Fahrenheit from 38 degrees in just a few minutes, breaking a record for sudden temperature rise in the city set back in 1923.
Now, this was accompanied by 90 mile per hour gales in central Tokyo earlier in the morning, marking the highest wind speeds they have ever recorded there.
Twelve people were injured, air and rail transport paralyzed, drivers urged to stay off roadways, and there were widespread power outages.
Citizens in northern areas were warned to expect extreme weather as the unseasonably powerful warm front causing the havoc continued to race northeast.
Now, whether you believe that man's hand is involved in all of this or you just believe it's a natural cyclical change that we're experiencing, I think you would agree with me, wouldn't you?
And you might want to pipe up on this, that the Earth's weather is changing radically and quickly.
Now, you don't have to agree that it's because of greenhouse gases.
I personally don't think it matters what you believe.
But if you agree that it is changing, then shouldn't we begin doing something about it now?
I mean, perhaps fairly extreme measures, beginning to shift the agricultural centers, planning for what's going to happen.
I wonder if our government, at its very highest levels, is beginning to get reports suggesting that all of this indeed may be underway and what our government in secret, because that's how they do their work, is preparing for it.
I don't know.
I just know I read these reports and it seems conclusive to me.
Now, sure enough, Brokaw, and well, Brocaw's gone, but all of the network speaking heads are just not talking about this stuff.
Doesn't mean it's not happening, doesn't mean that you shouldn't be considering it, but the mass media, for some reason, is under-reporting or not reporting what's going on around us.
Pretty serious, I would say.
All right, we are about to do open lines.
And that means anything you want to talk about is okay.
Any subject you would like to bring up is inbounds.
So if you've got something you would like to get on the air and share with the rest of the audience, now would be the time.
And you know the numbers.
They are ever so slightly different on the weekends.
We'll have an announcement here at the bottom of the hour.
It's a weird news story about a physicist in Texas.
Yeah, okay, go ahead.
In November, the Federation of American Scientists revealed the existence of a recent U.S. Air Force-paid study of psychic teleportation prepared by true believing Nevada physicist Eric Davis, who wrote that moving oneself from location to location through mind power is quite real and can be controlled.
Unquote.
Well, that was it.
And I thought that was really interesting that this real scientist, I wonder extremely interesting.
You know, I remember you saying some time back that George Norrie was thinking about not screening his phone calls, and I've noticed such a big difference between your open lines and his so-called open lines.
But there is no record that I'm aware of of anything that's even a black project that has sort of made the circulation of, hey, this is real out there, kind of like the F-117 before it, you know, before we got to see it for real.
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Well, it was in service five years before they said it was.
So that's, you know, you're probably not hearing about that today because they did their mock test flights.
Well, maybe you can tell me a little about it then.
Wait a minute.
What system of propulsion does this thing use?
unidentified
It's a completely new type of system, and it's rumored that it came from potentially Area 51, something of that nature.
But it's I don't have specifics.
I've heard enough about it and heard enough and been told what to be able to look for in some of these when you get UFO sightings and things like that to find out that it's technology that has been worked on now for roughly ten years that people are coming out with UFO sightings on.
And I think what we have done is we have all but opened Pandora's box tell of a weather system, something that's located here in central United States, that they do to help morph the wave currents of weather to push storms off of the east coast.
Tomorrow night, by the way, Whitley Streeber and Dr. Roger Lear, and they're going to be on in the first hour talking about a piece that's been investigated, ostensibly a piece from the Roswell crash, and what's happened, some pretty amazing things with that investigation.
And then James McCanney.
So it's going to be all, all things told, a very, very interesting weekend.
apparently mommy tarantula goes in and makes a nest in the cactus and has all the little baby tarantulas and then when Can you imagine if that had gone off anywhere near anybody?
Can you imagine looking over at the corner of your room or just outside your house where you had carefully planted some big cactus and it began throbbing?
And, well, I guess now, having heard this, you would obviously know what's coming next.
What a nightmare.
East of the Rockies, you're on air.
Hello.
unidentified
Hello, Art.
I was going to call you last hour on this, and you turned right into the topic I was going to mention.
It's really strange.
When I used to live in Alaska, we had things happen there, and because Alaska is an immediate black hole, never got reported.
And we had a serial killer who did things in a strange way with an aircraft.
It's never happened in the U.S. before, maybe anywhere.
Never got reported.
We had a volcano erupt, ash fall and anchorage, never got reported.
Now, there was a big hurricane in Florida at the time, so that's kind of understandable.
Florida, a lot more population.
But our media is telling us that we've only warmed up by one degree in 100 years.
Don't worry.
Some places in Alaska have warmed nine degrees in the last 35 years.
Not reported except CBS News.
And so, and I always lived in the last day, I lived in Colorado.
In Denver, Anne owned a gun or fired a gun in her life, and they know it.
She just happened to be in the car with the man who had killed a cop, and the guy killed himself, so they had to target her as the scapegoat, and everybody knows it.
She can't get a pardon.
No publicity nationally.
If that had happened in L.A., it would be a big cause.
And it's not just Alaska, sir, it's the rest of the world.
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I have a conclusion to this, and I wanted to ask your opinion of this, just to ponder it.
I've often thought since 9-11, if 9-11 had not occurred in such a photogenic way, in such a horrible photogenic way, in such something we thought could not happen with buildings falling, if it not occurred in the media center of New York, if it had occurred in Alaska or North Dakota or somewhere, but if an equal number of people had died in a less visual fashion in a non-media place, what would have been the reaction?
And I often, I don't know, I don't know the answer to that, and I would like your view on that.
Things occur in the poorer parts of the third world where the number of deaths are just mind-boggling.
In fact, and they are occasionally reported in the Western press, but almost as an addendum to the day's news.
And so it's the way the media works, I guess.
People are interested in what's most immediately around them and so much less interested in what's eight or nine or 10,000 miles away.
So maybe it's just a function of pretty much I don't care, you know, or the newspapers, radio stations, television.
People's eyes glaze over when they hear about these things.
And it doesn't mean anything to them because it's not close to them.
That's the only thing and only reason that I can think of that, you know, all of these things get ignored by the world's press, the U.S. press.
West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
Hello.
unidentified
Hi, good day.
Just wanted to see what you thought about the suspension of disbelief or denial, which seems to be capturing so much of the media when you look at the details about 9-11, all the, how can I say, disconnect and all the bizarre behavior of the administration and all the Carlisle group contracts and stuff.
It just seems like there's enough information to call it a false flag recruiting project with Al-Qaeda being the Patsys and somebody else bigger and more evil in a sense, just trying to put our globe into a jihad which is forced upon us by the same kind of people that killed presidents and people like John Lennon and Martin Luther King.
I think there's a lot of evidence out there that a lot of media just won't touch, and I just think the Constitution warrants more care and attention to the problem.
Ed Dames was talking about the crop circles somehow correlating with safe zones after the calamity of his kill shot.
And it comes to my idea of what crop circles are, sort of like the way magnetic tape works.
A magnetic burst punches a pattern.
And I was thinking with crop circles, it's almost like something that would want to send a message interdimensionally could send an energy burst into a pre-designated area like a field where the plants are lined up in a certain way a real positive impression could be made.
And then the orbs seen flying over them are like the playback head.
Anyway, if Earth is slated for destruction and these things are sending messages through time or some sort of dimension, they would want to ensure that the spots being used to pick up the message would survive.
So they would predetermine places that would be spared to use.
I think Ed had said that crop circles were markers for time travelers.
And so then he sort of moved over to this other idea.
And it may well be so, who knows?
Nobody knows what crop circles are.
They, along with the animal mutilations, appear to be truly unsolved, you know, just totally intractable problems scientifically.
There's never been anybody that I'm aware of arrested for any or footprints found around any of these really, truly bizarre mutilations where sharp instruments, even laser cutting, is indicated of some pretty weird areas on the animals, and nobody's ever been busted for it.
I've been a Christian for a long time, but I've also found some interesting anomalies in the Bible that many Christians should actually check out before they just disavow or disregard reincarnation altogether.
In fact, I think you'll find tonight's show, as you pointed out, is going to be evidence of that.
And if you're like me, what do I know about the afterlife?
I only know, believe it or not, it's been the church being on the air.
I've interviewed a lot of reputable scientists and investigators who have done very careful work like tonight's guest and have come to the conclusion that you bet there's an afterlife.
In fact, life after life after life after life.
And you'll get some idea of the real science behind it all tonight if you stick with us.
East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
Hi.
unidentified
Hi, Art.
This is Todd.
I'm listening to you in Motley, Minnesota.
Tonight, it's a whopping 31 degrees here today.
In the past, you had talked about a gentleman who had apparently water in his fuel tank, and he put some pills in it and drove away.
Well, I was talking to my dad a few weeks ago, and they used to make acetylene gas by putting crystals in water way back in the 40s and the 50s.
That got me to thinking that the fiddling is a lot like uh methane gas.
What if he was doing something like that?
You know, instead of being a big secret and all that, it probably was very simple something very simple.
Um there may have been all sorts of science that was once known by some of mankind that has been forgotten or simply uh died with those who understood how to do it.
Coming up, we'll examine the possibility, the probability of an afterlife with a man who's studied the subject scientifically, Dr. Brian Weiss from the High Desert.
I'm Mark Bell.
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Riders on the storm.
Riders of the Storm, into this house were born.
Riders of the Storm Oh, I would not give the false hope on this strange and mournful day.
But the mother and child knew you were gone into the world.
Only a motion break Oh, yeah, darling, my man I care for the life of me Remember Saturday I I know they say let me just don't work out that way.
And the course of a lifetime runs over and over again.
Well, I would not give you cause hope now on this strange and mournful day.
But the mother and child, meeluia, is only emotional.
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Can you imagine being a scientist, a psychotherapist, regressing a patient or using hypnosis for treatment reasons, and instead of finding, you know, the source of whatever ails the patient, running solidly into a patient's prior life or perhaps a time he spent in between lives.
I mean, as a researcher, as a scientist, as a psychotherapist, you would have, or you should have, insatiable curiosity about Such an event occurring.
That's exactly the kind of person we're going to talk to tonight.
As a traditional psychotherapist, Dr. Brian Weiss was astonished and skeptical when one of his patients began to recall past life traumas that seemed to hold the key to her recurring nightmares and anxiety attacks, ostensibly the reason for her being there.
His skepticism was eroded, however, when she began to channel messages from the space between lives, which contained remarkable revolutions of revelations, rather, about Dr. Weiss's family and his own dead son.
Using past life therapy, he was able to cure the patient and then embark on a new, more meaningful phase of his own career.
Dr. Weiss is the author of several top-selling books based on his experience as a psychiatrist and healer.
A graduate of Columbia University in Yale Medical School, Dr. Weiss is Chairman Emeritus of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami.
And he maintains a private practice in Miami.
In addition, Dr. Weiss conducts natural, national, and international seminars and experiential workshops as well as training programs for professionals.
And before we dive into the spectacular part of what we're going to talk about tonight, I have an observation that I'm sure many have made, and that is that in America, I guess in the world, certainly in America, we have a lot of mental illness.
And America doesn't have much of a system for handling mental illness.
It seems like there must be a better way.
And in your profession, I'm sure that you've given this a lot of thought.
The mental health system in the U.S. seems to be a disaster.
As a matter of fact, many of the younger psychiatrists are very dissatisfied because a lot of them went into the field looking to talk with patients, to get to understand them, to help them, to relate at a deeper level.
And now they're reduced to just handing out medications all the time without really getting to know them because they won't get reimbursed if they spend more than 10 or 15 minutes with the patient.
Doctor, is there any way of your knowing whether mental illness is becoming a larger problem in America in terms of the numbers afflicted, or is it stable at a certain percentage of the population?
Well, it really depends what illnesses we're speaking about.
Probably schizophrenia is relatively stable, although I think some people have been overdiagnosed.
But the incidence of stress-related diseases, depression, anxiety, panic attacks, post-traumatic stress disorder, these are going up because the world is getting to be so much more stressful, and we've lost a lot of our support systems.
Before, people used to be just shuttled off to attics.
You know, the third, the top store.
I don't mean drug addicts, but attics in the house would be hidden there.
People would be lost in asylums.
And so what's happening now is diagnostic skills have gotten better for that.
But on the other hand, the pharmaceutical companies are so powerful and they make so many drugs for specific illnesses that these are probably getting overdiagnosed because the therapists think, well, now I have a treatment for it.
Well, I guess I can't imagine what it would be like to be trying to help out a patient.
And for this, I'd like to take you back to how this began for you, because I guess that's where an interview like this should begin.
I mean, to me, it would be astounding to be treating somebody for, I don't know, some anxiety they have or whatever, and to bump into something completely unrecognizable in the middle of hypnotherapy or some such.
I did not believe in past life, and neither did the patient, who was a young woman in her late 20s, Catholic woman.
And yet, when we were doing regression through hypnosis to go back to her childhood to look for traumas that I felt might be causing her symptoms in the current time, she, under hypnosis, started to remember a lifetime about 4,000 years ago.
Now, I didn't believe in this, and yet it was shocking because it was so vivid and so emotional and so detailed for her.
She was seeing this visually, recalling herself in a different body, different name, drowning in a flood or tidal wave at the end of that life somewhere in the Near East or the Eastern Mediterranean.
What happened was that the first time that we did this, she remembered some childhood traumas, but her symptoms remained severe.
So the next week when she was in, I asked her to go back to the time when her symptoms first began, thinking she'd go back younger in childhood.
But that statement, go back to the time when your symptoms first began, that was the trip.
Her subconscious mind taking that literally, that's when it went back 4,000 years, because one of her symptoms was a fear of gagging or choking, and also a fear of water.
And that's what her mind chose to focus upon.
So when she drowned in that ancient lifetime, that caused the fear of gagging or choking because it disappeared after she had the memory.
And how much, I mean, how strongly did you realize that you had moved from something that happened in her life to something that had happened in another life?
And how do you go about exploring that once you're there?
I train 100 to 200 therapists from all over the world every year now.
But actually hypnosis, which is only a form of focusing the concentration, it's very safe.
And we get hypnotized every day when you're watching a movie and you don't hear the person munching popcorn next to you because you're concentrating in the movie.
That's what hypnosis is.
That's a light state.
Or reading a good book and you don't hear traffic noises.
That's hypnosis.
So it's very safe.
But most psychiatrists don't practice hypnosis.
Most therapists haven't been.
Hypnotherapists have been doing it more for smoking cessation or weight loss.
So they would just be reading a script.
And they weren't asking these open-ended questions like, go back to the time when your symptoms first began, or let's go back into a past life, because it wasn't in their belief system.
And so actually it was happening, but not as commonly as you might think.
And then when it did happen, the psychiatrist or the psychotherapist, because many of these are not psychiatrists, would be afraid to talk about it because they didn't want to be considered weird or strange and were very concerned about the professional reaction.
So they didn't tell anyone, and they certainly didn't write about it.
Well, it took me five years to write Many Lives, Many Masters, because I was concerned about that.
Here I was chairman of the psychiatry department.
I was professor of psychiatry at the University of Miami.
This was very risky.
So then I wrote it.
I kept getting pushed to write it in a sense.
It was helping my patients with grief.
They were finding out about death and what happens after death and the space in between lifetimes.
And so immediately there was a lot of support from individual therapists and doctors, also cardiologists and emergency room doctors and oncologists, those who were dealing with death and dying, had seen lots of these strange occurrences.
But from the professional organizations like the American Psychiatric Association, there was a lot of negative feedback.
And there was even a move to censor me and possibly to bring me up before the licensing board.
But that never got anywhere.
It just kind of deteriorated into chaos because I had been training many of the psychiatrists in Miami.
And in psychopharmacology, that was one area of interest and work for me.
It was kind of like what John went through a little bit.
I did a workshop with Him in Boston some years ago because when he was regressing people to their abduction experiences, they were often remembering their past lives.
So he called me up and said, Brian, I'm validating your work.
And I would like you to do a conference with me up here in Boston.
And so we did, and I was so sad to hear about his accident and his death.
He picked up the phone and told you that he was validating your work through exploration of abductions, alleged abductions, and bumping into past lives.
Yes, many of his patients were recalling past lives while he was doing his research, while he was regressing them to their abduction experience.
And then he got in touch with me, and we shared our data.
And he was very confirming.
He had a harder time than I did, I think, because I was able to go before boards and tell them, look, patients are getting better, whether you believe in it or not.
Maybe you could consider this past life thing Jungian, metaphoric.
I don't, because I've seen so much.
But if you want to consider it that way, that's fine with me.
So instead of stopping at infancy or birth, we go back into utero experiences and into past lives.
And of course, in addition to being healing, now there's so many validated cases that it was very hard for the psychiatric boards to refute the clinical improvement and also the validation cases.
Doctor, if you were to take 100 people off the street, have permission to attempt to look for past lives, how many would you guess would be successful?
Well, when I do these big workshops, not even one at a time, but all together, because hypnosis can be done with the eyes closed and they're listening to my voice.
About two-thirds will have a past life experience the first time.
And if we did it more often, then it would get up to around 80%.
So I guess if I were pursuing this and what had to happen to you, it had to happen to me, I would begin looking for what all scientists would, and that would be proof, some sort of proof of the things that were being said, some historical research or something that would prove what these people were saying was true.
I mean, I struggle with the whole life after death thing.
I think like everybody else, we had a caller in the first hour who mentioned reincarnation and said, look, it was in, or is in the Bible and to a much greater degree used to be in the Bible, but was kind of yanked out.
Well, it is an obstacle in a sense, but I found that doing regressions or doing this work with a translator works pretty well, too.
They hear things twice.
So it's more it doesn't seem to get in the way of the regression.
It takes a little longer because you're working through the translator.
But we were doing it, and I've been all over the world doing this in different languages, Spanish and Italian and Portuguese, to do it and in Japanese too.
So here was Chinese.
And this is an important woman coming from Beijing and, as I said, a surgeon.
And she remembered a lifetime during this regression in the San Francisco area of the U.S. about 1850.
And in that life, she was having an argument with her husband.
And she began to speak during the session in very colorful, fluent English.
And this is that xenoglossy thing, speaking foreign languages you've never learned.
The translator didn't realize it at first because translators hear one language and they translate into the other.
So he started translating the whole thing back into Chinese for me.
I had to hold up my hand and say, stop it, understand the English.
So that kind of thing, because I knew, and he certainly knew, I thought he would fall out of his chair, the translator, that she couldn't speak English at all 30 minutes before this.
And here she was speaking English fluently.
So as a scientist, you have to say, what is this?
How does this work?
What is this all about?
Another case is a woman that I started to mention before the break, Jenny Cokel, a British woman.
I met her at first when she was 41 years old, and she was talking to her 85-year-old son and her 81-year-old daughter.
And the story is from the time she was a little girl, and this is just like the past life cases of Ian Stevenson and others.
She had known she had a family in Ireland.
She was born in England.
That she had eight children.
She's telling this to her parents when she's three years old.
That her husband was irresponsible and she couldn't trust him to watch over the children because she had died and left them when she was young.
She had eight children.
She died early.
She needed to find her children.
And she knew her name was Mary, but she didn't remember her last name.
She drew some crude maps.
She drew a church with an unusual facade.
She drew a large white building with many windows.
But not enough.
The parents didn't believe in this.
There wasn't enough data really to go on.
Jenny grew up and got married, still with intrusive memories, dreams of this past life family in Ireland and her eight children.
She got out her maps.
Now she's an adult with two children of her own.
She decided to do something about it.
She compared her childhood maps with an Atlas of Ireland, found a town, Malahide, northeast of Dublin, that looked like her maps, and decided to go there.
So she's walking in the main street of the village, having deja vu feelings, and then she finds the church that she had drawn when she was a little girl, the church with the unusual facade.
And she knew she was in the right place.
But the house she felt she lived in was empty, in ruins since the 1950s.
She felt she lived there in the 20s and 30s.
But now with the help of the townspeople, they find that the family that lived there was the Sutton family.
The mother's name was Mary Sutton.
She died from complications of childbirth after the birth of her eighth child.
So all these facts are coming true in the large white building that Jenny had drawn when she was a little girl.
That was the hospital in Dublin.
And Jenny was able to go there, go to the very room, and describe what happened.
And the husband was irresponsible.
Of the eight children, they all grew up in orphanages, and five were still alive.
So they open up the records.
There's this big reunion.
The youngest two didn't even know that they had siblings.
They had grown up in different orphanages.
And Jenny was able to tell them all about their childhoods, the little details that only their mother knew.
And when you come across cases like this, and you see it again and again, these are very convincing.
How far downline, I mean, the early stuff, and then how far downline do you think you made the flip when you suddenly, I mean, the light bulb went on and you said, okay, this is real.
Well, there were a couple parts for me because I was so left-brained, still am.
You know, all that.
I had written over 40 scientific chapters in scientific journals like Nature, Brain Research, Science.
I had published a book before Many Lives, Many Masters.
It was called The Biology of Cholinergic Function.
You can't find it.
So I was really left-brained.
And what happened to me was about the fourth or fifth time that Catherine was having one of these past lives.
And I was still struggling with it, even though she was getting better.
Even though at a deep level, I knew this wasn't the usual stuff.
Something really beyond the normal was going on here.
She died in the Middle Ages lifetime, and she floated above her body, replicating the near-death experience work of Raymond Moody and Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and others.
And she had never heard of these people, she told me.
So she tells me, she finds this beautiful light that re-energizes her, and she says to me, there are two people here to see you, your father and your son.
Now, my training in psychotherapy was not to tell the patient anything about yourself.
You want them to project that into the therapeutic arena.
And she was a laboratory technician in the hospital, not an FBI agent, not an investigative reporter.
She tells me my father is there and my son.
She says, your father's name is Avram.
And that's how she pronounced it, Avram.
She's a Catholic woman from New England.
She didn't say Abraham or anything like that.
She said he died from his heart, and your daughter is named after him.
And your son is here, and he's very tiny and shining brightly.
And his heart is important also because it's turned around backwards.
But now it's in the right place.
And she went on to tell me many more details about my father and my son.
My father had died of a heart attack two years before her therapy began, so she was right about the heart.
His Hebrew name was Abram, but nobody ever called him that.
He was called Reds because of his hair color.
Nobody except my wife and I in Miami knew this, and there was no place to look it up.
He didn't even have an obituary when he died, and my daughter, Amy, was named after him, just as she knew.
My first child, his son, died when he was three weeks old of a very rare congenital heart disease called total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage.
What that is, the blood vessels from the lungs to the heart are coming in the wrong side of the heart, so functionally as if it were turned around backwards.
And he had died a decade before, 10 years before her therapy began.
No place to look this up.
He died in New York City.
This therapy was taking place in Miami.
Again, no obituary.
Even our best friends didn't know these medical details.
And I knew then, because as I mentioned, she's a laboratory technician, not an FBI agent.
No place to look it up.
She doesn't have money to look it up.
I knew that this was something beyond the ordinary.
And I remember my thought at that moment was, if she's right about these details about my father and my son, and she certainly was, could she be right about these other things, about past lives and reincarnation and life after death?
And that was the moment probably that it really shifted for me.
And the rest has been kind of filling in the data and following up these validation cases and watching patients heal from their phobias and even physical healings as well.
In hypnotherapy, Dr. Weiss, how often does fantasy, is fantasy a common player in these sessions or is it more likely to be a situation where the person has to tell the truth or does it fall in between?
They can censor even under hypnosis and not tell you things.
And fantasy sometimes comes out.
That's the art of the therapist.
But generally, there are things that aren't fantasy, like her telling me about my father, my son, or the Chinese surgeon speaking English.
Another case like that was of two boys around the age of three in New York City speaking a language to each other that seemed more than the rudimentary language that three-year-old boys would make up.
They were twins.
The father is a physician.
And the boys were taken to Columbia University to the Linguistics department, where it was ascertained that the boys were speaking Aramaic to each other.
It's spoken in probably a few remote areas of Syria, but the boys had no exposure to this.
The parents certainly had none.
There's no cable channel that is in Aramaic in New York City.
So when these things start adding up like this, you have to understand that, yes, imagination can be there, fantasy can be there, so can metaphor and symbol, but sometimes the truth is there too.
For example, I was seeing a woman who was under hypnosis and the regression therapy remembering an ancient lifetime.
She was in ancient Egypt, and she died in that lifetime being buried alive.
She was a servant in the burial chamber.
Her master, a distant relative of the Pharaoh, had died, and it was the custom in those ancient days to bury gold and belongings and servants even with them so that they would be there when they woke up on the other side.
In other words, reality that was producing a painful side effect in this lifetime would be like striking the mother load, and then the symptom would disappear.
For somebody with the level of experience that you have, I would like to explore a little bit, if it's possible, and understand something of the process.
I think many out there would.
The process itself.
In other words, for example, when you die, is there an indication that you are immediately reincarnated, or is there a period of time that passes?
And it may happen very, very quickly, or it may be more than a century.
It depends upon the needs of the soul and who you want to come back with, because there's the concept of soulmates or soul families that you may have been together with many of the loved ones in your life before in different bodies.
So that's the process.
And it's really quite amazing that no matter who the patient is that I'm working with, it can be a physicist, it could be a scientist, it could be a therapist, it could be a person with a high school education or a grammar school education, and they're still describing the same phenomena, the same process, that floating out of the body, that consciousness never stops, and that we go on and we come back here if we still have lessons to learn.
You know, I have a lot of medical doctors, researchers, scientists on this program.
And I would tell you right now that the majority of them, if you pin them to the wall, and I frequently do that, don't believe in God.
Don't believe in an afterlife.
Believe that the process that you talked about with the light and all the rest of it is a simple manifestation, a physical manifestation of the brain's dying process.
And they just simply think that when they die, it's all over.
The worm's in and out, the blackness and absolute nothingness.
That is indeed what a very, very high percentage of doctors and scientists believe.
And I have a real advantage of all these years and thousands of cases of experience because they don't.
And in general, what they're talking about is their opinion, because they haven't really studied the phenomenon.
So if I had the chance to regress them, then they would start to know more.
Reading the books is one thing, but to actually have the experiences, then they would start to understand more.
Many who have had their own experiences were a near-death experience, then they know more.
So, you know, it's not just light that's caused by a chemical reaction when we die, because sometimes people in a near-death experience will go to the light, see the light, and they'll meet a spiritual figure or a relative, like grandma, who then tells them that behind the doghouse, out in the backyard, that's where she hid the jewelry and the important papers.
And then they go out and dig up back there, and then they find the box with the jewelry in it and the will.
And that's not a chemical reaction.
It's too specific.
But again, I have the advantage of tracking these things down, of actually seeing thousands of cases, and they don't.
This is their opinion, and I understand that.
I was certainly one of those people before my experiences with Catherine and all the others.
Dr. Weiss, I've got a fast blast here, one of these little communications I get, thankfully.
From the internet, during the program, people can send in little questions and stuff.
And Sam in Socorro, New Mexico says, hey, Art, ask Dr. Weiss if he's heard about SpiritCom tapes, and what does he think?
Well, I bet you haven't, or maybe you have.
I don't know.
Halloween, I got hold of this incredible thing, Doctor.
It was a taping that had occurred during the years of work by a man named George Meeks.
George Meeks created some electronic equipment using multiple tone frequencies to allow what he thought were the dead to speak in real time, to have real-time communication.
It appeared to demonstrate that.
In fact, in fact, the subject who was dead actually aided in the troubleshooting and the construction of some of the equipment used to improve the communication.
I mean, this was one eerie thing to listen to.
But this man appeared extremely serious, and his research seemed valid to me.
He's now passed on.
And I'm studying his research very carefully, trying to get to the bottom of it.
But it would indicate, You know, if true, a conscious real-time communication with something that's passed from the physical, and I guess that wouldn't surprise you, would it?
All right, we were talking about the process itself, this reincarnation process, and in trying to understand it, here is one of the things that has always baffled me.
As we grow older, I would like to think though some things begin to fade, I guess, like vision and hearing and that sort of thing as the body erodes, we do acquire mental wisdom.
And, you know, it's kind of like the school of hard knocks going through this life, and as you get older, you do acquire a certain wisdom just from having lived so long.
Now, all of that would seem to go to waste if the nature of reincarnation mostly includes not remembering, recalling, or experiencing in this life whatever happened in another life, only having it hit you subconsciously and, I don't know, causing you to have a smoking habit or some other unsavory something.
One is that the amount of information would be so overwhelming if you figure that you've lived hundreds of times or even thousands of times, how much paralysis would set in when you met someone that you may have interacted with in the 17th century.
You start remembering what they did to you and how you felt, and you'd never get anything done, especially with the people where you've had multiple lifetimes together.
But I think the other reason, and I've asked this to my patients when they're in the deeper states, is why don't you remember?
And the answer that comes back a lot is that this is a test.
This is a school that we're in here, this earth.
And we have to see, did we really learn the lessons?
For example, are you non-violent now?
Because you know that spiritual beings, and this is who I think we really are, are a clue to our real nature, that we're beyond just physical beings.
But, okay, spiritual beings are inherently non-violent, and not because you were punished because of a violent lifetime in the 12th century.
So did you really learn the lesson?
And so in a way, this is a test.
And I think the other reason, it would just be too much to carry around all of those details and facts.
But more and more people are remembering now, whether it's through regressions or spontaneously or deja vu or through dreams or traveling in Europe and you're in a city and you know your way around and where the old church used to be and the secret room in the church and yet it hasn't been there for the past 150 years.
I think the consciousness is now expanding for whatever reasons and more and more people are remembering their past lives.
If it's been a school and is a school for souls and if those who are very spiritual are non-violent, then one would think and hope that as time passed the world would therefore become slowly but surely less violent.
Now I don't know.
As I look around the world right now, I'm not sure that we have a graduating class on our hands here.
I find that we tend to Come around with a lot of the same people, the same souls.
The relationships may change.
So, your grandmother may come back as your grandson or something like that.
But geographically, we are all over the place.
Although I find most people in the Western Hemisphere have remembering past lives from the Western Hemisphere or Europe, and less so from the Far East.
And when I was in Japan, they had more lifetimes in Asia, but there was a lot of taking of elective courses.
It was like in college, you have a major, you have to take elective.
So we've lived everywhere.
We seem to change race, religion, sex, because we have to learn from all sides.
So we may have a preference, and we may, all things being equal, be able to choose.
But sometimes you have to take elective courses too.
By the way, there's another question that comes up all the time, and I'm sure a lot of your listeners are thinking about this one.
How do the numbers fit if the population is larger than ever before on the planet?
That sometimes in my work, and one caveat, mostly I've been working with patients with symptoms, being a psychiatrist, and they tend to come more from lifetimes here.
So I probably see many more lives on this planet, A, because they're more recent, B, because they tend to produce symptoms.
But I have had people coming from other places.
And there's one person in this new book, same soul many bodies, Patrick, who in a regression was, you know, he was deeply under, went back to a lifetime 60,000 years ago on this planet and talked about his migration from a different planetary system or a different dimension.
And I was thinking during the break that we have a couple of hours here, and it's fantastic, and much better than doing television shows where they give me three minutes and say, Doctor, tell me all about your work.
Yes, but to be sitting there and realize suddenly that you're getting something from somewhere else in the universe must be, oh, it must be just incredible.
I mean, I guess you can't give us exact details from sessions, but what kinds of things were said to lead you to conclude that that's what you were suddenly hearing?
I mean, I remember Patrick, and he was saying that he was born on another planet.
He said it had no name, because who knows how the thought processes are.
But he was part of a migration from his planet to Earth because and then he said, when we arrive, others greet us, descendants of beings from earlier migrations from different star systems.
They're mixed among an evolving subspecies, human beings.
Remember what he was saying?
And then they had to stay here because their planet was dying.
This one is new.
And then he went into how they didn't have to actually come here.
They didn't have to physically come here.
Their souls could have been reincarnated into the humans around us or into other beings from other worlds.
But they were a proud people, proud of their knowledge and their technology and their heritage.
So they decided to come physically and bring all of their knowledge with them and then to store it.
This was very interesting to me because I didn't know what I believed in.
And this seemed almost like science fiction, but here he was in a deep state telling me all of these details and where they're now burying their artifacts and written knowledge.
And it was such a strange thing, was in natural chambers deep under the Earth's surface.
His thinking was, by the time humans have reached a level where they can understand what they have hidden, they will be able to find it.
And then it went off into time and dimensions and all these other things.
And then I thought, well, I think John Mack may have had it, but it's certainly a combination of our work.
And then I was finding with all of these stories, too, and these we can't prove the same way we can, you know, with Inaglossi or Finding Your Children, more recent ones, or reading a dog tag number from World War II, then we can certainly validate the cases, but this is too far back.
That souls may be the same wherever they are in any of the universes.
Physically, we may be very different, but the souls may be the same.
So we can live in one dimension or one galaxy or what different universe and still reincarnate here, because all souls seem to be the same no matter what universe they're from.
The physical bodies differ tremendously, but the souls don't.
But when you're in a physical body, we seem to be limited.
So when we leave the body at the end of the life, as you were talking about in the first hour of the show tonight, that whole interface of life after death, it's really not death.
I'm just using that as a shorthand because consciousness seems to go on.
This is the same.
And then I was finding, as I did work into the future and writing about that in this book, that people going into future lives were kind of describing some of the same experiences as people who are leaving their bodies and going into higher dimensions.
Right, but this is something I've been doing now for some years, and even taking large groups of people into the future and then giving them questionnaires because just as you were talking about in the first hour with global warming, I wanted to see what's this planet going to be like in 100 years or 500 years or 1,000 years.
Is there going to be a consensus among these large groups of people that I'm hypnotizing and then progressing into specific dates in the future, filling out questionnaires and looking for a consensus?
Well, I didn't want to take them in groups into their current life because some people have anxiety about illness or death or this type of thing, of course.
So I was taking them 100 years in the future, 500 years, and 1,000 years, those three dates.
And I've done this now with about 5,000 people and given them questionnaires and had them describe their experiences and then even email me if they got too long.
And it's just incredible.
The consensus is most at 1,000 years, more than the others.
Reincarnation, past lives, and now, coming up in a moment, future lives.
Of interest to a lot of people wondering what the world is going to be like?
Well, you may be about to find out.
Just before we dive into our own future, I guarantee you we're about to do that.
I would like to recommend to all of my listeners that you go to Whitley Streeber's website, unknowncountry.com.
And as you know, Ann Streeber just had a stroke, a really serious stroke, about died.
Really serious.
And she had a near-death experience, a really interesting one.
She met her beloved cat, Coe.
And it's only, I don't know, a page and a half long.
It's called Anne's Diary, and she wrote about this.
In fact, we're going to have her on the program, not this week, but next week, sometime.
We're going to have her on the program for at least an hour to tell you about this experience.
She expected to meet somebody else entirely, a family member.
You can read about it.
But she said, no, I met my cat co.
And she thought that perhaps it was because she so loved this cat.
Her grandmother was much weaker in her memory.
And this cat, she had poured so much love, shared so much love with this cat, that that's who she met.
It's a fascinating story, and you might want to read it prior to tomorrow night's program.
So you can do that on unknowncountry.com.
It's called Anne's Diary.
She's back, you know, and she's home.
Anne is now home.
So I'm really looking, really looking forward to that.
But just as sort of an offshoot, and before we go into the future, Doctor, is that within the realm of a near-death experience?
You said there was so much commonality with the light and the relatives, but instead of a relative, she thought perhaps it was this incredibly strong love bond that made that happen.
Yes, people have described that, and I haven't read it yet.
I haven't read her account.
But meeting an animal, especially a cat that was beloved by her, the energy there, the animals have souls too, it appears, because they're always meeting us on the other side.
And the message there is about love, because that's what it's all about.
That's seemingly the ultimate lesson.
So she has a near-death experience, meets her cat, which is telling her that life goes on.
The cat's soul is there too.
The cat is there.
So people are there.
Same thing.
And that the cat is greeting her because that's the love connection.
Is it stories like these that make you believe that animals have souls, something that I've you know, I look at my animals, I have four cats, we love them, and you look into their eyes, watch their behavior, live with them 24 hours a day, and you do become convinced that they have I mean, everything is there.
Jealousy, love, hate, like, dislike, all these things, to some degree or another, can be observed in an animal.
And other than consciousness of self, and we have no way of knowing about that one, all the other ingredients that we would attribute to a soul seem to be in these animals.
Now, I guess a main contention would be that is the one difference between human beings and animals, that we have consciousness, awareness of self, they don't.
And you must be right about the other, because you haven't run in, and I've never heard of anybody else running into a sudden memory of, I don't know, I don't know, having fur, and leading an entirely different kind of life.
Well, I don't know why, but I'm somewhat comforted by that.
Not that I mean, I do love animals, but I'm not in a hurry to come back as a lizard or something.
So that's just as well.
Good.
Okay, let's plunge into the future.
Now, you obviously made a concerted effort, once you realized it was possible, to begin taking people into future lives and finding out what our world was going to be like.
Yes, and part of it, and when you were talking about Anne, the people who have had near-death experiences often come back with an ability to have precognitive dreams, that is, dreams of the future, and then these dreams seem to come true.
So I had started studying that, and then progressing people into the future patients.
And then I started progressing groups, and as I mentioned, giving them questionnaires and bringing them to specific dates.
And I found that the date with the most consensus was the farthest date, 1,000 years in the future or more.
People were describing a very idyllic place here.
No violence, no wars, no negative emotions, but a vastly, a very green, by the way, and some areas that were off-limits for repair, which is interesting.
Now, people could come in and out of their bodies too, just like people again having a near-death experience, they would have an out-of-body experience or conscious dying.
That is, they could just leave their bodies at the time of death.
By the way, the person Patrick that I described who came here 60,000 years ago could do that too.
So maybe it is in our future, but it's already been possibly done by other civilizations.
At any rate, it seemed the next most consensus was that there's much more detail in the book, by the way.
I go into people describing desert museums because there are no more deserts on the earth in that year.
They had to remember what deserts are, so they had museums of deserts.
So much more detail in the book, but I'm just going to...
Yes, we had progressed so much.
And then the next most consensus was at the 100 to 200 years from now, where people were telling me basically that it was more of the same.
There was more warming, more pollution, better science, better food technology, farming in the oceans, wars, violence, but nothing cataclysmic.
That's what I was looking at in terms of these prophecies and things that I'd been reading about.
It seems we're still there.
And then it's also important to remember that the future is a system of probabilities and possibilities, and our decisions will affect how we're going to get to that thousand-year mark, because something happens in the middle.
This was where there was the most confusion or least consensus that reduces the population.
And we have some conscious input, apparently, into how that happens.
The most benign way would be just a conscious decision not to have so many children.
I would think we're not going in that direction, too.
The next most benign way would be a decline in the fertility rate.
By the way, that's already being measured.
Because of toxins or poisons or other factors.
The least benign ways would be wars, meteors or asteroids, or viruses or illnesses, man-made things, catastrophes.
And something in that middle period, 400 or 500 years from now, that's where the population decline comes.
No, and it may not even be, in that sense, completely decided yet.
We may be able to alter the future.
I go into that concept a lot in this book.
How do you alter the future to make it better, both your near future in this life and in your future lives and the future of the planet?
Because we have our individual future lives, but then the collective future of the planet.
And I think that our decisions in the near term are going to eventually determine how we get to that decline in population in that idyllic world a thousand years from now.
So our souls could end up elsewhere in the universe.
If instead of a constant need for more souls that we have right now because we're increasing in population so much, there is a sudden negative on the balance sheet.
Well, those souls then go presumably.
Would there be a period of time when simply reincarnation would not occur?
Well, I think it's going to happen after that middle period.
So what science is going to be like six, seven hundred years from now is so radically advanced from what it is now in terms of food production and replenishing forests and other and natural resources.
Well, in a sense, when you take somebody to a future life, and I'm curious how you do that, but when you take somebody to a future life, gee, you're sort of traveling in you are time traveling.
And it's so fascinating because the process is not so different from taking people into a past life.
Remember you and I talking two years ago about this little book I had done with the C D in it that people can use and have a regression right in their home.
I can sort of envision how you would take somebody into the past through their own conscious remembered life memories, this life, and then sliding them earlier and earlier and earlier and earlier.
But I can't imagine the opposite process and how you push somebody from this life into a future life.
Do you just command it to happen in hypnosis or what?
It can be a time machine and they press a button which has a year on it and go back in time.
And their subconscious mind will travel back in that way.
So it dawned on me that if I just changed the years on the door or in the time machine, and now instead of taking people back to 1,500, I took them to 2,500 or 3,000, and it worked the same way.
They would step out and they would be there.
I'd have them look at their feet, describe their clothes, describe the environment, what's around, what's happening.
And so the process is really the same thing.
Same, what we call a bridge.
That's going through the door or using a time machine or crossing over a bridge or whatever.
You can use the same techniques to take people into the future as in going back into the past.
I think those were developed by men in order to control people.
But I do find the light.
I do find the dimensions.
I do find helping spiritual entities.
Now, Patrick, remember the person that I talked about who came here before?
And some others have told me that this gets very complicated because there could be that all lifetimes are simultaneous.
There is no time at one level.
So they're all happening now in what could be called parallel universes.
And what if, here's an interesting concept to me, that's brought out by these patients that are described in this new book.
What if, say, an advanced entity dies, leaves a physical body, maybe he leaves it consciously because they've mastered that, and then goes to a higher dimension but can influence people still in their bodies in a positive way because this is a very learned being, learned person who died.
And it could be that angels are people from advanced earlier civilizations who have come here and are now incarnated for a while, graduated, and are now helping us from the other side.
In essence, it's all higher levels of consciousness.
It's the same thing.
So I am finding this.
I find God all the time, but more not as an old man sitting on a cloud, but more as an incredible and almost undefinable, wise, intelligent energy that's in every atom of our being.
I find that description very commonly with lots of higher levels of consciousness on the way to God and indescribable characteristics on the way to God.
So I find that I just don't find all the negative stuff, not devils, not hell, because I think those are inventions of man.
Certainly man has had his hand in the rewriting of not just even fairly recent history, but history going back to the time when the religion many of us believe in began.
How much of it, I wonder, was rewritten.
My guest is Dr. Brian Weiss, and we're talking about past lives.
When we get back, we'll launch to phone calls.
We'll also find out about his books, where you can get them, and where you can read about more of this sort of thing, if you so desire.
And if you're still with us at this point, I bet you do so desire.
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Well, all right, Dr. Weiss, Rob Fast Blast Me from Diamond, Illinois, the following.
Well, that was the first description of something called God that makes sense to me.
I'm wondering, and I have always wondered, if there's such a thing as getting off the reincarnation wheel, or, like it or not, are we stuck doing this until we get it right?
Is that really the I guess is that the answer you'd give, that you are stuck with it, and you could fail the fourth grade a hundred times, and you'd still have to keep going until you made it through?
Right, but eventually you're going to make it through.
And that's the key to it.
We're all going to graduate.
And there are other schools, other dimensions.
So it's really not so onerous.
It just means you get more than one Chance to get it right, and then you graduate, you move on to the higher levels of consciousness, to the higher dimensions.
The number of bodies keeps expanding here as the population increases.
So souls are coming here from other dimensions, from other schools, however you want to describe it.
And yet there's another mechanism, too, that's come up from time to time, and that's the concept of souls splitting and having more than one, being in more than one body at the same time.
And that's the other meaning of Plotinus' quote.
Maybe there's just one soul, same soul, many bodies, that's energizing all of our bodies and that we're really connected and there's one kind of master consciousness.
And to me, it both exists, that we're individuated, we feel ourselves as individuals, and yet there's something that connects all of us also.
So just like I'm talking to you now, I'm sitting in a chair, and I know this chair is solid, it's supporting my weight, but I also know that it's made up of atoms and subatomic particles and quarks and electrons, and so it's all energy also, and yet it's solid.
And I think we're like that.
We're separate and yet we're all connected.
And that's one of the great mysteries of our existence here.
I would think that audience wouldn't have that difficult a time making the transition to the understanding that time is perhaps not the way we think of it in that linear way we all look at it, but very different indeed.
Dr. Weiss, as this science progresses, do you think that it might be possible to begin to refine the techniques used and get down to even more specific information about the future, even the more immediate future, the next 10, 20, 30 years, and begin, in other words, to go the next step in the research?
Or if not, then do you at the end of a session Well, for example, let me try it this way.
During a session, if you've run into something really, really traumatic for the person, are there occasions where you decide it is safer for that person to instruct them not to have conscious memory of what you just heard them live through?
Usually their subconscious wisdom is very protective.
Certainly in going back into the past, and this has already happened, if they remember something that is traumatic, I'll have them float above and just watch it from a distance, detaching from it, because the lesson is very valuable.
Eventually they realize that they can go back to it again and again and again, and the emotion lessens each time, and then they can remember it, and the symptom, which is already there, will disappear or get better.
So I think it's a tremendous area of potential research.
And certainly it's helping people make decisions now.
For example, if a person has an important decision coming up in their life, I can put them into these deep states.
And the new book describes how to do this.
They sometimes, and then take them to the fork in the road where the decision is.
Should they move to Pittsburgh or move to Los Angeles or take this job or marry this person or whatever.
And just visualize it as a fork in the road.
Maybe there are two paths or three.
And just doing that, one of them often lights up, widens, it's inviting you, and the others shrivel and become very dark, and you're getting an answer there.
And that's changing the future when you make these decisions.
Because if we talk to physicists, for example, they're knowing one subset of string theory is that every time you make one of these important decisions, you're creating a new universe or a parallel universe.
For example, a listener tonight deciding to tune in and hear this show is creating this universe where now they have the experience and the knowledge and the wisdom and whatever of hearing the show tonight.
But if they had decided not to hear it, they said, well, I'm tired, I'm going to sleep tonight or do something else, they're off in a parallel universe doing something else.
Who knows?
And the physicists are now proving this mathematically.
And they're calling it multiverses, multiple universes.
Longtime fan, longtime fan, but it's a real privilege to ask Dr. Weiss a couple questions.
Dr. Weiss, I'm a clinical psychology student here in Honolulu, and I'm wondering, my first question is this.
Do you do any training with students, or do you do any training with therapists in your techniques?
And the second question is, I've done some work in my master's degree with adolescents who are struggling with schizophrenia.
And I'm wondering what the relationship is between past life regression and schizophrenia, where this is sort of bleeding into their current frame of reference and not compartmentalized.
And I'll listen offline, but thank you for taking my call.
The first question was about trainings of professionals.
And I do two of those a year.
And he can find all the information on my website.
It's already up there.
It's brianweiss.com.
And he can find it through your website.
Okay.
The show.
And the second part is with schizophrenia, we haven't been working as much with schizophrenics because the technique hypnosis requires concentration.
This research is just beginning now also.
We found many people misdiagnosed.
They were having clairvoyant experiences or actually clairaudient experiences, hearing voices, but they weren't schizophrenic.
So we found that oftentimes this is different from a past life though.
Past life and schizophrenia don't find that so much, but I find that when we choose our parents, that you inherit the biological line of the parent, the parents, the genetic line.
The evolution of the soul is a different line.
So you may have been with them before, but once you decide to come back, then if there's a tendency towards schizophrenia or diabetes or hypertension or anything else, that's what you're going to have.
But still, research with schizophrenics is new.
We've been doing this mostly with phobias, anxiety, depression, and psychosomatic disorders and physical disorders.
Well, many of them go on to do this work, to introduce techniques of past-life regression.
It hasn't been progression yet.
I've only done one training of that.
But using these techniques, they then incorporate it into their practices.
And you don't have to be a therapist to come to these.
We don't restrict it to therapists anymore because that almost drove me crazy just to break through the closed-minded, not the closed-mindedness, but the rigidity.
So now we have about two-thirds therapists and one-third people who just want lots of experiences coming to these trainings.
And it's also increasing the N, you know, the number of people Having regression experiences.
So this is providing more validation and more safety because now we have lots of people who have undergone regression experiences.
And I'm finding that it's not me.
It's nothing magical with me.
I just am a psychiatrist and I've been doing this work, but I can train others to do this work too.
And it changes their lives.
They're now able to help their patients in a different way.
And they're going to observe, just like I have, people speaking foreign languages, people validating past life experiences, people talking about life after death and consciousness existing after the death of the physical body and soulmates and reunions with loved ones.
And that's going to change the therapist's life as well as the patient.
I would think, for me, for example, hearing somebody suddenly speak a foreign tongue fluently, obviously fluently, that would probably do the trick for me.
I mean, I'd then be inclined to do some research and see if there was any way that person had learned the language.
And, you know, when someone finds their grave, that's dramatic.
Or someone finds their children from a past life, that's dramatic.
So eventually you're going to see one of these dramatic cases, and that's going to force you as a scientist.
If you think about what is science, and that's keeping an open mind, not having your mind already made up before you study something, and then testing it, that's developing the hypothesis, and then having others test it, and then it becomes a theory that science is really keeping the open mind.
I mean, if we were supposed to know about the past or the future, then as I said, I wonder why it wouldn't be part of the natural process.
But it may be a slowly occurring evolution.
Dr. Weiss is saying that more and more people are becoming conscious, for example, of their past lives.
Michael in Memphis, Tennessee, fastblasts the following.
What about the condition of the U.S. 100 years from now?
Tell us about any significant difference in, for example, our government structure or economic status with respect to the rest of the world.
Now, my expectation is that you probably cannot answer such a detailed question, but that's why I asked you if the science continues to progress, eventually I guess we would get that kind of detailed information.
In progressing groups of people into the future, we can ask them specifically about government, about culture.
One thing that I've noticed is boundaries changing, not so much in the U.S., but certainly in the Middle East and other places, people have talked about that.
In the U.S., people have been describing more the scientific changes and also more of the global warming, more pollution, but better science, better food production, starting to use the oceans more.
Industries, this is more 200 years from now, moving off the surface of the planet so that they don't pollute so much, and now they're taking place in space.
But I didn't get into government structure as much as we were more concerned with the nature of life and science and food and things like that.
Have you ever had the phenomena of somebody looping through and having knowing of the future from six months to maybe you'll get in an accident or you'll know what's going to happen and they loop through and they've been through this whole process once?
I've had people having precognitive dreams and precognitive flashes where they see things or know things that are going to happen in the future six months, a year.
Often their accents or things like that.
It's kind of an early warning system or early detection.
It doesn't cause it.
I'm not sure what you mean by looping.
unidentified
Well, my looping is by going through my whole life more than one time, like talking to you right now or watching the TV or things like that.
I've had a couple of inventions.
I've been like the DLP lighting system and TV screens and also the three screens in churches.
I started all that stuff years ago.
And I just have these intuitions, but I also have this real strong feeling that I've been through this whole thing more than once, exactly as it is.
Actually, that's a kind of looking into the future or awareness of the future.
And some people talk about it even before their lives begin, that they look over their life, the significant events, the features of it, the significant people that they'll meet in the life, so that when they do meet them or have these experiences or come to that destiny point, it seems very familiar.
And that expression, deja vu, as if you've seen it before, that's what that means.
Yes, it appears we learn through these choices, through free will.
There are certain things that are destiny.
That is, if you're supposed to meet a certain person that's going to influence your life in a significant manner, you will meet that person.
That's destiny.
But how you react after that, whether you reject the person, accept the person, get married, do this, do that, that's all the free will, your reactions to the event.
So we're always learning through these choices, moving more or less away from our spiritual path, our destiny path, whatever you want to call it.
But I think that's critical that we exercise our free will here.
And it's important, I think, to know that, and I've studied these mediums.
That's what I was talking about earlier.
I wanted to know how they do this.
How does consciousness work?
And it seems that the time to reincarnate varies tremendously.
It may be very brief, very short, or it may be longer than a century or even longer, depending on the needs of the soul and the people with whom they will come back.
For example, your son.
We know that he's still there.
He's still around.
You may be getting signs.
Even if he does reincarnate, you can still communicate with him on the other side because the part of our soul or spirit that's in the body is only the tiniest fraction.
We're much, much greater than the physical body.
So whether he's reincarnated or not, they can still communicate with him on the other side.
West of the Rockies, you're on the air with Dr. Weiss.
Hi.
unidentified
Hi, yes.
I had a comment and a question.
He was talking about a case he had where a woman had this fear of gagging, and in her past life, it was sort of discovered that she had had a drowning experience or possibly a drowning experience, something with water.
And that sounds sort of a logical thing.
And I was wondering if he could comment on something like chronic depression or I call it the soul escaping.
It's just sort of you get detached from life.
And I've been suffering from this for 10 years now.
And I'm just wondering if that, you know, if he has had cases that have to do with this kind of symptom and what kind of things he's discovered in looking into their past lives.
Yes, it's not necessarily as connected as drowning and fear of water or gagging or dying in a fire of, say, smoke inhalation, asphyxiation, and asthma.
Those things are closely connected and often get better when the past life is recalled.
But depression, there's so many different types.
Sometimes it does carry over from past lives.
Sometimes it's from this life's childhood or adolescent.
Sometimes there are biological inputs.
And sometimes all of this is mixed together.
And you don't know until you do the regression how much you're going to be helped.
Sometimes it's just the fear of death and dying or grief.
And that is helped tremendously when a person has a past life regression.
I interview a man called Matthew Alper, and you can stop me and say, you know, I've heard that show with Matthew, if you wish.
Matthew Alper is a fascinating man who wrote a book called The God Part of the Brain.
He was on the show, in fact, last week.
It says that the fear of death that you just spoke about is so strong that it, through the process of evolution, has caused our brains evolving to create a part of the brain that demands human beings worship.
And he says it's a protective mechanism the brain has developed to deal with the fear of mortality.
Just from this work with past lives and regression and consciousness existing outside of the body, when I was in my psychoanalytic training, I remember coming across the Freudian concept that God and gods are really the equivalent of our parents or significant adults standing over the side of our crib while we're so powerless and they seem so omnipotent.
It's not that either.
It seems to me more than that, more than just a protective hardwiring device, because I have so many people who are non-believers, and then they have these experiences, these mystical experiences or spiritual experiences, completely changes their life.
I asked Matthew about the possibility of his having such an experience, and his only reaction was, my God, I'd have to recall and tear up all my books.
I don't think anybody has, you know, because then you'd have to go back and in your history with the patient, you'd be asking specifically, were you born by C-section or not?
I don't know that anyone has ever done that kind of statistical correlation.
When you have a subject under hypnosis, do you think that they are without error able to remember things about, for example, their own birth, how traumatic it was?
It would be a major moment for a soul, to be sure.
So do you find people able to remember that incredible moment or even prior to that?
We've had many validated cases of people with in utero and birth memories, validated by their parents or others, describing the hospital setting, describing the situation.
It's amazing.
The memories are there.
And many people do remember their birth.
I haven't found, though, a difference between a normal birth and a C-section birth.
To read, to speak and read in another language when you're dreaming, I've never heard of that.
unidentified
Yeah, and it surprises me every time I wake up from that sort of a dream.
And sometimes I remember the specific language, and sometimes I don't.
But I wish that when I wake up, I could remember what I was reading and actually write it down or speak it, but there's no way it's like it's completely erased.
But I find that the more people go over it in their mind, and put a title to it, like German Castle or something, and put a title to it, go over it in your mind, and then dictate it right away before you eat, before you go to the bathroom, before anything, dictate it or write it down, and that will train your mind to remember it longer also, by the way.
Speaking and reading in a foreign language, I've never had such a dream that I recall.
And I think I would remember that.
And then having it hit you in the morning that you actually don't remember any of that, but you do remember having total understanding of that language as you do your own native language right now.
Perhaps very quickly, wildcard line, you're on the air with Dr. Weiss.
Hello.
unidentified
Yes, this is going to freak you out.
Lately, in the last six months, I've been talking to people that haven't gone into their past life yet, that haven't died, but I've been talking to them in their past life.
And they have yet to die yet.
And that has freaked me out.
It's been happening in the last six months.
It has happened recently with a good friend of mine whose father passed away, but I have spoken to him spiritually in his past life, but yet he hadn't passed away.
It was almost making me worried that I'm almost about to meet my own mortality because I'm talking to people in their afterlife already, but they haven't died yet.
It doesn't have anything to do with his own mortality.
He should relax.
It's just his psychic ability coming out, and he's communicating at deeper levels with the consciousness, the spiritual nature, more than just the person, more than the physical person.