Reincarnation, really?

As I mentioned in my previous post this summer I've done some unusual readings: Many Lives, Many Masters by Dr. Brian Weiss was the first of them.

Back in July I attended my first group meditation session. When the session ended I heard somebody in the group talking about past lives. The other people intervened in the conversation as if that would be the most natural thing in the world... My face is always an open book, and it was evident I was clearly skeptical and shocked by what I was hearing. I was then invited to read Many Lives, Many Masters: that night I downloaded it in my Kindle and got started reading.

Dr Brian Weiss is an American psychiatrist, and hypnotherapist. To his surprise, in 1980 one of his patients began discussing past-life experiences while under hypnosis.

I had always seen hypnosis and a sideshow entertainment, nothing to be taken seriously. Now I've come to understand that reputable medical institutions actually view and use hypnosis as a powerful therapeutic tool. Dr Brian Weiss describes in his book his most amazing experience(s) with patients that, through hypnosis, were regressed to past lives and the healing power of those regressions.

Personal takeaways from the book:

1. Apparently reincarnation happens, and often happens within families. It could be more than an unproven religious belief. I am still unsure I believe this as truth but...

2. If I decide to believe it, then the consequence is enormous: I better find out why I am here, what I have come to learn in this life. I was hoping to be done with the goods and the bads of this world by the time I die...but then if I do not learn my lessons my immortal spirit might come into physical form again and again and never make enough progress to make it into the next level; and I do want to make it to the next level!

I'm committed to learning more about this topic. My next read was  The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Ekhart Tolle. I'll comment on it in my next post!