Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives

The chapter opens with Weiss jolting awake at 3:36am with a vision of Catherine’s face. He did not know at the time that moments before, Catherine had awoken panicked from a nightmare and visualized Weiss’s face for comfort.

Under trance during their next session, Catherine describes a lifetime as a teenage servant to a black-haired woman, and Weiss finds that when he speaks to Catherine in this lifetime it is much like speaking to a real teenager. She exits this lifetime before experiencing death, and the poet Master intervenes to discuss the importance of balance and harmony, which nature and animals understand but humans don’t. For this reason, humans “will eventually destroy themselves” (159).

Weiss muses about how much more knowledge could possibly be gained through these sessions. He discusses his experience with his mother-in-law Minette, who met Catherine once and whose “sincerity and honesty helped convince Minette that the existence of an afterlife was indeed true” (162). The sessions with Catherine improved Weiss’s intuition and abilities as a therapist, and if some of his other patients appeared ready, he would share his knowledge about reincarnation with them. The game-changing message he has for his patients now is that “we are immortal.