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

Catherine is a 20th-century, blonde-haired, blue-eyed pilot during her next regression. She knows pilot lingo under trance which she does not know in her waking life. Her daughter Margot is also Catherine’s closest friend in the present lifetime. She dies painfully and discovers that the purpose of this lifetime is to learn about the irrational and evil nature of hate. The first Master that Catherine ever channeled reappears and affirms that Weiss is performing exactly the right kind of treatment for people in the physical realm. He explains that the spiritual state is normal, and the physical state is not normal, adding that Weiss has “almost succeed[ed] in reaching that state” of renewal (121).

The Master indicates that “fear of death is the main concern” of people in the physical realm and that “if they knew that they had lived countless times before and would love countless times again, how reassured they would feel” (122). Traditional religion and science are both inadequate to solve the deepest concerns of humanity. Catherine says that she feels the presence of a guardian spirit named Gideon who makes her feel safer. In response to Weiss’s question about why people come back to the physical realm to continue their learning, Catherine answers that there “are different levels of learning, and we must learn some of them in the flesh” (124).