Catherine Camargo
Many Lives, Many masters is a book written by Brian Weiss who is a chairman of the Department of psychiatry at Mount Sinai Medical Center on Miami Beach in Florida. He specializes in the study of treatments for depression , sleep disorders, brain chemistry, and anxiety states etc. This book was published in 1988 based off of true and personal events from the author himself. Brian came across a patient named Catherine who suffered with depression , night terrors, and forms of severe anxiety. He believed that her problems may have stemmed from repressed memories from a very early age in her life. Brian wanted to try hypnosis sessions on Catherine in order to recover these memories which may help relieve her problems. Once the sessions begin Brian is astonished by the effect the hypnosis sessions have on Catherine, they are taking her back to her past lives where she was able to fully describe events from time periods hundreds of years their prior. Catherine could describe the image of herself in a past life and could meet significant others from her current life incarnated into different people. During the hypnosis when Catherine would die before describing her next life she would fall into some intermediate state where she was able to speak to “masters”. These masters would teach her lessons during these sessions. I chose chapter four of this book because I believe it stems to beginning of Brian's true undeniable belief in reincarnation when Catherine is able to know details about his own family and their past. I find the concept of Reincarnation so interesting because I think someone who has the power to have even minimal understandings of their past life own a mirror and metaphor to their current living experiences. For example, we look at our own experiences from past years in our lives and are thankful for them to help us reflect and deal with what we may currently be going through. i reflect on old poems and art that I have created to remind myself of old emotions that I may not be going through now. Studying and hunting moments of our past lives, whether from dreams or with people we have relations with today can create an effect like reading one of those poems from years ago and it now makes more sense to you. I want to study this more in order to have more understanding of myself to put into my physical art. To find a way to recreate past feelings into current pieces of artwork.
