Mal12345
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In the office, pondering Catherine's latest revelations, I wondered what our Founding Fathers would have thought about the proposition that all humans are not created equal. People are born with talents, abilities, and powers accrued from other lifetimes. "But eventually we will reach a point where we will all be equal." I suspected that this point was many, many lifetimes distant.
So writes Brian L. Weiss, Master and Author of the book "Many Lives, Many Masters," who has past-life regressed his psychiatric patients and has come to believe he "knows stuff now." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Weiss
Imagine if you will, a psychiatrist with no philosophical training whatsoever, who thinks he has outsmarted the Founding Fathers by life-regressing one of his patients.
Dr. Weiss, the Founding Fathers did not say we are all born with equal talents and abilities. The Founding Fathers did say that we are all born with equal rights, that is, the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Even if that only applied to European white males at the time, it is still what they said. And it was a political statement, not a psychological or physiological statement as you believe it to be. We all know that some people are born with disabilities while others are born with outstanding capabilities. That's not the point. The point the Founding Fathers made is that all should be treated as equal under the law no matter what their talents or lack of same.
I don't, however, plan on giving his book a scathing review. I think the entire life-regression/progression topic is very interesting, and the good doctor is obviously very well-read in the pursuit of technical knowledge (minus the entire field of abstract conceptual thinking, obviously). Some people like to examine car engines, other people like to examine people's minds. But it's all the same on a certain level, because neither interest is particularly abstract in nature.
A Buddhist once said that from great doubt comes great enlightenment (satori). Dr. Weiss states in his book that he started out as a doubter, a skeptic. He was eventually persuaded into becoming a believer through the accidental past-life regression of one of his psychiatric patients via hypnosis. A Sensor (and probable ISTJ in his case) achieves enlightenment through experiment and experience; but an Intuitive (such as myself) already has it. So the book is interesting from the viewpoint of someone such as myself who already knows in observing someone who has or had no clue as to the sort of spiritual morass he is getting himself into.
If you are interested in past-life regression stories, this is the book for you. If you don't care about the topic, then you're not ready for it. If you're into books of a more conceptual or abstract nature, then this author did not write his book for you.
As for me, I'll continue reading this until I eventually get bored.