Dr. Weiss is a psychiatrist and healer, a Reincarnationist and a prolific author of books related to reincarnation, the afterlife, life after death, future lives, past lives and past-life related trauma.

In his book, Same Soul, Many Bodies, Brian Weiss, one of the first doctors to explore the past lives of his patients as a means of therapy, reveals how past and present lives can affect our future lives, and how our future lives can transform us in the here and now.

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Natasha Dern, entrepreneur & host of the Buddha Lounge Radio Show has a great article on reincarnation up on Huff Post, check it out:

Do You Believe In Past Lives?

Have you had the feeling of deja vu? A feeling like you know this place, or know that person, or have had this conversation. It is like a hazy memory of a far away place, but where? Have you had dreams where you know its you, and yet you look nothing like you do in this life? Have you met someone for the first time and for some reason you feel an instant affinity? You wonder, “Why do I feel like I’ve seen them or somehow know them?” Many have had such experiences and yet many do not admit it. Past lives is not a subject you discuss with people who do not believe. However, even the believers are skeptical, although are more open to the realm of its possibility. Let’s think about it for a moment, why would the idea of past lives be so off the mark? Why would the idea of living in another time and place be so threatening? When viewed from this lens, would this idea not explain some of the inequalities, injustices and suffering in this world?…

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Thank you to Tanya Egan Gibson for answering this week’s Reincarnationist Q&A!

Tanya Egan Gibson is the author of How to Buy a Love of Reading (May 2009 – Dutton), a novel about nouveau riche parents who try to cure their teenage daughter’s hatred of books by commissioning a custom-written novel for her and dubbing themselves the Medicis of Long Island.  She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two young children.

THE QUESTIONS:

What is your most marked characteristic that you believe could be a hold over from a past life?

I value difference/uniqueness over nearly everything (except kindness).  I rarely feel like I want to be just like someone else or look like someone else or create something that has already been created.  I have a feeling that if were, indeed, someone else previously, that person was no doubt a bit eccentric or iconoclastic.

What is your principle defect that you believe may be inherited from a previous incarnation?

That would be stubbornness.  Because it couldn’t be *my* fault.  Certainly not.  Must be a holdover from past incarnation, one that wasn’t always, you know, *right.*

Which of your favorite heroes do you think you could have been and why?

I’ve been thinking about this question for, well, days, and I can’t exactly answer it, maybe because “heroes” is a loaded word for me (do I think I could have been heroic?  Not sure), or perhaps because I tend to think of heroes as characters in fiction (and it wouldn’t make sense for me to think I could be the reincarnation of someone who never existed in “real life”).  What I *can* say is that I’d like to imagine that I was some sort of explorer–someone who would be willing to put it all on the line to discover new things.

What three people from history would you like to have over to dinner for a discussion about reincarnation?

F. Scott Fitzgerald (who would undoubtedly sound less and less, er, coherent on the subject as the evening passed), Oscar Wilde, and Kurt Vonnegut.

What do you think happens when we die?

That’s a question I tried not to think too much about until recently, when my five-year-old daughter’s pet frogs died. My husband and I are blessed with an abundance of grandparents for our children, all of whom have different ideas about religion and what happens after death.  So when Dylan’s sweet little pets died, I found myself putting forth a hodgepodge of ideas taken from different belief systems.

She imagines Toady and Little Frog living now in Frog Heaven, where they tell other pets about how much she loved them.  But because one of her grandmothers told her that when things die, they return as energy to make new beings, she also imagines them becoming baby frogs all over again.  And finally, because we told her when we buried them in our yard under the Calla Lilies they were being returned to the earth to help other things grow, she tells us that she imagines Toady and Little Frog holding little gardening rakes.  She says they’re making flowers for her.  (All of which makes me cry when she’s not looking because it’s so sweet and wonderful.)

So what do *I* believe happens when we die?  Anything my little girl believes is probably right.

When you come back next time, who (or what!) would you like to be?

Someone who can keep houseplants alive (apparently, you are supposed to water them), enjoys cooking (rather than thinking putting that Trader Joe’s pizza in the oven is a lot of work), organizes closets (so that things don’t fall on one’s head when one opens them), and writes thank-you notes on time.  Fortunately, my sweet children and patient husband forgive me all this and more.