Brian L. Weiss
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Brian L. Weiss is an American psychiatrist, neurologist, and psychotherapist whose writings center on past-life regression, reincarnation, future-life progression, and the survival of the soul after death — a body of work that has made him a distinctive figure in the overlap between clinical practice and questions about consciousness beyond the physical.
Weiss was born on November 6, 1944, in New York City. He pursued his education at Columbia University and subsequently at Yale School of Medicine, training that prepared him for careers spanning psychiatry, neurology, and psychotherapy. It was his additional practice as a hypnotherapist, and his specialization in past-life regression, that set the direction his writing would take. Where his academic formation at two demanding institutions grounded him in established medicine, his later clinical work drew him toward subjects — reincarnation, the progression of future lives, the soul's continuity — that placed him at an unusual distance from the conventions of his training.
As an author writing in English, Weiss has addressed those themes across his published output, returning consistently to past-life regression and reincarnation as central concerns. His work as a hypnotherapist remains integral to his practice as both clinician and writer. The Library of Congress records him under the authorized name Weiss, Brian L. (Brian Leslie), 1944-, a designation that formally gathers his full body of work and identifies this American psychiatrist as its single source.
Quotes by Brian L. Weiss
Love is not an intellectual process but rather a dynamic energy flowing into and through us at all times, whether we are aware of it or not. We must learn to receive love as well as to give. Only in community, only in relationships, only in service can we truly understand the all-encompassing energy of love.
An open and loving heart, seeking a higher good without selfish motive, without any shadow of negativity or harm, can invoke a powerful manifesting energy in order to accomplish its goals. This is our right as spiritual entities. This is an essence of our spirituality. This is the invocation of grace.
Yes, we choose when we will come into our physical state and when we will leave. We know when we have accomplished what we were sent down here to accomplish. We know when the time is up, and you will accept your death.
There are reasons for everything, and no coincidences exist on the path of destiny.
No se puede juzgar apresuradamente a nadie. Es preciso ser justo. Muchas vidas se han arruinado por juzgar apresuradamente.
We never really die; we merely change our levels of consciousness. Because our loved ones are immortal too, we are never really separated from them. This realization of our true spiritual nature is a powerful healing force.
When you look at another person, in relationship, in therapy, in life, see their soul through lifetimes and eons of time. Not just the transitory physical being across from you. You, too, are such a soul.
Denial, the act of not being aware of inner feelings and fears and motivations, is the opposite of mindfulness.