Dear Reader,
"What should I blog about?", I asked a good friend when I was talking to him sometime ago. "Only Love Is Real" was his answer. It's the title of a book that I have been harping about for over a week now and yet I don't know why I didn't think of sharing my thoughts about it over my blog.
I landed up on this book, Only Love Is Real by Dr. Brian Weiss while I was aimlessly wandering in one of the bookstores. I would call it serendipity. I am a great fan of Dr. Brian Weiss and that is what inspired me to buy the book instantly.
This book is about past-life regression therapy of two individuals who are "soul-mates" and do not discover it until they are brought together again. It makes you truly believe that each one of us has a soulmate. Dr. Weiss states "Destiny dictates the meeting of soul-mates. We "will" meet them. But what we decide to do after that meeting falls in the province of choice or free will. A wrong choice or a missed chance can lead to incredible loneliness and suffering. A right choice, an opportunity realized, can bring us to profound bliss and happiness."
The two characters in the book, Elizabeth and Pedro, are put through past-life regression therapy and they remember the details of their previous lifetimes - their name, the place, their choices and their soul-mates, they identify all of these during the therapy. Dr. Weiss explains this by saying that the soul is immortal. He elucidates this with the example of a car and a driver. The soul, he says, is the driver and the body, is the car. When the car is old and rusty, all the driver needs to do is step out of the old car gracefully and step into the new one - rebirth.
While I was reading one page after the other, I was going through a constant conflict in my head. I have been conditioned to believe (through religion) that we are here to perform certain karmic duties carried forward from the last life-time and my logical mind doesn't want to believe in reincarnation.
I believe that this is the only life that we have and the result of the choices that we make in this lifetime will build our destiny. Hence, I believe we have the right to make self-righteous choices.
Having said that, I have had this strange feeling of familiarity as soon as I have met someone for the first time in my life, a feeling of being able to connect with them, a feeling that is incomprehensible, a feeling that is beyond my bounds of control, an inner-voice that tells me what they are about to say, an instinct that makes me say and do things that I would judge as irrational, as a witness.
Yeah, this is the kind of conflict that I am talking about!!
The book is undoubtedly captivating and some parts of the book did send chills down my spine and here's a poem from W.B. Yeats for those who believe in soul-mates.
"Many times man lives and dies
Between his two eternities,
That of race and that of soul,
And ancient Ireland knew it all.
Whether man die in his bed
Or the rifle knocks him dead,
A brief parting from those dear
Is the worst man has to fear.
Though grave-digger's toil is long,
Sharp their spades, their muscles strong,
They but thrust their buried men
Back in the human mind again."
From the poem, it does seem like W. B. Yeats believed in reincarnations. Do you?
"What should I blog about?", I asked a good friend when I was talking to him sometime ago. "Only Love Is Real" was his answer. It's the title of a book that I have been harping about for over a week now and yet I don't know why I didn't think of sharing my thoughts about it over my blog.
I landed up on this book, Only Love Is Real by Dr. Brian Weiss while I was aimlessly wandering in one of the bookstores. I would call it serendipity. I am a great fan of Dr. Brian Weiss and that is what inspired me to buy the book instantly.
This book is about past-life regression therapy of two individuals who are "soul-mates" and do not discover it until they are brought together again. It makes you truly believe that each one of us has a soulmate. Dr. Weiss states "Destiny dictates the meeting of soul-mates. We "will" meet them. But what we decide to do after that meeting falls in the province of choice or free will. A wrong choice or a missed chance can lead to incredible loneliness and suffering. A right choice, an opportunity realized, can bring us to profound bliss and happiness."
The two characters in the book, Elizabeth and Pedro, are put through past-life regression therapy and they remember the details of their previous lifetimes - their name, the place, their choices and their soul-mates, they identify all of these during the therapy. Dr. Weiss explains this by saying that the soul is immortal. He elucidates this with the example of a car and a driver. The soul, he says, is the driver and the body, is the car. When the car is old and rusty, all the driver needs to do is step out of the old car gracefully and step into the new one - rebirth.
While I was reading one page after the other, I was going through a constant conflict in my head. I have been conditioned to believe (through religion) that we are here to perform certain karmic duties carried forward from the last life-time and my logical mind doesn't want to believe in reincarnation.
I believe that this is the only life that we have and the result of the choices that we make in this lifetime will build our destiny. Hence, I believe we have the right to make self-righteous choices.
Having said that, I have had this strange feeling of familiarity as soon as I have met someone for the first time in my life, a feeling of being able to connect with them, a feeling that is incomprehensible, a feeling that is beyond my bounds of control, an inner-voice that tells me what they are about to say, an instinct that makes me say and do things that I would judge as irrational, as a witness.
Yeah, this is the kind of conflict that I am talking about!!
The book is undoubtedly captivating and some parts of the book did send chills down my spine and here's a poem from W.B. Yeats for those who believe in soul-mates.
"Many times man lives and dies
Between his two eternities,
That of race and that of soul,
And ancient Ireland knew it all.
Whether man die in his bed
Or the rifle knocks him dead,
A brief parting from those dear
Is the worst man has to fear.
Though grave-digger's toil is long,
Sharp their spades, their muscles strong,
They but thrust their buried men
Back in the human mind again."
From the poem, it does seem like W. B. Yeats believed in reincarnations. Do you?
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