Comments on: Many Lives, Many Masters

By: Eden Kennedy Onassis

Eden Kennedy Onassis — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:57:00 +0000

Sixteen bottles of wine and I’ll believe just about anything.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:24:00 +0000

Oh good lord.

I followed the link to Amazon. All I have to say is that crap like this is the reason we need better science education in this country.

By: AliBlahBlah

AliBlahBlah — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:41:00 +0000

I started reading this as a cynic, like you became swept up in the 'what-ifs' of it, and sadly ended as a bit of a sceptic again. I would love to believe, particularly about the sense of connection I have with some people, but for the record, the concensus of hot-tub-book-club was:

1) If he was allegedly talking to someone from France/Ukraine etc - why was this previous life character able to converse in English?

2) Chilly said she must have really buggered up her previous lives to get dystonia in this one.

3) Actually the real concensus was how can 8 women drink 16 bottles of wine without regressing in to past lives.

Personally - I think he was having an affair with Catherine and wrote the book to get his wife off the scent of his infatuation with this 'intriguing' woman.

By: jenB

jenB — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:52:00 +0000

Eden, you haven’t read Stiff? Or am I reading that incorrectly?

By: ppsparent

ppsparent — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 20:25:00 +0000

Haven't read it, but love those kinds of things. However, I'm afraid I too remain on the cynical side.

15 years ago everyone and his sister had satanic cults in their past and parents who buried dead babies in the backyard.

25 years ago everyone and her neighbor had been abducted by aliens and um, probed.

Some of this is from actual trauma and abuse early on, some of it is just how the mind makes sense of craziness. Or of things that seem crazy to the person in that life. Have an emotion that feels wrong/overwhelming/too painful to stand? Then attribute it to another life, an alien, satanic parents.

NOW, this isn't to say that there can't be those things, but it sure seems odd that they go in such cycles. Did the aliens get bored and cede space to the satanists?

By: Mrs. Chili

Mrs. Chili — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:03:00 +0000

Suzy Soro, I’m with you – I believe more in the other side than I do in this one.

There’s a lot of that stuff that just feels true to me – I have people in my life (my youngest daughter, in particular) who I KNOW I’ve been with before. I recognize patterns in this life that seem familiar and, every once in a while, I get flashes of knowledge I couldn’t possibly have. Besides, it’d be ridiculous to think that THIS is as good as it gets, don’t you think?

By: Suzy

Suzy — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:47:00 +0000

MLMM is one of my favorite books ever. He has two follow-up books, equally as fascinating.

The thing that did it for me was when she correctly told Dr. Weiss about his dead son, and there was no way she could have known that. If you know anything about meridian readings, people can regress with that path as well. I’ve been studying metaphysics since 1983 and now believe more in the other side than this side.

By: Kate

Kate — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:36:00 +0000

I have read both “Stiff” and “Spook” by Mary Roach. I LOVED “Stiff” but “Spook” was just not as strong. Not as interesting, not as well-written. But “Stiff” was fantastic.

By: Eden Kennedy Onassis

Eden Kennedy Onassis — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:51:00 +0000

Exactly! That’s why I mentioned her, that and her other book, “Spook,” it I want to read, I should put that on my wishlist.

By: Amber

Amber — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:40:00 +0000

I read a book by Mary Roach called “Stiff: A Curious Look at the Life of Cadavers”. It was an interesting and often humorous book about something incredibly grotesque.

I don’t know if that is something you’d like to read, but it was good.