Many Lives, Many Masters

In a literary sense, this is a modern religious parable about a physician's interesting professional relationship with a patient and the spiritual trials and growth they experience together.

In a scientific sense, Weiss' alleged “proof,” presented this way, doesn't hold up to the lowest level of critical observation. This doesn't mean all of his claims are false, but truth and proof are different.

I read books like this to explore new possibilities of thinking about the world. Anything presented as fact, though, must undergo some degree of scrutiny before I use it as foundation on which to structure my existence. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

I found this fascinating