Past Lives, Future Lives [Mass Market Paperback]

Bruce Goldberg (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 12, 1988

Dr. Bruce Goldberg a prominent hypnotherpist chronicles a practice that has led hundredsof patients on dramatic voyagesof self-discovery through not only centuries past but also centuries to come. He discloses here, the rapture and revelation of the soul's migration from life to life. His subjects fathom the workings of Karma, transition between frequencies, "light" beings, and passage through astral and etheric planes. And often, they awake to find their present-day lives transformed.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

When I first met Dr. Bruce Goldberg, he impressed me with his intensity, his commitment to empowering people, and his tireless promotion. His book, PAST LIVES, FUTURE LIVES, grew out of his experiences with hypnotherapy clients. It is a logical and enlightening look at a mystical topic, that of the progression souls make from life to life. His explanation of karma really made sense to me. There is even information about astral projections and progressions to future lives!

        
M. Coolman
Ballantine Publicity

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Dr. Bruce Goldberg a prominent hypnotherpist chronicles a practice that has led hundredsof patients on dramatic voyagesof self-discovery through not only centuries past but also centuries to come. He discloses here, the rapture and revelation of the soul's migration from life to life. His subjects fathom the workings of Karma, transition between frequencies, "light" beings, and passage through astral and etheric planes. And often, they awake to find their present-day lives transformed.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Ballantine Books (October 12, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 034535575X
• ISBN-13: 978-0345355751
• Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 0.8 x 6.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #398,101 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dr. Bruce Goldberg is a clinical hypnotherapist who wrote the international best-seller Past Lives, Future Lives, as well as Dream Your Problems Away, Past Lives, Future Lives Revealed, and Spirit Guide Contact Through Hypnosis (all New Page Books). He has appeared on a wide variety of major shows, including Oprah, Regis & Kelly, CBS News, CNN, Art Bell, and many others.

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Inspirational and spiritually enlightening, July 22, 2000

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This review is from: Past Lives, Future Lives (Mass Market Paperback)

Even though the method of hypnotic regression can in principle never produce scientifically acceptable evidence of the reality of reincarnation, Goldberg's book makes a highly credible case that is hard to dismiss as fantasy or fiction. It will not convince the hardened sceptic (who should familiarize himself with Ian Stevenson's research instead), but the open-minded reader will find it compelling enough to consider (or reconsider) the idea of reincarnation.

Those who are already aware of the objective reality of reincarnation will find a treasure trove of information and insight on the way karma works, how our past lifes influence our present life, what to expect directly after death, and in the state between lifes.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Therapy for all your lives, June 7, 2002

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This review is from: Past Lives, Future Lives (Mass Market Paperback)

Goldberg has a fast-talking wowy-zowy style on the radio that makes you suspicious that he is a charlatan, but I enjoyed reading his book.

He is a firm believer in past life therapy in which a patient experiences a traumatic past life event via hypnotherapy and is healed by re-experiencing it. He does not explain why this would heal someone but he claims that his patients are able to avoid certain negative habits or phobias and have improved relationships. He thinks it is the best psychological treatment.

Goldberg also claims to be able to show his patients their future lives through hypnotherapy. The future, from what can be gathered by the life stories of future lives, is much the same as reality is now: threats of nuclear war, clampdowns on freedom, class issues, warring civilizations, technological progress, relationship problems, enslavement, and good times too.

Apparently, we often go through several lives with the same souls who are in different incarnations. You may marry the same person several times or be a relative or friend or enemy to a person several times. Although you may mate the same person several times this does not mean that you'll like them every time you meet them. Perhaps they may end up abusing you in one life and loving you in the next. In other words, finding your "soulmate" may not be such a good thing.

Goldberg explains karma and I got the impression that it is not exactly a matter of a situation in which you murder in one life and are murdered in the next. One patient was raped in a former life and Goldberg comes to the odd conclusion that the soul was learning humility and submission in such a life. This conclusion partially makes the villian a teacher in a strange sort of way. A rapist in former life will be decent married man in another but still have problems with being domineering or manipulating.

Such a worldview may have adverse ethical repercussions, if no one is truly good or evil and no one is directly punished or rewarded. Anyway, I did not get the impression that karma was direct justice against evil actions in a past life from the many stories of the lives of his patients, despite Goldberg's defining karma that way from the beginning.

The stories are interesting even though there are probably too many of them. The overdose on far-out stories has a numbing effect by the end of the book.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A true reincarnation book: I read it over and over and over, November 13, 1998

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This review is from: Past Lives, Future Lives (Mass Market Paperback)

For anyone interested in reincarnation (or for confirmed believers), this is a must-read! It defines karma's nature in detailed regression/ progression sessions. Not only do you get to experience past lives and future lives, but you have a chance to understand the in-between-states (between lives) via the sessions. He also talks about reincarnation in the different religions throughout history, and what it's like to die. I literally could not put this book down until the last page.