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}A}cknowledgments

}My

thanks for their constant love and support go toCarole, Jordan, and Amy.}My deepest appreciation goes to Joann Davis, myeditor at Warner Books, for her encouragement, insight,and wisdom. She's the best.}I am indebted to Joni Evans, agent extraordinaire, for her boundless energy and enthusiasm.}And, finally, my gratitude goes to all of my patientsand workshop participants, who have shared their liveswith me.

}Reader's} Note

}P

sychiatrist-patient confidentiality is a strong andtime-honored principle of psychiatric ethics. The patientsmentioned in this book have authorized me to write their true histories. Only names and other identifying detailshave been altered in order to protect their privacy. Their stories are true and unchanged.

}Preface

}The soul of man is like to water; }From Heaven it co}meth }To Heaven it riseth }And then retu}rneth to earth, }Forever alternating.

}Goethe}J}ust before my first book,

Many Lives, Many Masters,

was published, I visited the owner of a localbookstore to see if he had ordered it. We checked hiscomputer.}"Four copies," he told me. "Do you want to order one?"}I wasn't very sure that sales of the book would ever reach the modest amount that the publisher had printed. After all, this was a very strange book for a respectedpsychiatrist to have written. The book describes the truestory of a young patient of mine whose past-life therapydramatically changed both our lives. However, I knewthat my friends, neighbors, and, certainly, my relativeswould buy more than four copies, even if the book didn'tsell anywhere else in the country.