Chatelaine posted an interesting subject a week or so ago on Heaven, and Brian Weiss was mentioned in a couple of the threads. I was going to add my thoughts but I chickened out in case people thought I was crazy. I read Brian's book "Many Lives, Many Masters" a long time ago and thought it was fascinating. I also attended a one day seminar with him and found him to be a lovely, normal, nice and very friendly person. I have a couple of friends who hear messages from people who have died. I believe in reincarnation, that we come back each time to experience different things, and that there is more to life that what we're experiencing now. I won't go deeper than that, and wasn't even going to go that far until I watched Oprah yesterday. Her show was with Dr Weiss on reincarnation and it was fascinating. I'm not sure if you get the Oprah shows soon after they are shown here, but if you can catch this one it's well worth watching if you're interested in this subject. In the meantime you can take a look at some of the things that he said on www.oprah.com - I think this link might take you there: http://www2.oprah.com/health/oz/slide/20080513/oz_20080513_350_101.jhtml

I loved these words: "Dr. Weiss says the most common question he's asked about past-life regression is if there is a presence of God in the process. "I find God everywhere in this," he says.

Think of the experience as an ice cube, Dr. Weiss says. Ice cubes are solid until they're melted by heat energy. They become water, but if you add more heat energy, that water will turn into steam. The same molecule—H2O—is still there, just in a different form.

Dr. Weiss says people are like ice cubes. "We're the solid part, the condensed part. We think we're separate from everybody else. We're not. If you heat us with love energy—not heat energy but love energy—we melt into a spiritual sea," he says. "And if you keep heating with love, you find God. God is the steam. God is beyond the steam—the organizing wisdom that's in every atom of our being."

In the end, we're not so separate, Dr. Weiss says. "We're not different from each other," he says. "We're all souls, and souls are all connected."

These personally are my beliefs also. I say personal because our belief systems are very personal to each of us. These happen to be mine but I respect that other people have different beliefs. So having said all this I now have to figure out if I want to hit that 'ok, submit' button!!