Chapter Fifteen Summary and Analysis

Two months later, Catherine schedules another appointment. She has something to tell Weiss regarding a psychic astrologer named Iris Saltzman. Her specialty is past life readings. Weiss understands Catherine's need to seek confirmation from another source.

Catherine does not mention her hypnotic regressions to the psychic. Weiss recounts Iris Saltzman's procedure of asking Catherine's date, time and place of birth. Using her intuitive gifts, Iris claims the ability to discover details from people's past lives. To Catherine's surprise, Iris "validated most of what Catherine had discovered under hypnosis."

Weiss describes Iris Saltzman's processes. She enters a trance of her own and her eyes become glazed describing snippets and fragments of Catherine's past lives. Many of the ones detailed in previous chapters filter through including her life as a Spanish woman named Louisa. The ancient Egyptian, who worked on the...