Super Soul Sunday – Interview with Dr. Brian Weiss
Oprah: So she doesn’t know that your father has passed or not passed.
Dr. Weiss: No. No.
Oprah: And this was before you could Google your doctor.
Dr. Weiss: It was before the internet. It was — yes, before you could Google your doctor.
Oprah: Yes.
Dr. Weiss: Before all this. She didn’t know anything about my father. She tells me, um, my daughter’s named after him. Amy was. She’s here now and she was named after him. His English name was Alvin. His Hebrew name was Avram. She didn’t know this. She’s a Catholic woman from New England. He had — She said, your father, um, is here. He died from his heart. His heart was important. Your daughter’s named after him and she went into other medical details. He died in New Jersey a year and a half before I began with Catherine, um, just before Amy was born. Amy was named after him and Catherine’s telling me this. The room’s still feeling icy cold and I’m thinking, what is this? How does she know this? Because he never had an obituary. There’s — it’s not only before the internet, there’s no place to look it up. There’s no obituary. It’s not written down. Our best friends didn’t know these details. And then she said, your son is with him and he’s here, too. He’s very tiny – shining brightly – and his heart is important also because it’s turned around backwards. And she went into why he died – medical details. That was the son, my first child, who died in 1971. This is happening around 1981.
