Bryan Weiss's Catherine and Esther Hicks' Abraham differ in other fundamental ways.
In the first case, karma plays a central role in the explanation of why things are the way they are.
In the second case, karma does not. Karma in fact is relegated to an extremely minor role. Abraham acknowledges that past lives exist, but asserts that they are of almost no relevance to your present life.
One possible reconciliation that I can see is that Abraham is stating a general position - that, for most of us, exploration of past lives is ultimately pointless and not very fruitful, because we already have so much creative power to do whatever we want, in our present lives.
Whereas in the Bryan Weiss case studies, the patients represent the minority of people with serious issues left over from their past lives that need resolution in the present life.
Note that Dr Bryan Weiss didn't administer past-life regression hypnosis to just any patient who walked in. His practice was to administer it only to those patients for whom other more conventional forms of hypnotherapy had already failed to achieve satisfactory results.
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