A Past Life in Egypt, 3,200 Years Ago:
Dorothy Eady was born in Edwardian London in 1904. When she was three, Dorothy had an accident: she fell head-over-heels down a flight of stairs and a doctor pronounced her stone-dead. But her family’s grief changed to astonishment when they later entered the child’s bedroom and found her sitting up in bed, having regained full consciousness. The doctor was amazed. ‘But she was dead!’ he exclaimed.
After this, Dorothy began to have strange recurring dreams, which later turned out to be visions of ancient Temple Monuments in Abydos, in ancient Egypt. She also perturbed her parents by constantly declaring, ‘I want to go home!’ They were distraught and couldn’t make her understand that she was already home, but Dorothy would have none of it. Then stranger things happened: when they took her to visit the British Museum in London, the four-year-old threw herself at the feet of the mummies and announced with fervour, ‘Leave me! These are my people.’
As time passed, Dorothy Eady began recalling remarkable details of a former existence as an Egyptian Temple Priestess named Bentreshyt, who she remembered was a secret lover of Pharaoh Sety the First, in Ancient Egypt 3,200 years ago.
She said she had met ‘His Majesty’ (as she always referred to him) and had
promptly fallen in love with him in the spacious Temple Gardens at Abydos, where - as the 14 year-old Bentreshyt - she had often walked amongst the flowers. Asked by historians where this unlikely mini-paradise was situated she instantly replied, ‘To the south of Sety’s Temple.’
The idea of luxurious trees and flowers in a desert setting seemed ridiculous to some experts, but they were soon to eat their words. Egyptologists later discovered and then excavated this ancient Garden in the exact place where Dorothy had located it. In the same place they also found an avenue of old tree-stumps and the remains of their deep root systems, plus a well and a series of irrigation channels which had watered the lush green plants and flowers. In adulthood, having then become a naturalised citizen of Egypt, Dorothy adopted the now-famous name of Omm Sety, and as well as becoming a noted scholar of Ancient Egyptian religion and Antiquities she also helped historians to translate hieroglyphic writings on Egyptian Monuments, aided by her amazing far memories. Up to her death, she maintained an absolute conviction in an afterlife, even writing in her private diaries that the spirit of the ‘dead’ Pharaoh Sety regularly paid her night-visits in a fully materialised physical form.
