On 16 January 1904, a beautiful little girl named Dorothy was born to parents of Irish descent in a south London suburb. When Dorothy was three years old, while playing in the family home, she fell from the top of the cellar stairs, hit her head on the ground and fell into a coma. The family doctor reported that Dorothy had passed away and asked that she be prepared for burial.

Despite her parents' shock, Dorothy came out of the coma naturally and in good health.

Of course, she surprised everyone when she woke up. But that surprise increased when she began to speak with a strong foreign accent and started asking to be ‘taken home.’ It seems that the accident was the beginning of the incredible - the moment of discovering the ability to remember ... a past life.

Dorothy grew up in a Christian family and attended church regularly as a child.

But one day, on a trip to the British Museum with her parents, she came across a photograph in the exhibition hall of the New Kingdom Temple and exclaimed: ‘That's my house! But where are the trees? Where are the gardens?’

The temple belonged to Seti I, the father of Ramses the Great.

She couldn't understand why there was no vegetation around the temple, but she recognized the monuments and other artefacts in the halls of the Egyptian collection. She reverently kissed the feet of the statues..... This incident prompted her father to keep her away from the museum so as not to disturb the visitors...

When she was ten years old, she caught the attention of the famous English archaeologist, Wallis Budge who noticed her strong passion for Egyptian antiquities. He encouraged her to study the history of ancient Egypt.

Budge volunteered to teach Dorothy the hieroglyphics. And he was amazed at the speed with which she learnt the complex script of the Pyramid Country. When he expressed his amazement to her, she said she just...remembered what she had learnt before!

Despite his skepticism, she still insisted that the knowledge came from a distant time and that in her previous life she had been part of Pharaoh Seti I's court. She told him of a dream in which she had seen Seti I come to her in a dream and beg her to to return home.

She claimed that he made her remember her past life. As time went on, she turned more and more to the ancient religion and stopped feeling attached to Christianity.

By 1927 the family had moved to London, allowing Dorothy to quench her Egyptomania. She enrolled in art school and specialized in ancient art. During this time, she met a young Egyptian man named Imam Abdul Majid, who had also come to study. A relationship developed between them and after three years they were married. She gave birth to a baby boy whom she decided to name Seti.

 

This marriage was the ticket to her beloved Egypt, where she became an English teacher.

 

In 1933 she visited Egypt for the first time with her husband and as soon as she landed in Port Said, she bent to the ground and drenched the pier with tears.

Later, her husband received an offer to work in Iraq, but she refused to leave her homeland, Egypt, and the couple divorced in 1935. Apparently, her husband took Seti's child with him, as all sources discussing her made no mention of a child.

In her unfinished autobiography, Dorothy recounted apparitions of the god Ra-Horahuti, who revealed to her that she was once an Egyptian woman named Bentreshit, (‘Harp of Joy’) whose father served in the army and whose mother worked as a vegetable merchant during the reign of King Seti I (1290-1279 BCE). After the death of her mother, her father could not bear the hardships of her upbringing and gave her to the temple of Abydos to work as a priestess in the service of the god.

At the age of 12, Bentreshit declared that she would become a dedicated virgin, but a few years later she met Pharaoh Seti I. They became lovers and Bentreshit became pregnant. Unfortunately, the fate of the lovers was not a happy one. The high priest of the temple told her that the situation was an offence to the gods and would cause a lot of problems for the pharaoh, so Bentreshit decided to commit suicide...

After her divorce, Dorothy moved to live in the Nazlat al-Samman neighborhood, near the pyramids of Giza. She painted a lot. Surprising many, she performed strange rituals in front of the pyramids.

During that period, the famous archaeologist Dr Salim Hassan (1868-1961), who was excavating in the Giza area, heard about her. He hired her as an artist in his archaeological team.

She thus became the first woman to work in the Department of Egyptian Antiquities. After completing her work with Dr Hassan's team, she went on to work for the archaeologist Dr Ahmed Fakhri, in the Dahshur region.

In 1956, she decided to answer the call of her soul and travelled to the south of Egypt, namely El Araba El Madfouna, a village near Abydos:She bluntly told the local archaeologists that this place was her home. Of course, they didn't believe her. So she asked them for some recently discovered, untranslated inscriptions and... she translated them easily, without a single mistake. This amazed them, and they called her an ‘eccentric lady’.

The amazement was not limited to her, Dorothy faced rejection from the village women who feared the effect of her beauty on their husbands. More than once they wanted to stone her, but she continued to insist that she was at home in her homeland. And here she would stay. Eventually, with the help of Dr Salim Hassan, she got a job at the Abydos temple, where she became known as Omm (Umm) Seti.

She built a house near the Pega Gorge. According to ancient beliefs, this gorge is where one of the portals to the Afterlife is located.

 

Omm Seti believed she had finally returned home.

Many scholars believed her stories, too. Her life in Abydos was full of co-operation with Egyptologists who, amazed by her knowledge of the area, asked for her help.

She knew the contents of the religious papyri before she even read them. Her descriptions of monuments, reliefs, and other things she had seen in her previous life were repeatedly confirmed by excavations. She also told other researchers what the prayers and rituals looked like. Edie had knowledge that was not available to specialists who had worked in Egypt for many years. Over the decades, Dorothy has inspired many researchers. Her stories of life and death during the time of Seti I have also touched many hearts. Many discoveries have been made based on her words.Every morning and evening she visited the temple to recite prayers. She even turned one of the temple's rooms into a private office where she did her work and befriended a cobra, which she fed regularly, to the constant alarm of the guards.

Omm Sethi has impressed Egyptologists with her knowledge of ancient Egypt. An archaeologist at the Institute of Oriental Studies commented that ‘she had visions and worshipped ancient Egyptian gods. But she understood the methods and standards of science, which is not usually the case with geeks.’

Dorothy Eadie died at the age of 81 and was buried in the Coptic cemetery in Abydos. She believed that death would allow her to be reunited with her lover. Even now, researchers are still trying to prove that she was a liar who somehow gained access to the latest literature and had excellent acting skills....

Omm Sethi may have appealed to many because of her past life story, but it was her achievements and knowledge in her current life that made her case for reincarnation one of the most convincing.

Whether you are skeptical or not, Omm Sethi's case is a remarkable example of reincarnation. She was highly respected in the upper echelons of the Egyptological community and demonstrated incredible knowledge where the source was not always clear.