Imam Abd el-Meguid divorced Dorothy Eady in 1936 because of how she was acting. This didn’t bother her, though, because she was sure she was now living in her true home and would never return to England. Dorothy got a job with the Department of Antiquities to help support her son. She quickly showed how much she knew about ancient Egyptian history and culture.
People thought Eady was very strange, but she was a very skilled professional who was very good at studying and digging up ancient Egyptian artifacts. She could figure out a lot about how ancient Egyptians lived and assisted with excavations in ways that were very helpful and left other Egyptologists scratching their heads. She would say that she remembered something from a past life and give instructions like, “Dig here, I remember the ancient garden was here.” They would dig and find the remains of an ancient garden.
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Dorothy wrote in her journals, which were kept secret until after her death, about how the spirit of Pharaoh Sety I often visited her in her dreams. She said that when she was 14, a mummy had raped her. Over the years, Sety, or at least his astral body, his akh, visited her at night more and more often. Studies of other reincarnation stories often note that a royal lover is often involved in these affairs that seem to be very passionate. Dorothy usually wrote about her pharaoh factually, like “His Majesty drops in for a moment but couldn’t stay - he was hosting a banquet in Amenti (heaven).”
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Thanks to Dorothy Eady’s contributions in her field, her claims to remember a past life and her worship of ancient gods like Osiris didn’t bother her colleagues as much as they used to. Her knowledge of the dead civilization and the ruins where they used to live earned her the respect of her peers. They took full advantage of the many times when her “memory” helped them make important discoveries that logic couldn’t explain.
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Dorothy also organized the archaeological finds that she and others made in a way that made sense. She helped the Egyptian archaeologist Selim Hassan with his books while she worked with him. She started working for Professor Ahmed Fakhry at Dahshur in 1951.
Dorothy helped Fakhry explore the pyramid fields of the great Memphite Necropolis by giving him information and editing skills that were very helpful when making field notes and the final reports that were eventually printed. Dorothy went to the great temple at Abydos in 1952 and 1954. These trips proved to her that her long-held belief that she had been a priestess there in a past life was correct.
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In 1956, she was given a permanent job there after she asked to be transferred to Abydos. She said, “I had only one aim in life, and that was to go to Abydos, to live in Abydos, and to be buried in Abydos.” Dorothy was set to retire at age 60 in 1964, but she made a strong case to stay on the job for another five years.
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