WEBVTT - S03 Episode 4 Extra: There's No Place Like Home 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:03.120 There's nothing better than feeling comfortable in your own shoes, 0:00:03.360 --> 0:00:05.200 and that doesn't mean flopping down on the count with 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:08.560 bunny slippers. Maybe you're a parent raising a little rock star, 0:00:08.960 --> 0:00:11.399 or a techno man working from anywhere and jumping from 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:14.400 one thing to the next. Whoever you are, All Bird 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:16.680 wants you to be comfortable in your actual shoes too. 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:19.640 Their wool runners, pipers, and loungers are designed for a 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:21.560 level of coziness that makes you feel like you can 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:24.759 do anything. You might even forget you're wearing them, and 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:27.280 their shoes are so stylish they go perfectly with a 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:31.280 wear whatever I want attitude. 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In last week's episode, from eternity to hear, 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:17.800 we ventured into Egypt's Valley of the Kings, where, in 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:21.440 nineteen twenty two, a team led by Howard Carter and 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:25.880 George Herbert, the fifth Earl of Carnarvon, uncovered the final 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:31.679 resting place of the long forgotten pharaoh tutank Armoun. The 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:36.360 apparent fatal consequences of their extraordinary find led many to 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:40.000 suspect their disturbing of the sacred tomb had in some 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:42.959 way released a curse on any who dared to come 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:46.759 near it, though there is little way of ever knowing 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:49.640 the truth of such a claim. What is little in 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:54.080 doubt was the impact that Carter's and Carnarvan's rediscovery had 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:59.800 on the public imagination. The find made Carter and Carnarvin 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:05.559 overnight celebrities, and with it a kind of Egyptomania took hold, 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:12.880 influencing everything from architecture and fashion to literature and cinema. 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:16.520 A perhaps less expected consequence was the spike in the 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:20.280 number of people suddenly claiming to be the reincarnated spirits 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:25.400 of ancient Egyptians, with spiritualism proving especially popular in the 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:29.160 twenties and thirties, so too was the practice of supposed 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:32.920 past life regression, with no end of people now claiming 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:35.799 to have lived a previous life, as the newly rediscovered 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:40.600 pharaoh Tutankhamun, or perhaps as the more widely known Pharaoh 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:45.920 Rameses the Second. There was one woman, however, who had 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:50.200 a rather different story to tell. Her incredible claim to 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:53.240 have once lived before in a long ago and distant 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:56.919 land was not only linked to a far more obscure name, 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:01.640 but had been claimed long before Carter and Carnarvan's find. 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:06.760 The story of the woman formerly known as Dorothy Edy 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:10.880 has been described by one New York Times reviewer as 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:14.720 one of the world's most intriguing and convincing modern case 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:28.960 histories of reincarnation. In nineteen o four, a baby later 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:33.560 christened Dorothy Edy was born in South London to parents 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:39.000 Mary and Reuben Edy, a young couple from Ireland. A 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:41.880 few years later, at the family home in black Heath, 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:45.240 a three year old Dorothy was playing at the top 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:48.640 of the stairs when she tripped and fell, hitting her 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:52.720 head on the floor. By the time her parents found her, 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:57.600 it was too late. A doctor was called immediately, who 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:01.160 arrived a short time later only to confirm the terrible 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:07.360 news their young daughter was dead, and so it was 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:11.280 with monumental surprise when the doctor returned to the young 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:14.600 girl's bedroom where he had left her a short time later, 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:18.839 to find her sitting up, awake and playing happily in bed. 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:25.080 Not long after, the young girl began exhibiting odd behavior, 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:29.520 talking with a peculiar accent and speaking of large column 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:33.520 buildings that she remembered and how she wanted to go home. 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:39.960 The following year, Dorothy's parents took her to the British Museum, where, 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:42.720 at the first sight of the Egyptian galleries, she is 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:45.520 said to have run to the nearest statue and kissed 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:50.440 its feet, declaring that she was finally home. Pointing to 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:55.120 one particular photo, a long, heavily eroded, flat topped structure 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:59.599 fronted by a grand colonnade, the four year old Dorothy 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:02.599 turned to her parents, stating that it was where she 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:06.520 used to live. The building was the Temple of Seti, 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:10.479 the First, a lesser known, though by no means insignificant, 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:15.840 New Kingdom pharaoh of the nineteenth dynasty. It was fair 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:18.919 to say the young Dorothee had certainly never heard of 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:25.760 him before. Dorothy's obsession would only intensify as she got older. 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:30.880 As a teenager, she began to experience intense and vivid 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:35.839 dreams of wandering through grand halls covered in ornate frescoes, 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:39.480 or stepping into the warmth of a bright desert sun. 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:45.440 At fifteen, in one night time reverie, she claimed to 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:48.279 have been visited by the mummified body of Seti the 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:53.640 First himself. In response to her increasingly bizarre claims and 0:05:53.760 --> 0:06:00.479 sleep disturbances, Dorothy's parents had her admitted to a psychiatric hospital. However, 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:04.200 doctors were unable to find anything clinically wrong with the 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:10.200 young woman. After leaving hospital, Edy remained more convinced than 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:13.919 ever that her spirit belonged in Egypt, and made it 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:19.760 her lifetime's ambition to move there. She began studying hieroglyphics 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:24.279 and collecting Egyptian antiquities. She took on a job working 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:27.800 for an Egyptian culture magazine, which advocated support for an 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:31.200 independent Egypt, which was governed by Britain at the time. 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:36.640 In her late twenties, Ed met an Egyptian student named 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:41.359 Imam Abdul mcguid, and in nineteen thirty one, much to 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:47.159 EDI's joy, the pair decided to relocate to Egypt. 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She herself 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:27.800 later adopted the name om Seti, meaning mother of Setti. 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:35.040 One morning, shortly after her son was born, Omsetti awoke 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:38.080 to find herself sitting at her desk, a pen in 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:40.760 her hand and reams of paper in front of her 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:46.120 covered in short fragments of hieroglyphic script. Later, she would 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:48.640 allege to have been visited in a dream by an 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:52.520 entity known as or Rah, who claimed responsibility for the 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:57.200 words she had apparently written. Over the next twelve months, 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:01.480 or Rah proceeded to dictate message to her, which she 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:05.480 would write out while in a trance state, eventually revealing 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:10.080 the story of her past. She had been known as 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:14.559 Ben Treshid, a young priestess of humble origins who had 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.560 been assigned to the Temple of Osiris in the small 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:22.240 town of com El Sultan. At a young age, she 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:26.240 had met and fallen in love with King Setti. The 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:31.040 pair had apparently become lovers, resulting in Ben Treshit becoming pregnant, 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:35.560 as was ever the case ben Tresciit was then said 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:38.680 to have borne the brunt of the scandal, being forced 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:43.640 to commit suicide rather than endure an inevitable public flagellation. 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:50.760 In nineteen thirty five, om Stti separated from her husband 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:55.160 and took a job working for renowned egyptologist Selim Hassan 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:59.240 at the Department of Antiquities, becoming the first woman ever 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:04.800 to work. It was said that when Omsetti first visited 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:08.800 the Temple of Seti in Abidos, she recognized it instantly, 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:13.439 and when tested by the Chief Inspector of Antiquities to 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:17.600 locate elements on the wall paintings inside, she was able 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:21.839 to do so perfectly, despite the fact that the paintings 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:25.839 had never been made public and it was pitch black inside. 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:32.559 Omsetti eventually moved to Abados, where she would remain until 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:37.640 her death in nineteen eighty one, never wavering in her 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:41.560 conviction that she had lived a previous life. Omsetti is 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:47.960 often dismissively described as an eccentric fantasist. 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