Omm Sety's Egypt: A Story of Ancient Mysteries, Secret Lives, and the Lost History of the Pharaohs Paperback – December 8, 2006

I had read a few things about Om Sety and chose this book about her as the author, Hanny El Zeini, knew her. A fascinating story that leaves you wondering about Dorothy Eady/Om Sety. What I found most poignant was not, assuming it is true, the love affair that cost her life in ancient Egypt, but her inability to live in the now and make a life with her husband and son. She was so obsessed with the past even her son took a back seat to her obsessions. The book did not glamorize anything, it seemed a straightforward account. A good read and I enjoyed the book.

What a wonderful story! I've always been amazed at this woman's tale. Intriguing. If you're a believer in reincarnation, this book is a must read. If you're on the edge, it will convince you. You won't be sorry!

I guess the main points and time periods in this book are:1. Dorothy Eady (a.k.a. Omm Sety) developed an intense and passionate interest in ancient Egypt beginning as a young child when she fell down some stairs and suffered a head injury.2. She began studying about ancient Egypt and worked with some famous Egyptologists including E. A. Wallace Budge. She became a renowned expert about ancient Egypt.3. Somewhere along the way a supernatural, non human entity began appearing to Dorothy. Evenually this entity began taking on a physical form and he and Dorothy started interacting in a physical way including intimately. Dorothy believed this mysterious entity was a long dead Egyptian pharaoh named Seti I and she had fallen in love with this guy many thousands of years ago in Egypt. These mysterious visitations continued throughout Dorothy's entire life. Author Hanny el Zeini completely believed in these mysterious visitations and actually gave Dorothy questions to ask her mysterious friend who sometimes took Dorothy up to the realm of Amenti.4. Dorothy's longing to live at a place called Abydos in Egypt influenced and consumed her entire life. Dorothy was directly involved in restoring at least one ancient temple at Abydos which transformed Abydos into a popular tourist attraction.For me the gold standard for these types of revelations is Edgar Cayce.Edgar was I believe the reincarnation of the great Osiris himself.Author Hanny ek Zeini includes a short chapter about Edgar Cayce in the book.Edgar Cayce provided a completely alternative explanation for the origins of the mysterious ancient Egyptian civilization which is much different than the conventional views.One of the main differences is Edgar said the monuments at Giza were created way back in 10,500 BC when Atlantis went down.Edgar said he himself as the Atlantean priest Ra Ta, Thoth, Horus, Isis, and others from Atlantis went to Egypt to create the monuments at Giza because they knew Atlantis was going down.It took those gods and goddesses 100 years to create the monuments at Giza.People today now realize that the Great Pyramid Of Giza was at one time a working machine like a sort of power plant. This is a form of science that apparently originated on Atlantis.And that was only one of the functions of the Great Pyramid.As I recall Edgar said the Egyptian god Thoth was Christ in His Egyptian form. Thoth was the main architect for the Great Pyramid and Horus provided the sacred geometry for building the pyramid.Indeed the most accurate term to describe Edgar Cayce is he was a Christian mystic.Some of the things Dorothy's mysterious boyfriend said don't match up with the Edgar Cayce material. The boyfriend was supposedly some sort of supernatural being but yet he would use words like 'perhaps' when talking about the pyramids and other things which doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. It was like he was just walking in off the street and talking to Dorothy.So I'm not sure what to make about all this.Even so the author was very knowledgeable about ancient Egyptian history and mythology as was Dorothy herself.This book should be very engaging for people who are interested in these types of subjects, regardless of what they believe about the supernatural stuff.Edgar Cayce BooksAtlantis[Paperback – March 1, 2010]by Edgar CayceEgyptian Heritage[Paperback]by Mark LehnerEdgar Cayce's Egypt:Psychic Revelations on the Most Fascinating Civilization Ever Known[Paperback – January 30, 2005]by Edgar Cayce, A. R. E. Press (Editor)The Lives of Edgar Cayce[Paperback – August 1, 1995]by W. H. ChurchInitiation Rites / Past Life Memories Of EgyptInitiation[Paperback – July 28, 2000]by Elisabeth HaichInitiation in the Great Pyramid[Paperback – November 1, 1987]by Earlyne ChaneyGiza Power PlantThe Giza Power Plant:Technologies of Ancient Egypt[Paperback – August 1, 1998]by Christopher DunnAlien AbductionsSecret Life:Firsthand, Documented Accounts of Ufo Abductions[Paperback – April 16, 1993]by David M. JacobsHair of the Alien:DNA and Other Forensic Evidence of Alien Abductions[Paperback – July 19, 2005]by Bill ChalkerChildren Of The Greys[Paperback – April 12, 2013]by Bret Oldham

It took me three or four tries to get into this book, but once I got going, I found it fascinating.Omm Sety was born Dorothy Eady. She was an Englishwoman born in 1904 to relatively normal, middle class parents. When she was a child, she had an accident, and the doctor who was summoned declared her dead...which made everyone all the more surprised an hour later when she opened her eyes.The author of the book, Hanny el Zeini – an Egyptian chemist (of all things) who was a good friend of Omm Sety's and had an interest in ancient Egyptian history – even points out the obvious conclusion: that the doctor was wrong. Maybe his examination was too cursory, or maybe his stethoscope didn't work properly, or whatever. That's likely what Omm Sety's family believed, except for the fact that after her “miraculous” recovery, she turned a bit...odd. (Which I suppose is like saying the sun is a bit warm.) This very young girl was completely convinced that she could remember a temple that not only had no one she knew ever visited, but that no longer even existed except as a ruin.Anyway, thus began Omm Sety's lifelong fascination with ancient Egypt, so after spending her childhood learning from an Egyptologist friend, she married an Egyptian man, moved to Egypt, took an Egyptian name, and spent the rest of her life quite literally living the dream she had as a concussed toddler. Her unusual experiences didn't end with her childhood, either. She spent a lifetime receiving otherworldly visitors...including her long-dead Egyptian lover.I am not a mystical person. I believe in science and logic. I believe that numbers always add up the same way, and I believe in following the rules. I am agnostic, and I lean more toward atheism than theism. I am a great lover of fantasy fiction and video games, so it's not that I don't *want* to believe in magic or ghosts or past lives, it's that I'm simply not equipped to. I'll be the first to admit that I don't know everything about this sometimes-mysterious world we inhabit, and neither do I think humanity as a whole has even scratched the surface of all there is to know...but I have to say, I'm very skeptical about all of this.And so I spent much of this book entertained but still convinced Omm Sety was off her nut. But, assuming the book doesn't contain flat-out lies, there were enough inexplicable goings on that my doubt came to the fore, and I almost convinced myself more than once that this lady really did have a window into the past. I can say this much: should future investigations prove some of her theories correct, I'll be thrilled. Which isn't to say that I'd necessarily believe she'd had a past life as a priestess, but it would go along way toward convincing me that, wherever her knowledge came from, there was more to her than met the eye.Well, regardless of whether you think she was a total crank or the reincarnated spirit of 19th Dynasty priestess Bentreshyt, she WAS incredibly knowledgeable on the subject of ancient Egypt and one cannot say she didn't put her money where her mouth was, given that she chose to live in abject poverty so as to be closer to her temple and her work. If Egypt is a subject that interests you, well...biographies on the topic really don't get more unusual or interesting than this, you know? No matter what the truth is, I'm very glad to have read it.

I first heard about Om Sety when I visited the temple of Sety at Abydos. I only just read this book about her. It's a wonderful story. At first I was skeptical about the whole thing. However the story is written by a man who knew her for years and who seems to be a sensible and well informed person. He and his family had become her close friends. The book is beautifully written and describes Oom Sety's life and love very touchingly. I recommend it.

I simply couldn't put this book down. I remember seeing Omm Sety on a BBC program when I was a kid and thought that there wasn't anyone in the world that I wanted to meet other than her. Sadly, she passed away long before I was ever able to go to Egypt, but this book told me so much about her and her utterly fascinating life. Enjoyed the book so much that I bought a second copy for a former coworker to read as he was convalescing after surgery, and his opinion mirrored mine.