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The Gazette
7th July 2005

157 years ago I lived in Arizona. Or did I?

By Henry Ellis

It is not every day that someone calmly tells you over a cup of tea in their front room that the world is going to end in seven years' time.But 38-year-old mother-of-two Amanda Hart seems quite calm as she talks to me at her home in Hertfordshire. Amanda is a spiritual healer, or an intuitive, which in lay terms, is a medium with clairvoyant powers. She offered to attempt a regression - to take me back to my past life.

Let's get spiritual: Amanda Hart takes a transfixed Henry Ellis back in time

Perhaps she has some of the zeal of being faced with her latest guinea pig, but far from being off with the fairies, her talk of angel guides from this and other planets is strangely compelling - even to a devout sceptic. Amanda believes that she has a higher purpose in life and thinks she can make a difference to people's lives. She believes she was guided to Potters Bar to help with the aftermath of the rail disaster in 2002, even though she was not aware of her path at that time.

She told me "It was an accident waiting to happen. The Chinese believe that a railway line divides a community and Potters Bar is divided into two halves; people who are driven by money and those who are very spiritual people. "My spirit guides have told me that my purpose in this life is to get a message out to the media. That's the reason that you have been sent to me. Everything happens for a reason and you will probably find that you have been chosen because you have reached an important stage in your own life."

"Everyone is born with the instinctive ability to be able to contact their spirit guides but we are conditioned by life and society to forget these things."

Just before we began the regression, Amanda told me that she could see angels flying around my head, which was disturbing but I was determined to keep an open mind.

Let's get spiritual: Amanda Hart takes a transfixed Henry Ellis back in time

Amanda knew she had heightened spiritual powers as a child but only began to take it seriously 18 months ago after her marriage broke down.She has since travelled to Egypt and other parts of the world talking to like-minded people and honing her skills. She is also working with Dr Keith Hearne, whose Lucid Dream Machine is featured in an exhibition at the Science Museum. The pair are in talks with television producers about a series looking into the paranormal.

Amanda has built a temple in an upstairs room, complete with holistic equipment, wind chimes and talismans. Apart from these, the room is simple, with a chair and a couch.

And so began the strangest and most unsettling of journeys, which took me to the plains of Arizona in 1848 and the sad life of Sarah, a 14-year-old crippled farm hand.

Regression was a little bit like a mild hypnosis, but I was completely conscious throughout the whole process. First, Amanda told me to visualise a tranquil place by a stream and walked me through the different colours. The sensation is hard to describe. I could not see the scene she described but I was aware of it.

Next, she told me to remember an incident from the previous week and finally to a time before I was born. She asked me to describe what I saw - and hazy images of a wooden slide and a deep well floated into view. The term panning also came to mind. I was able to tell Amanda my name, that my parents were dead and that I was in Arizona, America. I cannot explain my answers but they came very naturally.

I could remember that her questions were annoying, because the answers seemed obvious. The images were not vivid and I was not in a dream-like state. It was not uncomfortable but, driving back to the office, I was a little confused. Unfortunately, I did not mention Sarah's surname, but I sensed that she was part of a religious community and a quick search on Google threw up web sites linking the Amish with gold and gemstones prospecting last century.

A tenuous link, you might say, but I have no idea what made me give the year as 1848 or what made me think of Arizona. I would have been a lot more suspicious if I had been someone more exciting, like an Egyptian Pharaoh or a wealthy merchant. The jury is out on whether I believe Amanda's unusual take on life or how much of the experience can be put down to suggestion, but the regression certainly gave me food for thought.

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