EVANS, Jane

 
(Investigator 224, 2025 September)



The belief in reincarnation or life after death is one held by millions of people around the world. Evidence until comparatively recent times however has been hard to come by. Two outstanding claims, those of Bridey Murphy in 1953 and Jane Evans in 1976 seemingly provided convincing evidence that miraculous transmogrification can occur.
 
Born in 1939, Jane Evans had no more than the usual formal education and, of particular note, had not studied history. Using a technique called ‘regression’, a hypnotherapist by the name of Arnall Bloxham regressed Jane to no less than

Six past existences which she recalled in amazingly accurate and historically verifiable detail. The subject of a TV special introduced by Magnus Magnusson in 1976, there was little doubt left in the minds of millions of viewers of the genuineness of her revelations.

Among her past existences was one as a twelth-century jewess living in York at the time of the Jewish massacre. Although a known historical fact this particular episode in English history is rarely given a mention in history books. Professor Barrie Dobson, an expert on Jewish history at the University of York, confirmed that Mrs Evans’s story was in accordance with the known facts.
Her most convincing account however, was when she recalled being a maid in the household of Jacques Coeur, a wealthy and powerful fifteenth-century French merchant. She was able to fully describe the exteriors and interiors of his magnificent house and even the details of the carvings over the fireplace in the main banquet hall.

Jane Evans and what became known as the Bloxham Tapes, were also featured in a book by Jeffery Iverson in 1977. The 400 taped regressions by Arnall Bloxham with various subjects must constitute some of the most comprehensive and compelling arguments in favour of life after death.
 

Comment:

A comparison of known historical facts and those narrated by Jane Evans show considerable discrepancies. Many related and purported to be recollections of passed lives have been traced to books and novels read by Jane Evans - among them. The Living Doll by Louis De Wohi and C.B. Costains' The Moneyman. In the latter the author makes no mention of Coeur’s wife and children, the existence of whom a maid In that household could not have failed to know. Jane Evans however, did not.


See also Bridey Murphy.


Further reading:
 
Barber, T.X., Spanos, N.P., and Chaves, J.F. 1974. Hypnosis and Human Potentialities. Pergamon. New York.
 
Harris, Melvin. 1986. Investigating the Unexplained. Prometheus Books, Buffalo. New York.

Frazier, Kendrick. (Ed.) 1991. The Hundredth Monkey and Other Paradigms of the Paranormal. Prometheus Books, Buffalo, New York.


From: Edwards, H. 1994 Magic Minds Miraculous Moments, Harry Edwards Publications


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