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that she immediately dropped the child, who had to be removed from the museum kicking
and screaming...(The Search for Omm Sety: Reincarnation and Eternal Love, by Jona-
than Cott. Pages 12-13).

After this experience, Dorothy's parents undoubtedly realized that their daughter's accident
had affected her in some unknown and strange way.

Let's look at another case -- that of little Doris Fisher. Her story is to be found in the tran-
scripts of her conversations with Dr. Walter F. Prince, published in Volumes 9 and 10 of the Pro-
ceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research in 1915: "Doris' story began when she
was a three-year old girl and was torn out of her mother's arms by her drunken father and THROWN
FIERCELY TO THE FLOOR. From that time on Doris began to have a 'multiple personality.' Her
personalities were AT ODDS with each other; sometimes she was quiet and withdrawn, then sud-
denly she became outgoing, energetic, even mischievous..."

When her psychiatrist, Dr. Prince, died, she retreated into TOTAL LONELINESS AND
DESPAIR. She was plagued by VISIONS of hostile spirits and HORRIBLE NIGHTMARES until
she died insane in a sanitarium in 1935.

There is a definite similarity between these three people -- Ellen G. White was hit in the face
with a rock and started having "visions"; Dorothy Eady (Omm Sety) fell down the stairs and proba-
bly hit her head, shortly thereafter having "strange dreams" and nightmares; and Doris Fisher was
thrown to the floor with multiple personalities appearing almost immediately.

The Sheikhs of Egypt

What does this indicate?

At the age of 14 Dorothy Eady tried to get to the root cause of her recurring dreams and
nightmares, and consulted with SPIRITUALISTS about her perplexing feelings. The spiritualists
suggested that at the moment of her "death," when she fell down the stairs, an ancient SPIRIT possi-
bly ENTERED HER BODY AND POSSESSED HER. There are traditions of this in Egypt, which
Jonathan Cott mentions in The Search for Omm Sety:

From the point of view of the still existing traditional life of the Egyptian peasants and
villagers, there was NOTHING UNUSUAL about coming across people who were sup-
posed to be "possessed" by sheikhs who were said to live underneath the earth. "For in-
stance," W.S. Blackman writes in 'The Fellahin of Upper Egypt,' "I was told that a woman
coming after dark down the stairs which lead from the roof of a house to the ground floor,
and carrying no light with her, may become frightened AND FALL, IN WHICH CASE A
SHEIKH WILL COME INTO HER AT ONCE." (Page 219.)

Can we prove that these women -- including Ellen G. White -- experienced similar phenom-
enon in their lives and were, therefore, POSSESSED BY DEMONS? I believe we can. Let's start
with Mrs. White.

The Berean Voice November-December 2002