The Bloxham Tapes

In the 1970sWelsh hypnotherapist Arnall Bloxham hypnotised clients over a 20 year period and recorded over 400 tape recordings of what would appear to be the life and times of his client’s previous lives. Detailed records and cross references from some of these tapes have been verified as factual information that would appear to prove the existence of reincarnation as the truth.

One of his most high-profile cases is that of Jane Evans. Her past life regressions with Bloxham began 1971. over a period of time six of her past life memories were uncovered.

The lives that had been uncovered during the regression was as a Jew who was massacred in the 12th century in York; as a tutor's wife in Roman times; as the servant of a French medieval merchant prince; as a maid of honour to Catherine of Aragon; as a poor servant in London during the reign of Queen Anne; and as a nun in nineteenth-century America.

In 1975 Jane Evans and Arnall Bloxham were approached by BBC television producer, Jeffery Iverson and asked if they would be willing to undergo a regression again but this time in front of a BBC camera and tape recorder. ( Jeffery Iverson, “More Lives Than One”) Following the regression Iverson researched the details that Jane had given  and later verified that the details given were indeed appeared to be founded on fact and that Bloxhams work significantly supported the concept of reincarnation. A BBC documentary film called the Bloxham Tapes was produced based on the materials researched.

While under hypnosis Jane gave a detailed description of her life as a Jew and the 1190 massacre. She described how she had been, as a Jew, forced to wear a badge to identify her as such. She gave much detail about anti-infidel feeling leading up to the third crusade. She referred to Henry II as a protector of Jews. She also said that during the time of the massacre of the Jewish people by the locals townsfolk she had been forced to hid in a crypt in a church outside the castle in York. They were found by the mob and that is where she was to die in that lifetime.

An expert on Jewish history from York University, Professor  Dobson,  was called in to check the information from her memories. He found that her description of 12th century Jewish life was indeed impressively accurately and that some of the details would only be known to professional historians. It did appear at first though that some of the details where inaccurate.

It was not until the 13th century that the Church authorities decreed that the Jews. Further investigations revealed that the practice of making Jews wear identification was already in force in England during the 12th Century long before the official church decree.

By the description that Jane gave of the church that she hid in it was believed that the church would have most probably have been St Mary’s, Castlegate but it did not have a crypt.

Then a few months later and quiet by coincidence, workmen who had been working at St Mary’s on a renovation project uncovered a crypt below the floor.