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9-486: Flowerdew is a surname and given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname [ edit ] A. Flowerdew (1759–1830), English teacher, religious poet and hymnist Arthur Flowerdew (1906–2002), British engineer Bob Flowerdew , British organic gardener and television presenter Edward Flowerdew (d. 1586), English politician and judge Gordon Flowerdew (1885–1918), Canadian cavalry officer and recipient of

18-553: A fabric of deception on the scale of his memories—at least those he's reported to me. I don't think he's a fraud. I don't think he has the capacity to be a fraud on this scale. According to Sogyal Rinpoche's story, Flowerdew maintained he had never seen or heard of Petra before the BBC documentary and had never read any literature on the city. Many spiritual leaders, including Tibetan Buddhist lama Sogyal Rinpoche , believe that Flowerdew's experience offers highly suggestive evidence for

27-512: A stone city carved into a cliff, which were particularly strong when he played in the multicolored pebbles on a beach near his home. The clarity of his visions grew as he did. One day, as an adult, he watched a BBC documentary on the ancient city of Petra in Jordan and immediately recognized it as the city of his visions. He became convinced that he had lived a previous life in Petra and contacted

36-488: The BBC. They filmed and broadcast a short piece on Flowerdew, which the Jordanian government saw and was intrigued by. They offered to fly Flowerdew out to Petra to examine its remains and perhaps offer insights on analyzing the city. In The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying , Rinpoche claims that before Flowerdew left for Jordan, he was interviewed by an archaeological expert excavating Petra to test his knowledge of

45-738: The Victoria Cross Temperance Flowerdew (1590–1628), early settler of the Jamestown Colony of Virginia Given name [ edit ] Flowerdew Macindoe (1865–1932), Scottish rugby union player See also [ edit ] Flowerdew Hundred Plantation , in the United States [REDACTED] Name list This page or section lists people that share the same given name or the same family name . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to

54-495: The ancient city. He also claims Flowerdew described the city with astounding accuracy and pointed out three landmarks prominent in his memory, as well as going directly to these landmarks upon his arrival at Petra (including his purported place of murder), explained a very plausible use for a device whose explanation had baffled archaeologists, and even correctly identified the locations of many landmarks that had yet to be excavated. Many experts said that Flowerdew had more knowledge of

63-436: The city than many professionals studying it, and they did not believe him to be an incredible con man (a feat which, in this case, they felt would have taken extraordinary skill). The archeological expert on Petra who accompanied Flowerdew to Jordan said, He's filled in details and a lot of it is very consistent with known archeological and historical facts and it would require a mind very different from his to be able to sustain

72-586: The existence of rebirth or reincarnation . Mircea Eliade may have used Flowerdew's experience as the basis of his 1976 novel " Youth without Youth ", which was adapted into a film in 2007 by Francis Ford Coppola . He died at James Paget University Hospital in Gorleston-on-Sea , Norfolk. Tibetan Buddhist Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include

81-450: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Flowerdew&oldid=1205646880 " Categories : Given names Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Arthur Flowerdew Arthur Flowerdew was born on 1 December 1906. From his adolescence, Flowerdew experienced strange visions of

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