EXCLUSIVE: 'I was burnt at the stake - but my past-life flashbacks show I'm here for one reason'
Alexandra Wenman has had terrifying visions of her past lives since she was a teenager, but she says seeing her grisly deaths throughout history have helped her heal
It was 4am and Alexandra Wenman was in a B&B high up in the mountains of Cusco, Peru, 11,000 feet above sea level. Since arriving the day before, she had been suffering from altitude sickness, feeling dizzy and nauseous. “I woke up in the early hours feeling terrible and I searched in my bag for my rainbow obsidian. I carry crystals everywhere,” says Alexandra, 47, from Tottenham, north London.
“I’d brought this crystal because it’s a grounding stone, it pulls you back to earth. I knew that being high up the altitude would affect me, and my long-standing fear of heights would surface too.” Holding the crystal, Alexandra hoped its healing properties would reduce her nausea. However, within seconds of touching the stone Alexandra experienced a terrifying past-life flashback.
“I saw myself in the Inca city of Machu Picchu and I was being punished for stealing grain. My hands were brutally hacked off by guards, then I was put into a net and lowered over a cliff,” says Alexandra. “The vision was like a memory but stronger, I was re-living the moment. I could smell the earth and feel the intense pain. As I hung over the cliff, I saw myself trying to grab the rock face with my bleeding stumps. Then I fell to my death.”
The vision ended, but Alexandra instinctively understood that her long-standing fear of heights had come from this past life. “The following day, I visited Machu Picchu and explored the ruins. It didn’t take me long to find the spot on a path, near the cliff edge, where I’d fallen to my death centuries before. I quietly said words of forgiveness for my killers and for myself. My altitude sickness vanished and my fear of heights eased, since this experience in 2016 my phobia hasn’t returned.”
Although this past-life holiday experience was spontaneous, it wasn’t Alexandra’s first encounter with the spirit world. As a four-year-old she saw faces and angelic lights, and within a few years she could sense people’s emotions. “My mother Barbara, a nurse, and my father John, a doctor, were practical people but they supported my gifts. My mother comes from a long line of psychics,” says Alexandra, author of Archangel Alchemy Healing.
As a child, her life-long belief in their power and ability to help her commune with the ‘other side’ began. She also learned that each crystal is believed to be linked with different traits, for instance rose quartz promotes love and compassion and orange selenite boosts creativity. “When I was 12 I bought my first two crystals, a rose quartz and an amethyst. I carried the stones everywhere and slept with them under my pillow. The crystals felt alive, and like friends. I was bullied at school but once I had the crystals this calmed down, they protected me,” she says.
She says that she learned instinctively by sitting with them in her hand how to “listen” to crystals. “I discovered the messages can come in various ways. I sense the information as a ‘knowing’ or I’ve flashes of events, like in Peru, or hear words.” Her first past life vision hit her when she was 14. “My mum had taken me to the Crystal Castle, in Byron Bay, near where I grew up in Australia, it’s home to some of the world’s biggest crystals set in beautiful gardens.
“As soon as I was out of the car, I spotted a rose quartz obelisk, taller than me. I felt the stone calling and ran over and put my arms around its middle. The crystal gave me flashes of a past life as a female aboriginal elder. It was a powerful moment, I understood that crystals are record keepers.”
Crystals such as quartz can be used as a component in technology, such as GPS, as they produce stable frequencies. Alexandra believes that people can also benefit from those technologies, and offers her services as a crystal healer. “Crystals emit vibrations and produce waves of positive energy,” she says. “As humans, we can link with this energy field. I use a large clear quartz, my master stone, to connect with a client’s energy.
People see me for problems ranging from depression to back pain, often the issue is past-life based. One 40-year-old woman wanted help because she had a fear of being lonely, yet couldn’t maintain a relationship. “Tuning in with my master stone, I saw three past lives where she was kidnapped and taken away from loved ones, which explained her fear.” Alexandra suggested her client place a strawberry quartz in her bath to strengthen self-love and help reconnect to others. The woman later found love and married.
“I’m never shocked by the past lives that surface for my clients or now when I’m travelling,” says Alexandra. “Since Peru, I’ve experienced flashbacks whilst visiting France, Ibiza, Brazil, Bali, Australia, Guatemala, and Thailand. “In Carcassonne, France, in 2017, I experienced a flashback of being burnt alive at the stake for being a heretic. Then while on holiday in Ibiza, in 2018, I was meditating on the beach with a clear quartz crystal when I saw myself as a young girl killed by an invader on the same beach.
“In Thailand, in 2023, I was leading a retreat when I had a flashback to a peaceful life as a fisherman. Plus, in Avebury, in 2024, I visited the stone circle and had a vision of myself centuries ago with a group of women bringing healing to the earth. I think the combination of being in a place connected to my past and my powerful crystals creates a link across the centuries,” says Alexandra. “Often, my experience leads to my own healing, afterwards I feel calm and like a weight’s been lifted.”
However, one of Alexandra’s past lives stands out. In 2024, she visited Egypt and spent time at various temples and the Great Pyramids, in Cairo. “As I stood amongst the towering pyramids holding a lapis lazuli, a stone sacred to the ancient Egyptians, I saw myself as an elderly high priestess at the temple of Dendera, on the west bank of the Nile.
“I knew it was my time to die and I had the power to choose when to leave this earth. I watched myself enter the temple and lay down on a stone altar. I saw myself close my eyes, my spirit leave my body then brilliant white lights, beings from the afterlife.” Suddenly, Alexandra was back in the modern world surrounded by the pyramids with tears streaming down her face. “The powerful experience was a validation that in this life I’m continuing my destiny and I’m helping to heal people.”
For more information, visit alexandrawenman.com; her book Archangel Alchemy Healing (Findhorn Press), £17.99, is out now
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