Career
In her book Across Time and Death, Cockell discusses her past life memories of life as Mary Sutton in early-20th century Ireland. In 2000, Columbia Broadcasting System aired Yesterday"s Children, which was a made-for-television movie adaptation of Cockell"s book, with Jane Seymour in the title role. Foreign the television movie, however, Jenny Cockell was referred to as "Jenny Cole," and the story was slightly rewritten with Jenny Cole being an American as opposed to British citizen.
Cockell is also the author of Past Lives, Future Lives, in which she discussed her visions of what she believes will be her future lives, among these a girl, Nadja in Nepal around 2050.
Cockell also claims to possess psychic abilities such as psychometry (object reading) and precognitive dreams. Similarly, the village’s name and even its location were a mystery.
Cockell was ignorant of dates as well, including Mary's birth date or even the year of her birth. And so on and on." Nickell noted that Cockell had a tendency to fantasize and the evidence suggests her past life memories under hypnosis were not memories but the product of her imagination.
