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Edgar Cayce - The Story

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  Edgar Cayce

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The Story

The story of Edgar Cayce properly belongs in the history of hypnosis. Cayce

had the uncanny ability of putting himself asleep at will and speaking in an

authoritative voice on subjects far beyond the range of his normal knowledge.

He was not even an avid reader of books. All he needed was the subject to be

discussed, or the inquiring person's name, address, and whereabouts, a

conductor to make suggestions and ask the questions, and a stenographer to

take it all down. Almost every day for forty-two years he went to sleep and

answered questions covering an immense range of subject matter. He could

do this at any time, any place. There were no darkened rooms, turbans,

incense, crystal balls, or paying audiences.

The Cayce records are unique. Twenty million words from an unconscious

mind is not a commonplace. If they can be believed, new frontiers wait to be

explored. Clairvoyance, clairaudience, dreams, hypnotism, point the way to

a better understanding of the history and depth of the human mind and soul.

A challenging field lies before man in his search for truth and the meaning of

human existence in earth.

Cayce was born on a farm near Hopkinsville, Kentucky, in 1877. A poor

student, he received no more than a grammar school education, and eventually

took up photography as a trade. His psychic powers were accidentally

discovered in 1901, when he was twenty-four. He caught a cold and suddenly

lost his voice. After a year of numerous and unsuccessful medical treatments,

he became resigned to a life of rasping whispers.

About this time hypnotism was enjoying a fad throughout the country, and a

friend suggested that he try it as a means of helping his condition. Cayce was

willing to try anything that might cure his throat. A local hypnotist offered his

services, and Edgar readily accepted. He insisted, however, that he put

himself to sleep, with the friend making the suggestions after he was "under".

The experiment proved to be more than successful. Cayce went into a deep

trance and described the condition in his vocal cords, advising, strangely

enough, what to do for it. The advice was followed by the hypnotist - that

of suggesting the blood circulation increase to the affected area - and when

Cayce awakened he had regained his normal speaking voice. After a

number of follow-up sessions, the cure turned out to be a permanent one.

In most of the cases that were presented to him, the celebrated psychic never

met the persons making the requests. They were received through the mail;

the recipients of the readings were usually hundreds of miles away. Lying on

the couch with his necktie and shoelaces loosened - for better circulation, the

readings said - he could answer any question put to him. His wife, Gertrude,

usually made the suggestions and asked the questions, while his lifelong secretary,

Gladys Davis, took everything down in shorthand. After a while, the sleeping

Cayce would start to mumble, as though searching for something. Then he

would clear his throat and speak in a firm, authoritative voice. "Yes, we have

the body," he would begin, and then go into a half-hour discussion of the

physical condition of the person who was ill.

But in 1923 a startling new kind of reading was discovered. Cayce was

operating a photographic studio in Selma, Alabama, when one day he met

Arthur Lammers, a well-to-do printer.His hobby was metaphysical philosophy,

and what he wanted to know was far beyond the range of Edgar's normal

thinking.

"What is the meaning of life?" he asked. "What is the real nature of man?

What is the meaning of birth and death? Why are we here? Cayce accepted

Mr. Lammers offer to explain these mysteries through his powers of hypnosis.

What followed was the beginning of the metaphysical thought that emerged

from 2,500 "Life" readings, as distinguished from the "Physical" readings he

had previously been giving.

For Cayce, this was the beginning of another period of tortuous self-doubt.

Brought up in an atmosphere of strict, orthodox, Protestant Christianity, he

was uninformed on the other great religions of the world and their similarities

with his own. What the readings now said seemed foreign to everything he had

been taught and had been teaching in his Sunday school classes for many years.

The essential principles of the great religions, said the readings, were

nevertheless all the same - they were only clothed in different garments.

Eventually, somebody thought to ask the sleeping Cayce where he was getting

his information. He gave two sources his mind apparently succeeded in tapping.

One was the unconscious or subconscious mind of the subject himself; the

other was what was called the universal memory of nature, Jung's Collective

Unconscious, or the Akashic Records. This is the "Recording Angel", or the

"Book of Life".

Say the Cayce records: "Edgar Cayce's mind is amendable to suggestion, the

same as all other subconscious minds; but in addition thereto, it has the power

to interpret to the objective mind of others what it acquires from the

subconscious minds of other individuals of the same kind. The subconscious

forgets nothing. The conscious mind receives the impressions from without and

transfers all thought to the subconscious, where it remains even though the

conscious be destroyed" as in death.

This is a new idea. If it is true, then Cayce's mind was able to tap the mass of

knowledge possessed by millions of other subconscious minds, including those

who have passed over to the spiritual, cosmic realms in death. This would be

an almost unlimited source of wisdom, since it was universal and Cayce was

unhindered by time and space. Upon this "Akashic record" is supposedly

registered every sound, every thought, every vibration since the beginning of

time. Cayce, then was no "medium". When this idea first appeared in a

reading, few, including Cayce, could believe it. Science knew nothing of any

such etheric substance.

A stroke confined him to bed. Now 67, he never recovered. His last reading,

given for himself, was not followed by the doctors in charge. On January 3rd,

1945, Edgar Cayce passed over to the other side. No man ever left the world

a stranger legacy.

Prophecies

All of us, like the prodigal son, are spiritual beings who have come from the

Father, have gone astray of our own choice and are on a journey of return.

Each of us is a pilgrim on the spiritual path. As spiritual beings, we not only

existed before our entry into the earth plane, but we were, in previous times,

able to move through many dimensions and planes. Although our present

assignment seems to be on the earth in a three-dimensional existence, the cycle

of the undeveloped soul's experience relates more to the entire solar system,

not just in the earth plane. The planets, the sun and moon, and the dimensions

of existence they reside in, have an important influence on man's spiritual

development as taught by the ancient religious science of astrology, such as

practiced by the Magi, the Wise Men of the Bible. They discovered the time

of the birth of Christ by studying the position of the stars. These other

dimensions may often be experienced by souls between earth lives, in dreams,

through meditation or hypnosis.

As for the future of mankind, shortly after the year 2000 A.D., Christ will

manifest himself to the world once again to usher in a new era, a one thousand

year period of world peace and righteousness, the age of Aquarius (the water-

-bearer). The end of the Age of Pisces (the fish, the symbol for the Christian

church) is upon us. But before peace and righteousness comes, the earth will

undergo catastrophic disasters upon civilization. These disasters will force

mankind to once again rely on nature, God, and other people to create harmony

and stop all war, evilness, and end the continuing desecration of this planet.

As in the days of the dinosaurs, the days of Atlantis, and the days of Noah,

civilization also experiences a process of evolutionary renewal from time to time

that leads to perfection. The earth has a mind of its own and it cleanses itself

of impurities as a single organism does.

Each soul came to earth not by chance, but through the grace, the mercy, of a

loving Father; that the soul may, through its own choice, work out those faults

which prevent its communion and at-onement with God.

- Excerpt from documents published by David Sunfellow y G. Scallion -

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