The Edgar Cayce's Readings

Author and filmmaker Sydney Kirkpatrick discussed his research into the American prophet Edgar Cayce. He had exclusive access to Cayce’s personal papers and trance readings, including the names of people who received readings, such as George Gershwin, Gloria Swanson, Tesla and Edison. Cayce provided thousands of readings in a trance state– his sources varied, but they included deceased spirits and angelic beings, Kirkpatrick detailed.

Many of his medical readings turned out to have great accuracy– Kirkpatrick described the case of a boy whose life was saved at the last minute by following Cayce’s recommendation of taking belladonna. His health readings of individuals often contained additional information related to such topics as science, Atlantis, and earth changes. The Atlanteans suffered three cataclysms, brought about by their own technology, he noted.

Cayce said life does exist on other planets, but we wouldn’t recognize it as life as we understand it.He spoke of an antigravity device that uses rotating magnetic discs, and described how to make a “Stansell” motor– a perpetual motion machine.During a 1934 reading, he predicted a time when the western portion of the United States would be broken off, and there’d be a pole shift. He cited the name of John Peniel (a reincarnation of John the Apostle), as being a person who’d be around at this time to usher in the changes. Some have claimed that the author Jon Peniel could be this person.

Biography:

Kirkpatrick’s book, Edgar Cayce, An American Prophet, is the definitive biography of Edgar Cayce, who is best known as “the sleeping prophet.” During Cayce’s forty-year career as a psychic he advised housewives, corporate executives and hundreds of others –among them Thomas Edison, Harry Houdini, George Gershwin, and Woodrow Wilson. The ground-breaking insights Cayce provided on natural medicines, reincarnation, prophecies, dreams, and the healing power of the human body has spawned entire industries, and became an inspiration to such people as Albert Einstein, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, and John Lennon.

Wikipedia
Edgar Cayce (/ˈkeɪsiː/; March 18, 1877 — January 3, 1945) was an American psychic who allegedly possessed the ability to answer questions on subjects such as healing and wars, and even had visions of the world ending.[citation needed] He also gave a reading about Atlantis while in a hypnotic trance. Cayce founded a nonprofit organization, the Association for Research and Enlightenment. Though Cayce himself was a devout member of the Disciples of Christ and lived before the emergence of the New Age Movement, some believe he was actually the founder of the movement and influenced its teachings.

Cayce became a celebrity toward the end of his life and he believed the publicity given to his prophecies overshadowed the more important parts of his work, such as healing the sick and studying religion. Skeptics challenge Cayce’s alleged psychic abilities and traditional Christians also question his unorthodox answers on religious matters such as reincarnation and Akashic records. However others accept his abilities as “God-given”

Other abilities that have been attributed to Cayce include astral projection, prophesying, mediumship, viewing the Akashic Records or “Book of Life”, and seeing auras. Cayce said he became interested in learning more about these subjects after he was informed about the content of his readings, which he reported that he never actually heard himself.

Controversy and criticism

Cayce had advocated some controversial and eccentric ideas from his trance readings. In many of Cayce’s trance sessions he had reinterpreted the history of life on earth. One of Cayce’s controversial claims was that of polygenism. According to Cayce, five human races (white, black, red, brown and yellow), had been created separately but simultaneously on different parts of the earth. Cayce also accepted the existence of Atlantis and had claimed that “the red race developed in Atlantis and its development was rapid”. Another claim by Cayce was that “soul-entities” on earth had intercourse with animals to produce giants which were as much as twelve feet tall.

Olav Hammer wrote that many of Cayce’s readings discussed race and skin color and that the explanation for this is that Cayce was not a racist but was influenced by the occult ideas of Madame Blavatsky. Robert Todd Carroll, in his book The Skeptic’s Dictionary wrote that “Cayce is one of the main people responsible for some of the sillier notions about Atlantis.” Carroll mentioned some of Cayce’s notions, which included his belief in a giant crystal ball used to power energy on Atlantis and his prediction that in 1958 the United States would discover a death ray which had been used on Atlantis