Edgar Cayce on Atlantis

by Edgar Evans Cayce, Hugh Lynn Cayce (Editor)

Drawing on his readings, and placed within the context of reincarnation, Edgar Cayce offers evidence of the civilisation of Atlantis - showing how its achievements and failures directly relate to the conflict and confusion of today.

Genres: Spirituality, Nonfiction, New Age, Philosophy, Metaphysics, Occult, Mythology

176 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1968

About the author

The origins of life, in the metaphysical sense, began with the creation of the celestial beings. According to Edgar Cayce’s readings of the Akashic Record, first came the Son, the Logos, or the Word -- as indicated in John’s Gospel: “In the beginning was the Word; and the Word was with God and the Word was God.” Out of the Word or this central primordial expression of life, all else was created. Again in John’s Gospel: “All things were made through this One.” In Cayce’s readings: “We have first the Son, then the other sons or celestial beings that are given their force and power.” Evil and the forces of what humanity has called the Devil developed as a result of rebellion against the flow of creation, the harmony of the original ideal that all life was to follow. Cayce puts it this way (note: the emphasis and parentheses are Cayce’s)
Edgar Cayce has been called the "sleeping prophet," the "father of holistic medicine," and the most documented psychic of the 20th century. For more than 40 years of his adult life, Cayce gave psychic "readings" to thousands of seekers while in an unconscious state, diagnosing illnesses and revealing lives lived in the past and prophecies yet to come.

Reviews

[Jessi · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read a first edition (published mid sixties?) of this book,... many of the "speculations" surrounding this material are continually being verified or confirmed...Intuitively, most of us realize that what's taught in the history books at school is BS, and this is a whole new can of worms... Where did humanity come from and what are we doing here?! A question that all major religions tackle and that science tries to "rationalize" to the point of obliterating all possibility in favor of what's acceptable "on the books" of academic record... Accounting for the extremely high accuracy and success rate of Cayce's medical intutive readings, and the number of things in his files that have "come true" to light over the years, the possibilities within this book are well worth examining...

[Natacha Pavlov · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fascinating!! This book briefly covers readings given by Edgar Cayce--America's greatest psychic--on entities having previously existed in the lost land known as Atlantis.

According to Cayce, there were 2 phases that led to the destruction of Atlantis. The readings state that many of its inhabitants--being warned of the impending doom--emmigrated to Egypt, the Pyrenees (Portugal, Spain and France) as well as to the Yucatan/Central and Southern American continents. Cayce also believed that many Atlantean entities were being reincarnated through people living in the United States, keeping in mind these were readings given in the 1920's for a span of 21 years. Comparisons were drawn between the technologically-advanced Atlantean society and America's own growing power, with potential benefits as well as dangers to society highlighted.

Regardless of one's belief in the existence of such a society, the book is an interesting and very quick read. I might even feel like it's almost too brief for such a mysterious and complex subject, but I suppose those interested in further study can simply consult all Edgar Cayce readings on the matter. Overall this a great introduction to Atlantis and I'm also excited about reading two of the books mentioned, namely Book of the Hopi by Frank Waters and The Testimony of the Spade by Geoffrey Bibby.

[Lauraley Dilgard · Rating 4 out of 5]

Any book on Atlantis, I feel I once lived there reading about it feels like I'm reading about home.

[Bree Nyx · Rating 5 out of 5]

I feel heard. I'm a lifelong sensitive to energy and the passages on Lemuria in here literally sing for me, and Atlantis is familiar too. This was a crucial find for my soul development and forever grateful this was recommended to me 💙

[Autum · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not exactly what I was looking for 🧍‍♀️

[Natalie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found this book to be a much quicker read than Many Mansions, which I had read several years ago. There were a few things I found intriguing in this book. His theory that we had originally been created by God as spiritual entities, and eventually found our way into material earthly bodies as humans evolved was very interesting- it was an angle I hadn't even considered before. As an atheist, the creation theory holds no water for me- but if there is/was a God, this spiritual theory makes much more sense than people simply being snapped into being just like we are. His claims that there were three "eras" of Atlantis also was interesting. The fact that most of them knew about its eventual destruction and fled before the end to other lands also made sense- especially Egypt. Cayce did have one outrageous claim that I'm not sure I agreed with- that humans were around 10 million years ago. That, to me, seems a little far-fetched- but if there is indeed scientific evidence to back it up, I'd roll with it.
I really would have liked to see more detail- how all these inventions were made, what materials they used, etc. The machines were described, but instructions to replicate them would probably put all the skeptics to rest- so why didn't he do that?
Do I believe that Cayce was everything he said he was? That he was really tapping into the other side and past lives? Or was he simply a good story teller who was consistent and had a fantastic memory? I really don't know. I do believe it is entirely possible that a place such as Atlantis really could have existed- and there isn't much evidence since it was destroyed ten thousand years ago. If our civilization as we know it were to end today, what evidence would there be of our existence ten thousand years from now? It's certainly something to think about.

[Steve · Rating 1 out of 5]

Well, the first book I've rated one star.

Why? In my view a book needs to be one or more of three things - entertaining, informative and interesting. This is none of those.

I came to it with an open mind - you kind of have to given the subject matter. It was always unlikely to be entertaining. I can't honestly say it was ever going to be so grounded in fact as to be informative.

But I did expect it to be interesting. It wasn't. Its not helped by the stilted language of Cayce's readings themselves, but the author's style isn't much less so.

Its also not the most balanced examination of the subject matter - though perhaps to be expected from Cayce's son.

[Ron · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting.

[Serg · Rating 5 out of 5]

В книге много информации которая согласуется с современными научными разработками. После прочтения многие вопросы формирования человека и цивилизации прояснились. Также стало более понятно суть времени перекрестья и глобальных катаклизмов. Книга хорошо расширяет темы затронутые Игорем Михайловичем в фильме https://allatra.tv/video/unikalnoe-vo...

[David · Rating 2 out of 5]

Entertaining. Supposedly non- fiction. I find no absolute proof of existence of Atlantis in this book.

[Dan Desmarques · Rating 1 out of 5]

Atlantis???

[Aline · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mindblown.

When you keep in mind that this book came out in 1968, when the internet and mobile phones weren’t a thing for a long time yet, the technical progress we made since then and that Cayce and his son didn’t really knew what some of the technical things described in Atlantis were ...
It says multiple times that they had great communications with what seemed like far distances. Did they had something like the internet!!!?? Also it mentions these „THINGS“ and automatons a lot. Robots? AI? 🤯 And lasers, which just recently are getting used as weapons.

Another thing to mention is that he speaks of a Library as ‚The Hall of Records‘ in Egypt that will be found and where records of the History of Atlantis are hidden. I don’t know if you might know this but while reading this I googled some things and I found an article from 2017, that in 2008 a veeeery old library was found in Egypt, but it was suppressed by the media. I hadn’t heard about this before. And I read a while ago that Obama (!) went with someone into the Yucatán pyramid, which Cayce also mentions. Weird, but not surprising.
Since the book came out they also found a cave below the Sphinx through an opening in one of the paws. I think this was in the 80s? But they said that they didn’t research it further. Sure.


Okay, now I got that out, I remember when I got a book about lost cities as a child and I read about Atlantis for the first time, I was immediately fascinated. Especially since it wasn’t found and no one „knew“ where it should have been located. That fascination is still going on today. I wondered for some time now if I had a past life there too?

This book gave food for my fascination :D It is a bit draining to read Cayce‘s quotes because some are not easy to understand, but I liked that Edgar Evans tried to explain these in his words for us.

For anyone interested in lost civilizations in general this might be interesting for you too.
In regards to this I also want to mention that a lot of things I read or heard in videos, what the oldest civilizations say how mankind came to earth, adds up exactly with how Cayce said the Atlanteans came to be!

[Dennis · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book culls together various readings of past entities with incarnations of lives on Atlantis, which was not so much a place as an era in the foundation of humanity. The readings have references to Atlantean land and Poseida land. Mu, Oz, and Lemuria are mentioned in later Atlantean time.

It draws from those readings a picture of life with aircraft, submarines, electronics, and nuclear power. It is where/when spiritual beings first projected themselves into physical existence on this planet. It is where/when the sexes were split between male and female. There were giants and dwarves. People had lifespans of hundreds of years.

Since two major catastrophic events occurred, one can imagine why there is little to no evidence left of Atlantis' existence.

[Elentarri · Rating 4 out of 5]

Freaky and very interesting. This is a compilation of all the readings Edgar Cayce did regarding Atlantis along with commentary by the author. Relevant additional information made publicly available is also included to "verify" the details of the readings.

[Christopher Sharp · Rating 5 out of 5]

There aren't enough words to describe Edgar's contribution to the human race. What he lived every day the rest of us can only dream of. Why modern history chooses to ignore Atlantis and all of the facts that point straight to it I will never understand.

[Katie Baltrush · Rating 5 out of 5]

The seems to have figured out through religion what Graham Hancock figured out through archeology.

[Karen Roddy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent!

[P.K. Butler · Rating 4 out of 5]

As a casual reader of books on Edgar Cayce, I found this book highly informative in providing at the outset a context within which to understand the selected excerpts of Life Readings (think reincarnation). In the first 48 pages, the author (Cayce's son) provides a brief biography of Cayce; survey's Cayce's reception by the public and press, historically and contemporaneous to his writing; and outlines several academic critiques on the body of Cayce's work.

Mostly Cayce provided readings to help those suffering from illness, disease, or injury. Thus, of his 14,000 readings, about 12,000 dealt with helping people to heal. Otherwise, about two thousand were given on the topic of reincarnation. To address a person's current problems, whatever these might be, Cayce would access the particular past life affecting that person's current life. Of these readings, some 650 include references to Atlantis.

To be honest, I was more than ready to get to the heart of the book, delivered in chapters Three to Five and organized as such: Chapter 3: Atlantis Before 50,000 B.C; Chapter 4: 50,000 B.C. to 10,000 B.C.; Chapter 5: The Final Destruction. Chapter 6, "The Shadow of Atlantis" provides a forecast of dire earth changes to come if humanity cannot alter its self-serving ways.

As to the excerpts themselves, these were many, perhaps too many in that the same concept was presented time and again within different life readings spanning Cayce career of readings. The author argues that the consistency of Cayce's information on Atlantis is itself a basis for credibility. And I definitely agree, especially given that Cayce delivered this content while in trance. However, the repetition becomes tedious, and most of the content seems focused on a particular time span, when the Atlanteans were fleeing to other lands, especially Egypt. And in particular during a time when a priest known at Ra-Ta had returned to Egypt after a banishment of 20 years.

That said, this book is a good launching point for people seriously interested in investigating Cayce's information on Atlantis. However, the brief excerpts provided here seemed inadequate to me to convey a broader view of Atlantis and its fall.

[Andreas Schmidt · Rating 2 out of 5]

Mi aspettavo sinceramente di più da uno dei testi base da cui è risorta la narrazione moderna di Atlantide (vedi Impronte degli dèi di Hancock). In realtà si fa riferimento _ancora_ alla carta di Piri Re'is in modo errato (no, signori, no, non sono le coste dell'antartide prive di ghiacci! Mancherebbero tipo 3 o 4 mila km di costa del sudamerica!!).
Se tralasciamo tutta l'ipotesi della reincarnazione, le trascrizioni delle ipnosi regressive sono incredibilmente vaghe, generiche e prive di fantasia, come i soliti sacerdoti e il tempio di questo o quell'altro. Non sono meglio le descrizioni sulla tecnologia, come la pietra del fuoco, per i quali il riferimento è a energie, fulmini e quant'altro, tutte descrizioni che si possono fare anche solo avendo osservato fenomeni naturali (del resto, il 1930...) e l'autore si deve davvero sforzare a cercare parallelismi con la tecnologia moderna.
Ovviamente non ci si può esimere di descrivere il tempio tra le zampe della Sfinge (qualcosa c'è, che al giorno d'oggi è coperto da pedane).
Ovviamente cataclismi predetti per il 1970 non se ne sono verificati.

[Melissa Ceseña · Rating 5 out of 5]

EDGAR CAYCE ON ATLANTIS is a compilation of life readings that mention Atlantean past lives. Mostly Edgar Cayce’s quotes of the Atlantean parts feels a little out of context. There is enough evidence of individuals’ talent showing that they came into their abilities from a past life. We get a glimpse of what memories the soul holds of Atlantis going through destruction twice, the technology they possessed, and how they used the technology. Cayce’s sons put the book together to show Alantis is real and in hopes people can learn from others’ mistakes they made in Atlantis. Cayce believed many Americans in his lifetime were reincarnated Atlanteans. It sounds like that holds true today. There are three hall of records Casey mentions that will be opened by specific people or who have special abilities. He also said in his readings land is rising in 1968/69. I don’t know if the land rose or if it was just seen by a pilot flying near Bimini. We have lot of holes in our history and Edgar Casey helps put the puzzle pieces together.

[Sandra · Rating 2 out of 5]

Táto kniha ma veľmi sklamala…skončila som s čítaním tak v 3/4 knihy
celá kniha sa točí ohľadne predpovedí do budúcna prípadne videní do minulosti a následným vedeckým dokazovaním, že to, čo predpovedal E.C. sa stalo pravdou… avšak celá kniha je napisaná veľmi chaoticky, ťažko chápem tomu, čo čítam, ale aj tak som úprimne prekvapena ako mohol mať niekto taký dar ako Edgar..

“These life readings indicate that the will of the individual, together with influences from past incarnations, affect a persons present life much more than any astrological influences.”

“It is possible that some of these myth and legends are older than we suspect? maybe the satyrs, nymphs and other weird creatures of Greek mythology once existed?”

[Robert · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fascinating book. Much of the material makes much more sense to us in 2017 than it did in the 1940's before atomic power, lasers, genetic engineering, clones, robots, etc. There is also a lot of agreement between this material and the channeled communications from the "Law of One", the Ra material which was published in the 1980's. There is even a lot of agreement with the channeled "Seth" materials, written in the 1960's. My rational mind wants to ignore all this "stuff" which does not cleanly fit with my rational "scientific" understanding of the world, and yet I can not dismiss this material or explain how it could come from three unrelated sources written decades later.

[Jeremy · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book took me entirely too long to read. A great part of that was due simply to the language that was used. There seemed to be many, many words that were unnecessarily grand. I can't imagine people in the 60's actually talked like that.

The life readings themselves were incredibly vague and non-descript. 100% the work of a con man telling someone just enough to confirm what they wanted to hear.

And just throwing this out there, here we are, well past the 1969 date given and still no massive upheavals of land with entire coastlines being submerged and new land masses rising out of the waters.

Still, an interesting bit of fiction to add to the Atlantis archives.

[Lynn Rainsford · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very interesting. The author says that Atlantis was destroyed three times. He also states that many of the inhabitants saw this coming, and emigrated to Egypt, among other places. It is a shame so much of the history and knowledge of this wonderful civilization was lost to the ages. He references past lives existing in Atlantis in his other readings, and how these lives affected the more recent times on earth. Apparently, humans have been on earth far longer than anyone knew. (According to Cayce) I found this book to be a unique way of looking at the earth and it's occupants.

[Jenalee Paige · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really like how the life readings Edgar Cayce did was presented in this book. Various portions of life readings were put together (and thoroughly cited) about each of the topics or questions being answered. It really helped to paint a picture of Atlantis and the way civilizations existed during their times. The author also adds insight and further supports the life readings with actual events that came true after the readings took place. This is well-researched and presented in a very engaging way.

[Mary · Rating 2 out of 5]

The "readings" that were quoted were in weird old-fashioned language and hard to follow. Then the "current" day stuff was from the 50s and 60s. There were some fascinating ideas of what may have taken place in the very distant past that were interesting, such as how sentient people came to be so - spirits entering bodies and becoming trapped there for example.And that ancient civilizations were technically advanced, perhaps more than we are.

[Burak Emiralp · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ruh ve Madde yayınları kahin ve medyum olarak tanıtılan Edgar Cayce'in Atlantis ile ilgili verdiği bilgileri aktarıyor.

Kişisel olarak Edgar Cayce'in bir sahtekar olduğunu düşündüğümden kitabı ciddiye alarak okumamıştım. (Sene 1989)

[Felicia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book on Edgar Cayce readings and Atlantis. Very informative! It's not a big book at all so it's a very quick read. I enjoyed learning information about Atlantis and what happened to it.

[Ed R White · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love Cayce's work, and this was an excellent read with theories on Atlantis.

[Katriena Knights · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fascinating stuff, even more so now fifty years after original publication.