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Edgar Cayce Reader
Presents interesting extracts from the Cayce readings together with interpretive studies by physicians and laymen
- GenresEsotericaSpirituality
187 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1974
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Edgar Evans Cayce
268 books326 followersThe 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.
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.
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May 26, 2024
AN EARLY COLLECTION OF CAYCE, AND SYMPATHETIC A.R.E. COMMENTATORS
[NOTE: page numbers below refer to a 187-page paperback edition.]
Cayce’s son, Hugh Lynn Cayce, wrote in the Introduction to this 1969 book, “Even as a child … Edgar Cayce displayed powers of perception which seemed to extend beyond the normal range of the five senses. At the age of six or seven he told his parents that he was able to see and talk to ‘visions,’ sometimes of relatives who had recently died. His parents attributed this to the overactive imagination of a lonely child who had been influenced by the dramatic language of the revival meetings which were popular in that section of the country. Later, by resting with his head on his schoolbooks, he developed some form of photographic memory which helped him advance rapidly in the country school. This faded, however, and Edgar was only able to complete his seventh grade before he had to seek his own place in the world…
“By twenty-one… he developed a gradual paralysis of the throat muscles, which threatened the loss of his voice… As a last resort, Edgar asked a friend to help him enter the same kind of hypnotic sleep that had enabled him to memorize his schoolbooks… once he was in self-induced trance… Edgar came to grips with his own problem… which successfully restored his voice… A group of physicians … took advantage of his unique talent to diagnose their own patients. They soon discovered that Cayce only needed to be given the name and address of the patient… and was then able to ‘tune in’ telepathically on that individual’s mind and body… When Edgar Cayce died on January 3 1945… he left well over fourteen thousand documented stenographic records of the telepathic-clairvoyant statements he had given for more than eight thousand different people… These typewritten documents are referred to as ‘readings.’”
Edgar Cayce wrote, “forcing of oneself upon someone else… [is] dangerous business! It pertains to the black arts… anyone who would force another to submit to his will is a tyrant! Even God does not force His will upon us. Either we make our will one with His, or we are opposed to Him. Each person has an individual choice.” (Pg. 17)
He states, “How did He happen to come as Jesus of Nazareth? There had not been a revelation to man, of which we have any record, for over four hundred years. Then did darkness and dissipation on the part of man bring Christ into the world? If so, it is a reversal of the natural law, ‘Like Begets Like.’ … Then what brought the coming of Jesus? A people who were sincere seekers---a little group founded for the purpose of seeking to make themselves channels whereby this great thing could come to pass.” (Pg. 27)
He acknowledges, “We have spoken on various subjects from Sunday to Sunday. From time to time I have been speaking of the things that have had to do principally with the material things of life… putting them in such a way and manner that we may be able to use them in our everyday life… I am going to try to talk to you this afternoon about Truth---or ‘What is Truth?’ I realize I am assuming a big job. I’ve read very little of the philosophers of the ages. Yet we know that throughout the ages there has been the continual cry of ‘What is Truth?’” (Pg. 29-30)
He recounts, “A few days ago I was talking to some people and they told me about a book that had been written by some of the masters from the Far East. I had never seen the book before, but when I opened it to read it, I knew what was in it before I read it. I don’t know how, nor why---but I knew the experiences I was going to encounter. Within the first four or five pages, I found that in this book one thought was stressed: what you hold before yourself, to create that image you worship---that is what will develop you always upward, and will continue to enable you to know truth.” (Pg. 33)
Much of the rest of the book consists of essays from persons sympathetic with Cayce. But some excerpts from some of Cayce’s readings are also included, such as: “[Why do souls incarnate?] when the entity enters the earth plane… it is but a period again and again of the application either of the universal forces, that make for a oneness of activity of the soul; or an activity in what becomes the fruitage thereof as destructive forces, or hardships, or influences that make for tempering of the soul for its purposes, its activities, its desire throughout an experience.” (Pg. 67)
About out-of-body experiences, he said: “Each and every soul leaves the body as it rests in sleep. As to how this may be used constructively … this would be like explaining how one could use one’s voice for constructive purposes. It is… a faculty, it is an experience it is a development of the self as related to spiritual things, material things, mental things.” (Pg. 120)
He asserts, “Time, space and patience are in the mental realm the same as implied by the expression ‘Father-God, Son and Holy Spirit’; or as Spirit, Body, Soul, thought. And in Patience then does men become more and more aware of the continuity of life, of his soul as a portion of the Whole; Patience being the portion of man’s sphere of activity in the finite being, as Time and Space manifest the creative and motivative force.” (Pg. 129)
Of telepathy and psychic powers: “There is within every soul the ability to accomplish any influence that has been or may be accomplished in the earth. If the development of the psychic abilities is meant here, these might be developed, dependent upon what the entity seeks as its ideal or as his guide.” (Pg. 143-144)
Of Wisdom, he says, “Study to show thyself in body, in mind, approved unto that thou hast chosen in the words of Jesus the Master, thy Brother… in dividing the words of life in such measures that all who know thee, yet that contact thee, take cognizance of the fact that thou wakest and thou talkest with Jesus day by day, keeping thyself in body, in mind, unspotted from the world. This is the Wisdom of God and it thine if ye will but claim it as thine own.” (PG. 185)
This collection will be of interest to those studying Cayce and his legacy.
[NOTE: page numbers below refer to a 187-page paperback edition.]
Cayce’s son, Hugh Lynn Cayce, wrote in the Introduction to this 1969 book, “Even as a child … Edgar Cayce displayed powers of perception which seemed to extend beyond the normal range of the five senses. At the age of six or seven he told his parents that he was able to see and talk to ‘visions,’ sometimes of relatives who had recently died. His parents attributed this to the overactive imagination of a lonely child who had been influenced by the dramatic language of the revival meetings which were popular in that section of the country. Later, by resting with his head on his schoolbooks, he developed some form of photographic memory which helped him advance rapidly in the country school. This faded, however, and Edgar was only able to complete his seventh grade before he had to seek his own place in the world…
“By twenty-one… he developed a gradual paralysis of the throat muscles, which threatened the loss of his voice… As a last resort, Edgar asked a friend to help him enter the same kind of hypnotic sleep that had enabled him to memorize his schoolbooks… once he was in self-induced trance… Edgar came to grips with his own problem… which successfully restored his voice… A group of physicians … took advantage of his unique talent to diagnose their own patients. They soon discovered that Cayce only needed to be given the name and address of the patient… and was then able to ‘tune in’ telepathically on that individual’s mind and body… When Edgar Cayce died on January 3 1945… he left well over fourteen thousand documented stenographic records of the telepathic-clairvoyant statements he had given for more than eight thousand different people… These typewritten documents are referred to as ‘readings.’”
Edgar Cayce wrote, “forcing of oneself upon someone else… [is] dangerous business! It pertains to the black arts… anyone who would force another to submit to his will is a tyrant! Even God does not force His will upon us. Either we make our will one with His, or we are opposed to Him. Each person has an individual choice.” (Pg. 17)
He states, “How did He happen to come as Jesus of Nazareth? There had not been a revelation to man, of which we have any record, for over four hundred years. Then did darkness and dissipation on the part of man bring Christ into the world? If so, it is a reversal of the natural law, ‘Like Begets Like.’ … Then what brought the coming of Jesus? A people who were sincere seekers---a little group founded for the purpose of seeking to make themselves channels whereby this great thing could come to pass.” (Pg. 27)
He acknowledges, “We have spoken on various subjects from Sunday to Sunday. From time to time I have been speaking of the things that have had to do principally with the material things of life… putting them in such a way and manner that we may be able to use them in our everyday life… I am going to try to talk to you this afternoon about Truth---or ‘What is Truth?’ I realize I am assuming a big job. I’ve read very little of the philosophers of the ages. Yet we know that throughout the ages there has been the continual cry of ‘What is Truth?’” (Pg. 29-30)
He recounts, “A few days ago I was talking to some people and they told me about a book that had been written by some of the masters from the Far East. I had never seen the book before, but when I opened it to read it, I knew what was in it before I read it. I don’t know how, nor why---but I knew the experiences I was going to encounter. Within the first four or five pages, I found that in this book one thought was stressed: what you hold before yourself, to create that image you worship---that is what will develop you always upward, and will continue to enable you to know truth.” (Pg. 33)
Much of the rest of the book consists of essays from persons sympathetic with Cayce. But some excerpts from some of Cayce’s readings are also included, such as: “[Why do souls incarnate?] when the entity enters the earth plane… it is but a period again and again of the application either of the universal forces, that make for a oneness of activity of the soul; or an activity in what becomes the fruitage thereof as destructive forces, or hardships, or influences that make for tempering of the soul for its purposes, its activities, its desire throughout an experience.” (Pg. 67)
About out-of-body experiences, he said: “Each and every soul leaves the body as it rests in sleep. As to how this may be used constructively … this would be like explaining how one could use one’s voice for constructive purposes. It is… a faculty, it is an experience it is a development of the self as related to spiritual things, material things, mental things.” (Pg. 120)
He asserts, “Time, space and patience are in the mental realm the same as implied by the expression ‘Father-God, Son and Holy Spirit’; or as Spirit, Body, Soul, thought. And in Patience then does men become more and more aware of the continuity of life, of his soul as a portion of the Whole; Patience being the portion of man’s sphere of activity in the finite being, as Time and Space manifest the creative and motivative force.” (Pg. 129)
Of telepathy and psychic powers: “There is within every soul the ability to accomplish any influence that has been or may be accomplished in the earth. If the development of the psychic abilities is meant here, these might be developed, dependent upon what the entity seeks as its ideal or as his guide.” (Pg. 143-144)
Of Wisdom, he says, “Study to show thyself in body, in mind, approved unto that thou hast chosen in the words of Jesus the Master, thy Brother… in dividing the words of life in such measures that all who know thee, yet that contact thee, take cognizance of the fact that thou wakest and thou talkest with Jesus day by day, keeping thyself in body, in mind, unspotted from the world. This is the Wisdom of God and it thine if ye will but claim it as thine own.” (PG. 185)
This collection will be of interest to those studying Cayce and his legacy.
May 3, 2022
Molto più interessante sulla ricerca riguardante i sogni (finalmente si entra nella psicologia junghiana), gli ESP eccetera.
August 2, 2018
A good look into the often confusing Cayce readings by people who knew or almost knew him personally.
May 7, 2024
I enjoyed reading this and I'm sure I'll enjoy reading the next book about him. I've also watched a short documentary about him. It's a great read if you want to learn more about him.
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