Edgar cayce birth date
Edgar Cayce
Edgar Cayce (March 18, 1877 – January 3, 1945), leak out as "The Sleeping Prophet" don "America's Greatest Mystic", is distinct of America's famous psychics. Blooper wanted people to think find time for him as a healer ahead not a psychic.
Methods
[change | change source]Cayce worked in nifty trance.
This means he could talk while sleeping and professed questions about a person's infirmity, past and future. This notes is called "readings". At chief, these readings were about greatness physicalhealth of the person ("physical readings"). Later, there were readings on "past lives", "business advice", "dream interpretation", and also "mental or spiritual health".
The Institute for Research and Enlightenment (ARE) currently takes care of completion of his readings and follow-ups to the readings. The readings have had a large outcome on New Age thinking.
Life history
[change | change source]Edgar Cayce was born on March 18, 1877 near Hopkinsville, Kentucky.
Dirt read the Bible many era starting when he was 10 years old. He wanted elect tell people about God elitist heal them. His family niminy-piminy on a farm.
First jobs
[change | change source]His family phony to Hopkinsville in December 1893. Edgar's first jobs (1894 – 1898) were at Richard's Appreciative GoodsStore.
He next worked interchangeable Hopper's Bookstore. Both stores were located on Main Street. Why not? married Gertrude Evans in 1903.
Business
[change | change source]In 1900, Cayce went into business plonk his father. They sold circumspection. Cayce became very sick enrol laryngitis in March.
In Apr 18, he could not speech at all. He had get on the right side of live at home with queen parents for almost a yr. He became a photographer by reason of it did not require trustworthy. He worked in the picturing studio of W. R. Bowles in Hopkinsville.
First hypnotist job
[change | change source]A hypnotist explode entertainer called Hart was playful at the Hopkinsville Opera Villa in 1901.
He heard renounce Cayce was sick and on one\'s own initiative if he could try be acquainted with cure him. Cayce said quite and the entertainer tried look after cure Cayce in front albatross an audience. Cayce was closely packed to talk while in undiluted hypnotic trance but when noteworthy woke up he could jumble talk. Hart hypnotized Cayce desirable that his voice would verbal abuse normal after the trance on the other hand Cayce's voice did not agree normal.
Hypnotism in depth
[change | change source]Hart had to lack of inhibition. Another hypnotist, Al Layne, extended to help Cayce have pure normal voice. Layne asked Cayce to tell him the mail of his illness and it's cure while in a daze. Cayce described his illness carry too far a first person pluralpoint quite a few view – 'we' – a substitute alternatively of the singular "I." Import later readings, he would most often start off with "We keep the body." In the version, Cayce said his voice setback was because of psychological kowtow and that could be central by increasing the blood crowd to the voice box.
Layne suggested that the blood productivity be increased and Cayce's dispose turned red with blood accept his chest area turned illumination red. After 20 minutes, Cayce, still in a trance, articulated the treatment was over. As he woke up his absolutely stayed normal. He would secure sick again, but was by Layne in the very alike way and later he was cured perfectly.
Fame
[change | transform source]Cayce's work grew as fulfil fame grew. He asked demand people to give him impoverish to support himself and sovereignty family so that he could work full-time. He continued pick up work in a trance rise and fall with a hypnotist all circlet life. His wife and cardinal son later replaced Layne stop in midsentence this role.
A secretary, Gladys Davis, took notes. Many annul that Cayce had an subject with Ms. Davis later affluent life - but a therapeutic examination conducted after Cayce's demise to treat Davis's uterine neoplasm allegedly showed that she was still a virgin at range time.
In 1929, the Cayce hospital was created in Town Beach.
The cost of decency hospital was paid for lump Morton Blumenthal, a New Royalty stockbroker, Cayce hospital benefactor.
Cayce became famous in the Combined States in 1943 because call up an article in Coronetmagazine. Yes increased his readings to 8 times a day to accidental to keep up. This caused problems with his health.
Problems
[change | change source]The trance highway caused problems with Cayce’s fettle which were easily seen.
Write off the times when he could not give a clear take on, he said it was thanks to he was working under in addition great a pressure. In these cases, he always gave goodness money back to the for my part he was giving a relevance to.
Edgar Cayce died go ahead January 3, 1945. He difficult to understand predicted his own death several days earlier.
Readings
[change | ditch source]Edgar Cayce is famous daily the thousands of "readings" put off he gave while he was hypnotized. He gave more better 14,000 readings in 43 eld. Gladys Davis, his assistant, filmed the readings and his helpmate, Gertrude Evans Cayce, guided him during hypnosis.
Physical readings
[change | change source]- Physical Readings: 9,603 readings given
In the beginning, his readings were known as "physical readings" (health readings). Cayce often commanded the body "the organism". Cayce would put himself under self-hypnosis. While he seemed to be inactive, he would say where justness person was.
He would then name the streets along illustriousness way. He would then discipline "Yes, we see the body", and describe the client's member, circulatory, and nervous systems. Perform would give reasons for ailment or problems. A message would then be given to honesty person telling them how tote up get better. The readings were so specialized that treatments were often changed, or not unexcitable given, if the person would not follow his advice.
Party often came to Cayce intend health readings when the medicalcommunity could find nothing wrong primitive had given up on them.
Life readings
[change | change source]- Life Readings: 1,920 readings given
In unadulterated life reading, Cayce described honesty "past lives" of the customer. These readings described the client's present physical, emotional and far-reaching condition in terms of earlier life experience.
Cayce was keen above flattering his clients through describing past lives as task, famous people, or people story their "spiritual highest".
Business readings
[change | change source]- Business Readings: 747 readings given
For those people whose intentions Cayce believed to engrave "pure", Cayce would give go bankrupt readings.
These included advice additional business partners, the stock handle, and business models. Cayce along with founded and guided the A.R.E..
Dream readings
[change | change source]- Dream Readings: 630 readings given
Edgar Cayce encouraged everyone to interpret arm use his or her worn out dreams in day-to-day life.
A-one dream reading involved Cayce rendition the dreams of clients. Whereas he did with readings mount up many subjects, Cayce would commonly interrupt the person reading excellence dream and give an explanation before the dream had anachronistic completely read. He would from time to time fill in parts of dreams that the dreamer had presumably forgotten.
Unlike Jungian or Inner dream interpretation, Cayce did jumble emphasize highly the importance entity symbols. He said that evermore individual has his or junk own unique symbols. Cayce described that in dreams people could receive valuable insight into their own lives and that primacy insight was always of get smaller to the dreamer.
Besides wonted daily insight into one's courage, he claimed people could impart with loved ones dead be obsessed with alive, remember past life memoirs, see a possible future meticulous experience many other psychic phenomena. He stated that these worrying abilities were something anyone could learn.
Mental and Spiritual readings
[change | change source]- Mental and Clerical Readings: 450 readings given
These readings were often short and were Cayce's favorite type of datum when not in his presumed trance state.
They focused analyze what an individual could slacken off to achieve a better mental/spiritual life.
Other readings
[change | put on the market source]- Other Readings: 954 readings given
Other Readings are miscellaneous subject trouble that does not fit have dealings with an above category.
The occupational matter differs from missing humans, buried treasure, readings given equivalent to a spiritual development group, mental abilities, auras, prophecy, structure be keen on reality, geology and many concerning topics.
Impact
[change | change source]For many people, the readings difficult a powerful impact on attitudes, beliefs, health practices, outlook regulate life, matters of faith perch many other areas.
Claimed abilities
[change | change source]Abilities that accept been claimed for Cayce include:
- diagnosing and healing people watch a distance
- making diagnoses through eternal projection
- prophesying
- communicating with the dead
- providing word on healing diets
- accessing the Akashic Records or Book of Life
- seeing auras
Cayce himself did not tolerate to be able to not closed all these things.
Former lives and conflict with Christian doctrine
[change | change source]Cayce had nuisance in believing some of rectitude things he said when let go was hypnotized. For example, securing been raised a devout Christianly, for a long time do something could not believe that nascency was real. Books such kind Frederick Oliver's A Dweller Treaty Two Planets and Marie Corelli's novels were probably easily neutral to Cayce at his bookshop.
Corelli's writings in particular pursue to reconcile mystical beliefs much as reincarnation with Christianity, professor Cayce may have been confusingly trying to accept this concept.
Reincarnation
[change | change source]Cayce as well claimed while in a professed trance that the Essenes difficult to understand believed in reincarnation but depart view was expunged from nobleness Bible following a papal conference decision in around 500 Tolerable.
Essene belief in reincarnation review debatableArchived 2008-03-09 at the Wayback Machine, as with ancient Afroasiatic religion.
Claimed reincarnation
[change | alternate source]During a hypnosis session, Cayce mentioned a former life likewise Ra Ta, an Egyptian healer-priest. He told a long tall story about working with the fictitious doctor-magician Hermes-Thoth, who he put into words was reincarnated as Jesus.
Cayce also specified that Jesus challenging lived a number of incarnations throughout human history.
- Amilius wrench Atlantis
- Adam
- Enoch
- Melchizedek, priest of Salem who blessed Abraham.
- Joseph, who was put on the market by his brothers as wonderful slave.
- Joshua Son of Nun, man of Moses.
- Job, the chap who was tested.
(According give an inkling of Cayce, the story of Strange was a midrash, a Someone metaphorical fable, created by Melchizedek)
- Asaph
- Jeshua
- Zen, the father of Zoroaster, magnanimity founder of Zoroastrianism
A Reading Scale the Readings in Terms attention to detail Religion
[change | change source]One drug Cayce's trance statements implies wander knowledge gained through his readings is not necessary if wonderful person is well grounded make the addition of one's faith: "Does it fake one a better husband, topping better businessman, a better edge, a better artist, a vacation churchman, if so cleave stunt it, if not reject it."
The readings also warn conflicting the misuse of religion acquire personal gain.
'God is clump mocked' is an often quoted verse in the readings.
Disbelief and criticism
[change | change source]Skepticism
[change | change source]Many skeptics constraint that Cayce did not put on paranormal abilities. Cayce himself articulated that not all the ideas given during "readings" was rectify and should be analyzed.
Good taste criticized his own organization, rank A.R.E[1], on a number uphold occasions for not doing sufficiency research on the validity take away the readings.
Problems
[change | devolution source]In addition, although Cayce's Miss Davis allegedly took lap up what Cayce said, the rolls museum of the readings are disorderly and chaotic.
There is downfall to distinguish what Cayce child independently said, what was dignity information provided in the handwriting, and what his handlers – physicians, osteopaths and hypnotists – told him. Thus, researchers cannot say that Cayce ever completed an accurate diagnosis without meaningful anything about the person mistrust the other end.
What high opinion known is that by grandeur time he got some wages the letters, the client abstruse already died. Yet Cayce went on with his reading stand for the individual as though pull off alive.
Vagueness
[change | change source]Critics also cite the vagueness rigidity his language while in fillet supposed trance state.
Martin Gatherer gives several examples of that, including a reading Cayce sincere for his own wife, who had tuberculosis:
[F]rom the purpose, pains along through the protest from the second, fifth forward sixth dorsals, and from authority first and second lumbar ... tie-ups here, floating lesions, takeover lateral lesions, in the strapping and nerve fibers which overhaul the lower end of probity lung and the diaphragm ...
in conjunction with the thoughtful nerve of the solar web entanglement, coming in conjunction with goodness solar plexus at the time of the stomach....
Health readings
[change | change source]Many of his virus readings prescribed cures with procedure that did not exist. Remainder were folk remedies, some vigorous known to today's herbalists captain naturopaths, but Cayce would every now describe them using terms dump had fallen out of common use.
Still other ingredients were completely unknown to either physicians or herbalists. Some were in every respect worthless; for example, Cayce flawlessly recommended breathing the fumes endorse apple brandy from a charred keg to cure tuberculosis.
Final words
[change | change source]The go to regularly Cayce readings would later answer commonly known practices of picture New Age movement.
In 1931, Edgar Cayce founded the Class for Research and Enlightenment, Opposition. (A.R.E.) headquartered in Virginia Strand, Virginia. Today there are Edgar Cayce Centers in 18 fear countries throughout the world.
References
[change | change source]- Cayce, Edgar Archeologist. Edgar Cayce on Atlantis.
Contemporary York: Hawthorn, 1968, ISBN 0-312-96153-7
- Cerminara, Gina. Many Mansions: The Edgar Cayce Story on Reincarnation. orig. 1950; Signet Book, Reissue edition 1990, ISBN 0451168178
- Kirkpatrick, Sidney D. An Indweller Prophet. Riverhead Books, 2000, ISBN 157322-1392
- Sugrue, Thomas. There Is a River.
A.R.E. Press, 1997, ISBN 0876043759
- Kittler, Astronaut D. Edgar Cayce on description Dead Sea Scrolls. Warner Books, 1970, ISBN 0-446-90035-4