| Edgar Cayce |
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His psychic powers were so enhanced that he did not require to see the patients physically. He used to go into trance, diagnose their medical condition, and prescribed a cure. Renowned for going into a trance where he diagnosed illnesses and prescribed remedies, he was popularly known as ‘the sleeping prophet.’ He practiced absent healing and cured people across the world. His unconscious mind allowed him to psychically diagnose the ailment and prescribe remedies. He had the ability to channel, and could answer questions on a number of subjects, such as health, astrology, reincarnation, and on Atlantis, all while in a trance. Though he described himself as a ‘psychic diagnostician’ he had been referred to as a prophet, a mystic, a seer, and a clairvoyant. He was also attributed with other abilities, such as astral projection or traveling, prophesizing, mediumship (communicating with the dead), seeing auras, and viewing the Akashic Records – the Universal Book of Records. His Methods Subsequent to a request by an individual seeking help with health or other personal problems, Cayce would lie down and enter into a trance. The subjects were not necessarily present. While in a state of trance, Cayce would be given the questions, and he would proceed with the reading. Primarily, the readings would deal with physical health problems and then proceed to past lives, business advice, dream interpretations, and further to mental and spiritual health. It is estimated that from 1901 to 1944, covering a period of 43 years, Cayce made upwards of 22,000 readings, though for the first 22 years, until September 1923, they were not preserved systematically. Today, less than 14,000 readings are available. Cayce, when out of trance, could not remember what transpired when he was in a trance. According to him, the conscious mind did not possess the information that the unconscious mind possessed. For most of his adult life, Cayce provided intuitive insights into any question one could imagine. He dealt mainly with medical problems, and his psychic readings comprise not only of one of the largest records of intuitive information to come from a single psychic, but they are also very impressive. According to him, the Sphinx was built around 10,500 BC and that the survivors of Atlantis had concealed a ‘Hall of Records’ that contains the true history of the human race, as well as all the wisdom of their lost civilization. Of the 13, 854 extant readings, Cayce had made 9,603 readings on health; 1,920 readings on life – the physical, mental, and emotional conditions; 747 business readings; 630 dream readings; and 954 miscellaneous readings, which included missing persons, buried treasure, readings given to a spiritual development group, psychic abilities, auras, prophecy, structure of reality, and geology, among others. |
Edgar Cayce, who had psychic abilities, was born into a farming family on March 18, 1877 near Beverly, seven miles from Hopkinsville, Kentucky. He was not a highly literate man, never having gone beyond grammar school. With no background in medicine, he could diagnose illnesses, and prescribe remedies for them – while in the state of trance. He became a psychic at the age of 21 and used his abilities for healing all over the world, for the next 43 years. 
