Edgar Cayce The Sleeping Prophet Occult Connection (Part ONE of TWO)
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Edgar Cayce
The sleeping
prophet
by Dennis Pollock
___Part ONE of TWO
As I laid on my bed my
mind raced wildly.
How incredible it was that I had
found the secrets of life before
I even turned twenty!
I knew that in my hands was a book
that provided answers to theological
and philosophical questions that no one,
including my parents,
had been able to explain.
I had been reading the
classic new age book,
There is a River,
which tells the life story and religious
philosophy of America’s most prominent
psychic,
Edgar Cayce.
The teachings of Cayce incorporated
Christianity,
eastern religion,
evolution,
and reincarnation in a most attractive
package,
and even spoke glowingly of Jesus,
the Master and Pattern for humankind.
My agnosticism melted into belief
and I knew I had somehow discovered
a vein of truth that explained all my
previous questions and doubts,
and made sense of a universe that
had before seemed inexplicable.
I was elated!
Six years later I would drop my large
collection of Cayce books in a fifty-five
gallon drum and set them ablaze.
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Possible Explanations
As we look into Cayce’s unusual life
it is necessary to deal with some of
the bizarre and unlikely experiences
that made him the man he was.
Of these experiences we are faced
with four different perspectives:
Cayce was deluded,
hallucinatory,
and the entire phenomenon sprang from
a psychologically unbalanced individual.
Cayce was a fraud who lied about his
past and gave his “prophecies” out of
his own imagination for his own gain.
Cayce was a genuinely gifted psychic,
who tapped into the great unconscious
mind (or Mind)
for the benefit of mankind.
Cayce was a vessel for
malicious demonic spirits,
who used him to foist the
same insidious lie upon
humanity that their master
had first used:
“You shall not surely die.”
Regarding the first alternative,
Cayce’s record at providing healing
remedies was so good,
I doubt that this was a mere
psychological phenomena.
Having read most of Cayce’s writings,
I have concluded that Cayce was no fraud.
I don’t think he was cunning enough,
and I think he exhibited a degree of
sincerity incompatible with a deliberate
fraud.
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Furthermore,
he had come from such a fundamental
Christian heritage it is doubtful that he
would have subconsciously manufactured
the philosophical teachings which so
exactly corresponded with
eastern religion.
As an evangelical Christian I cannot
accept the notion that Cayce was
somehow tapping into a
“universal consciousness.”
He certainly was not in
touch with the mind of God,
for his teachings are diametrically
opposed to the cardinal Christian
doctrines of justification by faith,
the deity of Christ, heaven,
hell,
and the reality that
“it is given unto man once to die,
and after that the judgment”
(Hebrews 9:27).
This leaves me with the last perspective.
I am convinced that Cayce
was indeed a vehicle through
whom lying demonic spirits spoke,
a simple man deceived
by the father of lies,
who led tens of thousands of
gullible people down the garden path.
For this reason I do not doubt
some of his incredible experiences
and the apparent miracles that
accompanied his life.
The phenomenon,
to my mind,
is not suspect;
the origins most definitely are.
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The Makings of a Psychic
Edgar Cayce was born in Hopkinsville,
Kentucky in 1877 into a solid
Methodist family.
The one feature that made the
Cayce’s a little different was that
both his father and grandfather
exhibited certain psychic tendencies.
His grandfather was known as a
“water witch” who used a forked
branch to divine for water.
His dad seemed to possess a remarkable
attractiveness to snakes that would be
drawn to him or even to his hats.
If he put his hat down in a field,
he would often find a snake
curled around the brim.
Although attending a perfectly
respectable Methodist church,
young Edgar seemed destined
to be different,
almost from the start.
As a child he would see “the little people”
who would dance about him freely,
but disappear when others came around.
He met an angelic female creature
in the woods one day who asked him
what he would most like to do.
After telling her that he would
like to help children and others,
she promised that he would,
one day.
Up to that point Cayce had
been an indifferent student,
but he found afterwards that he could
sleep on a book and would instantly
know everything in the book,
even to being able to quote exact
paragraphs and page numbers.
As a young man Cayce developed a
sore throat that worsened to the point
where he could hardly speak.
After months of this,
Al Layne,
a local osteopath and hypnotist
convinced Cayce to allow him to
try to help.
During hypnosis,
Layne asked Cayce to look into his own
body and tell him what the problem was.
Cayce replied that the
throat muscles were paralyzed,
but went on to recommend a cure:
he stated that an increase of blood
to the area would do the trick.
Layne gave the hypnotic command,
and soon Cayce’s throat turned
bright red.
After about fifteen minutes like this,
the throat turned back to
its normal color,
Cayce woke up out of hypnosis,
and was completely cured.
Thus began Cayce’s
strange ministry to the sick.
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Before long he was diagnosing and
curing others as he had himself.
As time went by his fame spread
and people came from near and far
in hope of a cure.
And indeed, many were cured.
Cayce would often prescribe
unorthodox remedies,
and unheard of combinations
of medicines and herbs,
but the results were amazingly good.
At times Cayce would not only tell
the inquirers what medicine to take,
but would tell them where they could
find such a medicine,
even describing the store,
the particular shelf,
and the specific spot on the shelf!
Today such an individual
would not last a week,
as the medical authorities would
shut him down in a New York minute,
but in those simpler times,
and with his excellent record,
Cayce was able to operate pretty
much without restraint.
His method never varied.
He would have a light snack,
lay down and will himself to
sleep while someone conducting
the “reading” would give him the
name and address of the person
needing assistance.
After a brief time,
he would announce,
“We have the entity,”
and he would begin to describe
their physical condition,
along with the cause and cure
of their particular malady.
Sometimes the person would
be in the room with him,
at other times the individual might
be hundreds of miles away.
Even at long distances
Cayce would somehow locate them,
evaluate their condition,
and prescribe a cure while they
went about their business.
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