do you know some incorrect reading from Edgar Cayce ?
2007-03-30 07:23:47 · 6 answers · asked by Chako the Dog 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
He had the visions that my cat has. He just knew how to sell them and con people out of their money
2007-03-30 07:36:02 · answer #1 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The secret of making good predictions is vagueness. You have to say something of course, but if you present some enigmatic images and leave out the crucial specifics, a "prophecy" can mean anything. The A.R.E. Foundation has for years exploited Cayce vagueness to convince the gullible to donate and to buy Cayce material.
In the early 1970s I remember reading about a discovery of "ruins" off the coast of Bermuda that seemed to verify Cayce's description of Atlantis. I haven't heard anything since.
Cayce was supposed to have "predicted" lasers, but anyone with half an imagination could extrapolate from radar and photo-electric beams to some kind of fancy light manipulation. He certainly wasn't very technical about it.
Of course most of his revelations were "medical", using folk nutrition to "cure" illnesses. No controlled studies were ever undertaken to prove that the success of his "cures" was anything more than chance. (It would not be in A.R.E.'s interest to allow it.)
Everything Cayce said can either be "verified" by anectdotal "evidence", careful interpretation of obscure details or just accepted on faith in the case of "future" events. Cayce's image as a reluctant "sleeping prophet" added to his credibility as a conduit for an unspecified source of secret "knowledge". It is a common method used by Jane Roberts, J.Z. Knight and a host of others. People who want an inside track around the conventional wisdom are very susceptible to such pitches.
The readings are "correct" by virtue of the fact that some people will believe them uncritically. Inconsistencies and gaps are ignored, forgiven or "explained" away to preserve the underlying faith in Cayce's source, whatever it may be. If any of his "readings" actually contributed to historical, scientific or medical knowledge, wouldn't engineers, technicians and theoreticians be all over them, either testing or exploiting their uses? All the Cayce readings ever did was to reassure naive, ignorant people that the eggheads don't "know" anything. That may make people feel more secure but it's not all that empowering.
2007-03-30 09:28:00 · answer #2 · answered by skepsis 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
he siad that we would find proff of atlantis buried under the right paw of the sphinx sometime in the 90's which obviously didn't happen. interestingly tho, whatever instrument they use to map things under ground showed that there is a chamber there, the Egyptians authorites have been reluctant to let anyone dig down there and see what it really is.
2007-03-30 09:06:40 · answer #3 · answered by scauma 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All of his readings were incorrect. I hope you don't actually believe this kind of BS...people like that are con artists, not psychics.
2007-03-30 07:42:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
i think he was fairly accurate.
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2007-03-30 07:29:30 · answer #5 · answered by mikey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was wrong in just about everything, actually.
2007-03-30 07:54:10 · answer #6 · answered by Astronomer1980 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋