OK...What about Edgar Cayce? Have you read about him?

Question

What do you think about him?
(Guess I'll never get to the next level if I keep asking questions !)

Kimber...I think I did read it...a lot of years ago.(Sorry I can't do email. It's not my comp. & we've had a lot of viruses. They ruined one of our comp. So I'm not "allowed" to do email on Y/A.) It has always baffled me that drs. don't at least investigate his prognoses .

rico...just thought I'd give you a shot at 10pts. Besides, I like to hear other people's opinions. I know I'm not right about everything and don't have all the info there is. (Since you asked !)

Answer 1

Denie with the no e-mail..... that just drives me nuts.

Edgar Cayce was quite a fascinating character. He had a third grade education. When he was 12 he was walking in the woods when a man on a horse approached him as if from another world and from that moment on he knew his mission in life. He became known as the Sleeping Prophet. He would trance and never remember a single word he said during a reading. He would sit in front of the subject and talk in a starnge type of third person. He would say "We are now entering the body. We can see that the left ventricle has a blockage in the first chamber....." and be very specific. Much of what he saw in those days could not be cured as we lacked the technology. However.... he once tranced a woman with breast cancer and he said "We see a carcinoma in the left breast. Take a like cancer from another person and inject it into this subject".... they did so. He had explained during this trance that cancer was a sheister that tricked the body into believeing that it belonged there, so that if you injected the same cancer from another the body woudl and could recognize it as being a foriegn body and therefore attack it. What is most amazing about this story is that this is a common treatment for this type of cancer today. He was absolutely on the money. He was quite a character. You should read the book called "The Sleeping Prophet" it is an old biography on Edgar Cayce. I read it in a bout 1980. LOL.
Hope t hat this helped answer your question.

Answer 2

Edgar Cayce still has people that study and follow his cures today. I have included a link below to his Association for Research and Enlightenment.

Edgar Cayce while diagnosing and describing medical cures reportedly worked with a medical doctor to insure that he inflicted no harm on a patient. This can hardly be said about psychics (and skeptics) today.

Cayce was surrounded by people more educated (and perhaps less ethical) than himself who believed that since he had one ability (medical diagnosis) that he must also have other abilities like seeing the future, finding lost cities, and talking to angels. If one actually reads up on Cayce they will discover he attempted these things because he was asked to do so and not because he claimed to have these abilities.

His medical diagnosis and cures should be considered separately from all other abilities he attempted to do otherwise is bad science and typical of skeptics (debunkers) using a fallacy of logic called "straw man"

Answer 3

According to the documentary about him; he appeared to be a type of medium. Otherwise, he was just an average person that wasn't able to profit from being a "prophet." Mediums appear to get their information from the paranormal by some type of direct two way communication. Edgar Cayce appeared to be possessed or taken over by one; similar to alternate personalities or DID. They also claim there are several thousand predictions. The fact that we don't hear more about these seems to be a cover-up as well.

I personally wouldn't call someone that's possessed by some spirit or entity a psychic or prophet, but, maybe that's the way it's usually done anyway.

pl. mediums. A person thought to have the power to communicate with the spirits of the dead or with agents of another world or dimension. Also called psychic.

http://www.answers.com/mediums&r=67

Answer 4

I know he bombed out pretty good on his predictions, especially the finding of Atlantis in 68 or 69, its been a while since I have read his predictions, but I am close. He said it would be found in the Carribean Sea. As with all psychics, you can always find something to match the predictions after the fact.
edit: as for the spynx chamber prediction, thats an easy 50/50 prediction considering the egyptians built chambers in, under, and around everything they made to deter would be robbers. I could predict they find a new hidden chamber at Mesa Verde park. And I would have a very good chance at being correct because there were chambers built all over the sites there. I could predict they will find a new chamber under the Mayan pyramids and I would have at least a 50/50 chance at being right. Thats not psychic, that hedging your bets with an easy prediction.

Answer 5

Yes,not in any great detail..but one thing sticks in my mind....the relation between aluminium and the relation with alzhimers disease...not bad- considering the time scale between when he wrote these articles and our fantastic "recent discoveries " on the said subject!!!

Answer 6

I have read VERY MANY books about Edgar Cayce and I have felt a TRUE connection to him since I was 35 ( I am now 53).
From the depths of my heart and soul I truly believe he is genuine!
edit:
A.R.E (Association for Research and Enlightenment has MANY books and MUCH information about this phenomenal man!

Answer 7

Yes, I have read a book about him and it was, in my opinion, very poorly written. He was wrong with a lot of his predictions and always went into a trance to essentially see the future. I am not convinced he was a psychic in any great capacity. Although there are some good ones out there such as Phil Jordan from upstate New York.
Good Luck

Answer 8

My dad has the book "The sleeping prophet" which went into great detail about the man and his readings.

What can I say? well, maybe it's true.....or maybe it's all b.s. - I wasn't there to see it for myself so it would be foolish to believe or disbelieve any of it 100%.

Answer 9

Cayce was just another guy who claimed psychic powers, prophetic ability and intimate details of Atlantis. This last bit is what really cooked his goose because one of his many predictions regarding this mythical civilization is that they would provide mankind with a "death ray" in the year 1958.

Of course there is no evidence supporting his claim to psychic abilities and to my knowledge he didn't make any sort of prediction that came to pass. He was a celebrity of his time due to a very friendly, credulous audience.

Answer 10

From what I have read he is very accurate. He even predicted that they would find a chamber under the Sphinx and they did find a place with ground radar where he said it would be.

And somebody has to ask good questions!