Paranormal
A young man is lying on a couch sound asleep with his eyes closed and hands overlapping on his abdomen. While this young man is asleep, he can still talk with others next to him. More amazingly, he seems to be all knowing. Given a name of a complete stranger, this man can describe his present condition even when the stranger is thousands of miles away. What's more, he can even answer questions regarding the future of the world in this trance. This man is Edgar Cayce.
Edgar Cayce was widely regarded as a prophet and mystic, one of the great clairvoyants and psychics of the 20th century. His followers claim that he cured hundreds of people; that he was a kind of latter day Nostradamus, a seer without parallel in modern times, and is consequently the most well documented prophecizer of all time.
His Story to Fame
Edgar Cayce was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, in 1877. His family was ordinary in most ways, except for a current of demonic dabbling and occultism among the males. His grandfather was a water witch and unerringly accurate in dousing for water with the forked limbs of a witch hazel tree. Many of his acquaintances held that he was also able to make tables and brooms "dance."
As a young boy Edgar attended the Christian church and wanted to be a minister. He resolved to read the Bible through once for each year of his life. According to the account narrated by Edgar Cayce, at the age of 13 he was working on his thirteenth reading in his favorite place, a playhouse by a creek in the woods, when he heard a humming sound. He looked up to see a woman in brilliant white clothing with wings on her back standing in front of him. She said, "Your prayers have been answered, little boy. Tell me what it is you want most of all, so that I may give it to you." Though very frightened, he told her, "most of all I would like to be helpful to other people, especially children." Upon that the woman vanished.
He was a budding talent from then on. He had the capability to go to sleep by resting his head on books, and understand all the concepts in there and consequentially master his school lessons.
His most significant event which propagated him towards fame was when he acquired laryngitis. He had lost his speech and could only utter noises. A friend of his who was well acquainted with hypnosis put Edgar Cayce in a trance, and Edgar was able to prescribe a cure for his laryngitis. Indeed, it did work, Edgar's voice and throat were restored. Edgar went on to help several other people for their ailments. He once reccommended screws be placed into the kneecap of a construction worker whose leg was mauled in an accident, and the 'cure' had worked to restore his leg.
On October 9, 1910, The New York Times published an article about Edgar's healing capabilities, and after that several people requested readings. From then on, whenever a reading session was held where Edgar would be asked questions, he would place himself in a self-induced state of hypnosis, as if he were asleep, but he would speak aloud as if he was completely aware of his surroundings and wide awake, and provide insightful answers to virtually all of the questions put forth.
For many years the information dealt mainly with medical problems. Eventually the scope of his readings expanded to include such topics as meditation, dreams, reincarnation, and prophecy, where from he earned the nickname, "The Sleeping Prophet."
There are hundreds of seemingly insoluble cases in which Cayce provided answers, without ever meeting the patient. A girl in a faraway city was described to him as being ‘mad’. He explained that a wisdom tooth had impacted itself in a manner which affected certain nerves leading to her brain. He was right and the girl made a swift, full recovery. Today an X-ray could provide the answer, but Cayce diagnosed the problem in seconds without ever seeing the girl. At other times, he prescribed a long-forgotten or obselete medicine and then told the patient where he would find it; often in a musty warehouse or in some neglected corner of an old pharmacy. On occasion, he would recommend a patient to carry a stone with them, or to adopt a particular colour; stones, crystals and colours, he insisted, all vibrated and had particular atomic properties.
Cayce's Predictions
Cayce predicted the beginning and end of both the First and Second World Wars, and the lifting of the Depression in 1933. In the 1920s, he first warned of coming racial strife in the United States, and in 1939 he predicted the deaths of two presidents in office; "Ye are to have turmoils -- ye are to have strife between capital and labor. Ye are to have a division in thy own land, before ye have the second of the Presidents that next will not live through his office... a mob rule!" President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in office in April 1945. In November 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, when racial tensions in the United States were at their height. "Unless there is more give and take,"Cayce said, "consideration for those who produce, with better division of the excess profits from labor, there must be greater turmoil in the land."
In October 1935, Cayce spoke of the coming holocaust in Europe. The Austrians and Germans, he said, and later the Japanese, would take sides. "Thus an unseen force, gradually growing, must result in an almost direct opposition to the Nazi, or Aryan theme. This will gradually produce a growth of animosities. And unless there is interference by what many call supernatural forces and influences -- which are active in the affairs of nations and peoples -- the whole world as it were... will be set on fire by militaristic groups and people who are for power expansion."
Two of Cayce's major predictions concerned the futures of China and the Soviet Union, the world's great Communist giants. In 1944, he prophesied that China would one day be "the cradle of Christianity as applied in the lives of men." Through Russia, he said "comes the hope of the world. Not in respect to what is sometimes termed Communism or Bolshevism -- no! But freedom -- freedom! That each man will live for his fellow man. The principle has been born there. It will take years for it to be crystallized; yet out of Russia comes again the hope of the world." Russia, he said, would be guided by friendship with the United States. Its attempt to rule "not only the economic, but the mental and spiritual life" of its people was doomed to failure.
Cayce also predicted the possibility of a third world war. He spoke of strifes arising "near the Davis Straits," and "in Libya, and in Egypt, in Ankara, and in Syria; through the straits around those areas above Australia, in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf." When asked in June 1943 whether it would be feasible to work towards an international currency or a stabilization of international exchange levels when the war had ended, Cayce replied that it would be a long, long time before this would happen. Indeed, he said, "there may be another war over just such conditions."
Cayce and Atlantis
A major portion of the prophecies of Edgar Cayce were in relation to the lost continent of Atlantis. He maintained that Atlantis had a civilization which was technologically superior to our own, and that its last surviving islands had disappeared in the area of the Caribbean some ten thousand years ago. Cayce insisted that the sunken continent would be rediscovered in our time; he seemed certain that, in 1968 or 1969, a portion of an Atlantean temple would be found underwater in the Bahamas, and an ancient healing spring would be rediscovered on Bimini Island. Over the years, archæologists and various teams of divers have spent a huge amount of time and no small fortune searching for these locations… to no avail. Yet, in September 1968 (the year that Cayce specified), Doctor J Manson Valentine discovered what looked like blocks of stone in deep water off the Bahamas. They appeared to have been carefully laid to form a causeway 1,600ft (488m) long, and 300ft (91m) wide. An adjacent line of blocks formed a ‘J’ shape. Believers assumed this was the work of Atlanteans, and theories abounded as to what these underwater causeways were – part of a sea defence, perhaps, or docks. So far, repeated, painstaking explorations have shown that the causeways lead nowhere and skeptics regard them as natural, albeit unusual, fragmentation of rock on the seabed. Whether this is a "road" or a"natural, geological erosion" is being hotly debated.
In further readings about Atlantis, Cayce outlined its history, its social structure and religious beliefs. A great war between two factions – one spiritual and the other hedonistic – led to the eventual destruction of the continent itself; but not before Atlantean culture had permeated the whole world.
According to Cayce, the Atlanteans discovered electricity around 50,000 BC and harnessed the power of the atom, which they judged unstable, abandoning it in favour of an alternative power source, a ‘Great Crystal’. The Atlantean race was telepathic, he said, and making a ‘comeback’ – reincarnating in the modern era, as he had done. He even admitted that he had once lived in Atlantis as a priest-healer called ‘Ra-Ta’.
Cayce said the size of Atlantis was equal to "that of Europe, including Asia in Europe." He saw visions of a continent which had gone through three major periods of division; the first two about 15,600 BCE, when the mainland was divided into islands. The three main islands Cayce named Poseida, Og and Aryan. He said the Atlanteans had constructed giant laser-like crystals for power plants, and that these had been responsible for the second destruction of the land. Cayce blamed the final destruction on the disintegration of the Atlantean culture through greed and lust. But before the legendary land disappeared under the waves, Cayce believed there was an exodus of many Atlanteans through Egypt and further afield. Cayce attributed history's Great Flood in part to the sinking of the last huge remnants of Atlantis.
Cayce and The Sphinx
Cayce's theories on the end times of this planet are very enlightening and show a global major change in 1998. He prophecized the Sphinx had been built in 10,500 BC and that survivors of Atlantis had concealed beneath it a "Hall of Records" containing all the wisdom of their lost civilization and the true history of the human race. Cayce prophesied that this Hall of Records would be rediscovered and opened between 1996 and 1998. He connected the opening to the second coming of Christ. This was called the Age of Aquarius, an era of peace and harmony ushered in by Jesus Christ hiimself.
Cayce might well have been right, however, about the pyramids’ age. He said they were built around 10,500BC; older than most people thought. He also believed that there was more of interest below ground than above it, and that the Sphinx may be the gate into a massive subterranean complex. This complex includes the Atlantean Library, the corpse of Akhenaten and a sealed room dubbed by Cayce ‘The Hall of Records’. This was dismissed as fanciful speculation until the recent discovery – by Chicago University professor Mark Lehner – of an unexplored shaft in the Great Pyramid, leading to renewed speculation that some internal ‘walls’ might be false fronts for other chambers.
Needless to say, this particular prediction of Cayce's turned out to be false. Nothing was discovered in 2001 as per the prophecy. Cayce's followers, however, remain undeterred and firmly believe that the Library will come to light soon. And when it is found, they say, only those fit to understand it, and with appropriately heightened senses, will be able to access it. Cynics and those deemed unworthy will see merely an empty chamber. In addition, the tablets on which the information is encoded will appear blank to anyone who approaches them in the wrong frame of mind.
Cayce's Visions of the Future
As far as the future of the world was concerned, he predicted a lot of upheaval and turmoil. Some of these were about dramatic changes in the Earth's surface in the period of 1958 to 1998. The cause of these he put down to a tilting in the Earth's rotational axis "so that where there has been a frigid or semi-tropical climate, there will be a more tropical one, and moss and fern will grow," which he said would begin in 1936 and finally occur in 2001 (which of course hasn't happened yet).
The first sign of this change in the Earth's core would be the "breaking up of some conditions" in the South Pacific and "sinking or rising" in the Mediterranean or Etna area. Cayce forecast that, by the end of the century, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco would be destroyed. He said that "the greater portion of Japan must go into the sea" at this time, and that northern Europe would be "changed as in the twinkling of an eye." In 1941, Cayce predicted that lands would appear in the Atlantic and the Pacific in the coming years, and that "the coastline now of many a land will be the bed of the ocean. Even many of the battlefields of (1941) will be ocean, will be the sea, the bays, the lands over which the new order will carry on their trade as with one another."
"Watch New York, Connecticut and the like. Many portions of the east coast will be disturbed, as well as many portions of the west coast, as well as the central portion of the United States. Los Angeles, San Francisco, most of all these will be among those that will be destroyed before New York, or New York City itself, will in the main disappear. This will be another generation though, here; while the southern portions of Carolina, Georgia, these will disappear. This will be much sooner. The waters of the Great Lakes will empty into the Gulf of Mexico."
Cayce's Final Prophecy
Edgar Cayce's final prophecy, given on 17 September 1944, was for himself. He was now receiving thousands of requests for assistance. His own readings had repeatedly warned him that he should not try to undertake more than two sessions a day. But many of the letters he received were from mothers worried about their sons on the battlefields, and Cayce felt he could not refuse them his aid. His last reading told him that the time had come for him to stop working and rest. On New Year's Day, 1945, he announced that he would be buried on the fifth of January. He was right.
After Cayce's Death
Cayce has become a US institution, the best-known psychic in US history. Fifty-seven years after his death, he still makes the news – even if it has to be invented. In December 2000, journalist Randy Jeffries claimed, in the Weekly World News, that Cayce’s body had been exhumed and his remains DNA-tested. Cayce’s body was, indeed, in the coffin (there had apparently been some doubt), but researchers got a bonus – they found a sheaf of ‘new’ predictions tucked away with the corpse.
They included: a woman president of the USA, a plague of venomous snakes, cures for cancer, horrendously disfiguring new diseases, tidal waves and much more. As the list goes on, the predictions become ever more bizarre; in February 2003, for example, Christ will reappear as a 12-year-old boy floating on a cloud. After a few years of teaching and ministry, says the WWN, He will become a showman, performing resurrections on American TV, with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in attendance. Not long after this the end of the world will occur (and thank goodness for that).
List of Prophecies
Click here for a longer, pointwise list of his prophecies. It's not a complete list, but I've mentioned the most interesting ones in there.
