Edgar Cayce In the table below, you will find an index of articles  on Edgar Cayce, and a short description of each. The viewpoints expressed are those of the author and not necessarily those of WolfStone. All articles can be found on this page by simply scrolling down to the appropriate article number of interest. This is a work in progress so please come back frequently. To get back to the main article index, just click on the "articles" link at the bottom of the page. Namaste! Article 1 The Legacy of Edgar Cyace By S. Nathan Stein, January 19, 2007 Description: In this fascinating overview, you will read about about an ordinary man named Edgar Cayce, who exhibited one of the most extraordinary psychic talents of all time. Called "The Sleeping Prophet", "The Father of Modern Holistic Medicine", "The World's Most Mysterious Man", "The Miracle Man Of Virginia Beach" and by many other epithets, Edgar Cayce nearly single handedly ushered in the New Age. Consistently proven ahead of his time, Edgar Cayce provided us with a legacy of inestimable value that has been documented in more than 14,000 transcripts of sessions he conducted over more than 43 years of his adult life.  If you have an interest in spirituality, metaphysics or holistic healing, and have not yet heard of him, this is a must read article! Enjoy!                             Article 1 The Legacy of Edgar Cyace By S. Nathan Stein, January 19, 2007    Edgar Cayce who was born in Kentucky in 1877 and died in 1945 was in many respects an ordinary person. He was a caring person, devoted family man, a photographer by trade, an avid gardener and a Sunday school teacher. He was not highly educated, having only an eight grade education. Nor was he rich or well connected. He also had humble beginnings as the son of Kentucky tobacco farmers.  Cayce was also a humble person and claimed no special abilities throughout his life nor did he ever consider himself to be some kind of twentieth century prophet.  He did not leave his writings behind, except perhaps for some letters and journals.  He did not leave his family or friends a large financial estate nor did he endow institutions philanthropically.  You could say that his conscious achievements while exemplary for the most part, were modest by many standards.  Yet paradoxically, it was literally his unconscious achievements that were and remain today, a legacy of inestimable value.      For 43 years of his adult life, Edgar Cayce was anything but ordinary; when he lay down on his couch, in response to written requests for information form him. Cayce would loosen his collar, fold his hand over his stomach and entered a deep self - induced trance like meditative state and give accurate and helpful information on a virtually unlimited range of subjects.   Typically questions were put to him by his wife, while his secretary, Gladys Davis Turner, would steno graphically transcribe the questions and responses.  The transcripts of this psychically given information are called `readings' and there were more than 14,000 of these in all.     For many years the information requested of Edgar Cayce related mainly to physical ills. Cayce rapidly became a medical phenomenon because of the repeated accuracy of his diagnoses and the effectiveness of the some times unorthodox treatments he prescribed. The fact that he needed only the name and current location of an individual anywhere in the world in order to give a careful diagnosis of the physical condition compounded the mystery. Even to this day, people have found physical help from information Cayce gave about 90 years ago.    Yet, even though he was best known for this information, the entranced Cayce did not seem to be limited to concerns about the physical body.  Eventually the scope of his work expanded to include information and advice on thousands of subjects, including mental and spiritual counsel, metaphysics, parapsychology, religion, and prophecy of personal and world events. In fact, when all the readings are considered, there were an astonishing number of 10,00 different subjects.   An organization was eventually formed in Virginia Beach, Virginia, known as the Association for Research And Enlightenment (ARE), to house and safeguard these records and related materials.  They were also to function to disseminate the work and make it available to researchers.  Today the ARE sponsors lectures, seminars, conferences and other events around the world. Researchers in a large number of different fields of knowledge continue to study this body of knowledge.                 According to the ARE, "Edgar Cayce (1877-1945) manifested one of the truly remarkable psychic talents of all time. Today there are more than a dozen biographers and 300 book titles and literally thousands of articles that stand as evidence of the importance of his work and the impact he had on the latter part of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty first century. This man who has been called “ The Father Of Modern Holistic Medicine”, “The Sleeping Prophet”, “The Miracle Man Of Virginia Beach” and “The World's Most Mysterious Man”, almost single handedly ushered in the ‘New Age’.  Sixty years ago who could have known that such terms as “meditation”, “akashic records”, “spiritual growth”, “auras”, “soul mates,” and “holism” would become household words to hundreds of thousands?    Cayce was a man well ahead of his time and what he had to say was frequently proven through future research and applications. While this was true of many subject areas in the Cayce readings, it was especially prevalent in the health readings. For example, basic health principles discussed in the readings included maintaining a well balanced diet, need for regular exercise, the importance of relaxation and recreation as part of a balanced life style, and the desirability of keeping our physical body cleansed on the inside and out. The readings stressed the importance of health maintenance and preventative medicine rather than treatment of illness as it arose. Cayce was one of the first individuals in the Western Hemisphere to recommend a nutritious diet consisting mainly of vegetables, fish and fowl, plus sufficient water each day to promote internal cleansing. It is important to point out that at the time these dietary recommendations were give much of the country had a diet consisting of great quantities of red meat and starches. Also, In addition to insights into energy medicine given by Cayce more than 4 decades ago, he also discussed the role of attitudes and emotions, the effects of prayer and spiritual healing.  The “Sleeping Prophet” also foresaw advances in the way we treat disease. In 1927 for example he said: “The day may yet arrive when one may take a drop of blood and diagnose the condition of any physical body” (reading 283-2). Today of course, this is commonplace.  The reading also saw total health as involving coordination among the physical, mental and spiritual sides of a person’s life. An approach to health had to consider the person’s entire being and not just address illness. Because of these concepts, it has been said that the beginnings of present day holistic health started from the Cayce readings.    The Readings themselves never offered a set of beliefs that had to be embraced, but instead focused on the fact that each person should test in his or own life the principles presented.  Indeed, his work stressed the importance of comparative study among belief systems all over the world. According to Kevin Todeschi, a Cayce author: “An underlying principle of the readings is the oneness of all life, tolerance for all people, and a compassion and understanding for every major religion in the world”.