Edgar Cayce, America's sleeping prophet

[DreamAddict]

I noticed little is mentioned here about Edgar Cayce. He is known as “the Sleeping Prophet” because he could enter the dreaming state consciously and tap into information to share with the waking world. I think he was a person to truly utilize the potential of dreams. I think we have a lot to learn from him.

https://forteantimes.com/articles/165_cayce.shtml

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A ‘Sleeping Prophet’ fell into a light trance resembling sleep, but spoke clearly and loudly as though awake. Cayce’s method was to go into a self-induced sleep and answer questions that were put to him, either directly or via a secretary. As his fame grew, the queues for a sitting became longer, and included such public figures as Houdini and Edith Wilson (wife of President Woodrow Wilson).

In these trances, Cayce spoke about nearly everything: including the genesis of man, the nature of the soul, medical remedies, auras, reincarnation, the future for mankind, the Bible, Christ’s work on Earth, dreams, out-of-body experiences, precognition, retro-cognition, demonology, psychometry, and many other occult subjects. He also commented on the Dead Sea Scrolls and made predictions for World War II, the Millennium and beyond, as well as a bizarre blueprint for a ‘no-fuel motor’.

In his waking hours he issued warnings to various people who, he believed, were in imminent danger, gave clairvoyant sittings, interpreted dreams, and dispensed a good deal of common-sense advice. In his lifetime he was labelled ‘The Father of Holistic Medicine’ and ‘The most mysterious man in America’. J Edgar Hoover allegedly had him closely watched, and the FBI is said to have taken a great interest in the ‘no-fuel motor’. However, even as Cayce was describing the engine, it was clear that it would never work. Subsequently, he blamed the failure on the camshafts, then the bearings and then what he called the “sprangles”. In the end he gave up, saying modern technology was too backward, but that one day his motor would be understood.
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Dreams were a Cayce speciality: he believed they were a way of communicating with the dead and with the ‘higher self’. Dreams could contain hidden clues or warnings, and sometimes were the key to ‘Akashic’ records – referring to the Theosophical idea of a mystical ‘log book’ of a person’s incarnations. [color=darkred]He was a great advocate of the ‘dream diary’, advising us all to keep a pad by the bedside and to write down the dream’s details on waking[/color][/size].

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Edgar Cayce, by all accounts, was a quiet, neat man, who had allegedly survived a near-death experience as a child, after which his abilities became more prominent. It seems that he had no need to study; he simply went to sleep with a book under his pillow and its content was absorbed by his mind. He vowed to read the Bible cover to cover at least once a year; prayer was an important part of his daily regime and a prerequisite for his cures.
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These are excerpts from the article found from the above URL. I think the full article gives an unbias view of the intriguing predictions made by Cayce. … and some a little bizzare such as:

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Cayce has become a US institution, the best-known psychic in the country’s 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 (perhaps thankfully) the end of the world will occur.
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Jesus Christ superstar! oh yes, I would be thankful if the world ended soon after that.

I’d like to find a list of the predictions Cayce has predicted correctly. I don’t think the future is set in stone. So although some predictions may be off or inaccurate, I still think we have lots to learn from him.

I think he was more of a healer than a prophet. He helped many people with alternative health practices using stones, colors, crystals, or other natural methods. He seemed more successful at this than some of his bizarre predictions.

You can learn more about Cacye here:
edgarcayce.org/Edgar-Cayce.html

Enjoy!

[mystic]

Yeah I’ve read about him. He seemed to have some amazing powers though I don’t really have an opinion on him. I knew about him because in the 1930s he prophesied pieces of Atlantis would be found near the Bimini atoll in the Bahamas. That would happen in the year 1968 or 1969. And indeed in 1968 divers found large underwater structures (the Great Bimini Wall) which seemed manmade and disappeared below the surface. Those divers apparently never knew about the predictions of Cayce.
Yeah he was a very intriguing man… Thx for bringing up the topic