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Cayce, Edgar (1877-1945)
Outstanding American
psychic
healer with very personal ways of curing others, who left a legacy of
treatments and remedies still in use decades after his death in 1945.
Besides
being a healer, Cayce was also a clairvoyant,
mystic, prophet, and a theorist on reincarnation
and Atlantis.
Cayce was born on March 18, 1877, in Hopkinsville,
Kentucky, the son of businessman. He grew up in rural Kentucky and received only
a limited formal education. He was a member of the Christian Church (Disciples
of Christ).
As an adult Cayce began a career as a photographer,
but his life took a radically different direction in 1898, after he developed a
case of laryngitis. He was hypnotized by a friend and, while under
trance, prescribed a cure that worked. Neighbors
heard of the event and asked Cayce to do similar readings for them. In 1909
he did a reading in which he diagnosed and cured a homeopathic physician, Dr.
Wesley Ketchum. Ketchum arranged for periodic sittings in which Cayce, who had
learned by this time to go into trance without the assistance of a hypnotist,
offered his medical advice for the ill. During the next years Cayce gave
occasional sittings, but primarily worked in photography.
After going to Dayton Ohio on the invitation of
Theosophist Arthur Lammers, Cayce closed his photography shop and moved there,
and then in 1925 to Virginia Beach, Virginia, where he became a professional
psychic and healer. In 1931 he founded the
Association
for Research and Enlightenment at Virginia Beach to further his
work. With the resources generated by the association, complete records of
all the readings for the next 12 years were made. These formed a huge body of
material for future consideration, and more than any other characteristic make
Cayces career stand out above that of his contemporaries. Cayces readings were
later indexed, cross-referenced, and used as the basis of numerous books. Every year, large
numbers of people are still cured through his writings.
See
Rosicrucians,
The Chakra Store,
Casting Black Magic Spells,
Commanding Spirits,
The Tarot Store and
Divination & Scrying Tools and
Supplies.
Sources: (1)
Shepard, Leslie (editor),
Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology,
Thomson Gale; (2)
Dictionary of the
Occult, Caxton
Publishing; (3) Steiger, Brad and Sherry Hansen,
The Gale Encyclopedia of
the Unusual and Unexplained,
Thomson Gale.
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