1. Edgar Cayce was an American clairvoyant who claimed to diagnose diseases and recommend treatments for ailments while asleep.
91 Facts About Edgar Cayce
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Edgar Cayce described himself as a devout Christian and denied being a Spiritualist or communicating with spirits.
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Edgar Cayce is regarded as a founder and a principal source of many characteristic beliefs of the New Age movement.
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In 1931, Edgar Cayce founded a non-profit organization, the Association for Research and Enlightenment.
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In 1942, a popular and highly-sympathetic biography of Edgar Cayce titled There is a River was published by journalist Thomas Sugrue.
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Edgar Cayce was influenced by a variety of traditions and sources.
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Edgar Cayce first achieved local notoriety for having lost his voice yet having been able to speak during hypnosis.
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In 1910, Ketchum's description of Edgar Cayce's readings was covered in a widely reprinted story in the New York Times.
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An October 10,1922 Birmingham Post-Herald article quotes Edgar Cayce as saying that he had given 8,056 readings to date.
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Edgar Cayce recorded some 13,000 to 14,000 readings after that date.
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Edgar Cayce was born on March 18,1877, in Christian County, Kentucky.
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In December 1893, the Edgar Cayce family moved to Hopkinsville, Kentucky; they lived at 705 West Seventh, on the southeast corner of Seventh and Young Streets.
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Edgar Cayce's education ended in ninth grade because his family could not afford the cost.
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On March 14,1897, Edgar Cayce became engaged to Gertrude Evans.
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Edgar Cayce began an apprenticeship at the photography studio of W R Bowles in Hopkinsville, and became proficient in his trade.
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In May 1900, the local paper reported that Edgar Cayce had been unable to speak above a whisper except when under hypnosis, when his voice returned.
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On February 12,1901, papers reported Edgar Cayce had awoken with his voice spontaneously and inexplicably recovered.
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In May 1902, Edgar Cayce got a job in a bookshop in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
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Edgar Cayce denied being a spiritualist, saying he was an active member of the Christian Church.
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In 1904, Edgar Cayce claimed he had developed the card game Pit and sent it to Parker Brothers.
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Edgar Cayce's first son was born on March 16,1907.
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On October 10,1910, Edgar Cayce was profiled by The New York Times in a story titled "Illiterate Man Becomes a Doctor When Hypnotized".
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Edgar Cayce usually goes into minute detail in diagnosing a case, and especially if it is a very serious case.
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Edgar Cayce's language is usually of the best, and his psychologic terms and description of the nervous anatomy would do credit to any professor of nervous anatomy, and there is no faltering in his speech and all his statements are clear and concise.
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Edgar Cayce handles the most complex 'jaw breakers' with as much ease as any Boston physician, which to me is quite wonderful, in view of the fact that while in his normal state he is an illiterate man, especially along the line of medicine, surgery, or pharmacy, of which he knows nothing.
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In 1911, press accounts told of Layne having cured Edgar Cayce by consulting Edgar Cayce's own reading while under hypnosis.
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On July 31,1912, Edgar Cayce was elected as an officer of a Sunday School organization in Selma.
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In February 1915, local papers reported Edgar Cayce's voice had returned after three months of silence.
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On February 8,1917, an event in New York was held supposedly receiving a telepathic message from Edgar Cayce, who was in Alabama.
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In 1920, Edgar Cayce's claims were published along with a suggestion that he would soon host Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Edgar Cayce's increasing popularity attracted entrepreneurs who wanted to use his reported clairvoyance.
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From 1920 to 1922, Edgar Cayce participated in attempts to use psychic powers to drill oil wells in San Saba, Texas.
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In June 1922, Edgar Cayce advertised free baby picture day at his studio in Selma.
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On October 10,1922, Edgar Cayce was profiled about his medical clairvoyance.
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Arthur Lammers, a wealthy printer and student of metaphysics, persuaded Edgar Cayce to give readings on philosophical subjects in 1923.
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Edgar Cayce told Cayce that in his trance state, he spoke about Lammers' past lives and reincarnation.
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Edgar Cayce challenged Lammers' statement that he had validated astrology and reincarnation:.
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Edgar Cayce was unconvinced that he had been referring to reincarnation, but Lammers believed that the reading "open[ed] up the door" and continued to share his beliefs and knowledge with him.
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Lammers asked Edgar Cayce to come to Dayton, Ohio to pursue metaphysical truth via the readings, and Edgar Cayce eventually agreed.
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Edgar Cayce produced considerable metaphysical information in Dayton, which he tried to reconcile with Christianity.
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Edgar Cayce decided to accept the work, and asked his family to join him in Dayton as soon as possible.
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Edgar Cayce reported that in a trance in 1925, "the voice" advised him to move to Virginia Beach, Virginia.
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Edgar Cayce was secretary and treasurer, and Gladys was assistant secretary.
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Shankar A Bhisey, a chemist who used "clairvoyant knowledge" to produce medicines, collaborated with Cayce to produce atomidine.
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Edgar Cayce ended his support of the university after the first semester, and closed the association on February 26,1931.
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Edgar Cayce removed the files of his readings from the hospital and brought them home.
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In 1931, Edgar Cayce promoted a quack medicine formulation called Atomidine or nascent iodine.
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In February 1932, Edgar Cayce gave a public lecture on the "Lost Continent of Atlantis".
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Speakers discussed metaphysical and psychic subjects, and Edgar Cayce performed public readings.
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From 1932 to 1936, Edgar Cayce predicted that the year 1936 would be a year of cataclysmic changes.
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In February 1933, Edgar Cayce predicted that San Francisco would be destroyed by earthquake in 1936.
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In 1935, they were again arrested, this time in Detroit for practicing medicine without a license; Edgar Cayce was given probation.
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In January 1936, Edgar Cayce gave a reading predicting the destruction of Los Angeles and San Francisco, followed by New York City.
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At an early age as a child I declared myself to be Edgar Cayce who had lived 200 years before.
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Many records of my work as Edgar Cayce were discovered and collected.
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Edgar Cayce was frightened, but he said that most of all he wanted to help others, especially sick children.
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Edgar Cayce decided he would like to be a missionary.
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At that point, Edgar Cayce 'heard' the voice of the lady who had appeared the day before.
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Edgar Cayce told him that if he could sleep a little 'they' could help him.
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Edgar Cayce begged for a rest and put his head on the spelling book.
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Edgar Cayce's father thought he had been fooling before and knocked him out of the chair again.
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On being questioned, Edgar Cayce told the teacher that he saw pictures of the pages in the books.
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Edgar Cayce's father became proud of this accomplishment and spread it around, resulting in Cayce becoming "different" from his peers.
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Edgar Cayce was struck on the base of the spine by a ball in a school game, after which he began to act very strangely, and eventually was put to bed.
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Edgar Cayce went to sleep and diagnosed the cure, which his family prepared and which cured him as he slept.
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Edgar Cayce told Layne to give him a suggestion to increase blood circulation to his throat.
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Layne asked Edgar Cayce to describe Layne's ailments and suggest cures, and reportedly found the results accurate and effective.
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Edgar Cayce was reluctant, since he had no idea what he was prescribing while asleep and did not know if his remedies were safe.
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Edgar Cayce told Layne that he did not want to know anything about a patient, since it was not relevant.
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Edgar Cayce agreed on the condition that readings would be free, and specified that if the readings ever hurt anyone, he would never do another.
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Edgar Cayce began, with Layne's help, to offer free treatments to the townspeople.
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Reports of Edgar Cayce's work appeared in newspapers, which prompted a number of postal inquiries.
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Edgar Cayce said that he could work as effectively with a letter from an individual as with a person present in the room.
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Edgar Cayce was still reticent and worried, because "one dead patient was all he needed to become a murderer".
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Edgar Cayce's fiancee agreed, and few people knew what he was doing.
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Edgar Cayce attained further national prominence in 1943 after the publication of "Miracle Man of Virginia Beach" in Coronet magazine.
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From June 1943 to June 1944, Edgar Cayce did 1,385 readings.
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In 1967, journalist Jess Stearn authored a Edgar Cayce biography titled The Sleeping Prophet.
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In 1970, David Kahn's work My Life With Edgar Cayce was posthumously published.
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In 1978, Edgar Cayce's followers reported a collaboration with Stanford Research Institute, a psychic research group unaffiliated with Stanford University.
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Edgar Cayce advocated pseudohistorical ideas in his trance readings, such as the existence of lost continents Lemuria, Mu and Atlantis and the discredited theory of polygenism.
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Edgar Cayce accepted the existence of aliens and Atlantis, and believed that "soul-entities" on Earth intermingled with animals to produce "things" such as giants which were as tall as 12 feet.
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Edgar Cayce predicted "Earth Changes", a series of cataclysmic events including a polar shift that would lead Atlantis to rise from the sea.
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Edgar Cayce predicted that the Second Coming of Christ would occur in 1998.
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Science writers and skeptics say that Edgar Cayce's reported psychic abilities were faked or non-existent.
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Evidence of Edgar Cayce's reported clairvoyance was derived from newspaper articles, affidavits, anecdotes, testimonials and books, rather than empirical evidence which can be independently evaluated.
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Frequently, Edgar Cayce was even wider off the mark, as when he provided diagnoses of subjects who had died since the letters requesting the readings were sent.
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Many of Edgar Cayce's readings took place after the patient had already died.
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Edgar Cayce advocated the pseudoscientific ideas of food combining and the alkaline diet.
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Edgar Cayce stated that certain foods should not be eaten together for example, milk cannot be consumed with citrus fruits, coffee must not be taken with cream or milk and sugary foods cannot be taken with starchy foods.
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Edgar Cayce held the view that even nutritious foods can poison the body if the person is in a negative frame of mind.