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Edgar Cayce
-The Man- -The Man- Edgar Cayce, known as the "sleeping prophet," was a truly remarkable individual with highly accurate psychic powers. Born in 1877, he grew up in the farm country of Kentucky. As a young child, he often told his parents that he was able to see and talk to "visions," including those of relatives who had died. While sitting alone in the woods one day,
a woman appeared before him. She asked what he would like to do with his
life. He answered "most of all I would like to be helpful to others,
especially to children when they are sick." Suddenly, the woman
disappeared just as mysteriously as she first came into view. Little did
he know how that wish, made from the heart at such a young age, would
someday come true for him. Approximately 9,000 of Cayce's readings
were for medical purposes. Several more thousand dealt with people's
lives (life readings), while the remainder covered various topics
related to metaphysical, spiritual and other matters. He never solicited
a fee for these readings. What was truly unique about his clinical
diagnoses and cures was that the medical terms he often used required an
extensive medical background, for which he had none. In 1943, a book called "There is a
River" was published about his life story, which has yet to
go out of print. Other books followed about his medical insights and
life teachings and, to date, well over 400 of them have been published
in the United States alone. Of those 400, at least 50 of them have been
written by MD's and Ph.D.'s. The Cayce readings have now been entered
into a computer and put on CD-ROM. They contain approximately 78 million
words, or about the equivalent of 870 books. It takes 12 cases of Xerox
paper to print out the entire set of readings, about 140,000 pages in
all. If they were stacked on top of one another, the pile would reach
about 40 feet high. Laid end to end, the paper trail would go on for
approximately 19 miles! The holistic form of medical treatment goes well beyond the normal methods of health care, which put most of the focus on treating the disease. Holistic healing takes into consideration the mind, body and spirit of the patient, in other words the "whole" individual and is the same general approach used by Edgar Cayce. In addition to his health related
readings, Cayce's predictions of future events have also established a
high degree of accuracy, which is difficult to ignore. Was he a mad man,
a quack, a charlatan? I hardly believe so. Even though his readings were
not totally accurate, the vast majority of them were. As a result, I
take him quite seriously and give serious consideration to what he has
to say. Millions of people do. In addition, final decisions about the purpose of the information should be our own and they must not say that their message is the only way to knowledge and wisdom. Finally, the person, the source of the information and the communication itself has to "feel" right. The heart can advise us well here. At that point, I take it in with an open mind and draw my own conclusions about their content, meaning and intent. Edgar Cayce meets all of my criteria and more.
What also makes Edgar Cayce an interesting
study is that he was a devout Christian who not only taught Sunday
school, but also read the entire Bible, cover to cover, once each year
for every year of his life. His description of creation and Genesis,
obtained while in trance, is quite different and far more complex than
that found in the Bible. Over the ages these same spirits or "fallen angels" were seduced by the physical world. Slowly but surely they identified more and more with the various life-forms that existed. In the process, they lost their balance and found themselves behaving more materialistic than spiritual as a result of it. Instead of bringing a sense of the divine
to the material world these fallen spirits became trapped, "hardened,"
and "set in." Eventually, they forgot their God-consciousness and tried
to form their own earthly kingdoms apart from God. This has been
referred to as the Fall of Mankind. The second group of souls, called the Sons
of God, were brought to Earth by Amilius (Jesus' first human incarnation
as the biblical Adam), perhaps as many as 200,000 to 1 million years
ago, in order to lead the lost ones back to an awareness of their
Creator. At this same time the separation of sexes occurred when male
and female entities began to manifest in physical form. Overall, the soul would have many opportunities to balance the spiritual, mental and physical aspects of being human, at which point it would no longer be necessary to occupy a 3-dimensional physical body for another lifetime. As a part of the plan to develop a suitable physical body for the lost souls, the five races of "man" were brought forth simultaneously and at different locations on our planet. During Cayce's trance, the questions and answers regarding the five races went as follows:
The readings suggest that the five races were pre-human creatures who evolved into the modern version of man we are familiar with today. As an interesting aside, a recent article in the prestigious scientific journal, Nature, describes the discovery of an ancient primate in Thailand, which indicates that humanity’s closest cousins developed in several different places at once. This discovery also adds further strength to the growing argument that humans evolved in several different places at the same time rather than in Africa alone. Just how long it took for the five races to mature and develop is unknown. Cayce also said that the these versions of pre-man existed on our planet before "Adam" first appeared some 200,000 years ago in Atlantis. And it was through this Adam that Jesus first manifested in physical form. The eyebrows raise even higher with Edgar Cayce's information when we look at more of the 650 or so life readings he gave for Atlantis as well as a few touching on Lemuria. Let’s start with Lemuria, a large continent that Cayce said existed before Atlantis perhaps as many as 300,000 to 1 million years ago. It was located in the general area of Southern California and the pacific coast of South America, from which it extended westward into the Pacific Ocean. Over time, Lemuria became inhabited by many creatures including "pre-man" whose culture eventually reached a point of development comparable to the stone age. At some point before the emergence of Atlantis, the pacific continent of Lemuria was destroyed in a series of earthly cataclysms. The description of man’s emergence on Earth continues when, some 200,000 years ago, the spirit forms in Atlantis gradually became full-time material beings and established a culture there. Edgar Cayce described this land mass and its location as follows: "The position… the continent of Atlantis occupied is between the Gulf of Mexico on the one hand and the Mediterranean upon the other. Evidences of this lost civilization are to be found in the Pyrenees and Morocco, British Honduras, Yucatan and America. There are some protruding portions… that must have at one time or another been a portion of this great continent. The British West Indies, or the Bahamas, are a portion of same that may be seen in the present. If the geological survey would be made in some of these especially, or notably in Bimini and in the Gulf Stream through this vicinity, these may be even yet determined." (364-3) Cayce’s description of Atlantis, being situated at one time in the Atlantic Ocean, is interesting because it is similar to the general location given for it by others in our historical past. In addition, there are a number of myths and folklore descriptions found in the ancient cultures of North, Central and South America which also refer to an "island" that used to exist to the south or east of their lands, presumably in the Atlantic. When one considers the evidence, and there is a lot available to think about, all fingers point to an island continent that was located in the Atlantic during ancient times. Exactly where, and how far east and south it may have extended, is still debatable. Edgar Cayce’s description of early life in Atlantis indicates that spirit beings continued to project themselves into existing life-forms, especially those of evolving human-like creatures, in order to get closer to and experience the material world through the five senses. The longer these wayward spirits stayed in flesh form over the ages the more difficult it became to move in and out of the material bodies they occupied. Eventually, these souls identified too closely with the bodies they shared and found themselves trapped in the cycle of birth and death. At that point, they were subject to the physical laws of the universe, which includes the wheel of karma and reincarnation. Who were the human-like creatures these spirits projected into? Were they one of mankind’s close pre-human cousins that appeared simultaneously as the five different races? Is it possible that they were the early human versions of the red race that Cayce said originated in Atlantis? Since he was never asked these questions while in trance, we have no direct answers for them at this moment in time. Other things were also happening during the beginning of Atlantean times, part of which dealt with sexuality and the path our male and female identities appeared to take, when switching from the spirit realms to the physical world. In a reading he gave for one individual, Cayce said: "In Atlantean land in those periods before Adam was in the earth among those who were then thought projections and the physical being had the union of sex in one body…" (5056-1) I find this interesting because it implies that by having "the union of sex in one body" the spirit beings were probably androgynous while in their earlier non-physical form. Androgyny is not new. A number of Eastern mystical teachings also point to our male and female oneness or combined sexuality, while we inhabit our natural form, the spirit body. Evidently, during the early stages of material existence for those beings in Atlantis, it remained that way. However, this must have changed over time because, in other readings, Cayce visits the subject of sexuality again, but this time the female and male portions have ruptured and split, as a result of remaining in a physical body: "in Atlantean land when there were the separation of bodies as male and female." (2121-2), "in Atlantean land when there was the first division of sexes among first offspring of such division, first of princesses of that period." (2753-2) These readings also suggest that part of the price to be paid for taking on a physical body is a division of sexuality. If such is the case, is this when the split between twin souls began or did the separation take place at an earlier time? We’ll explore this later on. The division in sexuality at the physical body level also had its problems. Over time many, but not all of the Sons of God who came to the aid of the lost souls, lost sight of their spiritual origins and values. The physical world had cast its intoxicating spell once again. What was their undoing while in physical form? It was an involvement with sex. With whom? The "daughters of men" who were part of the group that had fallen into materialism. Cayce had this to say: "In Atlantean
land when there were those disturbing forces - or just previous to the
first disturbing forces that brought the first destruction in the
continent… These were the periods termed in scripture when, ‘the sons of
God looked upon the daughters of men and saw them as fair.’" As mentioned, the lost souls, referred to as the Sons of Man, were still loved by the Sons of God, who were forced to take on a material form in order to help their friends. As a result, a mixed population of humans, with two distinctly different mindsets, evolved over the ages in Atlantis. One group was caught up in the delights of materialism and selfish desires and showed little respect for the environment. The other group was spiritually oriented with just the opposite motives. Does this sound familiar? When we look out at the world today, it is becoming quite clear that two distinct groups are also forming and the "tape" is playing over again. This is not surprising. Not only do individuals have karma and many lives, but so do groups of people, as well as whole civilizations. According to Cayce, many of the individuals who were Atlanteans are here again today, with yet another opportunity to make higher and wiser choices.
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