Every year, tens of thousands of
people — from all over the world — become interested in the life work
of one ordinary man. He was an average individual in most respects:
a loving husband, a father of two children, a skilled photographer,
a devoted Sunday School teacher, and an avid gardener. Yet, throughout
his life, he also displayed one of the most remarkable psychic talents
of all time. His name was Edgar Cayce. 75 years ago in 1931 the organization
was founded that preserves and expands the work he started.
Daily for over forty years of his adult life, Cayce would lie down
on a couch with his hands folded over his stomach and allow himself
to enter a self-induced sleep state. Then, provided with the name and
location of an individual — anywhere in the world — he would speak in
a normal voice and give answers to any questions about that person that
he was asked. These answers, which are called "readings",
were written down by a stenographer, who kept one copy on file and sent
another to the person who had requested the information.
Today, on file at the library of the Association for Research and Enlightenment,
Inc., in Virginia Beach, Virginia, are copies of more than 14,000 of
Edgar Cayce’s readings. These are available to the public and have been
filed along with any follow-up reports received from the individuals
who had asked for the readings. This material represents the most massive
collection of psychic information ever obtained from a single source.
The organization, which continues to research the readings, has grown
from a few hundred supporters, at the time of Cayce’s death in 1945,
to one which is now, literally, worldwide. Countless individuals have
been touched by the life work of this man who was raised a simple farm
boy and yet became one of the most versatile and credible psychics the
world has ever known.
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Edgar Cayce was born near Hopkinsville, Kentucky, on March 18, 1877.
He had a normal childhood in most respects, one rich with the heritage
of 19th century farm life. One of five children, he grew up surrounded
by a large family with grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins living
nearby. Like many children, he had imaginary playmates, but they vanished
as he grew older. He was raised at a time when much of the country was
experiencing the excitement of religious revival meetings. This atmosphere
may have in part accounted for his lifelong interest in the Bible, and
even as a child his dream was to become a medical missionary. At that
early age no one would have ever guessed the unusual manner in which
his dream would become a reality.
At the age of six or seven, he told his parents that he could sometimes
see visions, occasionally talking to relatives who had recently died.
For the most part, his family attributed these experiences to his overactive
imagination and paid little attention to them. He found comfort in reading
the Bible and decided to read it through from cover to cover, once for
every year of his life. Its stories and characters thus became familiar
and very real to him. At the age of thirteen, he had a vision which
would influence him for the rest of his life: a beautiful woman appeared
to him and asked him what he most wanted in life. He told her that,
more than anything, he wanted to help others — especially children when
they were sick.
Shortly after the experience, Edgar displayed a talent that could no
longer be explained by his family in terms of the boy’s imagination.
Edgar could sleep on his school books and acquire a photographic memory
of their entire contents. It was found that he could sleep on any book,
paper or document, and upon awakening, be able to repeat back, word
for word, any length of material — even if it contained words which
were far beyond his limited education. The gift helped him in school,
but gradually faded. In order to financially help his parents, Edgar
left school at the age of sixteen and started working with an uncle
on his grandmother’s farm.
The following year, the family moved to Hopkinsville. Edgar got a job
at the bookstore on Main Street. A few months later, he met, and fell
in love with Gertrude Evans. They became engaged on March 14, 1897,
four days before Edgar’s twentieth birthday, and decided to marry when
he would be able to support a family.
In June of 1898, Edgar lost his job and worked for a while in a dry
goods firm before moving to Louisville, large city in Kentucky, where
he had obtained a better paying job in a bookstore. At Christmas 1899,
he went back to Hopkinsville and formed partnership with his father,
Leslie Cayce, who was then an insurance agent. Edgar became a traveling
salesman. At the turn of the century, almost twenty three years old,
he seemed to be doing quite well, selling insurance as well as books
and stationery, and he became confident that it wouldn’t be long before
he could afford to get married. However, one day, after taking a sedative,
he developed a severe case of laryngitis. He wasn’t really concerned
at first — after all, many people lose their voice for a day or two
— but the condition persisted. Doctors were called in and later on specialists,
but still Edgar was unable to speak above a whisper. As the days turned
into weeks, he was forced to give up his job as a salesman and look
for something else he could do that didn’t require much speaking.
He found the perfect job in Hopkinsville as a photographer’s assistant.
There he could be close to Gertrude and his family, and it wouldn’t
bother him so much that his condition was incurable. Although he was
often saddened by the fact that he had never been able to finish school
and become the doctor and preacher he had dreamed of, he found comfort
by reading his Bible and became content with the idea of settling down
with a wife and children.
At this time, hypnotism and stage shows were experiencing a renewed
revival in this country. One showman, who called himself "Hart
- the Laugh Man [King]," brought his comedy and hypnotism act to
the Hopkinsville Opera House. Although not a therapist, Hart was successful
and conscientious. When he heard about Edgar’s trouble, he accepted
as a challenge to try to cure his laryngitis. In a first session, Hart
hypnotized him and told him that he would be able to regain his voice.
To the amazement of everyone present, Edgar could respond to questions
in his normal voice. However, he didn’t take the posthypnotic suggestion,
and his hoarseness returned when Hart awakened him. The experiment was
attempted repeatedly by the visiting hypnotist; each time, Edgar was
able to speak normally in his sleep state. Nevertheless, when the young
man was told to wake up, his soft-spoken whisper returned. The local
papers became excited about the case. Even when Hart left Hopkinsville
because of other commitments, Edgar’s predicament was not forgotten.
Many people became convinced that somehow hypnotism was the cure to
Cayce’s difficulty.
Knowing that some patients under hypnosis showed powers of clairvoyance,
a New York specialist interested in the case advised to repeat the experiment
but, this time, instead of suggesting that the young man’s voice return,
ask Cayce to talk about his own problem. His parents were against the
idea. Ever since the first experiment with Hart, their son had lost
weight. It appeared as though the sessions were a drain on his physical
body. Gertrude let her fiancé make the decision, for with or
without his voice they could have a life together — and besides, Edgar
rather liked working with photography.
Edgar consented to one further test. A local man, Al Layne, was found
to give the suggestions. Layne had educated himself. Not only had he
worked with hypnotism, but he was familiar with osteopathy as well.
Edgar offered to put himself to sleep — much as he had done when he
had slept on his school books. Once he was asleep on the couch, Layne
asked him to explain what was wrong with him and how he could be cured.
And Cayce spoke back! He described the cause as a "psychological
condition producing a physical effect." He went on to explain that
the problem could be removed by suggesting to him — while he was in
the unconscious state — that the blood circulation increase to the affected
areas. After Layne made the suggestion, he and Cayce’s family watched
in amazement as the upper part of Edgar’s chest and his throat turned
a bright crimson red and the skin became warm to the touch. Twenty minutes
passed. Edgar spoke again and said [mentioned] that, before awakening
him, the suggestion should be made that the blood circulation return
to normal. Layne followed these instructions. When Cayce wakened, he
was able to speak normally again, healed from his laryngitis which had
lasted an entire year. The date, March 31, 1901, marked the first time
Edgar Cayce had ever given a psychic reading.
He, his parents, and Gertrude were overjoyed. His plan was to continue
being a photographer and get married as soon as possible. He wouldn’t
have given another thought to putting himself into the sleep state again,
except that Al Layne had witnessed something extraordinary and was beginning
to have other ideas. For years, Layne had been bothered by a stomach
difficulty that doctors had been unable to cure. Because he knew enough
about medicine to realize what therapeutic suggestions could be harmful,
he asked Edgar to try giving a reading on the stomach problem. Although
skeptical, Edgar agreed, for he felt obligated to Layne for having helped
him regain his voice. The reading was given to satisfy Layne’s curiosity.
Asleep on the couch, Cayce spoke in a normal voice and described the
problem exactly; he recommended herbal medicines, foods, and exercises
for improvement. After one week of following the sleeping Cayce’s suggestions,
Layne felt so much better that he became even more excited about Edgar’s
ability, and he strongly encouraged him to try other tests.
Edgar Cayce felt as if he had been placed in a precarious position.
On the one hand, this business of readings was very strange to him.
He knew nothing about medicine or the diagnosing of illness. On the
other hand, he only wanted to live a normal life in Hopkinsville with
a wife and a family. Yet Layne argued that he had a moral obligation
if his talent could be helpful to people. Finally, after a great deal
of prayer, after talking it over with his family, and after looking
to his Bible for guidance, he agreed to continue the experiments under
two conditions: the first was that if he ever suggested anything in
the sleep state that could be at all harmful to people, they would stop
the readings, and the second was Layne had to always remember that Edgar
Cayce was first, and foremost, a photographer.
One of the earliest readings was for a five-year-old named Aime Dietrich,
who had been seriously ill for three years. At the age of two, after
an attack of influenza — which doctors then called the grippe — her
mind had stopped developing. Since that time her tiny body had been
racked with convulsions. Her mind was nearly a blank and, though doctors
and specialists had been consulted, she had only gotten worse instead
of better.
Cayce put himself to sleep while Layne conducted the reading and wrote
down everything that was said. The sleeping Cayce said that Aime’s problem
had begun a few days before catching the grippe — she had fallen and
injured her spine while getting down from a carriage. The influenza
germs had settled in her spine because of the trauma, and the convulsions
had begun. The little girl’s mother verified the accident. While still
sleeping, Edgar Cayce recommended some osteopathic adjustments that
were to be carried out by Layne. Layne made the adjustments on the little
girl’s spine and got a check reading. The sleeping Cayce told Layne
he hadn’t done them correctly and gave further instructions! After several
attempts, Layne was able to carry out the suggestions to the exact specifications
of the sleeping photographer. Several days later, Aime recognized a
doll she had played with before getting sick and called it by name.
As the weeks passed, her mind recognized other things as well, she knew
her parents, and finally the convulsions stopped completely. Within
three months, Aime’s mind was catching up to where it had left off,
and she became a normal, healthy, five-year-old girl.
Cayce was happy that he had been able to help, but he still wanted
only to live a normal life! However, Layne’s enthusiasm, along with
the enthusiasm of Cayce’s own father and people like Mr. and Mrs. Dietrich,
made it more difficult to lead a simple, ordinary, everyday life style!
Cayce continued giving readings without charge, while Layne conducted.
It was soon discovered that Cayce only needed the name and location
of an individual to be able to give a reading, diagnose the person’s
condition, and outline a regimen of treatment. The readings puzzled
him — many times he didn’t even understand what he had said after he
had awakened and looked at what Layne had written down — but he never
forgot to say a prayer of thanksgiving when someone got well because
of his gift.
In those days, Cayce resided in Bowling Green, some sixty miles away
from Hopkinsville, and worked in a bookstore. Layne visited him every
Sunday to obtain readings for his patients. On June 17, 1903, after
an engagement of more than six years, Gertrude Evans and Edgar Cayce
were finally married. In spite of his being uncomfortable with the readings,
his life was fulfilling. He had a loving wife, a home, a Sunday School
class at the local church, and a good job. A year later he formed his
own photographic partnership and was able to open a studio.
Eventually, Layne decided to become a fully accredited osteopath. The
number of patients coming to him had continued to increase as he and
Cayce had become more well-known, and so he left Hopkinsville to enter
the Southern School of Osteopathy. Cayce’s belief that the readings
might be put to rest for a time was short-lived, however, because a
group of local medical doctors took up the study of his psychic ability.
They performed tests on the sleeping Cayce, some of which turned out
to be detrimental to him.
Cayce spent most of his time working as a photographer. The studio
was prosperous. However, when a fire destroyed a large collection of
prints and reproductions that he had on consignment, Cayce was in debt.
Nine months later, another fire wrecked the studio. Edgar opened it
again in two weeks. He took upon himself all the losses, for his partner
had withdrawn. Gertrude returned to Hopkinsville with Hugh Lynn, their
son born on March 16, 1907. Edgar stayed in Bowling Green to pay off
his debts. He left in August of 1909, totally broke. He then looked
for a job in Alabama, where photographers were scarce.
He visited his family for Christmas. His father introduced him to Dr.
Wesley Ketchum, a homeopath who had settled down in Hopkinsville. Dr.
Ketchum had heard of Cayce through some of Layne’s former patients,
and he decided to get a reading for himself. He had recently diagnosed
himself as having appendicitis, and he wanted to see if Cayce would
be able to discern this. However, while asleep, Cayce gave an entirely
different diagnosis and outlined a simple treatment. In order to humor
the young man, Dr. Ketchum went to another doctor for a third opinion
and discovered that Cayce’s diagnosis was indeed correct.
Dr. Ketchum started using Cayce’s psychic talent in his most difficult
cases. In 1910, he submitted a paper to the American Society of Clinical
Research, calling Cayce a medical wonder. As a result, the October 9th
issue of the New York Times featured a long article on Cayce.
The headline read: "Illiterate man becomes a doctor when hypnotized."
Because requests for readings were pouring in, Dr. Wesley Ketchum, Edgar
Cayce, Leslie Cayce and Albert Noe, wealthy hotel man, formed the Psychic
Reading Corporation. Edgar returned to Hopkinsville, where he opened
a photographic studio, the "Cayce Art Studio". He began, in
his spare time, to give readings on a daily basis. He became known as
a psychic diagnostician, though he was much happier as a photographer.
It wouldn’t be until the following year that his attitude about the
readings would finally change.
In one instance, a rich construction supervisor, whose name was Mr.
Dalton, severely fractured his leg and kneecap in an accident. He was
told by several doctors in town that they could set the leg, but because
of the seriousness of the injury (Dalton’s kneecap was damaged beyond
repair) he would never be able to walk normally again. Not satisfied
with their reports, Dalton consulted Dr. Ketchum. Cayce gave a reading
and recommended what was an extremely radical treatment for 1905: Ketchum
was to consolidate the kneecap with several nails [was to drive several
nails into the kneecap to hold it together]. The procedure was unheard
of at the time, but Dr. Ketchum, trusting in Cayce, carried it out.
The surgery was performed, and several months later Dalton was up and
walking around as though the accident had never occurred. Edgar Cayce’s
fame continued to spread.
Gertrude and Edgar had their second son in 1911. They named him Milton
Porter. Soon after his birth, the baby developed whooping cough and
later on colitis. Several doctors were called in, but the baby continued
to get worse. Cayce never really thought about consulting the readings
until the doctors had given up hope. As a last resort, Cayce gave a
reading for his second son. When he woke up, he was shattered to learn
that the condition was too serious. The readings offered no hope, and
the baby died before it was two months old.
Afterwards, Cayce and his wife went into a state of depression. He
blamed himself for not getting a reading sooner — perhaps it might have
helped; now he would never know. Gertrude’s health was affected. She
became weak after the baby’s death, and the doctor thought she had contracted
pleurisy. As the months continued to pass, the illness hung on, and
she showed no signs of improvement. In fact, she was getting worse and
was eventually confined to bed.
By late summer, Gertrude’s doctor had changed his diagnosis. He called
Cayce aside and spoke the awful truth: Gertrude had tuberculosis and
was dying. A TB specialist confirmed that nothing further could be done.
Everyone expected her to die by the end of the year except her husband.
Edgar gave a reading. While in the sleep state, he recommended a combination
of prescription drugs as well as filling a charred oak keg with apple
brandy. Gertrude was to inhale the fumes to clear up the congestion.
Although the doctors claimed that the combination of drugs would be
useless, Dr. Ketchum wrote the prescription. After following this treatment
for only two days, Gertrude was felling better and her fever had fallen.
By September she was even better, and by November even her doctors decided
she was going to get well. By the first part of January, 1912, Gertrude
Cayce was fully recovered.
That same year, Edgar Cayce was investigated by a delegate from Harvard
University, Dr. Hugo Münsterberg. The latter was determined to
prove that Cayce was but a freak and ruin his reputation. When he left
Hopkinsville, he was convinced of the legitimacy and the effectiveness
of the readings, and he encouraged Edgar to practice his unusual talent
which was helping so many people.
Cayce broke his partnership with Ketchum and Noe. He went to work as
a photographer in Selma, Alabama. The following year, he bought for
himself the studio where he was employed, and had Gertrude and Hugh
Lynn move to Selma. There, he could escape from his growing notoriety
and began to live a quiet life. However, this did not last long. One
day his son, Hugh Lynn, was playing with flash powder in the studio
and severely burned his eyes. The local doctors gave no hope that the
boy would ever see again. In fact, they recommended removing one of
the eyes due to the extent of the damage. Cayce decided to give a reading
instead. In the sleep state he gave assurance that sight was not gone.
He recommended an additional compound to be added to the solution that
had been prescribed by the doctors and said Hugh Lynn should stay for
two weeks in a darkened room with his eyes bandaged. No eye surgery
was performed, and when the bandages were removed, the boy could see.
Local newspapers picked up the story and again, Edgar Cayce was famous.
He began giving readings in addition to his job, and like he had done
in every other city he had lived in, he became active in the local church
and started teaching Sunday School. On February 9, 1918, Gertrude gave
birth to another son, Edgar Evans.
The request for readings continued, and Edgar Cayce was faced with
a problem. Although people were being helped by the readings, many were
having difficulty finding doctors to carry out treatments recommended
by a sleeping man that the doctors had never even met — a man who, in
many instances, had never seen the people he was diagnosing. Cayce began
dreaming of having a hospital, staffed with fully qualified doctors,
nurses, and therapists, who would carry out the treatments recommended
in the readings.
It was this dream that caused him to form an ill-fated partnership
with others who were seeking oil. He went to Texas to give readings
on possible oil sites but was disappointed time and again. The readings
made it quite clear that the information was never to be used for financial
gain and that some of his partners did not share his dream of a hospital.
They wanted money only for themselves.
Edgar Cayce returned to Selma, Alabama, and picked up where he had
left off. He had his wife, his two sons, his business, and the church.
His Sunday School classes became the most popular in the county because
Cayce had the ability to make the Bible come alive. In the Fall of 1923,
he hired a secretary, Gladys Davis, to take down the information in
the readings while Gertrude conducted and asked her sleeping husband
the questions.
Until 1923 most of Cayce’s readings were limited to medicine. However,
that year a printer from Dayton, Ohio, who had obtained successful readings
for two of his nieces, asked Cayce for a horoscope reading. Toward the
end of the reading [5717-1] the sleeping Cayce spoke the curious sentence:
"he was once a monk." That statement opened up the door to
a whole new area of research — the possibility of reincarnation.
All at once, Cayce was faced with a new dilemma. There wasn’t any doubt
that the information was helpful and accurate when dealing with health,
but the readings matter-of-fact reference to reincarnation seemed foreign
to his fundamental Christianity. He prayed about it, did much soul searching,
and obtained a few readings. He was advised to read the Bible once through
from cover to cover while keeping the idea of reincarnation in mind.
What emerged was a beautiful view of Oneness that encompassed all of
the world’s major religions, with special emphasis on the Judeo-Christian
religion.
The underlying philosophy was that life is a purposeful and an eternal
experience; that everything which exists is part of God; that each of
us is one of God’s children, and we are all equal; and that we have
the total free will to learn to love one another. Edgar Cayce found
that the concept of reincarnation was not incompatible with any religion
but, more important, he found that the idea merged perfectly with his
own beliefs of what it meant to be a Christian.
Soon afterwards, the "life-readings" were developed. They
dealt with an individual’s previous lifetimes, as well as the person’s
potential for this lifetime. Eventually the topics in the readings expanded
to include such items as mental and spiritual counsel, unusual approaches
to the studies of psychology and parapsychology, information on the
world’s history, intriguing thoughts about the missing years of Jesus’
life, and even advice for improving personal relationships.
Because the requests for readings continued to grow, Cayce gave up
his photography studio and began looking for the financial backing for
his hospital. He also began to accept donations for the readings, but
he never refused to help those who were unable to pay. Because of the
helpfulness of the readings, several backers were found to make Cayce’s
dream of the hospital a reality. One group wanted to locate the facility
in Chicago, another wanted it to be in Dayton. However, time and again,
the readings advised that the hospital be located in or near Virginia
Beach, Virginia. Finally, a New York businessman, Morton Blumenthal,
agreed to finance the project.
In September of 1925, the Cayce family moved with Gladys Davis to Virginia
Beach. In 1927, the Association of National Investigators was formed.
Its purpose was to research and experiment the information contained
in the readings. Its motto was: "That We May Make Manifest Our
Love for God and Man." The following year, on November 11, 1928,
the Edgar Cayce hospital opened its doors. Patients came from all over
the country to have a reading and then be treated by a qualified staff
composed of doctors, nurses, and therapists. The sleeping Cayce gave
each patient a reading, diagnosed the ailment, and recommended everything
from a change of diet to surgery. The readings favored no single school
of medical thought but instead used all of them in appropriate circumstances.
In spite of the stock market crash of October 1929, a university, "Atlantic
University", opened in the Fall of 1930. Until 1931 the hospital
operated successfully. In the midst of the Depression, however, financial
backing was lost and the hospital had to close its doors in February.
The University survived until Christmas.
In June of that same year, the Association for Research and Enlightenment,
Inc. [A.R.E.], was formed as a research body whose goal was to investigate
the information given by Cayce in the readings. This organization became
interested in such things as holistic health care, the workings of ESP,
meditation, spiritual healing, the importance of dreams, and the study
of life after death.
People came from all over asking how they too could become more psychic.
Cayce’s response was that the goal should be to become more spiritual
for psychic is of the soul, and, as an individual became more spiritual,
psychic ability would develop naturally. People were told that if they
could incorporate the philosophy of the readings into their own religious
and belief systems, it could be a useful and positive experience; otherwise
they were advised to leave the information in the readings alone.
As the years passed, Cayce became more and more psychic in the waking
state as well. He once fled from a room in sorrow because he knew that
three young men would not be returning from the war. He also had developed
the ability to see auras, which are fields of light that surround all
living things. From these auras Cayce could perceive people’s moods
as well as their overall physical condition.
As his fame grew, so did the number of skeptics. Many people came to
Virginia Beach to expose him as a fraud, but in time all were convinced
of the legitimacy of what he was doing. Many stayed in Virginia Beach
and received readings for themselves. One staunch Catholic writer, named
Thomas Sugrue, came to Virginia Beach to investigate what he thought
had to be trickery and ended up writing There is a River, the
biography of Edgar Cayce which was published in 1943 while he was still
alive. Coronet magazine, one of the most popular of the era,
sent a reporter to investigate. The article, written by Marguerite Harmon
Bro, "Miracle Man of Virginia Beach", drew widespread attention,
and Edgar Cayce became more famous than he had ever been before.
During the height of World War II, sacks of mail were delivered to
Cayce with ever-growing requests for readings. Despite the readings’
warning that he should give no more than two a day, Cayce began giving
eight in an effort to keep up. Gladys Davis’ appointment book had readings
scheduled two years in advance!
In the spring of 1944, Edgar began to grow weak. His own readings advised
him to rest, but he felt a tremendous obligation to those who were asking
for his help. Finally, he collapsed from sheer exhaustion, and just
as he gave his first reading for himself, he gave his last reading for
himself — in September of 1944. The reading told him he had to rest.
When Gertrude asked "How long?" the response was "until
he was well or dead." Shortly afterwards, he had a stroke and became
partially paralyzed. By the end of the year his friends feared the worst.
Although Edgar told them he would be healed after the first of the year,
they understood what he meant — and he died on January 3, 1945. At the
time, no one really understood how ill Gertrude was, yet within three
months, on Easter Sunday, she died as well.
~
Gladys Davis took it upon herself to preserve the information she had
taken such great pains to write down, until Edgar’s sons returned from
the war. Eventually, she took charge of the project of cataloguing and
indexing all of the 14,145 readings. Gladys finished indexing the readings
in 1971, more than a quarter of century after Cayce had died! After
the indexing, she discovered that the readings covered more than 10,000
different subjects — nearly every question imaginable had been asked.
She continued working as secretary for the Board of Trustees of the
Cayce organizations until her death, at the age of 81, in 1986.
Hugh Lynn took over the organization his father had started and was
able to encourage interest all over the world. When Hugh Lynn died,
in 1982, the Association had grown from a few hundred members into one
composed of ten of thousands. Nowadays, innumerable individuals in the
world benefit from the Edgar Cayce legacy on health, reincarnation,
dreams, psychic phenomena, spiritual growth, comparative religions,
astrology, prophecies, world affairs, and much more.
Just what was the source of Edgar Cayce’s remarkable ability — an ability,
he claimed, anyone could develop? Apparently, Cayce obtained his information
in two different ways: first, he was somehow able to tap into the subconscious
mind of the person who was asking for information; and in the second
way, he could tap into what he called "the Akashic Records"
— a record Cayce said was written on the skein of space and time and
could also be called "God’s Book of Remembrance". From these
two sources, he was able to speak knowledgeably on virtually any subject.
Today, several organizations work with the information contained in
the Edgar Cayce readings. The A.R.E.
continues to make the material more readily available through practical
presentations and publications, and members throughout the world are
kept up-to-date on developments in regard to the things Cayce spoke
about. The Edgar Cayce Foundation is a separate organization
that is legally responsible for the readings. It spends time and resources
doing research and sponsoring comparative studies between the Cayce
information and other schools of thought. Atlantic
University, which closed in 1931, was reactivated in 1985 and
offers a master’s degree in Transpersonal Studies. The Health
Research Center analyzes the medical information contained in
the readings and incorporates the material into contemporary medical
research.
Together, these organizations have found that the psychic information
of the photographer from Kentucky has stood the test of intensive research.
