This documentary tells the basic story of the life of Edgar Cayce, best known as the most documented psychic in American, and probably all, history. He lived from 1877 to 1945.
In his 20's, Edgar Cayce learned to put himself into a trance-like state, where other people would ask him questions, and he would tap into some other levels of information, including something he called the Akashic Record. Over 14,000 of these readings, as they were called, were documented by a stenographer, and then transcribed and organized. The material covered was mostly health readings, to diagnose and find treatments for illnesses and injuries for thousands of different people. But he also gave "life readings," which dove into the history of individual people. It was those readings that spoke of past lives, reincarnation, ancient Egypt, the "lost" civilization of Atlantis, and many other topics.
Edgar was a devout Christian throughout his whole life. At age 13, he decided to read the Bible, the whole thing, start to finish. During the rest of his life, he read the entire Bible once for every year of his life, 67 times in total. He taught Sunday school from his teen years on. He worked several different jobs, but spent many years working as a photographer with his own small shop. He moved a few times around the eastern U.S., and at one point tried to use his abilities to strike it rich in the oil boom in Texas. He married a woman named Gertrude, they had two boys, and eventually settled in Virginia Beach, Virginia, led by suggestions in his psychic readings.
With the help of some investors from Wall street, he opened a small hospital in Virginia Beach, where people could be treated by doctors and nurses, using the treatments suggested in his health readings. Thousands of people, including Edgar himself, and his oldest son, Hugh Lynn Casey, were helped by Edgar's health readings, through serious ailments and injuries. When Edgar woke up from his readings, he had no idea what information had come through him, which is why a stenographer (a woman writing in shorthand, taking detailed notes) was necessary, to accurately compile the information received.
Edgar's readings predicted the stock crash of 1929, earlier that year. He predicted in the early 1900's that some day doctors would be able to take a single drop of blood and diagnose what's wrong with a patient. He predicted that the obscure Jewish sect, the Essenes, would become more prominent in the future. Many years later, the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in Israel, which shed light on the Essenes. He also predicted things that didn't happen, like the Earth's poles shifting in the 20th century. But he said that the future is not predestined, it can change, depending on what we do in the present.
Near the end of his life, in the 1940's during World War II, Edgar Cayce did as many as 8 readings a day. The readings took a lot out of him, and he pushed himself to physical exhaustion, while trying to help as many people as he could. Edgar Cayce died in 1945, months before World War II ended, at age 67.
Below are talks given by different scholars of Edgar Cayce's readings, on a few different subjects. There are dozens more talks on many different subjects that came through the 14,000+ psychic readings of Cayce. This post is just a little introduction into the life of this regular man who could tap, somehow, into extraordinary pools of information and knowledge.
If you find him interesting, you can research more about him on your own. You can also join the A.R.E., the non-profit Association for Research and Enlightenment, which Cayce started late in his life, and which continues on today. The link to their website is below. There are also several books, most published in the mid 20th century, on different subjects, based on information in his many readings.
