Edgar Cayce prophecy

Edgar CayceThe Sleeping ProphetEdgar Cayce (March 18, 1877 ¬ January 3, 1945), (the surnamepronounced "Casey") is generally remembered as an American psychicwho gave trance discourses on subjects like astrology, reincarnation,and Atlantis. He may have been the source for the idea thatCalifornia would fall into the ocean (though he never said exactlythis). Although Cayce lived before the emergence of the New Agemovement, he remains a major influence on its teachings.This popular image overlooks what to him were the more importantstrains within his work such as healing (the vast majority ofhis "readings" were given for people who were sick) or Christiantheology (Cayce being a lifelong, devout member of the Disciples ofChrist). Skeptics challenge Cayce's claim to psychic prowess, whileconservative Christians doubt this and/or his orthodoxy.Today there are several tens of thousands of "Cayce people." Most arelocated in the United States and Canada, but Edgar Cayce Centers arenow found in 25 other countries. The Association for Research andEnlightenment (A.R.E), headquartered in Virginia Beach, is the majororganization promoting interest in Cayce.Cayce was born on a farm near Hopkinsville, Kentucky on March 18,1877. At an early age he gave evidence of his budding talent: he wasable to master his school lessons by sleeping on his books. At theage of twenty-one he developed a gradual throat paralysis whichthreatened the loss of his voice. When doctors were unable to find acause for his condition, Cayce entered the same hypnotic sleep thathad enabled him to learn his school lessons years before. In thatstate, he was able to recommend a cure which successfully repairedhis throat muscles and restored his voice. It was soon discoveredthat he could do the same for others.For most of his adult life, Edgar Cayce was able to provide intuitiveinsights into nearly any question imaginable. When individuals cameto him with a question, he would place himself into a sleep-inducedsleep state. While in that state he could respond to virtually anyquestion asked. His responses have come to be called "readings".Today his psychic readings constitute one of the largest and mostimpressive records of intuitive information to emanate from a singleindividual.For many years the information dealt mainly with medical problems.Eventually the scope of his readings expanded to include such topicsas meditation, dreams, reincarnation, and prophecy. The transcriptshave provided the basis for over 300 popular books about Cayce'swork.Mr. Cayce's theories on the end times of this planet are veryenlightening and show a global major change in 1998. He prophecizedthe Sphinx had been built in 10,500 BC and that survivors of Atlantishad concealed beneath it a "Hall of Records" containing all thewisdom of their lost civilization and the true history of the humanrace. Cayce prophesied that this Hall of Records would berediscovered and opened between 1996 and 1998. He connected theopening to the second coming of Christ.Cayce ending every reading by saying, "We are through".The ReadingsEdgar Cayce gave over 14,000 "readings" during a period of 43 years(1901 to 1944). These are trance discourses which Cayce revealedwhile in a hypnotic or "sleeping" state. While "awake" he claimedgenerally not to remember what he had said while "asleep". Thereadings themselves explain that the unconscious mind has access toinformation which the conscious mind does not -- a common theoryabout hypnosis in Cayce's time. Most records come from the periodafter 1925, when his secretary Gladys Davis recorded the readings,and his wife Gertrude Evans Cayce "conducted" (guided) the readings.The readings are customarily divided into the following categories:Physical Readings: 9,603 extant readings.Otherwise known as "health readings" in which (typically) a patientwould be diagnosed and a cure prescribed. For some reason Cayceneeded to be told the patient's physical location, though this mighteasily be in another city or state (in the case of patients inquiringby letter). Cayce lore describes various incidental examples ofclairvoyance in the course of Cayce's psychically "searching" for thepatient.Life Readings: 1,920 extant readingsIn a life reading, Cayce describes the client's present physical,emotional and mental condition in terms of past life experience. Mostinquirers were assigned past lives from about twelve main "periods"including Atlantis, ancient Egypt at the time of "Ra Ta", ancientPersia, Palestine at the time of Christ, and colonial America. Anumber of people were told of famous past lives. Cayce's son HughLynn, for example, was told that he was the apostle Andrew.Business Readings:747 extant readings.Cayce occasionally gave business readingsincluding advice on business partners, the stock market, businessmodels, etc.Dream Readings: 630 extant readings.Edgar Cayce encouraged everyone to interpret and use his or her owndreams in day-to-day life. A dream reading involved Cayceinterpreting the dreams of clients. As he did with readings on manysubjects, Cayce would often interrupt the person reading the dreamand give an interpretation before the dream had been completely read.He would sometimes fill in parts of dreams that the dreamer hadsupposedly forgotten. Unlike Jungian or Freudian dreaminterpretation, Cayce did not emphasize highly the importance ofsymbols. He said that every individual has his or her own uniquesymbols. Cayce claimed that in dreams people could receive valuableinsight into their own lives and that the insight was always of useto the dreamer. Besides regular daily insight into one's life, heclaimed people could communicate with loved ones dead or alive,remember past life experiences, see a possible future and experiencemany other psychic phenomena. He stated that these paranormalabilities were something anyone could learn.Other Readings: 954 extant readingsOther Readings are miscellaneous subject matter that does not fitinto an above category. The subject matter included missing persons,buried treasure, readings given to a spiritual development group,psychic abilities, auras, prophecy, structure of reality, geology andmany other topics.Cayce readings are usually referenced using a numeric tag in whichthe first number is a code representing the recipient (most of theiridentities remain secret), while the second counts which reading itis, in the case of a person who receives more than one. 5749-14 forexample is the fourteenth reading given for person # 5749 (whoseassigned number is essentially arbitrary).Political Predictions - World Wars I and IICayce predicted the beginning and end of both the First and SecondWorld Wars, and the lifting of the Depression in 1933. In the 1920s,he first warned of coming racial strife in the United States, and in1939 he predicted the deaths of two presidents in office;"Ye are to have turmoils -- ye are to have strife between capital andlabor. Ye are to have a division in thy own land, before ye have thesecond of the Presidents that next will not live through hisoffice... a mob rule!"President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in office in April 1945. InNovember 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas,Texas, when racial tensions in the United States were at theirheight."Unless there is more give and take and consideration for those whoproduce, with better division of the excess profits from labor, theremust be greater turmoil in the land."In October 1935, Cayce spoke of the coming holocaust in Europe. TheAustrians and Germans, he said, and later the Japanese, would takesides."Thus an unseen force, gradually growing, must result in an almostdirect opposition to the Nazi, or Aryan theme. This will graduallyproduce a growth of animosities. And unless there is interference bywhat many call supernatural forces and influences -- which are activein the affairs of nations and peoples -- the whole world as itwere... will be set on fire by militaristic groups and people who arefor power expansion."Two of Cayce's major predictions concerned the futures of China andthe Soviet Union, the world's great Communist giants. In 1944, heprophesied that China would one day be "the cradle of Christianity asapplied in the lives of men." Through Russia, he said "comes the hopeof the world. Not in respect to what is sometimes termed Communism orBolshevism -- no! But freedom -- freedom! That each man will live forhis fellow man. The principle has been born there. It will take yearsfor it to be crystallized; yet out of Russia comes again the hope ofthe world." Russia, he said, would be guided by friendship with theUnited States. Its attempt to rule "not only the economic, but themental and spiritual life" of its people was doomed to failure.Cayce also predicted the possibility of a third world war. He spokeof strifes arising near the Davis Straits, and in Libya, and inEgypt, in Ankara, and in Syria; through the straits around thoseareas above Australia, in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf."When asked in June 1943 whether it would be feasible to work towardsan international currency or a stabilization of internationalexchange levels when the war had ended, Cayce replied that it wouldbe a long, long time before this would happen. Indeed, hesaid, "there may be another war over just such conditions."Other Major ThemesOrigin and destiny of humanity - "All souls were created in thebeginning, and are finding their way back to whence they came." Caycebelieves that human souls were created with a consciousness of theironeness with God. Some "fell" from this state; others - led by theJesus soul - volunteered to save them. The Earth, with all itslimitations, was created as a suitable arena for spiritual growth.Duality - According to Cayce, Atlantean society was divided into twolong-lived political factions - a "good" faction called the "Sons ofthe Law of One," and an "evil" faction called the "Sons of Belial."According to the readings, a major source of turmoil was the Sons ofBelial's desire to exploit the Things, sub-humans with animalappendages and low intelligence, and the movements to protect andevolve them by the Sons of the Law of One.Universal laws - Souls incarnated on the earth are subject to certainspiritual laws such as, "As ye sow, so shall ye reap" (karma) or "Asye judge (others), so shall ye be judged." Properly regarded, suchlaws represent an aspect of God's mercy whereby no matter what ourcircumstances, he has promised to guide us in our spiritual path.Jesus and Christ ConsciousnessFollowing New Thought precedent, Cayce distinguishes between Jesusand Christhood. Briefly, Jesus was a soul like us, who reincarnatedthrough many lifetimes (and made many mistakes). "Christhood" issomething which he achieved, and to which we also ought to aspire.Cayce accordingly calls Jesus our "elder brother."From Cayce's perspective, we are not simply physical bodies, insteadwe are spiritual beings who are having a physical experienceentailing personal growth and development. Many individuals haveincorrectly assumed that the goal of being in the earth is to simplyreach heaven, find enlightenment, or somehow "get out of the earth."And yet, this is a perspective quite different from that contained inthe Cayce material. Instead, Cayce believed that as children of God,our mission was to somehow bring spirit into the earth.The dynamics of our deep and literal connection to God can be foundthroughout scripture, beginning with Genesis when we are told thatGod made humankind in the Creator's image. But our relationship withGod as our Parent is perhaps no more clearly illustrated than in theParable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-24). This parable describesthe journey of the soul: we were with God in the beginning, throughthe power of our free will we were able to make choices that were notnecessarily in perfect accord with the Creator. And, at some point,we will "arise" and decide to return to God, regaining ourinheritance and experiencing our true relationship with Him.One of the readings beautifully describes the spiritual nature ofhumankind in this way:"For ye are a corpuscle in the body of God; thus a co-creator withHim, in what ye think, in what ye do." - Edgar Cayce reading #2794-3The readings state that God desires to be expressed in the worldthrough us. The example set by Jesus is apparently a "pattern" ofwholeness for each and every soul.Regardless of an individual'sreligious or personal beliefs, this Christ pattern exists inpotential upon the very fiber of their being. It is that part of eachof us that is in perfect accord with the Creator and is simplywaiting to find expression in our lives.This Christ pattern was further described as "the awareness withineach soul, imprinted in pattern on the mind and waiting to beawakened by the will, of the soul's oneness with God" (5749-14), andits manifestation is the eventual destiny of each and every soul.With this in mind, the readings present Jesus as our "Elder brother,"a soul who came to show each one of us the way back to our spiritualSource by perfectly manifesting the laws of the Creator in the earth.Just as an older sibling can sometimes provide insight and counselinto some of life's difficulties (because he or she went through themfirst) Jesus as Elder brother can assist us in facing life'schallenges. What may surprise individuals is that this fact hasnothing to do with religion, it has to do with spirituality anddiscovering our true relationship with God - a relationship we sharewith Jesus. The readings not only affirm that Jesus was the Son ofGod, but they also state the same thing about each and everyone ofus. In other words: Jesus was like each one of us and, ultimately,each one of us is destined to be like Him.Q. What is the main purpose of Jesus' incarnation?EC: To glorify the Christ Consciousness in the Earth . in the livesof those with whom ye come in contact, and to live the same thyself. -Reading 2441-4Q. What is the meaning and significance of the words Jesus andChrist...?EC: Just as indicated. Jesus is the man, the activity, the mind, therelationships that He bore to others. Yea, He was mindful of friends,He was sociable. He was loving. He was kind. He was gentle. He grewfaint, He grew weak and yet gained that strength that He haspromised, in becoming the Christ, by fulfilling and overcoming theworld! Ye are made strong in body, in mind, in soul and purpose bythat power in Christ. The power, then, is in the Christ. The patternis in Jesus. - Reading 2533-7This transformative power of the Christ Consciousness is awakened asindividuals act in accord with the pattern set by the example ofJesus' life. In fact, this awakening is the essential purpose forwhich each soul enters into life.From Cayce's perspective, Jesus is the Elder brother for all ofhumankind, deeply committed to assisting all souls in reawakening tothe awareness of their oneness with God. This Jesus is not interestedin religious conversion, denominationalism, or even mighty personalaccomplishments. Instead, He is simply interested in how we treat oneanother. With this in mind, even in the midst of our diversity as ahuman family, we share a common spiritual heritage. We are allChildren of the same God. We are all part of the one spiritualSource. And, we are all destined to return to our Creator, ourMother/Father, our God.Unknown Life of Jesus - Cayce presented narratives of Jesus' previousincarnations, including a mysterious Atlantean figurecalled "Amilius" as well as the more familiar biblical figures ofAdam, Enoch, Melchizedek, Joshua, Asaph, and Jeshua. Cayce describesJesus as an Essene who traveled to India in his youth in order tostudy Eastern religions. Read more [scroll down]Reincarnation Past LivesEdgar Cayce found that the concept of reincarnation was notincompatible with any religion, and actually merged perfectly withhis own beliefs of what it meant to be a Christian. Eventually thesubject of reincarnation was examined in extensive detail in over1,900 Life Readings.Reincarnation is the belief that each of us goes through a series oflifetimes for the purpose of spiritual growth and soul development.Cayce's approach does not include the concept of transmigration,which states that it is possible for human beings to be born again asanimals. From the standpoint of the Cayce material, souls only occupyhuman bodies through their spiritual growth and developmentalprocess.In essence, the Cayce approach to reincarnation provides aphilosophical setting to the past focusing on practical ways ofdealing with this life: living, growing, and being of service to oneanother in the present.For him it wasn¹t nearly as important to who individuals had oncebeen, or even what they had been doing, as it was paramount that theyfocus on the present and the opportunities and challenges that facedthem in this time, in this place, right now.In terms of remembering your own past lives, the Edgar Cayceinformation provides a variety of approaches. In fact, oftentimesindividuals who received readings would ask about such things asmemorable dreams that were on their mind, personal traits and talentsthat they had always been drawn to, and even intense positive ornegative relationships with other people in their lives ¬ Caycedescribed how each of these things could be tied to past-lifememories. With these things in mind, in order to remember your ownpast lives the Cayce readings recommend such things as personalinventories of your talents, abilities, likes, and dislikes; workingwith meditation and dreams; taking part in imaginative past-lifereveries or self-hypnosis, and so forth.From Cayce's perspective, the reason for believing in reincarnationis not so that we can dwell upon the past or brag about thepossibility of once having been someone famous, instead it is toenable a soul to understand the consequences of previous choices andto know that each individual is ultimately responsible for shapingand creating his or her life in the present. From the Cayce readings¹perspective, the past merely provided a framework of potentials andprobabilities. An individual¹s choices, actions, and free will in thepresent would determine the actual experience lived this time around.Rather than being a fatalistic approach to life, it is much more oneof nearly limitless opportunities.Cayce teaches the reality of reincarnation and karma, but asinstruments of a loving God rather than blind natural laws. Itspurpose is to teach us certain spiritual lessons. Animals haveundifferentiated, "group" souls rather than individuality andconsciousness. Once the soul evolves through a succession of animalincarnations and achieves human status, it is not then reborn inanimal form. Cayce's view arguably incorporates Theosophicalteachings on spiritual evolution. Each person, in his view, existedin a self-conscious form before birth and would exist again afterdeath.As well as his health readings, Cayce gave many hundreds of so-called "life" readings, during which he would describe his subject'spast lives. A number of those readings referred to past incarnationsin the legendary lost land of Atlantis. In all, Cayce referred toAtlantis no fewer than seven hundred times in his readings over aspan of twenty years.From Cayce's perspective, we are not simply physical bodies or evenphysical bodies with souls, but are instead spiritual beings who arecurrently having a material experience. As souls, we have manifestedin the earth in order to learn lessons that will enable us to returnto our former state of spiritual awareness. At the same time, onepurpose we all have in common is to bring the spirituality of theCreator into the earth.A soul can choose to be born into either a male or a female body inany given lifetime or, as Cayce called it, an incarnation. A soulselects that environment (parents and family, location, personalobstacles, etc.) which will best allow for the learning of lessons itneeds for completeness. The goal is to fully express love in all thechallenges which physical life offers.One's experiences are subject to the choices made with free will. Asone grows, he or she learns-or rather remembers-his or her truerelationship with God and one's heritage as a spiritual being. Withfree will, we can turn the challenges life presents to us intostepping-stones toward growth, or we can see them as obstacles andstumbling blocks. Either way, we reap what we have sown. Weconstantly meet the consequences of previous deeds and attitudes.One frequently misunderstood concept regarding reincarnation has todo with karma. From the standpoint of the Cayce material, karma isnot destiny; it is only memory. These memories are generallyunconscious and influence our abilities, our faults, even ourrelationships with others, but with free will we can meet this memoryas a positive or a negative experience. Karma provides us with thepotential to learn a lesson we need in order to grow at a soul level,and free will determines whether or not we choose to learn it at thistime. The choices we make determine the next set of potentialexperiences we encounter.Much more than simply a concept that applies to a limited segment ofthe world, reincarnation is a philosophy that has-at one time oranother-been embraced by all the major religions of the world. It's aconcept that can allow us to have compassion for one another becauseultimately we are all equal-there is only one God, and we are all Hischildren.From Cayce's viewpoint, it doesn't really matter if an individualbelieves in reincarnation or not. For some it can be a helpfulconcept, for others confusing. The main purpose is to allowindividuals to become aware of their true spiritual nature and theirultimate relationship with one another. In fact, if we can think fora moment about the one person in our life whom we love most of all.then we will get an inkling of the goal of reincarnation: to be ableto love every single soul, even ourselves, with the very same love.Atlantis and Cayce Atlantean ChannelingsThe Cayce readings affirm the existence of Atlantis, a vast continentwith an advanced technology whose refugees peopled ancient Egypt aswell as pre-Columbian America.Land Mass - The size of Atlantis was equal to that of Europe,including Asia in Europe. He saw visions of a continent which hadgone through three major periods of division; the first two about15,600 BCE, when the mainland was divided into islands. The threemain islands Cayce named Poseida, Og and Aryan.Atlantean Souls - Many people living today are the reincarnations ofAtlantean souls, who must now face similar temptations as before.Blue Stone - Cayce may or may not have predicted the coming of acertain 'blue stone' of Atlantean origin, that was to be found on "anisland in the Caribbean" and was to have the power to heal. In 1974 aVolcanic blue pectolite now known as the Larimar was found in theDominican Republic. References to Blue Stones are also a metaphor forthe color blue which goes to this file and on to blue apples, bluegrapes, stargates, etc. Everything is connected andmost of what youread that is channeled contains metaphoric content.Crystals - The Atlanteans had constructed giant laser-like crystalsfor power plants, and that these had been responsible for the seconddestruction of the land. In metaphysical circles this coloredgemstone is said to have healing powers; as with most crystals andgemstones, there is no scientific evidence that it has any specialproperties. The final destruction was in part to due to theovercharging of the Crystal which caused a massive explosion. Cayceblamed the final destruction on the disintegration of the Atlanteanculture through greed and lust. But before the legendary landdisappeared under the waves, Cayce believed there was an exodus ofmany Atlanteans through Egypt and further afield. Cayce attributedhistory's Great Flood in part to the sinking of the last hugeremnants of Atlantis.Atlantis Rising - Cayce most specifically timed forecast was thatAtlantis would rise again in 1968 or 1969. Needless to say, Cayce waswrong on that count. [Note: However, it was in that time frame thatthe "Bimini Road" was located in the Atlantic Ocean. Whether this isa "road" or "natural, geologic erosion" is cannot be proven. Atlantissuffered 3 major destructions one of which was the deluge.Egypt - Next to biblical times, the most significant era forthe "life readings" was a pre-dynastic Egyptian civilizationconsisting of Atlantean refugees. Cayce purported to have been anotherwise unknown pharoah named "Ra Ta" who built a spiritually-basedhealing center (the "Temple of Sacrifice") and educationalinstitution (the "Temple Beautiful"). His diagnostic readings andnarratives about the past and future were supposed to be acontinuation of his ancient work. This civilization also builtmonuments on the Giza plateau, including the Great Pyramid, and leftrecords of Atlantis in a "hall of records" located somewhere beneaththe Sphinx. These readings bear a close resemblance to books by AMORCfounder H. Spencer Lewis.Earth Changes and Cayce on Earth ChangesSome Cayce readings allude to massive Earth changes - perhaps inconjunction with a pole shift - in the 1930s, 1960s, or 1990s. Caycepeople have developed several creative ways of interpreting suchpassages, although some were disappointed with the failure of 1998 tobring either the rising of Atlantis, the sinking of California, orthe Second Coming of Christ. Other predictions were about dramaticchanges in the Earth's surface in the period from 1958 to 1998 due toa tilting in the Earth's rotational axis which would begin in 1936.The first sign of this change in the Earth's core would bethe "breaking up of some conditions" in the South Pacificand "sinking or rising" in the Mediterranean or Etna area. Cayceforecast that, by the end of the century, New York, Los Angeles andSan Francisco would be destroyed. He said that "the greater portionof Japan must go into the sea" at this time, and that northern Europewould be "changed as in the twinkling of an eye."In 1941, Cayce predicted that lands would appear in the Atlantic andthe Pacific in the coming years, and that "the coastline now of manya land will be the bed of the ocean. Even many of the battlefields of1941 will be ocean, will be the sea, the bays, the lands over whichthe new order will carry on their trade as with one another.""Watch New York, Connecticut and the like. Many portions of the eastcoast will be disturbed, as well as many portions of the west coast,as well as the central portion of the United States. Los Angeles, SanFrancisco, most of all these will be among those that will bedestroyed before New York, or New York City itself, will in the maindisappear. This will be another generation though, here; while thesouthern portions of Carolina, Georgia, these will disappear. Thiswill be much sooner. The waters of the Great Lakes will empty intothe Gulf of Mexico."Cayce prophezied that the Earth's axis would be shifted by the year2001, bringing on reversals in climate, so that where there has beena frigid or semi-tropical climate, there will be a more tropical one,and moss and fern will grow. By this time, he indicated, a new cyclewould begin.Astrology - Edgar Cayce's view of astrology was based on the conceptof reincarnation. He felt that it was not the positions of theplanets that influence the soul at birth, but that the soul choosesthe time in which it wishes to be born. Most of us, according toCayce, have had lives before this one, and we bring with us talents,abilities, and influences from those past lives. These influences,part of the universal law of cause and effect, are called "karma" inSanskrit. Cayce also tells us that not only have we had previouslives, but that, between lifetimes, the soul has a life outside thephysical world. During these interim periods, the soul experienceslevels of consciousness that correspond to the vibratory levels ofthe different planets.Cayce referred to these interim lifetime experiences as "planetarysojourns." Because we have had experiences with the vibrations of thedifferent planets between lifetimes, the planets have an internalinfluence on us when we reincarnate into the earth plane. Theseinfluences of the planets are felt by us in the formof "inclinations, tendencies, and urges" (781-5). However, Caycesaid, no influence is greater than the human will and the choices wemake in our lives every day:Not that there are not definite helps tobe attained from astrology, but those who live by same the more oftare controlled rather than controlling their own lives and destinies.Astrology is a fact, in most instances. But astrological aspects arebut signs, symbols. No influence is of greater value or of greaterhelp than the Will of an individual. Reading 815-6