Psychic Healer Edgar Cayce - the Sleeping Prophet

Every once in a while a person enters your life, a book comes along, or a thought occurs that completely reshapes all of your beliefs. By simply understanding and applying the concepts and principles you learn from those people, books, or thoughts, you develop a deeper reverence and appreciation for the Divine.

One person who has captivated me for decades is Edgar Cayce, a gifted psychic healer. So enamored of his abilities was I as a teenager that after learning about how sleeping on his spelling book allowed him to absorb and retain information so vividly he remembered not only how to spell a word but also the page on which the word appeared, I avidly slept with school books under my pillow in an effort to achieve the same results.

After several nights of headaches and a sore back with no retention whatsoever, I gave up my hope for academic success via the "sleeping on it" method, but not my fascination with the man for whom it worked.

Edgar Cayce was a devoutly religious and deeply spiritual man who read the Bible and attended church. One day, after listening to a sermon that genuinely affected him, he prayed for the ability to heal the sick. A radiant entity, an angel perhaps, told him that he would be a healer if he remained faithful to his prayers.

Ironically, the answer to his prayer came in the form of paralysis of his throat muscle. For a salesman dependent upon his voice, the condition was disturbing. When medical doctors could not correctly diagnose his ailment, he visited a hypnotist where he learned he could, while in a trancelike state, not only correctly diagnose his own condition, but also heal it. His trance-induced diagnoses worked for others also, so he devoted part of his time to healing them. After saving his wife's life and his son's eyesight, however, Cayce devoted his life full-time to healing the sick.

With help from his wife, Gertrude, and his secretary, Gladys Davis Turner, Cayce put his talents to use by diagnosing and offering remedies to thousands of afflicted individuals for over 40 years. Sometimes with only an address and a name, Cayce was able to accurately pinpoint ailments and provide methods to help people heal themselves.

More than twenty years after Cayce began his healings, a curious Dayton, Ohio, man, Arthur Lammers, asked Cayce some unorthodox questions. Cayce awoke with the realization that words spoken in trance contradicted his Christian beliefs. He wrestled with the conflict until he recognized that information regarding reincarnation, the lost continent of Atlantis, and astrology, among others, should be trusted in the same way he accepted his visit from the "radiance" in response to his prayer request of healing people.

The man born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky on March 18, 1887 died in Virginia Beach, Virginia on January 3, 1945. But Edgar Cayce contributed a wealth of information that can still be accessed through the organization he formed, The Association for Research and Enlightenment, Inc., (A.R.E.) located in Virginia Beach, Virginia.