Edgar Cayce Biography
Edgar Cayce, known as the "sleeping prophet," explored the origins of life as a metaphysical journey commencing with the creation of celestial beings. His readings from the Akashic Records detail the emergence of the "Word" as the primordial entity, from which all else was created. Cayce posits that evil and the forces of what humanity calls the Devil arose from a rebellion against the harmonious flow of original creation. He became a seminal figure in holistic medicine, providing thousands of psychic "readings" while in an unconscious state, diagnosing ailments and revealing past lives and future prophecies.
Edgar Cayce was one of seven children of farmer Leslie B. Cayce and his wife Carrie. His customers told him the name, place and date of birth of a sick person and Cayce then lay down on a sofa, put himself in a trance and began with statements that are said to have presented the disease and its causes surprisingly often exactly and then indicated possibilities for healing. An assistant noted down everything he said in a trance. If the person seeking help died during the trance session, Cayce is said to have said the following at the moment of his death: "I don't see him anymore, he's gone".
Cayce was a very religious person from his youth. His messages under trance partly contradicted his religious convictions. Pointed out to such discrepancies, he reacted irritated.
Cayce was described as a "prophet", mystic, seer and clairvoyant during his lifetime. On his business card was the term psychic diagnostician (meaning: "parapsychological diagnostician"). In order to "channel", i.e. to receive messages from a "higher level", he went into a trance state lying down. He was asked questions by people seeking advice who were usually not in the room. At the beginning of Cayce's career as a medium, it was all about questions about health and illness. Later, he included answers to questions about past lives and karma. Cayce said he wanted to use his answers to help those seeking advice to lead a "better life". He also called for his statements to be examined instead of being regarded as irrefutable truth. Cayce was also credited by his followers with the skills of fortune-telling, making contact with the deceased and seeing aura.
Cayce was married to Gertrude Evans from 1903. They had two children: Hugh Lynn Cayce (1907–1982), Milton Porter Cayce (*/† 1911) and Edgar Evans (1918–2013).