Edgar Cayce: the 'prophet' who 'slept' his way to the top

Skeptical Inquirer, Jan-Feb, 1996 by Dale Beyerstein

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By February 28, 1931, the hospital was forced to close and the university would have to make it without financial help from Blumenthal, who was by this time in the same financial difficulties as were those who had to deal with the Great Depression without Cayce's advice. The university closed shortly thereafter. The Association for Research and Enlightenment rose phoenixlike from the ashes of the university, though it was run out of Cayce's house until 1940, when the house expanded to include a wing for the A.R.E. The institution's headquarters is still located in Virginia Beach.

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Cayce was one of the earliest promoters of laetrile as a cure for cancer. Laetrile is not only without curative powers, it contains cyanide. Stern (1967) summarizes Cayce's pronouncements on cancer. He reports that Cayce prescribed a serum made from the blood of rabbits for patients with "glandular," breast, and thyroid cancers, and in 1926, prescribed for a New York patient the raw side of a freshly skinned rabbit, still warm with blood, fur side out, placed on the breast for cancer of that area. "Animated ash," produced by taking bamboo fibers and passing an electrical charge through them, thereby producing the right vibrations for "life flowing effects," was another of his favorite cures. On the matter of electromagnetic vibrations, Cayce's theory was inconsistent with modem fears that low-frequency electromagnetic vibrations can be carcinogenic. Cayce thought they could enhance life. On the other hand, one of Cayce's theories of the cause of cancer has survived in modern cancer fears. Those who fear "man-made toxins" as being carcinogenic can trace these fears back to Cayce, who worried that toxics" would overload the system with "used tissue," which is tissue that has used up its natural allotment of vitality. This tissue must be eliminated, but it tends to accumulate around bruises, which is why, he thought, these are likely places for cancer to start. He also thought that ultraviolet light shone through green glass would be more effective than X rays, since green is the "healing vibration."

Cayce made several predictions about future scientific discoveries. Stern (1967) reports that in 1933 Cayce predicted that a "death ray" perfected on Atlantis would be rediscovered in the United States by 1958. Atlantis played a central role in Cayce's geophysics. He taught that Atlantis was the size of Europe plus some of Asia, and was to be found in an area bounded by the Sargasso Sea and the Azores. About 15600 B.C. two major disasters occurred, the result of human error, he said. Power on Atlantis was produced by "firestone," directly from the sun, at stations spread over the islands. One day a careless Atlantean cranked the power up to high, reducing the continent to a string of islands. Due to moral decay and other problems, the last three disappeared about 10000 B.C., sending the survivors searching for a home. They ended up all over the world, from the Basque country to Mexico, bringing some of their technology with them -- though, fortunately, not the "firestone."

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