Recently
I was on vacation in Virginia Beach, Virginia attending the International
Association for the Study of Dreams conference. In Virginia Beach I had the
opportunity to visit the Association for Research and Enlightenment (ARE). ARE has
grown out of Edgar Cayce’s medical intuitive readings. Edgar Cayce is known as
the sleeping prophet.
There
is a River, the
official biography of Edgar Cayce was written by Thomas Joseph Sugrue. He
interviewed Cayce, his friends, and family. This biography is a true
representation of Cayce as he struggled to accept his amazing gift of medical
clairvoyance and integrate this ability with fundamental Christian beliefs, and
practical, workingman, country values.
I had
many misunderstandings about Cayce the man and the validity of medical
clairvoyance. Cayce was a product of his culture and farm life in late 1890s
rural Kentucky. An introspective man, He worried about being a good person and
not disappointing God and his family.
His
autobiography is one of the most interesting, well-written books I have read.
It displays true essence of what it means to be an individual in the US. (I
worry that many individuals living in other countries have a misunderstanding
of the US character from watching TV and movies. I do not know any one like the
people displayed on TV shows, movies, or the news. These are entertainments, or
shocking unique events. Oh no, I have just admitted that I am very ordinary and
possibly boring.)
Mr.
Cayce would fall asleep and go into a deep trance. During this trance Mr. Cayce
was able to give clairvoyant or psychic readings about an individuals health
and lifestyle. Although, his ability to view the human body from a distance and
correctly diagnose medical issues seemed phenomenal at the time, and today as
well, other individual have displayed this ability across time. However, it was
ARE’s commitment to documenting the individual case studies that create a
pattern of validity.
It is
Edgar Cayce's life and work, which demonstrate to me the truth of the
Mind/Body/Spirit connection at work for our health and healing. At first one
believes that Cayce's work can't be real there must be something untrue or fake
about what he does. But no one has been able to establish that. The information
and documentation of his psychic health readings, collected over thirty years,
are available for anyone to study and research.
One
of the most striking examples of Cayce’s ability is the story of his son Hugh
Lynn. In the 1890s, Edgar made his living as a photographer. At that time they
used flash powder to create enough light to get the image on the photographic
plate. His young son some how caused a large amount of flash powder to ignite
and severely burned his face and eyes. Cayce picked the screaming boy up and
ran to the nearest physician’s office. The physician did what he could. The
physician consulted other local doctors. Their belief was that the boy would be
permanently scared, blind and that one of his eyes should be surgically removed
or the boy would die.
Cayce’s
wife said if ever we are going to trust in the gift of the medical
readings---now was the time. Cayces went home, he went in to a trance and
Spirit gave them a treatment plan for their son. They followed the plan
exactly. Hugh Lynn did not have any facial scarring and after about five weeks
times scar tissue peeled off his eyes and he could see perfectly.
Our
current allopathic medical establishment will never research these therapies
because there is no profit to be made--you cannot patent these therapies as
they belong to the ARE. The ARE makes the therapeutic knowledge available to
members for free. By US standards membership is not expensive. The current
complaint about the therapies is that they seem old fashioned.
The
therapeutics are old-fashioned. When Spirit spoke through Cayce, Spirit gave
therapeutic recipes using products available at the time. Spirit utilized
established medical schools of thought when appropriate. They recommended the
appropriate use of allopathic, homeopathic, osteopathic
manipulation, chiropractic and psychological treatments. Medical readings
often made recommendations on dietary change, toxic cleansing, herbs, and
massage techniques.
The
recommendations from Spirit never did harm to the individual, unlike current
medications that have cumulative long term, and even deadly side effects. If
the therapeutics recommended by Spirit did not work, the case was investigated.
Lack of success was related to the individual not following the therapeutic
plan exactly.
I
believe one of the reasons individuals did not follow the therapeutic plan
exactly was because it was free. We tend to look askance at, not have full
faith, in things that are free. The nature of our current culture is that profit
is king. Nobody gives anybody anything of value for free--supposedly.
Therefore, ARE is an organization. When one pays money to join you support the
workers and the buildings, the knowledge if free. A link to edgarcayce.org is
below.
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