4 Phenomena of Clairvoyance By RUTHANN RECHT THE TALL, thin man with gray- ing hair loosened his collar and cuffs, removed his shoes, and stretched himself on the couch. Placing his hands across his stomach, the man's respiration deepened gradually, until there was a long, deep breath._ After that he seemed to be asleep. This man was Edgar Cayce who was going into a trance in order to give one of his famous readings on the diseases and cures of the human body. The life of this man is recorded in the book, "There Is A River" by Thomas Sugrue. ' There was silence in the small room at the hospital created for this purpose at Virginia Beach, Virginia. Soon Cayce began to- speak. His voice deepened and became authoritative. His wife, who conducted the dissertations mentioned the name of the pa- tient and his location.- Clearing his throat, Cayce be- gan, "Yes, we have the body here; --Now, as we find there are ab-1 normal conditions in the physicall The Strange Powers of Some Provoke Questions and Doubts functioning of this body. These conditions would prove very in- teresting and worthwhile in con- sidering a condition that in many portions of the country, and in all portions to some extent, is gradu- ally increasing and that proves unusually hard to cope with; for conditions are so often hidden that it is hard to find the source; or the cause of that which the, professions have called 'the point, of infection'." HE CONTINUED, diagnosing the, case of a person he had never seen "even better than I could have told how I felt myself." After prescribing necessary treatment and diet, he asked for questions. At the end of the reading he said, "We are through for the present," whereupon his wife told him, "Now the body will be so equalized as to overcome all those things that might hinder or pre- vent it from being and giving its best mental, spiritual and physical self. Now, perfectly normal, and perfectly balanced, you will wake up." Clairvoyance, mental telepathy and extra-sensory perception are strange phenomena. Cayce's pow- ers seem even more strange when one realizes that he knows noth- ing about the human body and its functions when he is awake. He describes himself as an ignorant man. SEEKING to find where his strange power came from, he noted that his grandfather was a 'water-witch' and could locate water by concentrating as he walked with a hazel twig. Edgar learned early that he was w: a .... v: nti":."<."::.wo: ".::...":.::. as " r : r.^a " "r.": " ". ..".:Yx. e::.::.:1A."'" Y:.Y": ""t." "" ... ,rih.:;.: :"X::: ris f<:;?:.., ?:},$,:,+":.:: x: "r:v}:+:5?:!.-;.-::.... .n": ?": ":: <. :... r... . ,"}.. .. f.... .+: L.. a. "".. .:....?r}'::va}:{{":"a "rs ..? i'' , .,.,.,.:a:.bi.".......:. ,.. "r,...:d........ ::. ':i ?hv, ::";:":.w :" ::r if ;":"y;;"}"-::