Edgar confessed his supposed
source of knowledge to his father.
Cayce left school at the age of
enomena o Clairoyance and few years later
go o give diagnoses and treatments '
ofdisease to osteopaths nd oth
er doctors until his death in 1945.
3jy RLTHANN REICHT singled out for an extraordinary oHe apparently r e e i v e d t h i s
The Straioi e Pow ers of Som e life, the book states. He began knowledge through clairvoyance.
.J'HE TALL, thin man with gray- reading the Bible at the age of
adn haremovsed hishos andaand his devoted interest in the THE CAYCE file of readings,
ing hair loosened his collasr ~b and hi eemateitheoreinth published by his an, is now the
and cuffs. removed his shoes. andi Provoke Q uestions and D oubts1 Book seems to be the source of pbihdb i oi o h
tretched hhaself on the couch the spirit which he later saw. cornerstone of a national organi-
Placing his hands across his One pring day, sprawling out cation concerned with the preser-
stomach, the man's rsrationhis functioning of this body. These equalized as to overcome all those on the grass, reading the Bible athese records. This oranizatioo
teepened gradually, unti there conditions would prove very in- things that might hinder or pre- story of Manoah, he became
w a gdeepenedgradu'y until A rterestg and worthwhile in con- vent it from being and giving its aware of the presence of someone is located at Virginia Beach.
'as a long, drep breath, After teretinc
that he seemed to be asleep. This sidering a condition that in many best mental, spiritual and physical else. He looked up thinking it was It has published many pamph-
mai was Edgar Cayce who was portions of the country, and in all self. Now, perfectly normal, and his mother. A woman was stand- lets in which Cayce's dissertations
going into a trance in order to portions to some extent, is gradu- perfectly balanced, you will wake ing before him. When she spoke are discussed by persons interest-
give one of his famous readings ally increasing and that proves up." "her voice was soft and very ed in the capabilities of clairvoy- 4
on the diseases and cures of the unusually hard to cope with; forj Clairvoyance, mental telepathy clear; it reminded him of music " ants. They all believe in the va-
human body. The life of this man conditions are so often hidden and extra-sensory perception are he said, lidity of the extra-sensory powers
that it is hard to find the source strange phenomena. Cayce's pow- "Your prayers have been heard," of men like Cayce,
A River" by Thomas Sugrue, or the cause of that which the ers seem even more strange when she said. "Tell me what you would er Bc? the ato icusses
professions have called 'the point one realizes that he knows noth- like most of all." Then he noticed terlBack?' the author discusses
rom at the hospital created for f fection' ing about the human body and its she had something on her back; the continent,
this purpose at Virginia Beach, functions when he is awake. He "winglike shadows." "Most of all of ayces readings. Cayce is
Virginia. Soon Cayce began to HE CONTINUED, diagnosing the describes himself as an ignorant I would like to be helpful to oth- quot as sayng, The civiza-
speak. His voice deepened and ca. of a person he had never man iers, and especially to childrent
beeame authoritative. His wife, seen "even better than I could when they are sick," he answered. period of 20t,00t years, It devel-
who conducted the dissertations lae told how I felt myself" After EEKING to find where his oed ito even greater complexity
mentioned the name of the pa- prescribing necessary treatment strange power came from, he H E LOOKED up again when he bneakthpand dsapear abou10
tient and his locationf tes noted that his grandfather was a dared to .. . she had vanished. . . . ditpear ou A 0,-n
1 n it easked for questions. 'wtrwth n oldlct ernhmeadtl i ohr71111BC. ... the citizens of Atlan- J
Clearing his throat, Cayce be- At t e he 'water-witch' and could locate He ran home and told his mother tis had developed the use of
an, "Yes, we have the body here said, "We. are through for the water by concentrating as he about srxr atomic energy and we, today, are
-Now, as we find there are ab- present," whereupon his wife told walked with a hazel twi. tiedto find out what the womhe reaching the stage of the Atlantis
normal conditions in the physical him, "Now the body will be so Edgar learned early that he was meant d men at their peak."
-- " -" "" -^-"" --Hr predicted that our civiliza- 4
A few days later the school tion will bedestroyed, like that of
teacher, his uncle Lucien, made Atlantis, through lack of humility
him stay after class to write the to God.
word "cabin" five hundred times
on the blackboard because he CLAIRVOYANTS have practiced
could not spell it. His father, the a throughout the ages. Cayce is
town squire, was infuriated. After only one of many. They all seem
supper that evening, he began to 'to follow the same pattern, ac-
te.ah Edga r his lesson for the cording to an article in the March
next day issue of The New Yorker maga-
- 9It was a long evening,, Edgar zne. The article states that most
- . just couldn't learn to spell. Then, of these people are ignorant and
-jsuddenly he had a feeling that by illiterate until they go into a
- s - sleeping on the book, he would trance. Then they are transformed
learn his lesson. Later that even- into learned people, lecturing on
ing, his father found him asleep, subjects which they do not under-
using th. book for a pillow, He stand when they are awake.
woke the boy and told him to go The author of the article inter-
to bed. But Edgar, all excited, ex- viewed Mrs. Laura Abbot Dale, a
claimed, "Ask me the lesson, I member of the American Society
S know it now." for Psychical Research. She de-
Sscribed clairvoyance as the men-
HE SQUIRE began, h n
HE came quick. The an- tal apprehension of objects not
swers came quickly and cor- present in the immediate sensory
rectly. "Ask me the next day's, field.
lesson, I'll bet I know that too."
His father then skipped through . DALE tells of the Society's
the book's pages and the answers 1957 public appeal for verifi-
were always correct. Edgar began able reports of extra-sensory per-
- to tell where the word appeared ception and clairvoyant phe-
on the page and what the illus- nomena. Out of 1,620 responses,
trations were. the group categorized 201 as "real r
The next day in class he was screwballs" and 979 as "odd or
brilliant in spelling but still poor irrelevant.'' Two hundred sixty- X
in his other subjects. So he took one were the "run of the mill"
the books home, prayed to the type, she said, explaining that
lady 'spirit' to help him and went 'these people claim 'I always know
t5 to sleep on the books, Sugrue's who's calling the moment the
book states. He began to progress phone starts to ring,'
and skipped grades rapidly. Later, Ninety-nine were classified as
"interesting and sensible but not
Ruthann Recht is an assist- worth following up." They de-
ant night editor on The Daily. Clare that they vividly recall
(concluded on Page 4)
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