Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet

It opened doors for me I never knew existed. I knew why I had been born in this day & age. It gave me hope for the future in spite of the trauma that lies ahead of us. I buy this book for everyone I love.

To me, the most fascinating part of Jess Stearn's biography is that Cayce predicted Stearn would write the book in Cayce's trance readings before Stearn arrived on the scene and after Cayce had passed away. Cayce never met Stearn in real life. This is a different biography than the purely chronological ones such as There Is a River: The Story of Edgar Cayce, which is a comprehensive biography and Edgar Cayce: Mystery Man of Miracles, which concentrates on Cayce early years, or Edgar Cayce: An American Prophet, discloses many heretofore unrevealed tidbits about Cayce's personal life. Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet tackles Cayce by subject with chapter headings on topics such as "The Incurable Diseases," World Prophecies," and "Reincarnation." I found many interesting anecdotes, for example, how a woman was cured of cancer by following suggestions in the Cayce readings with the support of her doctor. Intrigued with Atlantis, I shiver at the supposed similarity between people in Atlantis' last days who did not heed warnings of earth instability with people who flagrantly ignore good geological sense and build their homes over fault lines. Not surprisingly, since I met my husband first in a dream (described in my book, When We Were Gods: Insights on Atlantis, Past Lives, Angelic Beings of Light and Spiritual Awakening), one of my favorite chapters is "The Dream World." Cayce believed that we could all access our own innate psychic ability through a study of our dreams. It's the kind of book that once you pick it up, you find so many intriguing stories to catch your interest that you want to keep reading and reading. Highly recommended. Carol Chapman, photographer for the Divine in Nature: With Quotes from Edgar Cayce and author of When We Were Gods: Insights on Atlantis, Past Lives, Angelic Beings of Light and Spiritual Awakening.

The story of Edgar Cayce and other people with parapsychological ability is a most compelling and interesting phenomenon of mental capacity. That some people have this type of psychic ability demonstrates the vast power and perception of the human mind that warrants investigation. That this type of phenomena doesn't necessarily "fit" into mainstream psychological study causes severe conflict with generally accepted mainstream beliefs about the workings of the mind. As a consequence, the field of orthodox study tends to put people like Cayce into the catagory of fakes and charletans, at worst, and to ignore them at best. The study of this type of psychic phenomenon would go far in explaining the unknown regions of the mind. Scientific discovery necessitates following examples that are exceptions to the general rule. People with parapsychological powers ala Cayce provide great opportunity to track the great uncharted regions of the human psyche.

One has to consider the time this occurred and the level of education of Edgar Cayce. He was incredible and I find it sad that people reading it today are unable to grasp the importance of his work. I think this is a book all thinking people should read and understand in context. If a reader is too literally minded or unwilling to accept the possibility of miracles then (s)he should read something else.