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Edgar Cayce gave psychic "readings" to thousands of individuals while in an unconscious state, diagnosing illnesses and revealing lives lived in the past and prophecies yet to come.

Were the readings real or made up by Edgar Cayce?

Edgar performed over 120,000 readings and helped many individuals with many ailments that many would believe to be miracles. Isn't Edgar proof of reincarnation and a higher spiritual plane ?

From what little I know of him, his predictions were pretty accurate. He predicted a lot of stuff about the Depression and WWII, and the end of the world, right?

But he really did more predictions for people on a more personal level.

"He provided information about the history of humanity from the very beginning to a time in the future when humans will evolve into beings with supernatural powers. He described a new era of enlightenment and peace when divinity within humans would be manifested on the Earth. But before this "kingdom of God" would rule the world, Cayce foresaw world events that can only be described as apocalyptic, a period of purification involving natural disasters that will dramatically alter the surface of the Earth, wars, economic collapse, and socio-political unrest. These visions of the future agree with what is known about prophecies from NDEs."

From the following link:
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/cayce11.html

The issue with Edgar Cayce is the same as the problem with Sylvia Browne. Even if he made hundreds of wrong predictions, the only ones you will ever hear about are the correct ones. To what extent one goes to deliberately stage predictions is another story, however. Browne has been known to do so.

Many people have denied his powers and this is the answer to the cynics:

"Cayce believed that these horrible future events could be averted if humanity changed its behavior. And this is the purpose for giving prophecies - to warn people to change so that the prophecies won't happen. Since Cayce certainly was not 100% accurate in his predictions, I believe this only shows how some of Cayce's apocalyptic predictions have been averted. So, a successful gloom and doom prophecy is one that does doesn't occur. Cayce's prophecies became well-known all over the world and a case may be made that he may have had some influence in creating the change within people to alter the course of history enough so that the prophecy would not happen. Cayce would repeatedly say that even the Lord of Lords could not accurately predict future events because human free will can alter and change the future. Cayce is referring to the Biblical account when Jesus is asked when he would return. His reply was:

"No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father." (Matt. 24:36)

So, prophecy is never given for any other purpose than as a warning. For this reason, a successful prophecy is one that has been averted and therefore does not happen. Skeptics of Cayce's prophetic ability like to point out that because some of his predictions did not happen, this means he was a fake. But from another perspective, one can say that his prophecies helped to change enough people to prevent them from occurring."

From the following links:
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/cayce11.html

Yes - it seems as if most of the negative prophecies were warnings - to give mankind enough time to make a positive change.
The prophecies of Nostradamus, the Mayans, etc all had warning prophecies.

A friend of mine who had lung problems...bought from the Edgar Casey Foundation the ARE....a wooden barrel she was to put apple brandy in it and leave it for 3 days. After three days she was to smell the apple brandy....she quit coughing and her lungs are improving.

Edgar Casey was a man who could sleep on a book and tell you every thing that the book held. I went to a Edgar Casey foundation seminor....it was wonderful the things they taught us from Edgar casey's work. I do believe he had quite a gift, and used it well.

The only thing I know about Edgar Cayce is that he said there is a hidden room under the Spinx. Hall of knowledge i think.And if he is doing things like sylvia brown In wich I find her a fraud. I really don't know that much about him to really say he is or isn't Fraud.But I will update my opinion when I read more of the link provided.

I say Skeptics never get anything because they are very arrogant before judging without anything at hand, you can be a skeptic and find others "evidence" with experience before the judgement, rather than looking for it on the web without being suave...I speak with experience when i say this...

To be honest, I have no idea who Edgar Cayce is, but what I can say, is that originally reading this, I was cynical. I mean, it's only natural for man-kind to look at this and say, "There's no way in hell." However, before I make any other estimations on whether or not I myself believe this is true, I will read more about this topic to better educate myself.

It's kind of hard to say, because most of what I have read on Cayce was very pro Cayce. No telling how many predictions he made, or how many times a diagnoses he made proved ineffectual.

What I DID find interesting about him, was that he was rather humble...he didnt seek out publicity, it pretty much beat down his door..and he didnt promote his diagnoses or suggested remedies over that of medical science.

All in all...dunno. He seems to be rather well documented and I dont think I've ever seen anything written about him, that wasnt written with a sense of awe and amazement either for his ability or his humility.

I do not need to embellish or defend the work of Edgar Cayce, his work shines with integrity. Two people can debate whether a rock is a rock, but it does not change the fact that it is just a "rock".

I have done some reading on Edgar Cayce, along with Nostradamus and other "prophets". Although I don't define myself as a skeptic at all I do have this to say about prophecy.
It's all a fallacy. The future is never set in stone at all. Like La6 said, I could predict anything in the future based on logistics and it may or may not be right. Even if these people are supposedly getting thier information from a higher power or whatever, still the fact remains the same that the future changes and humans make choices.
Either way, Edgar Cayces predictions were mostly medical and to be honest..... doctors do it every day sweetie and they are probably more reliable then a guy who talks in his sleep. You may deem things like that "miracles" or "wonderments" but honestly for something like this.... it just seems like a load of bull.
I'm not saying he wasn't predicting or anything and I'm not trying to discredit him in anyway, really. I'm just trying to say that you can't predict the future. No one can. They can try, and, who knows they might be right, but that doesn't make them psychic.

Edgar Cayce has been a ongoing topic in the metaphysical/spiritualist world for years now. I feel his best area was in healing. This is a topic one cannot give absolutes upon. As for the future, lol...let me just say this, in the circles I use to hang out with and in various scientific circles time is considered, past, present and future to be simultaneous. My belief and I will say just belief is there are possibilities and all of these possibilities form what I call time streams. Most know in metaphysical (or have the belief) that people should be able to remember future lives as well as ones we call past. I have even heard that this rememberance sometimes shows up in the writings of authors in science fiction stories or in regression where they push ahead rather than a true regression. Anyway I did an article on 2012 which was really long and I took into consideration what psychics were saying, Cayce among them as some searched through old predictions.

Let me preface this in saying that those who are serious about this area will tell you that no "real" psychic is 100 percent accurate. It is the human factor that plays a part in what they say and also time. It is hard to pin down time in a prediction. Edgar Cayce has been pretty accurate. There are places where predictions can be registered. I think one is with the government, especially dealing with weather types of things. Anyway this is the few things I had in my article that pertained to him.

"Edgar Cayce was a full body medium. This means he would lie down and go into an altered state closer to sleep and would not remember what he had said when he would come out of this state.

There are grave concerns by certain circles pertaining to Edgar Cayce’s predictions in particular because during trance he spoke of a lifetime he had in the future and describes flying over land where New York, the west coast and various regions had been virtually inundated.

“DNA scientists have recently been dumbfounded to find that early Cayce readings concerning the migration of Atlantis survivors across the globe correspond exactly with a rare DNA factor found only in those areas.”(Carl Peterson)"

Now Sylvia Browne should not be compared to Cayce just because they call her a psychic. She doesn't hold a candle to him and even though I use to hang out with many psychics, I have had my doubts about her. Quite frankly even though I don't personally know her, I simply get bad vibes and I don't particularly like her for whatever that is worth.

The most comprehensive books on Cayce were by Jess Stearn in my opinion. There may have been others later but he is known for his connection to Cayce. Here is a bit about him if you don't know who he is:

"Jess Stearn (April 26, 1914 - March 27, 2002), born in Syracuse, New York, was a journalist and author of more than thirty books, nine of which were bestsellers. He was a prize-winning reporter for the New York Daily News for 17 years, and was later an Associate Editor at Newsweek. He was the son of Rabbi David Stern.

Stearn's early works focused on outsiders and marginalized individuals, including prostitutes, drug addicts, gays, and lesbians. He subsequently developed an interest in psychic phenomena, which he dealt with in a characteristically uncritical fashion as a specialist in sensationalized, specualitive nonfiction. Stearn's best-known books include two biographies of the American psychic Edgar Cayce - Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet: The Life and Work of Edgar Cayce (1965) and A Prophet in His Own Country: The Story of the Young Edgar Cayce (1974). He began to believe in Cayce's theories whilst researching the former, and even spoke at conferences of the Association for Research and Enlightenment, a group founded by Cayce. He remained interested in spirituality and the occult for the remainder of his life - he refused to make any funeral arrangements as he believed he had lived previously and would live again."

Jess Stearn alone is an interesting fellow and was involved with many regressions, one in particular dealing with Taylor Caldwell. Reading his books on Cayce might shed some light in more detail about what he did and who he was. I know he was a big advocate concerning massage with peanut oil. He felt it had great curative powers. Eating a few peanuts everyday as well. I don't remember the details now. I have a number of books on Cayce. Whatever he was, he wasn't a fraud in my opinion. He just like any other gifted human wasn't always correct but pretty close it would seem, now that people are looking back at things he has said. Just because we cannot explain this sort of phenomenon yet doesn't make it false. We just don't know why he had this gift and others don't. I have noticed that many who have gifts like this have had either NDE's or some traumatic experience of some sort. A few are like this since very little. It's something we just don't understand.

there is the possibility that he had a gift and then again, most of it can be extrapolated from seeing where we are now, adding it all up and moving forward with your mind

~"There are places where predictions can be registered. I think one is with the government, especially dealing with weather types of things."~

Ummm yeah, have you ever seen the weather channel? They do things like that every day.... can you believe it?

Again, I've read those books and it was mostly indulgent bull crap. I'm not saying Edgar Cayce isn't smart or practiced or anything. I'm saying he didn't tell the future, he's not psychic, he's not a prophet.... he's not special in anyway. Maybe, when he rises from the dead and tells us how to cure AIDS I'll listen to you and say you all were right. You can call me and we'll go out and cure AIDS together, but until then, don't bother me about people telling the future; because they can't.

There was an interesting item on the History Channel last night about Cayce; it also cover other prophets and prophecies over the ages. I'm sure that it will be repeated a few times this week, with other shows on similar stuff - worth checking out!

Well if you don't believe in psychism why do you post in a thread where the discussions are about such. I am sorry but the government has been involved in various types of studies they took very seriously like remote viewing. He was considered a phenomenon and I have read those and many, many others including those from his foundation. No one can say it is bullcrap and I can't say all he said was true but there is a lot of information to the contrary that he was right about many things. If I remember right and am not going onto the internet to check it out he dealt with people who were alive at the time he was in regard to healing. No psychic, prophet or whatever name you want to call them is always right. You don't have all the answers, only opinion. I quoted from what others have said and gave my opinion so I guess we can agree to disagree and be civil about it if you don't mind.

not everything he prophesied came to pass or did so the way he said, one thing worth thinking about is this. Our universe is much more complex than any of us realize while in it's way being very simple. there are many things that can not be explained away by science and just when we think we are the baddest thing on the planet, something like the swine flu proves us wrong. Perhaps we should be more interested in understanding than in closing our eyes and minds to what is happening around us.

I believe Slyvia Brown is a total fraud, I have watched her on the Montel Williams show. I've seen her cold read. And when she does private sessions, and gets something wrong, the person tells her that's not it, and she tries again, but uses something from earlier in the conversation that person had said.

As for Edgar Cayce, I don't believe his predictions.

Nostradomous, some of it. I do believe.

Seqouyah, I'm Cherokee, and some of his stuff I consider babble.

John Edwards is a basket case in the making. Another total fraud.

I am being civil thank you very much, it's not my fault if my opinion differs from yours and you don't like it. Honestly, my brother talks in his sleep and it sounds like he's awake. Does that make him psychic? No, it makes him one sleepy brother.
Sorry if you don't want to hear what I think but, HELLO? Thats what forums are for, discussion and debate. If everyone always agreed on everything then it would be boring and no one would post.

Edgar never called himself a prophet, in fact he never gave himself any kind of grand name.

He was a man following a certain spiritual path, who shared freely with others, always humble, if judged he must be, then let it be by those whom he helped.

In summary I will say that Cacey Succeed in engaging Society, a "Country bumpkin" who had been schooled in Osteopathology, and read .. Err.. READ intensly, plenty of his "divined" remedies have been traced back to Almenac Blurbs . He had a Civil charm, and those who saw this took it to the extreme, (The Insitiute) as pointed out above, more was claimed on behalve of Cacey then Cacey Professed himself. The obvious adaptations made to fit current trends by his "heirs" is telling.