Chapter 28
PSYCHICS, CHANNELERS, PARAPSYCHOLOGISTS
Even though there are a few real psychics in the world, the chances of your finding one are slim. I, for one, have met only one in my life, and a second who may possibly be real. For the most part, rule number one is that a real psychic provides their services for free, will always be a very humble person who stays calm regardless of what you say, and never advertises — because they already have far too many people waiting in line. For example, there is one near where I live. For starters, this man lives in a remote, very hard-to-find place — no street signs, no sign on the door — and he dresses quite simply, just like anyone else; his office is very plain, and his service is free, though almost everyone gives him small gifts. After years of hearing about him, I finally got a friend to arrange a visit, since he is quite difficult to see: there is a huge line of people standing outside each day, and he only attends to a portion of them. His method is quite simple and to the point. He does not ask a single question; he simply holds your hand and starts telling you everything that has ever been, or is, wrong with your health. To my surprise, he held my hand for quite a while — probably five minutes — and simply said, “You are in perfect health,” no more, no less. Now, I was not feeling in perfect health, but that was all he had to say to me.
Then he took my friend’s hand and began saying that he had had a serious throat infection; that he had gastritis; that his tenth vertebra from the top had a small injury that hurt from time to time; and that he had a brain malfunction, which he would have his spirit partner stop by and fix — after which my friend should stop taking his medication. He then wrote a prescription for several herbs. We were both astonished. Starting with the throat problem: indeed, there had been a severe cough that lasted only a few weeks, which we had both forgotten about. The gastritis was a problem my friend had, and had never even mentioned to me — same with the back problem; even though I have known him for years and spent quite a bit of time with him, he had never complained of either. I did know about the brain malfunction, but since he is a top government official, very few people know about it, other than his very close family and me. We were both quite in shock to hear this fellow know all this just by holding his hand. A few months later, I became very ill, with a severe case of hepatitis — but ALL the lab tests and ultrasounds came back negative, and the doctors had no idea whatsoever what was wrong with me. So I thought of giving him a visit. When I got to his office, the lights were a bit dim, so I can say he did not see my very yellow skin. Again he held my hand for a long time and said, “You are in perfect health.” I explained how ill I thought I was, to which he replied, “Oh, no big deal; you’ll be over all that in a few days.” And so I was.
My point is this: the chances of your finding a real psychic are slim; there are very few, and they are very hard to find — people often travel very far to get an appointment with one. And if you do find one, it will be free, it will be courteous, and you will have NO doubt whatsoever about their abilities. True psychics can spell it out very quickly.
Edgar Cayce (1877–1945): The Sleeping Prophet
Cayce was born on a farm near Hopkinsville, Kentucky, on March 18, 1877. At an early age he gave evidence of his budding talent: he was able to master his school lessons by sleeping on his books. At the age of twenty-one, he developed a gradual throat paralysis that threatened the loss of his voice. When doctors were unable to find a cause, Cayce entered the same hypnotic sleep that had enabled him to learn his lessons years before; in that state, he was able to recommend a cure that successfully repaired his throat muscles and restored his voice. It was soon discovered that he could do the same for others. For most of his adult life, Edgar Cayce was able to provide intuitive insights into nearly any question imaginable. When individuals came to him with a question, he would place himself into a sleep state, and while in it could respond to virtually any question asked. His responses have come to be called “readings,” and today they constitute one of the largest and most impressive records of intuitive information to emanate from a single individual.
For many years the information dealt mainly with medical problems; eventually the scope expanded to include topics such as meditation, dreams, reincarnation, and prophecy. The transcripts have provided the basis for over 300 popular books about Cayce’s work. His theories on the end times of this planet are very enlightening, and pointed to a period of global major change around 1998. He prophesied that the Sphinx had been built in 10,500 BC, and that survivors of Atlantis had concealed beneath it a “Hall of Records” containing all the wisdom of their lost civilization, and the true history of the human race; he predicted this Hall of Records would be rediscovered and opened between 1996 and 1998, and connected the opening to the second coming of Christ. Cayce gave over 14,000 readings between 1901 and 1945, covering more than 10,000 topics. Among the subjects he channeled were prehistoric civilizations — specifically, Atlantis, and its influence on other cultures of the time. He ended every reading by saying, “We are through.”
The Sleeping Prophet, as Cayce has been nicknamed, predicted the beginning and end of both the First and Second World Wars, and the lifting of the Depression in 1933. In the 1920s, he first warned of coming racial strife in the United States, and in 1939 he predicted the deaths of two presidents in office: “Ye are to have turmoils; ye are to have strife between capital and labor; ye are to have a division in thy own land, before ye have the second of the Presidents that next will not live through his office… a mob rule!” President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in office in April 1945; and in November 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, when racial tensions were at their height. In October 1935, Cayce spoke of the coming holocaust in Europe: the Austrians and Germans, he said, and later the Japanese, would take sides. “Thus an unseen force, gradually growing, must result in almost direct opposition to the Nazi, or Aryan, theme… And unless there is interference by what many call supernatural forces and influences — which are active in the affairs of nations and peoples — the whole world, as it were, will be set on fire by militaristic groups and people who are for power expansion.”
Two of Cayce’s major predictions concerned the futures of China and the Soviet Union. In 1944, he prophesied that China would one day be “the cradle of Christianity as applied in the lives of men.” Of Russia he said, “Through Russia comes the hope of the world — not in respect to what is sometimes termed Communism or Bolshevism, no, but freedom, freedom, that each man will live for his fellow man. The principle has been born there; it will take years for it to be crystallized, yet out of Russia comes again the hope of the world.” Russia, he said, would be guided by friendship with the United States, and its attempt to rule “not only the economic, but the mental and spiritual life” of its people was doomed to failure. Cayce also predicted the possibility of a third world war, speaking of strife arising “near the Davis Straits,” and “in Libya, and in Egypt, in Ankara, and in Syria; through the straits around those areas above Australia, in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf.”
Cayce believed in reincarnation: each person, in his view, existed in a self-conscious form before birth and would exist again after death. In addition to his health readings, he gave many hundreds of so-called “life” readings, describing his subjects’ past lives; a number of these referred to past incarnations in the legendary lost land of Atlantis. In all, Cayce referred to Atlantis no fewer than seven hundred times over a span of twenty years. He maintained that Atlantis had a civilization technologically superior to our own, and that its last surviving islands had disappeared in the area of the Caribbean some ten thousand years ago. His most specifically timed forecast was that Atlantis would rise again in 1968 or 1969. Needless to say, Cayce was wrong on that count. (Note, however, that it was in that time frame that the “Bimini Road” was located in the Atlantic Ocean; whether it is a “road” or “natural geologic erosion” is still hotly debated.)
Cayce said the size of Atlantis was equal to “that of Europe, including Asia in Europe.” He saw visions of a continent that had gone through three major periods of division; the first about 15,600 BCE, when the mainland was divided into islands. The three main islands he named Poseida, Og, and Aryan. He said the Atlanteans had constructed giant laser-like crystals for power plants, and that these had been responsible for the second destruction of the land; he blamed the final destruction on the disintegration of the Atlantean culture through greed and lust. But before the legendary land disappeared under the waves, Cayce believed there was an exodus of many Atlanteans through Egypt and beyond, and he attributed history’s Great Flood, in part, to the sinking of the last huge remnants of Atlantis.
Other predictions were about dramatic changes in the Earth’s surface in the period from 1958 to 1998, which he attributed to a tilting of the Earth’s rotational axis that he said would begin in 1936. The first sign of this change in the Earth’s core would be the “breaking up of some conditions” in the South Pacific, and a “sinking or rising” in the Mediterranean or Etna area. Cayce forecast that, by the end of the century, New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco would be destroyed; that “the greater portion of Japan must go into the sea”; and that northern Europe would be “changed as in the twinkling of an eye.” In 1941 he predicted that lands would appear in the Atlantic and the Pacific in the coming years, and that “the coastline now of many a land will be the bed of the ocean.” He said: “Watch New York, Connecticut, and the like. Many portions of the east coast will be disturbed, as well as many portions of the west coast, and the central portion of the United States. Los Angeles, San Francisco — most of all these will be among those destroyed before New York, or New York City itself, will, in the main, disappear (this will be another generation, though); while the southern portions of Carolina and Georgia will disappear much sooner. The waters of the Great Lakes will empty into the Gulf of Mexico.” He prophesied that the Earth’s axis would be shifted by the year 2001, bringing reversals in climate, “so that where there has been a frigid or semi-tropical climate, there will be a more tropical one, and moss and fern will grow.” By this time, he indicated, a new cycle would begin.
Edgar Cayce’s last reading, on September 17, 1944, was for himself. He was by then receiving thousands of requests for assistance; his own readings had repeatedly warned him not to undertake more than two sessions a day, but many of the letters were from mothers worried about their sons on the battlefields, and Cayce felt he could not refuse them. His last reading told him the time had come to stop working and rest. On New Year’s Day, 1945, he announced that he would be buried on the fifth of January. He was right. Ten years earlier, Cayce had written a brief account of his work: “The life of a person endowed with such powers is not easy. For more than forty years now I have been giving readings to those who came seeking help. Thirty-five years ago the jeers, scorn, and laughter were even louder than today. I have faced the laughter of ignorant crowds, the withering scorn of tabloid headlines, and the cold smirk of self-satisfied intellectuals. But I have also known the wordless happiness of little children who have been helped, and the gratitude of fathers and mothers and friends… I believe that the attitude of the scientific world is gradually changing toward these subjects.”