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In reply to the discussion: Is anyone familiar with Edgar Cayce, the "Sleeping Prophet"? [View all]kentuck
(115,613 posts)42. I think there is a relevance that is helpful to these times we are living in....
...with his explanations about humanity, about good vs evil, about a transformation that is coming. In my opinion, we are always looking to define and understand the crisis we are experiencing. His explanations, just speaking for myself, offer some comfort in believing that this is a transformational period and that we will survive for the better. You can believe what you want about good vs evil, but there is a negative static within the force of humanity. We want to believe we can defeat it and come out for the better. It is about humanity.
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Ironically, I was thinking about him a few months back and was going to research a bit more...
hlthe2b
23 hrs ago
#2
Yes, I am familiar with him. it's been years since I have tried to read anything by him.
mwmisses4289
23 hrs ago
#4
He supposedly knew where Atlantis was -- somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle? -- which
displacedvermoter
23 hrs ago
#5
Cayce died in 1945, during WWII, so unless it was an old movie reel, I don't see how he was on Nimoy's show (1976-1982).
Celerity
22 hrs ago
#13
He wasn't on the show himself, unless, perhaps in another astral dimension..
displacedvermoter
21 hrs ago
#45
There's a lot of recent research into "lucid dreaming" which mirrors some of what you talk about.
erronis
20 hrs ago
#47
One has to read and understand a figure in history before determining that he is a "con"
hlthe2b
21 hrs ago
#44
Since I have argued the exact opposite, you show that you are just posting to see your own words
hlthe2b
14 hrs ago
#113
Cayce was a HEALER not a murderer. That could be the difference between the two
Clouds Passing
19 hrs ago
#71
Verify evidence that he didn't heal anyone. People have a right to question and explore.
live love laugh
6 hrs ago
#134
Thank you. Well said. I tend to be very skeptical having been taught that the scientific methods are best.
erronis
20 hrs ago
#53
Oh, REALLY?!!! Where have YOU been the past decades-- and especially the past five years
hlthe2b
15 hrs ago
#95
I think there is a relevance that is helpful to these times we are living in....
kentuck
21 hrs ago
#42
Interesing subject kentuck. I do beleive that as we sleep, our unconscious does 'communiicate'
c-rational
20 hrs ago
#48
Being a cat person I know that Edgar Cayce had a lot of interesting things to say about cats.
flashman13
20 hrs ago
#55
Cats most certainly have a sixth sense. Several years ago an elderly stray orange cat wandered in and came
flashman13
17 hrs ago
#80
I heard an interview with one his followers on the Art Bell Radio Show years ago.
Jacson6
12 hrs ago
#124