Remembering the man from Atlantis

Everyday humans go about doing jobs, keeping busy, and seldom realize the person next to them. I mention this only to wonder if any body can truly appreciate the beings in our lives who act as prophets. Not movie star prophets, but beings that are so far past our abilities that they just blend without fanfare or egos.

We watch Chris Angel, and David Blaine we are amazed, but how will history be written later on when and if they decide to truly shine. Once people were confused and confounded by Nostradamus. Now we digest and read everything he ever did yet, realize how long it took historians before his works held meaning. The biggest prophets of modern civilization all took time before history gave them their place. Jesus was a radical outlaw during his life, and a disturber of Rome’s peaceful civilization.

Edgar Cayce was born March 18, 1877.

For forty-three years of his adult life, Edgar Cayce demonstrated the uncanny ability to put himself into some kind of self-induced sleep state by lying down on a couch, closing his eyes, and folding his hands over his stomach. This state of relaxation and meditation enabled him to place his mind in contact with all time and space. From this state he could respond to questions as diverse as "What are the secrets of the universe?" to "How can I remove a wart?" His responses to these questions came to be called "readings" and contain insights so valuable that even to this day individuals have found practical help for everything from maintaining a well-balanced diet and improving human relationships to overcoming life-threatening illnesses and experiencing a closer walk with God.

Historians and others are just beginning to crack the surface of everything he has done or predicted. He was a supreme traveler amongst mere pedestrians. Atlantis may be found this century, but he knew of it in the last century.

For example, more than eleven years before the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in 1947, Edgar Cayce provided a great deal of information on a Jewish sect called the Essences. Cayce claimed that in the Essence society men and women lived and worked together. Scholars, however, believed that the Essences were a monastic society composed exclusively of men. It was not until archaeological excavations occurred after Cayce’s death that his psychic information was verified.

A misconception about travelers and traveling is that not all places that can be visited must be visited using a physical means of movement.

One of the most frequently mentioned concepts in the Edgar Cayce material is that Spirit is the Life, Mind is the Builder, and the Physical is the Result. In other words, spirit is the source of all life. The mind focuses that energy into creative (positive) or destructive (negative) avenues of expression. The impact of our choices will eventually find expression in the physical, affecting us, and our relationships with one another.

(What you take into your hands, you take into your heart.)

My prediction for this particular prophet is similar to Nostradamus. Centuries from now on some foreign planet our future generations will read the works of this man with awe and amazement. Yet during his life he was unassuming, died without much money, and notoriety. When a preacher talks of humble service to things higher than oneself, remember this man. Spend just one moment today, look into the heavens and then think of one person in your life or lifetime who may be that hidden prophet in waiting.

For more on Edgar Cayce, see:
Association for Research & Enlightenment (A.R.E.)
215 67th Street, Virginia Beach, VA 23451

Bumba dee da,… Happy Trails!