Edgar Cayce’s Story of the Mayan History (Article) - 7/19/2015 3:05:43 AM
Mister Ronald Hull, it is obvious that you are an intelligent gentleman and that makes it even more sad that you have reached your erroneous conclusions concerning the amazing psychic abilities of the legendary American mystic, Edgar Cayce. I understand that 'common sense' would dictate that his heralded abilities were 'impossible' but I believe they also said that about a chap called Columbus, and about NASA landing a man on the moon and here we are visiting Pluto. Is anything really impossible?
To compare Edgar Cayce to Houdini is like comparing apples to elephants. Some folks compare Edgar Cayce to Nostradamus.
I have or have read some 40-50 of the now well over 300 books written about the over 15,000 amazing recorded readings of Edgar Cayce. How many have you read? I challenge you to do some research on this gifted individual. You could start by visiting the Edgar Cayce website, maintained by a charitable organization established to commemorate the life of this renowned human being. www.edgarcayce.org/.
Edgar Cayce’s Story of the Mayan History (Article) - 7/18/2015 7:32:35 AM
I have certainly heard of Edgar Casey, but have not had the occasion to read any of his "readings." I thank you for providing this one.
I have not had an opportunity to visit Atlantis (and I wonder why?). However, I did spend two days in the museum in Cairo and marveled at the precision and consistency of hieroglyphics over a very long period of time, perhaps thousands of years without changing. I have also had the opportunity to visit Tikal and view the hieroglyphics there. I found no resemblance between the Egyptian culture and the Mayan culture except the obsession with the Sun that seems to be the focal point of the religions of the earliest civilizations, so tied to their crops for food.
As I read Edgar Casey's ramblings, it was obvious to me, that while the man probably was well read about the subjects that he did his readings on, he is clearly spouting mumbo-jumbo that quite often convinces people that something phenomenal is happening. I much prefer Houdini, a man who admitted that all of his fantastic accomplishments were merely physical tricks and debunked charlatans like Casey for what they were, opportunists and quacks.
Ron
Edgar Cayce's Story of Stonehenge (Article) - 5/29/2014 10:18:13 AM
Interesting information, Doug. It's OK to be a skeptic, but Ron appears to have dipped into his own biases in portraying Cayce as a charlatan, without foundation.
Edgar Cayce's Story of Stonehenge (Article) - 5/19/2014 6:04:12 AM
While I'm not a scholar of Edgar Cayce, it is obvious that he was a very smart man and probably early on decided to make an easy living as a sociopath, feeding on the gullible ways of the less intelligent around him.
Knowing that the religiously devout were the most susceptible to vague religious pronouncements, he studied the Bible and other subjects, related the two, and came up with his techniques for tricking gullible Christians into believing that he could "read" the future and the past by writing fictional stories using the Bible and other things like scientific findings about the ruins at Stonehenge to his advantage. By taking advantage of "miracle" cures that he discovered (often people who recovered naturally from severe injuries or illnesses) and claiming that he had a part in their recovery, and by printing (advertising) these miraculous recoveries and his part in them to the gullible, he was able to gather a very large following that was cultlike in nature, a pattern that has happened many times over in history… Some of the worst being those that followed Hitler and Jim Jones, to name only two.
No doubt Edgar Cayce was a charlatan and preyed on the most desperate, the seriously ill, who will grasp at any straws to recover from their illnesses. Unfortunately, the vast body of written work by him and about him, continues onward and attracts "true" believers.
Ron
