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Edgar Cayce on Reincarnation

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Are you interested in exploring the concept of reincarnation,without feeling like some spooky little ghoul with an agenda as longas your arm is infusing your brain with the Words of Satan? Well, this book is for you. Written simply, clearly and compellingly, "Edgar Cayce on Reincarnation" motivates the reader to contemplate the question, "Irreversible death or ongoing life?" This review will not provide the answer, nor is it meant to. I'm not sure this book provides the answer, either; just food for thought. And isn't that just grand? Me, I like reading a book that doesn't shove doctrine down my throat. I like looking at things in a pragmatic, sensible fashion, and then arriving at my own conclusions. I was able to do that with this book, and will not hesitate to use it as a reference in the future. "Edgar Cayce on Reincarnation" was so interesting and so thought-provoking that I have devoted myself and (some of) my time to learning more about this truly fascinating man, his offspring and the "A.R.E." I recommend it highly!

I greatly admire the life and work of Edgar Cayce, and this book is an excellent example of WHY: Cayce was a humble, highly evolved soul totally committed to a life of service to suffering children. He'd given free health readings, in a self-induced trance state, for about twelve years before reincarnation was ever mentioned (as the reason for a child's illness). Cayce believed his psychic abilities were the gift from God he'd been promised by an angel as a child, and he read the entire Bible cover to cover yearly, so he was not in any way prepared to accept the idea of reincarnation! Fortunately for us, after much prayer & soul-searching he reconciled the concept with his Judeo-Christian beliefs, and in the process taught us how to do the same. Cayce is the the perfect person to guide Christians just starting to question karma & reincarnation, as well as for more advanced students.(His work includes a list of diseases related to past-life actions which is amazing). You may also want to check out the many other books by and about Edgar Cayce available from Amazon.com~he was prolific!

I recommend this book 100%. These days I'm a lot less wordy (see below), but still hold the same conviction about Cayce. I think he was the real thing, and that his readings (particularly concerning reincarnation) still hold up today. If nothing else, this is a compelling read and will hold your interest, perhaps even spark some pertinent questions.

Peace.

This book isn't so much Edgar Cayce on reincarnation as it is Noel Langley on reincarnation, with occasional refernces to Cayce. The conviction with which Langley tries to "prove" that reincarnation is, in fact, a Christian view is kind of scary. All of his examples of the plot to bury reincarantion in the bible seem to involve "evil women" of some sort or another; quite a turn off for me. I skipped over most of that. Otherwise, it's full of pretty interesting first-hand accounts.

Parts of "Edgar Cayce on Reincarnation" by Noel Langley and editor Hugh Lynn Cayce sound plausible others do not. The parts I resonate with are the stories of the people who have lived more than once and how our souls return again and again until we are prepared to return to our Creator. The details are interesting. The spirits on the physical plane remain on that plane until their development carries them onward, or they return for further development on the earth plane. While the spirits remain within our sphere they may be communicated with. There are thousands souls about us at present. The difference between a soul freed by death and the soul encased in a living body is the density and the vibration. The eternal laws of cause and effect, to which every soul is answerable, works on other planets in the same way it does on earth. The earth is the only planet where physical life as we we know it exists. The components of the other planets are diversified and each makes its proper contribution to the soul. Hovering above the earth, the souls have been following the evolutionary progress with fascination.
Humankind has greater powers than we are aware of - provided we are willing to pay the price of detachment from self-interest. We operate at our full potential when our concerns are directed away from self-preoccupation and towards the assistance of our less fortunate brothers. God does not judge or punish as every soul has free choice. God waits with patience and compassion for the souls to decide how soon they will return to Him.
Souls who fall too far behind are cast into Saturn as their immediate return to earth would cause hardship. Souls return to the earth from other planets or from various astral confines. No action of any planet surpasses the rule of humankind's own will power.
Also of interest is Cayce's reading about a civilization built on the continent of Atlantis between 200,000 B.C. and 10,000 B.C. before it was submerged under the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantis soul-group were the most aggressive and resourceful. They harnessed electricity, mastered mechanical propulsion, laser rays and possibly nuclear energy and the H-Bomb. The Atlantean people attained and abused their powers while attempting to improve on the laws of nature. The misuse of their energies destroyed them.
Langley parts ways with Cayce and loses credibility when he attempts to show how reincarnation is a feasible effect of Christianity and a way to achieve mortality in the chapter titled "Man - The Stranger to the Earth." It's hard to relate to his simplistic story that there are two kinds of people in the world one is half-man half-beast who incarnated through the "mind of man" and the other a "rescue-soul" who incarnated through the pure channel of the "Mind of God." The souls that "occupy" animal bodies bring bloodshed, self-desire and violate the freedom of others while the strong, ennobling rescue-souls are tempered with love. This black and white, "us" verses "them" thinking is wrong. Except for a few extremes most people fall into shades of gray. There is good in the worst of us and bad in the best of life. We can look at the world through ego, the mind of man, or through spirit, the Mind of God.
It's also hard to believe Cayce said there will be a final Armageddon and it will be between the dead not the living. It will be fought between the souls leaving the earth and the souls endeavoring to return to it.
As a fan of Edgar Cayce I don't think Langley's book does him justice.

Very thought provoking. I liked the way these observations were presented.
Couldn't wait to get to the next page.

This is a good book of Edgar Cayce talks. I don't know how much of the seemingly verses in the Edgar Cayce cult are actually his or not, but they seem to be his style. The story gets a bit repetitive when almost all of the people must go into the profession of music, but I understand that vibrations are what life is about. Music has been with human-kind since the beginning of time, so I'm not surprised.

This is a good book that will take you a while to read. It also tries to install Christian doctrine which I don't like, because by the end of his life Edgar Cayce certainly wasn't a Christian...or at least wasn't headed in that direction.

John McAdam:
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What disappointed me about this book was that it wasn't so much Edgr Cayce on reincarnation as it was Noel Langley on Reincarnation and occasionally Edgar Cayce. His conviction, the need of the author to "prove" everything he said made it a little uncomfortable and sometimes boring to read, too. Otehrwise, it's interesting. Lots of good first-hand accounts.