Customer Reviews

Edgar Cayce -- The Sleeping Prophet

5 star:		(9)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

Jess Stearn's style of writing may tend to be a tad sensationalistic, but he certainly makes you think. Especially now that it is l998, reading Ch. 3 on earth changes can be a bit chilling. I love the book because it set me on the spiritual path with both feet. Edgar Cayce, the greatest prophet of our century, the Father of Wholistic Medicine and simple man with a great heart and a cosmic mind, will be a truly "real character" for you, by the time you finish this remarkable book. Thanks Jess for making him so accessible!

One has to consider the time this occurred and the level of education of Edgar Cayce. He was incredible and I find it sad that people reading it today are unable to grasp the importance of his work. I think this is a book all thinking people should read and understand in context. If a reader is too literally minded or unwilling to accept the possibility of miracles then (s)he should read something else.

It opened doors for me I never knew existed. I knew why I had been born in this day & age. It gave me hope for the future in spite of the trauma that lies ahead of us. I buy this book for everyone I love.

The story of Edgar Cayce and other people with parapsychological ability is a most compelling and interesting phenomenon of mental capacity. That some people have this type of psychic ability demonstrates the vast power and perception of the human mind that warrants investigation. That this type of phenomena doesn't necessarily "fit" into mainstream psychological study causes severe conflict with generally accepted mainstream beliefs about the workings of the mind. As a consequence, the field of orthodox study tends to put people like Cayce into the catagory of fakes and charletans, at worst, and to ignore them at best. The study of this type of psychic phenomenon would go far in explaining the unknown regions of the mind. Scientific discovery necessitates following examples that are exceptions to the general rule. People with parapsychological powers ala Cayce provide great opportunity to track the great uncharted regions of the human psyche.

To me, the most fascinating part of Jess Stearn's biography is that Cayce predicted Stearn would write the book in Cayce's trance readings before Stearn arrived on the scene and after Cayce had passed away. Cayce never met Stearn in real life.

This is a different biography than the purely chronological ones such as There Is a River: The Story of Edgar Cayce, which is a comprehensive biography and Edgar Cayce: Mystery Man of Miracles, which concentrates on Cayce early years, or Edgar Cayce: An American Prophet, discloses many heretofore unrevealed tidbits about Cayce's personal life.

Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet tackles Cayce by subject with chapter headings on topics such as "The Incurable Diseases," World Prophecies," and "Reincarnation."

I found many interesting anecdotes, for example, how a woman was cured of cancer by following suggestions in the Cayce readings with the support of her doctor. Intrigued with Atlantis, I shiver at the supposed similarity between people in Atlantis' last days who did not heed warnings of earth instability with people who flagrantly ignore good geological sense and build their homes over fault lines.

Not surprisingly, since I met my husband first in a dream (described in my book, When We Were Gods: Insights on Atlantis, Past Lives, Angelic Beings of Light and Spiritual Awakening), one of my favorite chapters is "The Dream World." Cayce believed that we could all access our own innate psychic ability through a study of our dreams.

It's the kind of book that once you pick it up, you find so many intriguing stories to catch your interest that you want to keep reading and reading.

Highly recommended.

Carol Chapman, photographer for the Divine in Nature: With Quotes from Edgar Cayce and author of When We Were Gods: Insights on Atlantis, Past Lives, Angelic Beings of Light and Spiritual Awakening.

One has to consider the time this occurred and the level of education of Edgar Cayce. He was incredible and I find it sad that people reading it today are unable to grasp the importance of his work. I think this is a book all thinking people should read and understand in context. If a reader is too literally minded or unwilling to accept the possibility of miracles then (s)he should read something else.

This is a most excellent and an extremely eye-opening book! If you want to grow spiritually, please read this book as soon as possible, and, by all means, share it with many others!!!

This was a very, very interesting read. I caught a Cayce special on A&E and became interested. After looking around, this book seemed to contain the most information. It's a great collection from early life until death and even contains some medical readings and advice.

I will admit that going back and trying to find something is very difficult b/c the chapters are long and there is no index. For more specific medical advice and categorizing I bought The Edgar Cayce Encylcopedia of Healing.

I first read this book in the late sixties and got through it with difficulty. It was a time of great social upheaval and there were many predictions of great physical catastrophes. A common one among the fringe thinkers that many believed was that California was going to fall into the Pacific ocean. The concept of such a disaster fascinated me, along with some of the other predictions of catastrophe that were repeated at that time. Cayce was one of that set of predictors and some of his main ones were:

*) The destruction of most of Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York.
*) The end of communism in Russia with a liberated Soviet Union becoming the "hope of the world" in alliance, incredibly with the U.S.
*) Christianization and democratization of Red China
*) The sliding of much of Japan into the sea.
*) The rising of the lost continent of Atlantis
*) The further tilting of the Earth's rotational axis with a drastic reversal of global climates

The only one of these predicted events that is even close is the second one, where communism did end in the Soviet Union. However, there is no alliance between the U. S. and Russia; there is still a significant global rivalry between the two nations.
This book is hard to read, because it is repetitive and poorly written. If you think critically about what is being said, it reduces to the nonsensical. This is especially true when you understand that the main predictions were totally false.

This is a true book about a man that actually lived in the earlier part of this century. He had amazing God given powers to help people. This book will change your life. This is a must read for anyone who believes in God and an even bigger read for those who don't. This book will show you how religeon and all the mystical 'unknown' things of the universe are all related and all come from God. The amazing Mr. Cayce had all of his questions answered from God's book of universal knowledge. I guarentee, once you pick it up, you won't be able to put it down.