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Edgar Cayce Had His Limits, April 21, 2007
This review is from: The Outer Limits of Edgar Cayce's Power (Paperback)
What would it be like to grow up with not just a famous father, but a father who was to become recognized as perhaps one of the greatest psychic seers of all time. Hugh Lynn Cayce, and his younger brother Edgar Evans Cayce, in their book, The Outer Limits of Edgar Cayce's Power (summarized at [...], takes the reader on a journey to a lesser-known side of Edgar Cayce. With refreshing honesty, Hugh Lynn recounts, in Chapter 1, an incident from 1934 when his father failed to give a requested reading. On a normal February day, Edgar Cayce lay down and prepared to give what should have been just another reading for a client in another city. He was given the suggestion regarding the reading by his wife Gertrude, as she had done many times before. This time though she had to give it five times. Then they waited. In fact, they all waited for over an hour--while Edgar Cayce slept. The reading never happened that day. It had to be rescheduled for another day. Was there something wrong with Edgar Cayce? Did he ever make mistakes? According to Hugh Lynn, questions such as these could be a basis for further psychic research. He noted that "the search for understanding one's self and one's relation to God and one's fellow man will lead to the greatest treasure of all. This was the major focus of the vast majority of the Edgar Cayce readings."
But what was every day life like with Edgar Cayce. Chapter 2 gives the reader a peak at that every day life. We are given glimpses through memories such as helping to develop photographs that Edgar Cayce had taken in his studio in Selma, Alabama. Hugh Lynn recounts briefly for the reader the steps needed to take a photograph from a blank piece of photographic paper to a momentary view of someone's life. You can almost see the picture coming to life in the development tray as he remembers that incident. We know that Edgar Cayce enjoyed playing games with his sons such as checkers, Parcheesi and rook with Hugh Lynn, dominoes, and carom with Edgar Evans. The reader is also allowed to experience briefly what it was like to live in that studio apartment above the wholesale drugs and wholesale grocery stores. Hugh Lynn talks of the "war on rats" that he and his father waged when Edgar Evans was young. It seems that rats would come in the grocery store downstairs where they would eat their fill, then go through the drugstore walls and up into the Cayces' apartment where Hugh Lynn and his father had to trap them and sometimes fight them. Then the reader journeys to Virginia Beach, Virginia with the Cayce family where we learn more about Edgar Cayce the man. We learn about his love of growing things (at one time there were over 15 fruit and flowering trees at their Virginia Beach home, according to Hugh Lynn), and building things with hammer, nail and saw such as room additions and a new garage. In addition, we are there when Hugh Lynn discovers something even he did not know about his father---he was a water dowser. He talks of the time when he, Hugh Lynn, was involved in scouting and the troop needed a source of water for a new cabin they were building on Linkhorn Bay. He mentioned this need to his father. Edgar Cayce asked his son to take him to the location. On the way there, he had Hugh Lynn stop so he could acquire a Y-shaped branch from a peach tree. Using this branch while walking across the area where the cabin was to be built, Edgar Cayce was able to locate an area for them to dig in search of water. He told Hugh Lynn that they should find water about 32 feet down. They found water at 32½ feet.
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Will Be Interesting For Cayce Fans, March 2, 2008
This review is from: The Outer Limits of Edgar Cayce's Power (Paperback)
If you're a big Edgar Cayce fan you should find this book interesting.
It provides some insights into those times when Cayce's psychic abilities seemed to short circuit for whatever reasons.
Most of the examples are cases where Cayce tried to use his psychic powers to find oil wells or buried treasure. He even created the 'Cayce Petroleum Company' in Texas to take advantage of his powers.
These accounts try to suggest some possible reasons for why these attempts to get rich were unsuccessful. Was it the bad intentions of the seekers ? Did they not follow his directions correctly ? What was the source of the information that Cayce received ? Did they have the correct type of equipment such as metal detectors ?
As I read these accounts I started to think that all of those factors plus more importantly the hand of fate itself was thwarting their efforts. All of those other reasons are to me really just different aspects of the same issue.
But who would not at least try it if they had those types of powers ? We can always argue that it's better to dig up a chest full of gold or an oil deposit rather than leave it in the ground.
Another area that he had mixxed success with was trying to locate missing people such as the Lindbergh baby who was kidnapped and found murdered.
My conclusion is Cayce eventually realized that he shouldn't use his abilities for these types of endeavors. These attempts to find missing persons, buried treasure, and oil deposits represent a small percentage of the Cayce material which indicates that Cayce himself reached this same conclusion.
They didn't talk about Cayce's predictions for the future which have also been questioned and which in some cases appear to have been wrong although I'm not convinced of this.
To me Cayce was at his best when he revealed the amazing mysteries of the ancient past such as Atlantis and very ancient Egypt. Or when he told people about their past lives and how those experiences were affecting them. Or when he talks about philosophy and metaphysics and explains the great secrets that are hidden in the scriptures. That's where he really shines.
I wanted to mention that in his groundbreaking book 'The Giza Power Plant' Christopher Dunn may have discovered why the carbon dating of the mortar from the Great Pyramid doesn't match up with Cayce's statements about the age of the pyramids.
Dunn shows that the Great Pyramid was a machine when it was fully functional and tremendous amounts of energy were generated inside the pyramid including radiation. When something is exposed to radiation carbon dating cannot be used to determine its age I don't think. So I believe Cayce was correct and the pyramids were in fact constructed in 10,500 BC after Atlantis went down into the murky depths.
As another reviewer mentioned this book also provides some glimpses into Cayce's family and home life and his relationship with his two sons who wrote this book.
Jeff Marzano
Edgar Cayce on Vibrations: Spirit in Motion
The Lives of Edgar Cayce
Edgar Cayce's Atlantis
Edgar Cayce's Egypt: Psychic Revelations on the Most Fascinating Civilization Ever Known
Mythic Troy: The Complete Story Legend Archeology and Intuition
The Giza Power Plant : Technologies of Ancient Egypt
Past Life Regression: A Guide for Practitioners
Same Soul, Many Bodies: Discover the Healing Power of Future Lives through Progression Therapy
The Essential Edgar Cayce
The Outer Limits - The Original Series, Season 1
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Balance your views about Cayce, January 15, 2006
If you are interested in Edgar Cayce, you should read this book. I found it most enlightening. Edgar Cayce was after all human, and his abilities were tested by the greed and desperation felt by him and others occasionally. It takes a long time to find your path, and sometimes you still stray. Recommended reading!
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