A man lies down on a couch in Kentucky, folds his hands over his stomach, and closes his eyes. Within minutes he is speaking in a calm voice about a patient hundreds of miles away, someone he has never met, describing the illness and the remedy in medical terms he did not know while awake.
That was Edgar Cayce, born in 1877, a photographer with an eighth grade education. Over four decades he gave more than 14,000 of these trance readings, and a stenographer took down every word. They still exist. You can read them today at the Association for Research and Enlightenment in Virginia Beach, which he founded in 1931.
Most readings dealt with health. But others wandered into far stranger country. Cayce spoke of Atlantis as a real civilization with advanced technology, and said survivors carried their records to Egypt and hid them in a chamber beneath the paw of the Sphinx. He said evidence of Atlantis would rise near Bimini in 1968 or 1969. In 1968 divers off Bimini found a half mile line of massive, squared limestone blocks on the sea floor. Geologists call it natural beachrock. Others are not so sure.
Cayce never got rich from any of it. He often woke with no memory of what he had said, and he gave so many readings in his final years that those close to him believed it wore him out. He died in 1945.
Is it possible that the sleeping mind can reach something the waking mind cannot, some record of everything that has ever happened.
True seer, or a sincere man whose hits we remember and whose misses we forget?
What do you think about this? Edgar Cayce gave over 14,000 trance readings, all written down and still on file. He said proof of Atlantis would rise near Bimini in 1968. That year divers found a half mile road of giant stone blocks there. True seer, or lucky guess?
What do you think about this? Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Kentucky built a 500 foot tunnel just to move its dead out of sight of the living. It closed in 1961. Visitors still report a boy rolling a ball across empty floors. Restless spirits, or a dark building playing tricks on the mind?
What do you think about this? In 1891, a poor French priest named Bérenger Saunière began tearing up his church floor, then spent the next two decades funding lavish buildings on a stipend that should not have covered it. Real treasure, or a secret about how he ran his church?
What do you think about this? Puma Punku’s H-shaped stone blocks, cut from andesite by a culture dating to roughly 600 CE, are flat to within a couple millimeters, with no known metal tools hard enough to do it. Lost technique, or something we haven’t caught up to yet?
What do you think about this? The Georgia Guidestones were commissioned anonymously in 1979 by a man calling himself R.C. Christian, and no one ever learned his real name before the monument was bombed on July 6, 2022. Message, or a monument that did not deserve to stand?
What do you think about this? Pacifica’s Devil’s Slide has swallowed sections of Highway 1 since 1937, and a WWII watch bunker still perched on its cliff edge has sat abandoned there since 1949. Geology, or a stretch of coast that keeps trying to shrug people off?
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