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? In 1615 a Spanish pearl ship is said to have sailed into an inland sea that then dried up. In 1870 a Los Angeles paper reported its hull found in the desert near the Salton Sea. Every searcher since has lost it to the sand. Mirage, or a galleon in the dunes?
What do you think about this? On May 20, 1967, a prospector in Manitoba walked up to a landed craft near Falcon Lake. It blasted him with hot gas and left a grid of burns on his chest matching its vents. Three governments investigated. Canada put it on a coin. Hoax, or the real thing?
What do you think about this? Serpent Mound in Ohio is a 1,348 foot snake of earth, its head aimed at the summer solstice sunset, its body built on the rim of an ancient meteor crater. One dating puts it right after Halley’s Comet in 1066. Sacred art, or a message for the sky?
What do you think about this? Since the early 1990s about two percent of people in Taos, New Mexico, hear a low hum like a distant diesel that never shuts off. In 1993 Los Alamos and Sandia scientists came to find it. Their instruments found nothing. Trick of the ear, or a hidden signal?
What do you think about this? In 1974 a retired air traffic controller cast footprints in Louisiana’s Honey Island Swamp: three webbed toes, a foot long. He had reported a seven foot gray haired creature with yellow eyes standing over a dead boar in 1963. Hoax, or the Letiche?
What do you think about this? For nearly three years beginning April 2, 1968, a glowing figure of a woman appeared on the roof of a church in Cairo, seen by crowds of tens of thousands, Christians and Muslims together, and caught in press photographs. Mass illusion, or a visitation?
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