Wisdom of Edgar Cayce

Edgar Cayce Wisdom

Selected Cayce Quotations

Edgar Cayce, 1910

Love is qualified as an attribute of that force, power or influence known as God.

Actually . . . we have opportunities for which we should give thanks . . . An error we refuse to correct has many lives. It takes courage to face one's own shortcomings and wisdom to do something about them.

Each soul enters with a mission. We all have a mission to perform.

The I AM is the greater force to be dealt with . . . a knowledge of same certainly gives an individual a foresight into relationships.

Much easier to refrain from error - in speech or in activity - than to seek forgiveness for the word quickly spoken.

In the self one may find the answer to all the problems that may confront you.

Begin with what you are! — Consider . . . which is the best outlet for the greatest contribution you can make towards making the world a better place . . . Pecuniary gains should come as a result of the entity's using his abilities in the direction of being helpful [thus].

It isn't always the individual that plans to accomplish some great deed that does the most. It is the one who meets the opportunities and privileges which are accorded it day by day. As such opportunities are used, there are better ways opened.

Good News and Bad News: Introduction

Welcome facts

Cayce spoke frequently of the Atlantis continent in Readings. He said the size of Atlantis was equal to "that of Europe, including Asia in Europe." There had been a "good" faction and an "evil" faction of souls there, and some such souls are reincarnated. However, researchers have not been able to locate Atlantis, and geology findings offer no unequivocal clues either.

Ancient Egypt and biblical times frequently came up in his particular Readings too. Cayce told how old the Cheops pyramid in Egypt was, and it has proved wrong by carbon dating. His claims were that the pyramid was built 10,500 BCE - about 7000 years amiss.

He also told of earth changes in the coming, affecting a great part of California. Now, what he told about cataclysmic world changes before 2000 AD, has not come true either - for example that by the end of the 1900s, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco would be destroyed:

Watch New York, Connecticut and the like. Many portions of the east coast will be disturbed, as well as many portions of the west coast, as well as the central portion of the United States. Los Angeles, San Francisco, most of all these will be among those that will be destroyed before New York, or New York City itself, will in the main disappear

"The greater portion of Japan must go into the sea. The upper portion of Europe will be changed as in the twinkling of an eye," he also said, and also that "evolution or revolution in the ideas of religious thought [would] eventually come out of Russia.

Cayce also prophesied that the Earth's axis would be shifted by the year 2001.

The final Cayce prediction was from New Year's Day, 1945. It it, he announced that he would be buried on the fifth of January, and was right. He had a stroke attack and died on January 3, 1945, after working too hard for too long.

ARE, a global network founded on his teachings

Cayce has got broad support by famous persons.

The non-profit organisation called Association for Research and Enlightenment (ARE) at Virginia Beach, Virginia, was founded by Cayce in 1931 to research and explore transpersonal subjects. The ARE community is a global network which offers study groups among other things, aiming to help people get better lives by ideas and information found in the Cayce Readings - holistic health and mindful living are ARE ideals. There are tens of thousands of Cayce students in the United States and Canada, and Edgar Cayce Centres in twenty-five more countries.

[Sources of the above: Wikipedia, sv "Edgar Cayce" and "Association of Research and Enlightenment", and "Edgar Cayce's Prophesies" (Morgana's Observatory).

Basic Process

Below are extracts and quotations from the book Edgar Cayce on Reincarnation by Noel Langley, Page references are to that book throughout, with a few exceptions. And what Cayce calls the Entity, is called "the soul" in this survey. I have striven to get to the gems in the book. - Tormod Kinnes

Edgar Cayce told he was able to "tune in" telepathically on an individual's mind and body, independently of distance. [p 9]

Over twenty-five hundred people went to him to learn of their previous life histories. [p 13]

The soul also has its attributes, and its various ways of gaining, maintaining or manifesting itself among men. [p 146]

So long as the connection is not made to waver, the source of information may be the Universal. [cf p 144]

The inmost thoughts of others can be known — If a person will seek first to know himself, then the ability to know another's mind will come. [p 268, 269]

Answers from deep within our inner selves could be the best. If it is of God . . . it must come from the All-Good. [p 143, 148]

The soul occupies a pattern — It shifts and changes its pattern as it uses or abuses the opportunities presented to it. [p 158, 264]

It matters very little how important you once were, and very much that you are - conforming to decent standards in the immediate present. [p 105]

The loneliest person, the loneliest individual, yea the loneliest soul, is the one who has lost hold upon his own self. [cf p 99]

Resourceful, fantastic souls may enhance longevity and telepathy. [p 135]

Cayce's description

"On going into the unconscious state, on one occasion, to obtain information for an individual, I recognized that I was leaving my body.

"There was just a direct, straight, and narrow line in front of me, like a shaft of white light. On either side was fog and smoke, and many shadowy figures who seemed to be crying to me for help, and begging me to come aside to the plane they occupied.

"As I followed along the shaft of light, the way began to clear. The figures on either side grew more distinct; they took on clearer form. But there was a continual beckoning back, or the attempt to sidetrack me and bring me aside from my purpose . . . I kept going straight ahead. After a while I passed to where the figures were merely shadows attempting to urge me on, rather than to stop me. As they took on more form, they seemed to be occupied with their own activities.

"Finally I came to a hill, where there was a mount and a temple. I entered this temple and found in it a very large room, very much like a library. Here were the books of people's lives, for each person's activities were a matter of actual record, it seemed. And I merely had to pull down the record of the individual for whom I was seeking information." [p 46-47]

On thought-forms: Forms created by concentrated thought are things [better: objectified]. [cf p 132]

The just people in the world keep it going. [p 123]

One may compare the physical body to a swimsuit. And we are finally rescued from a stifling suit. [p 34, 35]

The good soul's task on earth is to make use of its successive rebirths [serial lives] to balance its positive and negative karmic patterns by subduing selfish impulses and encouraging proper creative urges. [p 10, 17, 19]

Edgar Cayce viewed the future in two quite separate ways. While the personal destiny awaiting a given soul may consist of the inevitable consequences of his own past actions . . . the future [usually] can never be entirely preordained. . . . It is feasible to alter and reshape its destiny in accord with the altering behaviour patterns of that people of that country. [p 122]

Cayce on Education

His views on upbringing consistently emphasised 'the need for absolute honesty with the child. He condemned pampering as firmly as he condemned insecurity and lack of self-esteem.

A child's insecurity and lack of self-esteem [really] urge the parent always to explain the reason for proper discipline, never to apply it autocratically "because I say so." Thus, always appeal to the child's faculty for reasoning. [p 108]

To force his own fears and prejudices down the throat of the young soul [tends to be greatly disturbing]. [p 108]

Parents would have to shoulder their own share of the responsibility to souls in their keeping. [p 102]

The child must be reasoned away from its own weaker characteristics, not bribed away from them. [p 109]

Music used for creative purposes is helpful. [p 109]

Question: "How can the mother best cope with [her child's] temperament for the best development?" - Edgar Cayce: "It isn't so much 'cope with it' as just meet it!" [p 110]

Do not scold. [p 111]

One is to:

Make a positive effort to balance. [p 40]

Keep a high standard of conduct. [p 100]

Refrain from being jealous of another's glory [count your own blessings instead]. [p 141-42]

Reap the benefits of good conduct, as rewards await the soul for consistently proper conduct. [cf p 17,. [p 64]

Take advantage of the times. [cf p 19]

Stay honest and forthright. Sincerity — - honest with ourselves. [p 61, 210, 273]

Seek wisdom by going for spiritual advancement. [cf p 142]

Be content to do your own [work] correctly. [p 269, 270]

Make constructive use of present abilities with proper determination. [cf p 21, 96]

Go for ability to judge; clear insight. [p 26, 19]

One is to adapt to the conditions — -Adhere to positive potentialities — equanimity and longevity. [cf p 133, and p 209, 253]

Overcome timidity by having something particular to say! [p 86]

"Do not be subdued by others who try, or have tried, to impress you with their importance . . . anyone can act the fool by appearing to be important. [p 85]

Some may develop a rational and logical acceptance of deeper truths. [p 263 ]

Keep yourself physically, mentally and spiritually fit. [p 22]

Refrain from leaving here with much unfinished business. [p 249]

Allow for the latent abilities to progress throughout this lifetime, also in terms of practical application. [cf p 24]

Great understanding is applicable to man's secular life just as much as to his mental or spiritual. [p 27]

Guard against all those who seek for selfish ends. [cf p 137]

One is to progress also to make certain compensations possible - to settle soul debts, and work off accumulated debts. [p 38, 52]

Go fitly against self-indulgence and excesses. [p 92]

Work to evolve yourself to a sufficiently enlightened outlook. [p 40]

Indwelling in the spirit, the soul enjoys exhilaration. [p 42, 44]

The soul can sometimes advance itself by methods that need not be immediately apparent. [p 47]

There must be harmony in self: therefore heed the still small voice. [p 66, 45, 84]

You are permitted to accumulate much of the word's goods. [p 101]

Acknowledge it if you are [what] broken in purpose and gone astray. [p 50]

- and in part why?

Every soul is personally answerable. [p 128]

Sorrow comes from the soul's own misuse of the free will. [p 125]

Among the leaders of the world are extremists. — Relinquish the idea of this earth is the venue of the perfect society. [cf p 136, 278]

Cayce's Astrology Teachings

Jupiter, Venus and Uranus, those strong ennobling forces. [p 130]

The inclinations of man are ruled by the planet under which he is born. [p 130]

The destiny of man lies within the sphere or scope of the planets. !30]

The strongest force affecting the destiny of man is the Sun first, then the closer planets to the earth, or those that are coming to ascension. [p 130]

In one of those various realms abounding in the solar system, [the soul occupies] a pattern — It shifts and changes its pattern as it uses or abuses the opportunities presented to it. [p 158, 264]

No action of any planet or the phases of the sun, the moon, or any of the heavenly bodies, surpasses the rule of man's own will power. [p 130]

The rest

Prudent souls refrain from mixing without respect for another's freedom. Moreover, experienced souls tend to get tempered. [cf p 134, 137]

Some are confused even deep in their minds. And some apparently belong together as a couple. [p 214, 208]

One had better be is smart enough not to attempt a futile retaliation, and rather incarnate with safety. [p 156, 134]

Good souls who have suffered, will learn how blessed it is to abide in the intelligible world and will more plainly perceive the excellence of a superior state. [p 167-68]

Cayce Teaching: The modernistic along with the Phoenician and Egyptian combine beautifully through their simplicity and decorativeness. [p 88]

Until individuals are in their thought, purpose and intent . . . constructive - they are subject to [the law]. [Johnson 102]



Literature  

Johnson, K. Paul. Edgar Cayce in Context: The Readings, Truth and Fiction. Ill ed. albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1998.

Langley, Noel. Edgar Cayce on Reincarnation. New York: Warner Books, 1967.

Morgana's Observatory's "Edgar Cayce's Prophesies"
[www.dreamscape.com/morgana/phoebe.htm] - The page draws on chapter four in the Australian Armageddon: Doomsday in Our Lifetime? by Bob Leaman, originally published in 1986 by Greenhouse Publications, and no longer in print.



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