EDGAR CAYCE - THE SLEEPING PROPHET             

More than fifty years ago, an important body of information about health and healing presented itself through the work of Edgar Cayce. For over forty years, Cayce would lie on a couch and, from a sleep-like state, present information and respond to questions covering a wide range of topics.

The Journal of the American Medical Association’s first editorial on holistic health linked the beginning of the American holistic health movement with the birth of Edgar Cayce in 1877.

Many of the readings’ pronouncements on diet, exercise, and meditation are key parts of the current holistic modern way of thinking. The Cayce readings agree with the adage that “nature is much better yet than science,�? and they most frequently recommended osteopathy and hydrotherapy combined with herbal preparations.

The readings start with some philosophy; unlike other systems these holistic readings are equally at home in the world of the cell and the molecule, agreeing with science that the disease process occurs at this level of our physical bodies. They can shift within a single discourse from a discussion of the kundalini forces, to the effects of anger on the body, to the balance of electrolytes in the blood.

All but a few of the physical readings were given for a specific individuals health. But patterns emerge when they are all considered together, they demonstrate a remarkable consistency and appear to present a deep coherent picture of how the body functions in health and disease. While the readings couch these concepts in the language of a poet/mystic, they are easily understood and stand testing.

The readings show that the physical body exists in the world of cause and effect. While the prescribed therapies recognized the deep mystery of the spirit/mind/body interaction, they did not rely on ‘magic’ to offer advice. And every single suggestion demanded effort – physical, mental, and spiritual – on the part of the patient and those working with the patient. All the recommended therapies have real effects on the body, and this is shown in the text.

Forty years before the current thinking, the Cayce readings described the effects of our moods as electronic energies, leaving the blood with a ‘glow’ from the emotions controlled through the lines of the nervous systems, with both positive and negative results.

To better understand our bodies, the Cayce readings suggest we view ourselves as being composed of three parts: a physical body, a mental body, and a spiritual body. Each is separate from the other and, at the same time, they are one and the same thing. Each can be worked with in its own part and yet they are constantly affecting each other.

Change in one, is reflected as change in all of them, similar to the integrated “body-mind�? continuums now being recognized in science. A premise in the Cayce readings, which helps to understand and start working with these components of ourselves, is - Spirit is the life - Mind is the builder - and the Physical is the result.

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