KS&L 332 Looking Through Edgar Cayce's Other Door

Edgar Cayce was always described as America’s ‘Sleeping Prophet.’ He acquired this astounding reputation, because he had the ability to fall asleep to give a ‘reading’ to a person in need. Cayce also discovered at an early age that he could completely absorb the contents of a book if he placed the book under his pillow as he went to sleep. Cayce was also known to provide information about his own health situation when he arose in the morning. Quite literally, he gave new meaning to the phrase ‘I’ll sleep on it.’

Edgar Cayce was a very humble and profoundly spiritual man, spending his lifetime studying the Bible. He was also a person who was frankly, not well educated. His formal education never extended beyond junior high school. He also did not spend his days in personal study of medicine, modern much less ancient history or studying the prophets of old. Yet, Cayce was able to provide over 14,000 ‘readings’ that can only be described as astounding. His topics ranged from: what happened in Atlantis, to an individual diagnosis of a sick person anywhere in the world through the process of remote viewing, to providing information on future world events.

This then begs the question: where did this information come from if Cayce himself did not have the educational background to provide it? This requires us to look through Edgar Cayce’s ‘other door,’ and that ‘other’ door represents the other dimensions of the spiritual world.

Just who was speaking through Edgar Cayce when he seemed to be at sleep? Actually if we look at the Cayce phenomenon with a open mind, it would appear that another intelligence, not currently of this Earth, but extremely well acquainted with this planet, was using Edgar Cayce as a conduit for information. We can be reasonably confident it was not Cayce specifically speaking. First of all, from a linguistic point of view, the syntax and speech patterns are not modern, and are frankly awkward to understand. This was not the speech pattern of Edgar Cayce personally. Secondly, Cayce had no memory of what he said when he awoke. Finally, Cayce only ever gave mention to exactly where this information came from by saying it was Universal Consciousness. Cayce may have believed that his own unconscious mind was communicating with the Universal Consciousness, but even that communication requires some fundamental source – an intelligence that can focus on a mortal. We all communicate with the Universal Consciousness when we sleep, but truly, we are praying to various intelligences on the other side.

We have to come to the conclusion that Edgar Cayce was a man so pure of heart that he could be ‘used’ as a conduit for this information by a sophisticated Intelligence on the other side. When Cayce appeared to lie down, it is safe to say, that he was never asleep. He was in what is known as, deep trance. When a person is in trance, he or she allows another spiritual intelligence to enter and use their body for the purpose of acquiring information. This is why the host person has no memory of what is said, because the host was not consciously speaking. The host gets him or herself out of the way and lets someone else quite literally take over their body.

Was the speaker an Angel or a Divine Being? Was he or she a person who no longer took on a mortal body? While we will never definitively know who the Intelligence was who used Edgar Cayce, perhaps we can take a peak through Mr. Cayce’s spiritual door. Through his experience, we are offered proof that there are Divine Intelligences on the other side of the mortal veil. They are real. Their existence is eternal and they are available to each and every one of us as well.

Perhaps in our own humble way, we too, can connect to the Divine through our own daily spiritual practice of heartfelt prayer sent out to heal the world. The more we pray, the more we, too connect to the Divine. The more we connect to the Divine, the more real, the more tangible those Divine realms become to us, as well as the beings who actually inhabit those realms. Perhaps there were many reasons for the events of Edgar Cayce’s life to play out the way that they did. Possibly one of those reasons was to elegantly and compassionately offer us a peak through that spiritual door and glimpse the everlasting hope of life, love and personal spiritual service.