Leaps of Consciousness

A channel or medium is a person who bridges the physical world and the spirit realms.

Edgar Cayce (1877-1945) was a prolific psychic with extraordinary abilities who influenced the New Age spiritual movement.

Cayce coined the term ‘channelling,’ for when he lay on a couch, went into a deep trance, was asked for information and started talking. A stenographer recorded his readings.

There are 14,306 readings in the following categories:

His priority was the physical readings, especially health ones which followed a holistic approach. E.g.: ‘The body – physically, mentally, spiritually – is one body, yet in the varied conditions as arise within a physical body, these must often be treated as a unit – that is, each element treated as a unit yet in the fullest application they are one’.

Thus, different patients received different instructions for the same maladies. He often advised a diet of fresh fruits and vegetables supplemented by fish, poultry, and lamb, and avoidance of white bread, fried foods, sugar, red meat and carbonated drinks.

When asked about life readings, Cayce referred to ‘planes of consciousness between incarnations, then described up to nine previous incarnations, providing names, dates and locations as well as inclinations, talent and weaknesses affecting the present incarnation.’

He founded Edgar Cayce's Association for Research and Enlightenment (ARE) in 1931 and it holds all his legacy.

Source: Wehrstein, KM (2019). ‘Edgar Cayce’. Psi Encyclopedia. London: The Society for Psychical Research