There are few psychics/prophets/clairvoyants who have fascinated me more, and whose body of work I've found more compelling than Edgar Cayce. His life began in 1877, where he was a Kentucky farm boy whose formal education ended with grammar school. And by the time of his death in 1945, he'd gained unsolicited worldwide renown as "The Sleeping Prophet." Cayce accomplished healings, spiritual and metaphysical dictations, and prophecies while in a deep, self-induced, trancelike sleep, none of which he was able to recall when he was awake.

 

 

Cayce's gifts of prophecy and clairvoyance appeared without warning. He was in his early twenties, making a modest living as a photographer, when an illness caused him to lose his voice. After a year of unsuccessful medical treatments, he took a friend's advice to be treated by a hypnotist.

 

 

At his first session with a local hypnotist, Cayce suggested that, rather than the hypnotist going to the effort of inducing sleep, it would be more efficient if he put himself to sleep, which he'd discovered years earlier he was able to do with ease. Once he was in a deep trance, Cayce astonished his friend and the hypnotist by launching into a precise description and diagnosis of the condition that had taken his voice away. The grammar school graduate, who was as uninterested in reading as he was in formal education, displayed the anatomical expertise of a skilled physician as he spelled out a list of complex physiological instructions for the hypnotist to give him while he was under. The hypnotist did as he was told, following Cayce's script of suggestions about vocal cords relaxing and arteries opening to restore oxygen and blood to specific paralyzed muscles. Cayce then awoke from that session with his voice fully restored.

 

 

Word spread quickly about Edgar Cayce's gift for diagnosing and curing illnesses while he "slept," and he immediately began receiving letters and personal visits from clients throughout the country wanting his help with illnesses of their own. His initial reaction was to decline their requests - he was uneducated, he argued, and inadequate to be given such awesome responsibility. And the fact that when he was awake he had no memory of the expertise he demonstrated when he was in a trance made it even more impossible to believe that his cures were worth relying on. But the on thing he couldn't argue with was that he'd somehow managed to cure himself, with a hypnotist's help, when the medical community had failed for more than a year. So finally he came to the conclusion that if he indeed had been given this gift, and if he could use it to be of help to suffering people, it would be reprehensible of him not to at least try.

 

 

Cayce's career of giving "physical" readings continued throughout his life. His wife Gertrude would give him the only information he allowed for each reading: the subject's name, address, and their exact location at the agreed-upon time of the reading. Cayce would ease himself into a trance and signal that he was ready to begin with the worlds, "Yes, we have the body." Gertrude would read questions to him from the subject's letter, and his secretary, Gladys Davis would sit nearby recording the reading in shorthand.

One day in 1923, Edgar Cayce, who was still continuing his photography career at that time, happened to meet a printer named Arther Lammers in the course of his work.

 

 Lammers was mesmerized by the world of metaphysics and by Cayce's gift and he asked for a reading unlike any Cayce had done before: a reading in which, while Cayce was under, Lammers would ask him questions about life, death, the afterlife, the nature of the soul, the future, and anything that occurred to him along those spiritually oriented lines, to see what Cayce's "sleeping" mind would answer.

 

 

That was the inception of more than two thousand sessions that came to be called "life readings" in which Cayce discussed the metaphysical aspects of his clients' lives and of life in general. The philosophies he offered with profound expertise and depth were completely contrary to his conservative Protestant upbringing. But through these readings, he arrived at an inescapable believe in reincarnation and an awareness that his answers were coming not from him but through him. He was sure he was being given information from the subconscious minds of his subjects, and from the Akashic Records - the collective, infinite memories and histories of every though, moment, word, and event in the eternity of the universe.

 

 

In his lifetime Edgar Cayce accomplished more than fourteen thousand readings. Transcripts of those readings have provided the foundation of more than three hundred books about his work. Inevitably, many of those readings involved the future of humankind, of this planet, and of an eventual Apocalypse.

 

 

Cayce predicted a series of natural disasters, wars, economic catastrophes, and great civil unrest, all of which will pave the way for the kingdom of God to rule the earth, with sacred peace and enlightenment thriving throughout humanity. Essential to the prophecies about cataclysmic events was Cayce's belief that these events could be avoided if humankind would only change its ways. Prophecies, he believed, have the potential to be enormously useful if people will respond to them as warnings rather than messengers of inevitable, irreversible futility.

 

 

 

Predicted in the late 1920s: A shift in the earth's poles around the year 2000, due to changes in the earth's surface. (NASA confirms that in 1998, as polar ice caps melted, ocean currents began flowing toward the equator, which contributed to a continuing change in our planet's magnetic field.)

 

 

"If there are greater activities in Vesuvius or Pele (volcanoes) than the southern coast of California and the areas between Salt Lake and the southern portions of Nevada, we may expect within the three months following same, inundation by the earthquakes. But these are to be more in the Southern than the Northern hemisphere."

 

 

"Land will appear in the Atlantic (the lost continent of Atlantis) and the Pacific (the lost continent of Lemuria). And what is the coast line now of many a land will be the bed of the ocean. Even many battle fields of the present will be ocean, will be the seas, the bays, the lands over which The New World Order will carry on their trade as one with another."

"The earth will be broken up in the western portion of America."

 

 

"The greater portion of Japan must go into the sea."

 

 

"Portions of the now east coast of New York, or New York City itself, will be in the main disappear. There will be another generation, though, here; while the southern portions of Carolina, Georgia - these will disappear."

 

 

"Strife will arise through the period. Watch for them near the Davis Strait (between Greenland and Canada) in the attempts there for the keeping of the life line to land open. Watch for them in Libya and in Egypt, in Ankara and in Syria, through the straights above those areas above Australia, in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf."

 

 

"As has been promised through the prophets and the sages, the time [of the day of the Lord] has been and is being fulfilled in this day and generation. The Lord, then, will come, 'even as ye have seen Him go' (Acts 1:11) when those who are His have made the way clear, passable for Him to come. He shall come as ye have seen Him go, in the body He occupied in Galilee. The body He formed, that was crucified on the cross. Read His promises in that ye have written of His words, 'He shall rule for a thousand years. Then shall Satan be loosed again for a season.' (Revelation 20:6-7)"

 

 

And in the wake of a whole procession of dramatic changes in the earth, some of which we've mentioned here, as we prepare for the Second Coming of Christ, "A new order of conditions is to arise; there must be a purging in high places as well as low; and there must be the greater consideration of the individual, so that each soul is being his brother's keeper. Then certain circumstances will arise in the political, the economic, and a whole relationship to which a leveling will occur, or a greater comprehension of the need for it…This America of ours, hardly a new Atlantis, will have another thousand years of peace, another Millennium…And then the deeds, the prayers of the faithful, will glorify the Father as peace and love will reign for those who love the Lord."

 

 

Love always,

Sylvia Browne