Edgar Evans Cayce - Edgar Cayce on Atlantis

EDGAR CAYCE

on

ATLANTIS

by Edgar Evans Cayce

under the editorship of Hugh Lynn Cayce

Director, Association for Research and Enlightenment

HAWTHORN BOOKS, INC. NEW YORK

W. CLEMENT STONE, PUBLISHER

EDGAR CAYCE ON ATLANTIS

Copyright 1968 by the Association for Research and Enlightenment, Inc. Copyright under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review. All inquiries should be addressed to Hawthorn Books, Inc., 70 Fifth Avenue, New York City 10011. This book was manufactured in the United States of America and published simultaneously in Canada by Prentice-Hall of Canada, Ltd., 1870 Birchmount Road, Scarborough, Ontario. It was first published in 1968 by Paperback Library, Inc., New York City. Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: 68-19109.

First Hardbound Edition: 1968

Second Printing: 1968

1035

TO

My Wife and Children

whose patience and cooperation helped a great deal

in the preparation of this book

CONTENTS

Preface by Hugh Lynn Cayce 9

Introduction15

Chapter 1: The Legend of Atlantis 17

Chapter 2: Life Readings and Reincarnation 30

Chapter 3: Atlantis Before 50,000 B. C. 48

Chapter 4: 50,000 B. C. to 10,000 B. C. 84

Chapter 5: The Final Destruction 108

Chapter 6: The Shadow of Atlantis 156

References165

The A. R. E. Today169

PREFACE

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Who was Edgar Cayce?

The six books which have been written about him have totaled more than a million in sales, and more than ten other books have devoted sections to his life and talents. He has been featured in dozens of magazines and hundreds of newspaper articles dating from 1900 to the present. What was so unique about him?

It depends upon your point of view. A number of his contemporaries knew the "waking" Edgar Cayce as a gifted professio nal photographer. Another group (Predominantly children) admired him as a warm and friendly Sunday School teacher. His own family knew him as a wonderful husband and father.

The "sleeping" Edgar Cayce was an entirely different figure, a psychic known to thousands of people in all walks of life. Many had cause to be grateful for his help; indeed, some of them believe that he alone either saved or changed their lives when all seemed lost. The "sleeping" Edgar Cayce was a medical diagnostician, a prophet, and a devoted proponent of Bible lore.

In June 1954, the University of Chicago held him in sufficient esteem to accept a Ph.D. thesis based on a study of his life and work: in this thesis the author referred to him as a "religious seer." That same June, the children's comic book House of Mystery bestowed on him the impressive title of "America's Most Mysterious Man!"

Even as a child on a farm near Hopkinsville, Kentucky, where he was born on March 18, 1877, Edgar Cayce displayed powers of perception which seemed to extend beyond the normal range of the five senses.

At the age of six or seven he told his parents that he was able to see and talk to "visions," sometimes of relatives who had recently died. His parents attributed this to the overactive imagination of a lonely child who had been influenced by the dramatic language of the revival meetings which were popular in that section of the country. Later, by sleeping with his head on his schoolbooks, he developed a form of photographic memory which helped him advance rapidly in the country school. This faded, however, and Edgar was only able to complete the seventh grade before he had to seek his own place in the world.

In 1898 at the age of twenty-one he became a- salesman for a wholesale stationery company. About this time he developed a gradual paralysis of the throat muscles which threatened the loss of his voice. When the doctors were unable to find a physical cause for these conditions, hypnosis was tried, but failed to have any permanent effect.

As a last resort, Edgar asked a friend to help him reenter the same kind of hypnotic sleep that had enabled him to memorize his schoolbooks as a child. His friend gave him the necessary suggestion, and once he was in self-induced trance, Edgar came to grips with his own problem. He recommended medication and manipulative therapy which successfully restored his voice and cured his throat trouble.

A group of physicians from Hopkinsville and Bowling Green, Kentucky, took adv antage of his unique talent to diagnose their own patients. They soon discovered that Cayce only needed to be given the name and address of the patient, and was then able to "tune in" telepathically on that individual's mind and body, wherever he was, as easily as if they were both in the same room. He needed, and was given, no other information regarding any patient.

One of the young M.D.'s, Dr. Wesley Ketchum, submitted a report on this unorthodox procedure to a clinical research society in Boston. On the ninth of October, 1910, The New York Times carried two pages of headlines and pictures. From that day on, invalids from all over the country sought help from the "wonder man."

When Edgar Cayce died on January 3, 1945, in Virginia Beach, Virginia, he left well over fourteen thousand documented stenographic records of the telepathic-clairvoyant statements he had given for more than eight thousand different people over a period of forty-three years. These typewritten documents are referred to as "readings."

These readings constitute one of the largest and most impressive records of psychic perception ever to emanate from a single individual. Together with their relevant records, correspondence, and reports, they have been cross-indexed under thousands of subject-headings and placed at the disposal of the psychologists, students, writers and investigators who come in increasing numbers to examine them.

An approximate breakdown of the readings according to subject matter indicate that about sixty percent are physical diagnoses, twenty percent are "life readings," and the remaining twenty- percent may be grouped under the heading "other." The "other" category includes readings on business topics, mental and spiritual themes, dream interpretation and a variety of miscellaneous subjects.

A foundation known as the Edgar Cayce Foundation, located at 67th and Atlantic Avenue, Virginia Beach, Virginia, was founded to preserve these readings. An open-membership research society, the Association for Research and Enlightenment, Inc. (abbreviated A.R.E.) P.O. Box 595, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23451, was organized in 1932 and it continues to index and catalogue the information, initiate investigation and experiments, and promote conferences, seminars and lectures dealing with these readings and related material.

Until recently the published findings of the A.R.E. have been available primarily to its members through its own publishing facilities. Now a series of books dealing with subjects of popular interest from the Edgar Cayce readings are available through Paperback Library, Inc., and Hawthorn Books.

This volume deals with a portion of the Edgar Cayce readings catalogued as "life readings," particularly with those mentioning incarnations in Atlantis. These readings and the records surrounding them are some of the most controversial given during Cayce's remarkable life.

The life readings describing past lives in Atlantis as if they were experiences in early England or early America cover a period of twenty years between 1924 and 1944. They are the most fantastic, the most bizarre, the most impossible information in the Edgar Cayce files. It would be easy to present a very tight evidential picture of Edgar Cayce's psychic ability and the helpfulness of his readings if we selected only those which are confirmed and completely validated. This would not be fair in a total, overall evaluation of his life's work. My brother, the author, and I know that Edgar Cayce did not read Plato's material on Atlantis, or books on Atlantis, and that he, so far as we know, had absolutely no knowledge of this subject . If his unconscious fabricated this material or wove it together from existing legends and writings, we believe that it is the most amazing example of a telepathic-clairvoyant scanning of existing legends and stories in print or of the minds of persons dealing with the Atlantis theory. As my brother and I have said from time to time, life would be simpler if Edgar Cayce had never mentioned Atlantis. So, before others can point to these readings as unbelievable and impossible, here is the whole story. As the author has pointed out, there is a strange consistency within the hundreds of psychic readings given over a period of twenty years. They will take you back into prerecorded history to lands of myth and legend, and forward into a future of literally earth-shaking changes. Whether you are a science-fiction fan, someone interested in the psychic or simply one who enjoys a good story, you will find in the following pages a totally new account of man on earth and a new concept of his relationship to God and his fellow men.