John Van Auken - Edgar Cayce on the Spiritual Forces Within You: Unlock Your Soul With: Dreams, Intuition, Kundalini, and Meditation

Edgar Cayce on the SPIRITUAL FORCES WITHIN YOU

Edgar Cayce on the SPIRITUAL FORCES WITHIN YOU

Unlock Your Soul with Dreams, Intuition, Kundalini, and Meditation

JOHN VAN AUKEN

A.R.E. Press Virginia Beach Virginia

Copyright 2014
by John Van Auken

1st Printing, June 2014

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Edgar Cayce Readings 1971, 1993-2007
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Contents

Chapters

Introduction

I first read about Edgar Cayce when I was sixteen years old. My father, a naval officer, had been transferred to Virginia Beach, Virginiahome to the headquarters of the Edgar Cayce Foundation and the Association for Research and Enlightenment, founded by Edgar Cayce in 1931. The book was The Sleeping Prophet by Jess Stearn, a journalist and author of more than thirty books, nine of which were bestsellers. But it wasnt until I got into college that I really began to study Cayces work. The professor of my writing class assigned us to write about a mystery, and since my mother had told me the mysterious story of Bridey Murphy, I thought that would be a good place to begin my research for this paper.

Bridey Murphy was the alleged name of a womans past life in the 1800s as an Irishwoman who died and reincarnated in the United States 59 years later. The book was The Search for Bridey Murphy by Morey Bernstein (published in 1952; it became a movie in 1956, starring Academy-Award winning actress Teresa Wright). It was the fascinating story of housewife Virginia Tighe (called Ruth Simmons in the book and movie), who, while under hypnosis, recalled (or virtually relived) her apparent past life as Bridey Murphy. Tighes hypnotic story (recorded on cassette tape) began in 1806, when Bridey was eight years old and living in or near Cork, Ireland. She was the daughter of Duncan Murphy, a barrister, and his wife Kathleen. At the age of 17, she married barrister Sean Brian McCarthy and moved to Belfast. Tighe told of a harsh fall season that caused Brideys death and of watching her own funeral. She described her tombstone and the state of being alive after her deathor more precisely, after her bodys deathin 1864. She said that she did not feel pain or sadness. Then, somehow, she was reborn in the Midwest of the U.S. in 1923. In this life, she had never been to Ireland and did not speak with even the slightest hint of an Irish accentexcept when she was under hypnosis and reliving the Bridey incarnation! Then she spoke with an Irish brogue. In Bernsteins book, he referred to Edgar Cayce and his remarkable abilities, explaining that he had investigated Cayce and could find no deception or trickery in his process. He thought that, as impossible as it may seem, the volumes of detail coming through Cayce on past lives couldnt be anything but valid. Reading this, I decided to write my paper on the mystery of Edgar Cayce. Because it contained so many examples of Cayces readings on past lives and the karma that affected peoples present lives, I chose to use the best-selling book Many Mansions by Gina Cerminara. I got an A on my paper. But more than that, I developed an appetite for the Edgar Cayce information on past lives and karma.

Over the years, I read most every book about Edgar Cayce that there was. And though the initial hook that got me into the Cayce volumes was reincarnation and karma, it was the mystical, magical spirituality that filled his discourses that ultimately became my souls meat and potatoes. My soul and mind were being nourished by his spirituality. I could not get enough of his wisdom and stories, even though it was thick with King James biblical language and Christian terminology and conceptsthings I had long ago deemed inadequate and often prejudiced, even racist and sexist, with a terrible history of violence. But Cayces perspective on Christian concepts was so open and so expansive, so beyond church dogma, doctrine, and historical acts, that I couldnt get enough of it. His teachings included Buddhism and Hinduism. In fact, he taught that any faith that teaches the brotherhood and sisterhood of all humanity and the oneness of God was carrying the true message. In my twenties, this was exactly how I felt. His views found a receptive, responsive place within me. And the organization that built up around his work was open to all people from varying backgrounds and beliefs. They were normal people, not cultists, not living on the fringes of life, but quite a spread from our society.

Now, after more than forty years of working with the Cayce material and concepts, and practicing them in my daily life, I have gathered together some of the key elements of his spirituality in this book. Ive also added the wonders discovered by sciencewonders of the outer life and outer reality, as well as wonders of the inner, unseen life and realms. And in writing this book, the material has reignited that flame of excitement that I had in my early twenties when I first encountered these ideas and their vast expansive vision into the purpose and meaning of lifeof soul life. I truly would never have gotten to the awareness, vibration, and peace that I enjoy today, not to mention the quality of people I share my life with, without having studied and lived this material. I hope you find the light and inspiration that I found.

Blessings and good wishes to you and yours,

John Van Auken, Director

Edgar Cayce Foundation

215 67th Street

Virginia Beach, VA 23451 USA

About Edgar Cayce

E dgar Cayce (pronounced, KAY-see, same as the English name Casey) was born on a farm near Hopkinsville, Kentucky, on March 18, 1877. As a child, he displayed unusual powers of perception. At the age of six, he told his parents that he could see and talk with visions, sometimes of relatives who had recently died, and on occasion he saw angels. He could also sleep with his head on his schoolbooks and awaken with a photographic recall of their contents, even citing the page upon which the answer appeared. However, after completing seventh grade, he left schoolwhich was not unusual for boys of his age at that time.

When he was twenty-one, he developed a paralysis of the throat muscles that caused him to lose his voice. When doctors were unable to find a physical cause for this condition, Edgar Cayce asked an acquaintance to help him re-enter the same kind of hypnotic sleep that had enabled him to memorize his schoolbooks as a child. The friend gave him the necessary suggestions, and once he was in this trance state, Cayce spoke clearly and directly without any difficulty. He instructed the hypnotist to give him a suggestion to increase the blood flow to his throat; when the suggestion was given, Cayces throat turned blood red. Then, while still under hypnosis, Cayce recommended some specific medication and manipulative therapy that would aid in restoring his voice completely.