Elizabeth Fuller - Everyone is Psychic

Copyright 1989 by Elizabeth Fuller

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Fuller, Elizabeth Everyone is psychic.

1. Psychical research. 2. Cayce, Edgar, 1877-1945.

I. Title.

BF1031.F85 1989 133.8 88-30422 ISBN 0-517-57180-3 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 First Edition

For John and Christopher

T HROUGHOUT HIS life my grandfather expressed his conviction that everyone is psychic, although often such ability lies latent and unobserved. Edgar Cayce was also firm in stating that with proper and careful development our psychic ability could enhance virtually every aspect of our lives, providing us with a deeper understanding of life and its true purpose. He made it plain that we were not to think of the psychic as mysterious but as a natural part of usan extension of our five senses.

I am pleased that Elizabeth Fuller has so carefully brought together my grandfathers methods and suggestions for unlocking psychic ability within all of us, as well as his thoughts concerning how such ability can be utilized for constructive and creative living. I am sure the reader will find the book delightfully readable as well as enlightening and useful.

CHARLES THOMAS CAYCE

Every entity has clairvoyant mystic , psychic powers .

Edgar Cayce

T he wind was whipping in off the stormy Atlantic when I arrived at a beach-front hotel in Virginia Beach. It was nearly midnight on a raw March evening in 1987.1 had left Westport, Connecticut, that morning for a ten-hour train ride. Physically I felt as if I had dismounted from the Dead Gulch Stage Coach. Mentally I was buoyed by the prospects that lay ahead.

As the taxi driver handed me my change, he asked what in the world I was doing in Virginia Beach this chilled time of the year. I told him that I was here to research the work of Edgar Cayce at the headquarters down the road. The driver shrugged his shoulders New York style and said, I should have known. In the last year Ive taken more people to that Cayce place than anywhere else. Then he looked at his meter and called out the window, One day Im going to go over there and check out that Cayce guy!

What about this man Cayce? The New York Times, one of the worlds more cautious publications, discovered Cayce back in October 1910. The headline read: ILLITERATE MAN BECOMES DOCTOR WHEN HYPNOTIZED. Subheads went on to say: Psychic Diagnoses and Cures Patients. Ignorant of Medicine, He Turns Healer in Trance... Strange Power Shown by Edgar Cayce Puzzles Physicians... Physician Says Kentucky Man Has Wonderful Powers... Remarkable and Successful Treatments Are Sworn To in Affadavits... Psychic Power New to Medical World...

This was only the beginning. Edgar Cayces paranormal powers were not limited to the medical. The scope of his cosmic treasury was as boundless as the universe he examined and interpreted. While in a trance state he provided penetrating insights into the mysteries of the body, mind, and soul.

By 1930, Edgar Cayce was the Western worlds answer to the gurus of the East. Dubbed by the media The Sleeping Prophet, he lay on a couch and allowed himself to be put in a trance. People seeking help from serious illness, deep emotional or mental disturbances, or everyday frustrations wrote him. Their questions were read to Cayce while he was in an altered state of consciousness. All he needed to know was the name and address of the inquirer. Then he announced, Yes, we have the body here.

In a strange, inexplicable way he visualized the disorder. Then he diagnosed and prescribed treatments in detail. Often Cayce felt the presence of the distant person so vividly that he could describe everything from what the person was wearing to his activities, from brushing his teeth to tying his shoelaces.

If Cayce were dealing with a medical case, he displayed vast knowledge of medical science, although he had received no formal education beyond the sixth grade. To the conventional medical mind this seemed almost impossible. As one irritated doctor put it: Why the hell should I spend all these years in medical school if some illiterate can lie on his couch with his eyes closed and prescribe better than I or any other trained doctor? Yet this elementary-school dropout repeatedly proved from the early 1900s until his death in 1945 that he could perform wonders.

All this was accomplished during times when people considered the psychic to be very low-grade merchandise. This is not to say that there was any great heightened awareness when I was growing up in the fifties in Cleveland Heights. Emblazoned on my memory was the time Aunt Betty blurted out at dinner that she had seen the angels take her grandmother away. It was hard to discern how far the eyeballs around the table rolled back in their sockets. My uncle Bud, a U.S. marshal, mumbled something about bringing out the handcuffs. My father snapped, Get the net! My cousins and brother whooped, booed, and hooted.

I thought back on this family scene as I checked into the hotel in Virginia Beach. A pleasant young man with a soft Southern drawl handed me my room key along with an envelope. Inside was a note from Charles Thomas Cayce, Edgar Cayces grandson, the president of the Association for Research and Enlightenment, an organization formed to carry out his grandfathers life, work, and principles. The note read:

Dear Elizabeth:

We are enthusiastic about the plans for your new book on my grandfather. As I mentioned to you on the phone, people everywhere have written us that they have felt personal signs of incipient psychic ability that seem to arise spontaneously. They are eager to understand and develop this. Since my grandfather has spoken at length on this subject, Im sure such a book as you propose will be important and widely helpful. We will be glad to assist you in every way.

Also in the envelope was a detailed agenda for my visit. It was packed with a schedule of lunches, meetings, lectures, and dinners. The next evening, in fact, I would be having dinner at Charles Thomass home. Such gracious cooperation was welcome. For me to interpret the impressive background material on Edgar Cayces methods for developing psychic ability, I would need expert guidance, which grandson Charles Thomas was soon to provide.

The morning after my arrival, I got up rested and refreshed. After I checked my tape recorder and made a few notes, I went down to the hotel dining room, which overlooked the Atlantic. There was a heavy spray whipping off the top of the breakers, adding to the mystical atmosphere. As I ate breakfast, I tried to imagine Virginia Beach back in the 1930s and 40s when Edgar Cayce was giving psychic readings in a building across the street from where I was seated. Although Cayce had been dead for over forty years, I couldnt shake the feeling that his presence permeated the surroundings. Perhaps it was just the anticipation of what I was to discover in my quest. Or perhaps it was because in the previous month I had read all I could about Cayce and was steeped in wonderment.