Reba Ann Karp - Edgar Cayce Encyclopedia of Healing

PSYCHIC HEALING AND

MODERN MEDICAL SCIENCE

Recent medical discoveries have often substantiated the unorthodox cures prescribed by Edgar Cayce, prompting questions and discussion about Cayces tremendous insight What sort of treatments did Cayce recommend? How effective were his tonics and treatments in alleviating symptoms? What basic concepts did Cayce apply that current medical practices now incorporate? Which illnesses did Cayce treat which modern science now treats similarly?

Reba Ann Karp, a newspaper reporter and editor who has written considerably about the Cayce Foundation, has compiled a fascinating array of documents and evidence which substantiate many of Edgar Cayce's physical readings Scrutinizing current medical research. Karp reveals the similarities between modern treatments for numerous ailmentsincluding arthritis, cancer and tooth decayand Cayce's own insightful recommendations. For anyone intrigued by alternative methods of healing. THE EDGAR CAYCE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HEALING is an important and fascinating resource

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EDGAR CAYCE ON ESP
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EDGAR CAYCE ON ATLANTIS
EDGAR CAYCE ON DREAMS
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EDGAR CAYCE ON THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS
EDGAR CAYCE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HEALING

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PLEASE NOTE:

The Edgar Cayce Encyclopedia of Healing is documentary and must not he interpreted as a guide for self-healing, If you wish to follow any of the Cayce suggestions, do so only under the supervision of a medical doctor

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Copyright 1986 by Reba Ann Karp
Edgar Cayce readings copyright 1971 by Edgar Cayce Foundation.

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Printed in the United States of America First Printing June, 1986

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Tom Johnson Carol Baraff Linda Keener Barbara Salerno Lise Stryker Earendil Spindelilus Steve Borgardus Jane Gilbert Bob Fears

Everyone who is ill wants to be healed. This book gives the reader an encyclopedic picture of how Edgar Caycethe twentieth century's outstanding mystic and seer sees healing come about in the human body.

Cayce died in 1945, but his legacy of more than 14,000 readings continues to be researched and worked with academically and in clinical practice. And this information tells us that man is an eternal being, spiritual in nature, creative and building through the powers of the mind, and utilizing a body in this dimension that is the product of his mind working with spiritual energy.

It is perhaps appropriate that Reba Ann Karp has entitled this book The Edgar Cayce Encyclopedia of Healing, for she indeed has covered a multitude of subjects, concepts, problems, therapies and case studies.

My own experience has told me over the past three decades that there is truth in the way Cayce saw the human body. He talked about functioning systems and organs within the body fulfilling their mission to maintain life so that we can be active and fulfill a destiny and purpose in this world we live in.

Cayces approach was fundamental. If we can bring about a coordination of these functionsthe assimilation, elimination, circulation, respiration, regeneration, etc.then the healing must come about. The emotions, attitude, beliefs, responses to lifes situations all play a part in instigating or worsening an illness of the body, but a therapy designed to balance and bring into attunement the functioning body, the mind and the spiritual reality spells health in the majority of cases.

Sometimes a very simple therapy program will do wonders when it is directed toward helping the body. Very recently a patient of minea man in his thirtiesdeveloped a hepatitis. Before we could determine from the laboratory which type it was, a course of therapy involving rest, special diet, castor oil packs over his abdomen and a positive frame of mind brought high enzyme readings back to normal, his icterus following suit, and he was back to work feeling normal within three weeks.

You will enjoy reading The Edgar Cayce Encyclopedia , for it will give you a head start in thinking about your body in a new waya way that will allow you to have more control over your own health, for healing does indeed come from within. And you should have control.

William A. McGarey, M D.

In presenting a brief summary of someones life, it is usually best to start with the beginningor the day of birth. However, when trying to construct enough of the salient facts surrounding the life of Edgar Cayce to introduce him to readers, starting at the beginning may be a problem.

Edgar Cayce was a psychic born on March 18, 1877, in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. He died on January 3, 1945, in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

That much is statistical. However, according to one of his sons, the late Hugh Lynn Cayce, his father came into this life to introduce psychic ability to the age, and his ability to do so, or to function under trance conditions, was something he had carried over with him from a past incarnation.

Hence, that which made Edgar Cayce the psychic began long before March 18, 1877.

However, staying within that relatively short span of time, between 1877 and 1945, we find a man who began his life on a farm in Kentucky, the only son of Leslie and Came Cayce. Later in his life, Edgars father was to be elected justice of the peace, a position which earned him the title of Squire but limited the time he had to spend with his sensitive growing son.

Deeply attached to his mother, Edgar also developed a close relationship with his Grandfather Cayce, who was the countys dowser After his grandfather died, Edgar claimed he came back to talk with him in meetings which were as real to him as the imaginary children he said came to play with him.

Unenthusiastic about studies. Edgar accidentally found, during a grueling spelling session with his father, that he could absorb or learn a subject by sleeping on the book. Not much time was required either; just a little nap would accomplish the task Thereafter, he found he fared better in school.

One Sunday afternoon, stirred by a particular sermon at church, he slipped off into the woods to read the Bible and pray for a chance to heal the sick, during which time he was visited by a radiance which told that his prayers had been heard and that he would have the opportunity to heal the sick if he remained faithful to his prayers.