The Peculiar Truth about the Most Prolific Psychic
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3 min readJul 9, 2024
- Hopkinsville, Kentucky 1901: While under a hypnotic trance, Edgar Cayce prescribed a cure for his own ailment despite having no medical background. It was the first of over 14,000 predictions by the 20th Century’s most prolific psychic.
- From a trance state, he could give details about complete strangers, including their pasts and their futures. Among his worldly predictions were the advent of WWII, political assassinations, and medical breakthroughs.
- Edgar Cayce was born to a tobacco farming family in rural Kentucky in 1877. Young Edgar was a strange boy. After his grandfather’s death, he repeatedly saw the old man in a cornfield. He often had visions and couldn’t fathom why other kids didn’t have them.
- At age 21, Cayce became a photographer. Then he acquired acute laryngitis that wouldn’t go away. He sought a doctor for relief, and self-hypnosis was suggested.
- In front of his family, Cayce went into a trance, which came to him easily. Then, to everyone’s surprise, he talked in his sleep. Cayce described what was wrong with his throat and how to restore it. He claimed to be able to look inside his own body as well as the bodies of others as if he had x-ray vision.
- In his trance state, Cayce gave physicians medical advice on how to perform surgeries. He…
