A Gift of the Unknown

Yet these none medical endeavours seemed to have a draining affect on his psyche. This ended with him losing his ability altogether for nearly a full year, as he worked despondently. Until his gift was called upon as years before which first throw him into the limelight, with Dietrch’s young daughter.

The next few years were to be the busiest from a scientific study point of view as he had many renowned visitors come to judge, examine or disprove his abilities. Dr Hugo Munsterberg at the time a respected psychologist, highly critical of mediums judging most as charlatans offered Cayce some encouraging advise after hearing readings. He told him “not to be afraid to continue his readings”.

There are literally thousands of readings that Cayce carried out within his lifetime, prescribing “drugs and treatments that were said to be accurate in more than 90 percent of his cases”.

Many of the treatments he recommended were either unheard of or never before used. In one reading he gave “balsam of sulphur” was a cure, which was in no current dispensary catalogue. This was later found in a catalogue dating back fifty years and no longer in use. However it cured the patient.

However for even a malleable explanation the following quote sums up the whole conventional explanation of the scientific community, without completely debunking Cayce without any solid evidence as backup, “We don”t know what to think’.

So was his gift some form of faith healing? In his later life he insisted on people believing in the healing knowledge of god. This is more often than not described as a placebo effect, the person in affect curing their selves with their own positive attitude. This could explain much, but the question still remains how did he diagnose a person some times hundreds of miles away without ever meeting them and give a correct description of the problem in the first place?

We could look briefly into a more contemporary theory, which seems to be used to explain much of Cayce’s and other such gifts. Shamanism. Is a primitive form of healing or finding problems by travelling out side the body with the mind, in whatever form, to bring back a solution to the problem. This fits in very well with what Cayce actually does. But it doesn’t take us any nearer to the answers. Except to say that his Christian beliefs could relate him more closely to this strain of people than you would at first think. Many people now view Jesus as a shaman.

Some would describe his readings as some form of astral projection, others himself included as being able to access Akashic Records or “Universal memory of nature” and the “book of life”. This was a kind of record of everything a record of all experience and all knowledge. Some view this as a kind of cosmic resonance left in the ether from any action etc.

All that can be said for sure is that hundreds of people claim to have lived when doctors said they would die, all put the credit to the sleeping prophet.