Edgar Cayce

Edgar Cayce (March 18, 1877 – January 3, 1945), (the surname is pronounced like "Casey") is generally remembered as an American psychic who gave trance discourses on subjects like astrology, reincarnation, and Atlantis. He may have been the source for the idea that California would fall into the ocean (though he never said exactly this). Although Cayce lived before the emergence of the New Age movement, he remains a major influence on its teachings.

Other Cayce-like figures

Mesmer's patron the Marquis de Puysegur was able to "magnetize" an illiterate shepherd named Victor, who then spoke with a vastly greater intelligence. The career of nineteenth-century American seer Andrew Jackson Davis also has many points in common with Cayce's. "Medical clairvoyance" was apparently a familiar category from the Spiritualist movement.

Related Topics:
Mesmer - Andrew Jackson Davis

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In recent years Elder Porphyrios of Mount Athos was reported to possess a kind of clairvoyance which he called "spiritual television," which he used in ways similar to Cayce.

Related Topics:
Elder Porphyrios - Mount Athos

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A number of people have sought to identify possible contemporary metaphysical or occult sources for Cayce's teachings. Suggested influences include Spiritualism, Theosophy, New Thought, AMORC Rosicrucianism, the Aquarian Gospel, Baird Spalding, William Dudley Pelley, Manly Palmer Hall, Ignatius Donnelly, Marie Corelli, and Frederick Oliver's book A Dweller On Two Planets

Related Topics:
Spiritualism - Theosophy - New Thought - AMORC - Aquarian Gospel - Baird Spalding - William Dudley Pelley - Manly Palmer Hall - Ignatius Donnelly - Marie Corelli

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