67: Edgar Casey: "The Sleeping Prophet"

Edgar Casey was born in the late 19th century and learned to go into a trance like state as a young boy.  As he got older he was able to diagnose peoples illnesses and prescribe natural remedies, he could access other people’s past lives, and was even able to predict future events. He claimed he did this all by communicating with spirits. 

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Episode Transcript

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The. Hello and welcome to Esoterica
and Nonsense, a podcast where wediscuss myths, legends, folk
tales, fairy tales, supernaturalphenomenon, and religions from
around the world. I am your host, Annabelle, and

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I'm sitting here today recordinganother episode.
I ruptured my Right Eardrum and so I my I sound very bizarre to
myself, but I'm going to assume that I sound the same on audio.
Today we are going to talk aboutEdgar Cayce.

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I don't know if you've ever heard of Edgar Edgar Cayce, but
he is a fascinating human, or I should say was a fascinating
human. And I'm just going to, like,
pose with this question. What if I told you there was a
man who could diagnose illnesses, predict world events

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and reveal past lives all while he was asleep?
I know I'm telling you this guy is crazy.
I found out about him in my early 20s and I'm so inspired by
him. Edgar Cayce is better known as

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the Sleeping Prophet, and he gave over 14,000 readings that
continue to mystify scientists, spiritual seekers, and skeptics.
Some consider him a charlatan ora doer of dark magic, whereas
other people considered him to be someone who could tap into

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something far beyond common understanding.
Who is Edgar Cayce? I'm telling you, this is so.
This is the kind of stuff that really gets me going when I
Start learning about people who were doing really interesting
psychic work, especially at a time where people were so quick

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to judge things as the work of the devil.
So let's dive in to the story ofEdgar Cayce.
Edgar Cayce was born around the year 1877 and he was born in
Kentucky and town known as Hopkinsville, and he was raised

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by a devout Christian household.When Edgar was a child, he would
have visions of angels and spirits, and he claimed to be
able to communicate with his deceased grandfather.
Yeah, yeah. Creepy kid.
We love a creepy kid. He struggled academically, but
he had an unusual photographic memory.

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He could sleep on his schoolbooks and wake up knowing
the material. And there were stories of Edgar
falling asleep before a test andknowing all the answers after
his nap, though he hadn't studied or learned any of the
source material. Which iconic.
That's like my dream in school. Are you kidding me?

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His first major psychic event happened when he lost his voice
due to laryngitis. He entered a self induced trance
and he diagnosed himself, prescribing a cure that ended up
working. Are you kidding me?
Eventually this led to other people seeking help from him

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specifically for medical diagnosis.
Despite his gifts, Casey was uncomfortable having them,
mostly because he felt conflicted by his Christian
beliefs. He had been raised to thinking
that things like trances and information coming in through,

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you know, quote UN quote psychically was most likely
devilish. So he decided to pray before he
did his readings or his trances,and he emphasized using his
abilities for good. This always just trips me up.
Like, imagine being imagine being a young person in the late

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1800s and starting to have visions and psychic diagnosis.
I feel like it would be exhilarating and I also feel
like it would be really scary because you know, I even to this
day, I think about witch hunts. I think about people like

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fearing you and coming after you.
It also I think part of why I was always interested in the
story of Edgar Cayce was becausewhen I was a child, I would
sometime have sometimes have visions.
Most of my visions were either in my actual dreams or I would

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have visions almost like memories, like I wouldn't see
them projected onto my reality per perhaps, but I would see
them as if you like recall a memory in your mind.
Well, actually let me clarify this because I had a friend once
asked me how do you remember things?

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How does your memory work? And no one had ever asked me
that question and I had assumed that everyone has memories in
the same sense. I realize that's not true.
My memories are very visual, almost like a film.
I can usually remember things ingreat detail, like what I was

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wearing, like what the day looked like, where I was, and
specific things. Like I can always remember my
feelings but I don't always necessary.
I don't always necessarily remember things verbatim.
Like sometimes I'll I'll if I'm thinking about a moment with,
with another person, my memory might paraphrase the

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conversation or I might like remember the elements of a
conversation. But I always remember my
feelings the most and the setting and my clothes.
I'm very like, I always remembermy outfit or at least like 80%
of the time. So the visions I used to have as
a child were similar. They were almost like a memory.
I would, I would see things within my mind while still

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operating in like the, you know,regular world.
So when I learned about Edgar Cayce, I felt a sense of
excitement because these psychicabilities seem to be something
that were accessible to me or that I wanted to access.
And I was desperately my whole life looking for someone to

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teach me those things. And as time went on, I learned
how to cultivate them on my own and through research, through
talking to people, but also through just kind of pushing
myself to to try and reading about people like Edgar Cayce.

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You know, it's just it's one of my biggest inspiration.
So we have to shout him out. Thank you.
Edgar Cayce. OK, let's talk.
Let's talk more about the details.
What did Edgar Cayce actually do?
So his process would start with entering a drip, a dream, a deep
trance state. So he would often lie on his

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couch and he would kind of put himself into a sleep like state,
almost like a like a nap, a deepnap if you will.
And his wife, as he got older, was named Gertrude.
So she would ask him questions while he would go into this
trance and he had a friend whosename was Al Lane, and his friend

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Al would transcribe his responses.
Interestingly, Edgar Cayce claimed that he would often not
remember the things that he would say during his trances.
Sometimes he would, but I, from what I understand, much of the
time he didn't remember the things that he was saying and

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his wife would write it down. And this actually reminds me of
the work that Dolores Cannon did.
I stay tuned. We'll, we'll have to do an
episode on Dolores Cannon. But in a nutshell, Dolores
Cannon was an American woman whodied not long ago and she
developed a hypnosis technique, which is seemingly very similar

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to Edgar Cayce's process. She would have, she would
essentially lead people in a guided meditation similar to the
ones I do here on this podcast. And she would have people go
into a deep, deep, deep state ofrelaxation.
And then she would basically interview them or interview like
their higher self. She calls it the subconscious.

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And these people would give detailed answers, sometimes
about past lives, sometimes about future lives, sometimes
about the karma of the person, all kinds of things.
And afterwards, a lot of the patients she worked with
wouldn't actually remember the things that she that they that
they had told her. And so because of that, she

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would often record it on a tape recorder.
But this is just a, it's seeminglike birds of a pepper.
So Edgar Cayce would do these readings with his wife and his
friend. And usually they revolved around
medical diagnosis. So he would sometimes do them

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for people that he had never even met.
And he would provide them with detailed prescriptions,
including things like lifestyle changes, diet changes, herbal
remedies, and physical therapies.
However, not just medical diagnosis, Edgar Cayce would
also do life readings, past lifereadings, and current life

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readings. He would interview or they his
wife would interview him and he would be able to talk about
other people's past lives, theirsole purposes, and their karmic
lessons. And fascinatingly, Edgar Cayce
also came forth with some prophecies.

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He made predictions about major world events, earth changes, and
even the future of technology. And he also would talk about
philosophical and spiritual teachings.
Edgar Cayce would say things regarding the reincarnation, the

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lost civilization of Atlantis, and the nature of the human
soul. What I love this guy isn't like,
I'm sorry, I'm just so fascinated in this man.
I just think it's also, so I think I'm so impressed by him
because to be open about this ina time like this, you do have to

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be kind of fearless. Obviously around this time there
was a huge kick in spiritualism,which was a movement where like
spiritual wonders were a fad. And this happened throughout
Europe every few 100 years. The Renaissance is a great
example. During the Renaissance of

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Western Europe a lot of Europeans started being
interested in things like Tarot which were called Le Carte
Marseille. I do have a two-part episode
about the Tarot, but as a reminder, the Tarot is a card
game that was designed after theSephiroth, which is the Egyptian

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mysticism Tree of Life. Sadly, through so much
colonization and destroying of ancient relics, some of the best
kept Egyptian mysticism is actually in the Torah in a piece
of the of the Torah known as theKabbalah, which is known as

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Jewish mysticism. But as a reminder, the ancient
Israelites were informed by Moses, who was their first
prophet, and Moses was a Prince of Egypt.
So he was well trained in all things Egyptian Mystic.
So really what I'm getting at isthat during the European

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Renaissance, Europeans became obsessed with Le Carte Marseille
or the Tarot, and it they becamepopular.
And so often nowadays when people practice tarot, it's
actually like it's it's these ancient playing cards based on a
spiritual concept by way of the European fad understanding of

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it. Right.
So what I'm getting at is Edgar Cayce did live at a time in the
late 1800s where spiritualism was on the rise.
However, I do want to point out how much courage it would take
to be so open about these offerings in a time where some
people would be willing to slander you or condemn you and

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possibly hurt you depending on where you were.
In a small town in Kentucky where everyone's religious.
This is wild. So let's get into some meat.
Allegedly, Edgar Cayce was knownto have cured a blind man.

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There was a man known as Hugh Lynn Casey, who was actually
Edgar Cayce's own son, and he was partially blinded in an
accident. Edgar did a reading for his son
and prescribed treatments that restored his son's vision.

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Likewise, Casey would also diagnose illnesses for people
that he had never met and sometimes had never even had
contact with him. People who like maybe lived in
neighboring towns that would askfor readings but would never
actually meet him in person. And without knowing any prior
details, he would diagnose people and often correct

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mistakes that doctors had made for these patients.
Fascinatingly, one of Edgar Cayce's biggest focuses was on
the lost civilization of Atlantis.
He claimed that Atlantis was in fact a real place, and Edgar
Cayce gave detailed descriptionsof its downfall.

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He predicted parts of Atlantis would rise again, which some
believed happened within the discovery of the Bimini Road
near the Bahamas. If you haven't seen ancient
apocalypse, I highly recommend watching ancient apocalypse.
I should do AI should do a recapon the on the pod.

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Bimini Rd. is the It's in the Bahamas, and it's on an island.
And on the coastline under the shallow water, they found these
rocks that are very clearly put there by humans.

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And it looks like as if it had been a boat ramp.
And according to scientists, it's basically a controversy
within the scientific community because through scientific
testing, these rocks have been there for so long that some
historians doubt if humans put them there simply because they

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have been there for so long. However, a lot of other people
argue that science is flawed andour understanding of the ancient
world is very minimal. So theoretically, it is very
possible that humans have been inhabiting super certain parts
of the world much longer than werealize.

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And Bimini Rd. is one of those relics.
It's a relic that kind of makes you wonder, did humans really
put this here far like so long ago that it could have been in a
civilization like Atlantis? And that's really what ancient
Apocalypse is all about. I know the the title is a little
misleading because it sounds like one of those crazy History

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Channel shows, but I you have towatch it because it is narrated
by a journalist named Graham Hancock.
He is incredible and he has beenstudying ancient cultures for
seemingly his entire adult life.And he poses some really

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interesting questions. And really what the basis of
ancient apocalypse is about is what if humans have been on
earth, quote UN quote, civilize.And by civilize, I just mean
growing their own food, buildingcities and civilizations.

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And what if they had been doing that far longer than we
imagined? And periodically throughout
time, there are natural disasters that wipe out evidence
of these cultures. And throughout this two season
docu series, Graham Hancock goesaround the world and looks at

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specific sites where there is evidence that humans have been
there hundreds of thousands of years ago.
It's fascinating. Let's take a break.
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Edgar Cayce was talking about, he was diagnosing people.
He was talking about Atlantis and fascinatingly, Edgar Cayce

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also made major predictions about the future.
He predicted the 1929 stock market crash and the Great
Depression. Edgar Cayce also foretold the
rise and fall of the Third Reich, Hitler, and this was all
before World War 2 escalated. He also spoke of shifting

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changes on planet Earth, including the polar shifts and
climate disruptions. That's some link to modern
climate change. Interestingly, he also mentioned
advanced technologies like lasersurgery long before it was
invented. And he also talked about

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concepts resembling the Internet, most likely the
Internet. He talked about a global network
of knowledge. So Edgar Cayce was on it.
Oh, sorry. What I find so fascinating about

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Edgar Cayce however is his connection to the non physical
world and the spirit world. He claimed that he got all of
his information from what he called the source or the
universal. The universal consciousness.

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Casey often claimed that the ultimate guidance in his
readings came from a a divine source beyond individual
spirits, akin to a God or reallymore of a collective
consciousness. This source was described as
infinite wisdom, love, and cosmic order.

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Casey also described angels thathe would have correspondence
with. He said they were sentient
beings that acted as messengers and protectors for humanity.
They were part of a divine hierarchy, each with specific
roles similar to ideas in Christian mysticism, the
Kabbalah, and the Islamic angelology.

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According to Edgar Cayce, angelsweren't depicted as human like
with wings, but as powerful, formless intelligences that were
connected to the divine laws. He also mentioned spirit guides
and masters in the spirit world.He claimed that every person has

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spirit guides and beings who support every soul's journey
across lifetimes. This does connect with a lot of
indigenous American beliefs and a lot of Eastern beliefs of
different parts of Asia. He said that certain guides

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could be advanced souls. They could be ancestors or
teachers from higher dimensions.In some readings, Casey
reference masters or enlightenedbeings, possibly connected to
the great White Brotherhood or ascended master masters in
theosophy, the great White brotherhood.

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That's like a whole other thing.But this is this is kind of like
some early America theosophy. You can kind of, in my mind, you
can tell that it's racially coded.
Obviously it is referring to a type of consciousness, but

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that's like a whole other bag ofworms to unpack.
And I this is just another bookmark.
We're going to do an episode on that.
So according to Edgar Cayce, he had his first vision of an Angel
at the age of 13. He had a profound mystical

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experience as a child where he encountered a radiant female
figure who promised to help him fulfill his life's purpose.
The vision marked the beginning of his psychic awakening.
As he got older, he would again put himself into these trance
States and in one of his trancesin in some of his trances he

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would be shifted between different tones and speech
patterns, almost suggesting thatthere were different entities
speaking through him. This became a really common
theme in different disciplines, I should say.
He would speak in different voices and it became very clear
that there was different things passing through his body.

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His wife Gertrude often acted asthe conductor and she over time
learned the differences between these personalities if you will.
Edgar Cayce also described visiting non physical realities
including realms filled with light, sound and ethereal

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beings. He described 1 area known as the
Hall of Records which was depicted as an energetic archive
of souls journeys that were maintained by spiritual record
keepers. This is sounding a lot like the
Akashic Library or the Akashic Realm.

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The Akashic Realm is known to bean energetic plane which acts as
a library of information across realities.
It's not a library in the same sense that we think of a
library, but a library in the sense where it is a a realm of
archival information across universes.

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And it sounds like Edgar Cayce went there.
I want to go to there. After his years and years of
doing readings, Edgar Cayce claimed that the purpose of of
doing this kind of work was to receive angelic and spiritual

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guidance. He said that guidance from these
masters or angelic beings was meant to help individuals evolve
spiritually and align with theirsouls purpose and overcome
karmic patterns. He also said that there was
healing to be gained from these experiences.

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Many of his health readings suggested that healing comes not
just from physical remedies, butalso through aligning yourself
with divine principles. He also talked a lot about unity
with God. Casey emphasized that angels and
guides were intermediaries, but the ultimate goal was to have a
direct connection with the divine within oneself.

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And this really is starting to remind me a lot of Eastern
philosophy. And I do also want to remind you
that Edgar Cayce never referred to a God as being an individual,
but really a source or an ultimate consciousness, which I
do appreciate. In my opinion.

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I have a similar relationship with quote UN quote God.
I don't. I don't often use the term
because I find it means so many different things to different
people. But I do think of the creation,
the creative force of the universe as being a source, like
energy, almost like a star or perhaps even a black hole, Some

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kind of gargantuan energetic source that pulses energy out of
itself. And we're just riding that wave.
We're in a little tributary of this river and we're just riding
the wave, baby. So I'm going to tell you some

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fun and interesting Edgar Cayce pair.
I'm going to paraphrase some of his ideas.
So obviously one of his biggest things that he talked about were
these messengers or these angelic beings.
He describes them as being from the divine.
He emphasized that everyone is never truly alone.

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Angels walk beside us. They are guiding us through with
our intuition and with real world synchronicities.
He also discusses guardian angels.
He indicates that each soul has protective beings assigned to

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them throughout their life. He also mentions encounters with
what he calls beings of light. These are beings that exist
beyond the earthly plane, assisting in humanity's
evolution. He also teaches people a lot

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about meditation and prayer and what that can do to transform
1's life. Casey claimed that regular
spiritual practice opens channels of perception and
specifically having the purity of intent to approach spiritual
contact with humility, love and a desire to learn.

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He's so nice. I really like Edgar Cayce, so in
his life he founded a foundationknown as the Edgar Cayce
Foundation. This foundation preserves his
work with thousands of readings archived for study.
He also made a major impact in holistic health.

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Many of his health remedies and dietary suggestions are echoed
in today's holistic and integrative medicine.
He also inspired countless spiritual seekers, blending
Christianity with metaphysical concepts such as reincarnation
and energy healing. He also drew parallels to how

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his methods relate to contemporary psychic practices.
Yeah, honestly, we love Edgar Cayce.
This for this time period. This really is groundbreaking
work. And I'm so inspired by him.
I have started to have more psychic experiences this year

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that eventually started happening on accident, but I
started cultivating it with intention and it started, I
think I actually think I talked about this quite a bit in an
episode I have where I talk about my story.
But in a nutshell, I started really focusing on like an

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ancestral inheritance that seemed seemed something like a
curse or an entity possession. And so I started focusing really
deeply on that. I started journaling about it
and trying to address this entity personally.
And it resulted in in something I really wasn't expecting, which
was to have like almost a therapy session with this

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entity. And since I've done that, I have
started having more experiences where I have been getting
visions or like when journaling,I start channelling something
else, other people. And yeah, I, I personally feel a
lot of, I feel inspired by EdgarCayce.

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And I also feel a sense of relief knowing that this doesn't
necessarily seem to be somethingvery odd or like crazy, that
throughout history there have been people who have had these
experiences and it seems like it's just a part of who they
are. And of course, in certain

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cultures, those practices and skills are developed at a young
age. But I'm, I'm just saying that I
think what's so cool about EdgarCayce is that this seemed to
happen completely on accident for him, without any prior
knowledge or intentional practice.
And I think that is so cool. And that kind of like brings me

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to the question, like, what do you think?
Was Edgar Cayce truly tapping into psychic powers in the Akashic
records, or was he just extraordinarily intuitive?
And I think that brings me to like the the biggest question,
which is, is this information accessible to everyone or just a

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few? In my opinion, I do think that
this information is accessible to everyone.
I think the only thing holding us back is our own limiting
beliefs and our own personal trauma.
I do know that the physical bodyis an instrument which you can

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use in many different ways and specifically with physical with
with any kind of trauma, it endsup living in the physical body
and it can block your body from all kinds of transmission.
You can think of it. I almost think of my body as
like a like a radio. Wait, fuck I feel this is crazy.

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What's that? What's the word when you have
the thing sticking out of your radio or your boom box?
Oh, my God. Wow.
We don't have those anymore. And I'm starting to feel so old.
You know what I'm talking about.Like radio transmitters.

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I have to Google it. I'm.
This is driving me crazy. An antenna.
Duh. Duh.
OK, sorry. It's just so sad.
Sometimes I really do get tripped up because I don't feel
that old. But I am 30.
And yeah, like we don't really have radios as much anymore.

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We don't have like we're not adjusting our radio antenna like
we used to. But what I was getting at is I
think of the the body as an antenna.
And when there's trauma within you of any kind, it basically is
like a jam in the antenna or like a kink in the antenna.

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And so I do think that what Edgar Cayce was doing is
accessible to everyone. And I think the only thing
keeping us from that full potential is being able to work
through and release pre-existingtrauma.
And then also the time to cultivate these skills.
Because although these things started happening to Edgar Cayce

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accidentally, he did spend yearsworking on this skill.
He would put himself in these trances and and work with his
wife and a friend. And perhaps if he had never done
that, his skills wouldn't have gone anywhere and we may have
never heard of him. So I would like to invite you to

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try out some of these skills, perhaps through meditation,
perhaps through journaling. What I've noticed works really
well for me is when I journal inthe morning, it really helps me
get my thoughts out because I just think so much.
And since I've started journaling, I've noticed how I

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don't really finish a lot of my thoughts.
Like my thoughts are almost likea tornado and there's just like
a million thoughts happening, but they're all floating.
So when I have the opportunity to write, it kind of helps me
stay on one thought and I can finish it and then like
entertain another one. So often in the mornings I'll
write and I've had a lot of success through automatic

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writing, which is quite simply like being very specific,
writing a question. Maybe the question is to a past
life version of you. Maybe it's to your higher self,
maybe it's to God. But you can write questions out
and allow yourself to like just start writing automatically
responses and it is really interesting what starts

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happening. This is like a a known way to
channel. But another way could be through
guided meditations. I have quite a few on my
podcast, but you can also go on YouTube and find them.
But why not? Let's see, like, what if we all
spent 30 minutes a day trying toconnect with our psychic

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abilities? I really, I really think that we
all could. And I like to imagine what the
world would look like if every single person spent 30 minutes a
day working on their psychic abilities for the sake of of
kindness and like bettering the world.

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And that's really something I'vebeen focusing on, obviously,
because humanity can be so scaryat times.
And it's just so disappointing to see so many human beings
exploit each other and hurt eachother and engage in genocides
and war and class oppression andpolluting Earth.

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And I just keep trying to remindmyself I, I personally can't
change the entire world. I really can actually only
change myself. And I want to invite all of us
to really do that. Like, what if we all dedicated
time to becoming the best version of ourselves?

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What if all of us really did take the time to work on our
psychic abilities, work on our intuitive abilities, work on our
ability to like heal our own bodies?
What, what impact would that have on the world?
I'm only one human. But what if 5 billion of us did
that? What if 8 billion of us did
that? Like if sometimes it feels so

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insignificant, your effect on the world.
But if we all take ownership of ourselves, the effects are
monumental. So that's just, that's just a
little something to redo with, to leave you with.
I'm really inspired by Edgar Cayce.
If you want to do a deeper dive,I highly recommend going online.

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Do your own rabbit hole. This guy's super interesting.
And if you're ever interested inlearning more about receiving a
psychic reading from me, you cane-mail in at
[e-mail]. I appreciate you so much for
listening. I hope that you're taking really
good care of yourself and Happy Year of the Snake over and out.