Edgar Cayce was mystic who offered many "channelled readings" he hoped would be of spiritual benefit.

"Over a lifetime of giving at least two reading a day, Cayce branched out into discourses on the individual soul’s journey ("life-readings" detailing an individual’s past incarnations, personality, talents and karma), predictions of the future, and the origin and spiritual destiny of man and his relationship with God. The topics and answers given were only limited to the intention, imagination and need of the person asking them."

The Story of Edgar Cayce
By Thomas Sugrue from John’s Log

Edgar Cayce at Amazon.com

There is a River", the life story of Edgar Cayce, was the first book I read, and the spark that lit an all-consuming hunger for spirituality. I was practising self-taught meditation within a week, the result of reading a particularly resonant, life’s purpose answering passage: "What is the purpose of life? To realise God. How does one know God? Through meditation." With that I was off, my life consumed with a clear direction and meaning I had always known existed, but couldn’t articulate.

High praise indeed, but what of the book itself. There is a River was the very first book to be written about Edgar Cayce, and it’s release in 1943 catapulted him to a national fame and attention which he had never sought, attention which in part contributed to his death two years later from sheer exhaustion?he worked himself to death attempting to selflessly meet the nearly bottomless demand for his very special abilities.

The story begins with a highly religious youth of humble origins, normal in most respects aside from the fact, kept mostly to himself, that he held an ongoing conversation with his still visible dead grandfather, could see auras, and after sleeping on his schoolbooks could recite every word. Oh, and as a child he had "little playmates" who disappeared when others came around. He once enquired where they came from?"We are of the music, the light and the flowers…"