Edgar E. Cayce, son of the "Sleeping Prophet" Edgar Cayce (born 1918), reveals his father’s 14,000+ hypnotic readings—60% medical, including osteopathic treatments—often dismissed but later validated by discoveries like 35,000-year-old South American sites. Cayce’s visions of Atlantis, pole shifts, and early human migrations (e.g., 20,000 years in the Americas) aligned with emerging evidence, though he warned free will could alter outcomes. The ARE archives his readings, including verified details like distant objects, while Cayce refused selfish inquiries post-WWII, resuming only after healing his son’s severe burn. His cautious optimism about humanity’s future contrasts with eerie predictions—like anthrax and wars—that eerily mirrored post-1998 events, leaving listeners questioning the limits of prophecy and perception. [Automatically generated summary]
Anyway, hypnotism was a sort of new fad then, and somebody suggested that, why don't you try a hypnotist, that maybe he can give you a post-hypnotic suggestion such that you'll be able to talk when you wake up.
Well, Dad tried it, and there was a medical doctor, several people in attendance when they tried this experiment.
And under hypnosis, he could talk a little bit, but he wouldn't accept a post-hypnotic suggestion from the hypnotist.
And when he woke up or came out of his trance, he still couldn't talk.
But the hypnotist suggested, he says, you're such a good subject.
He says, maybe you can put yourself into a hypnotic trance.
Maybe you can give yourself the suggestion.
Maybe he'll take it from you instead of me.
When Ted was, of course, he was willing to try anything.
He laid down and immediately he was able to go to sleep or Put himself into a hypnotic trance.
He didn't remember anything he said at the time, but he described his condition and said it was due to congestion in the throat.
He says, We'll clear this up.
And he turned real red.
His face got red.
His throat got red.
He coughed up a little blood and woke up and he could talk.
As far as I know, that was the first reading, the one on himself.
And, of course, the doctor, there was an MD there, Dr. Ketchum, who said, well, Ego, if you can do this for yourself, maybe you can do this for some of my patients.
Well, Dad was always willing to try to help anyone he could.
And he tried giving readings for other people, and he was very successful, some very accurate readings.
And that's how he developed, as I understand it, this ability.
I think it's 14,470-something or something like that.
There are copies of these readings at the Association for Research and Enlightenment in Virginia Beach with the doctor's reports and the patient's reports.
And of course, the people who didn't follow them didn't get any results.
If people followed them halfway, they got halfway results.
And if they followed them in detail, they got excellent results.
Well, you know, growing up in a family is a little different than being exposed to this from, you know, all at once from the outside.
And when I was real little, I thought everyone's father gave readings, you know.
But, you know, I guess the first real vivid experience I had with it was a reading on myself.
I was about seven or eight years old.
We'd just moved to Virginia Beach, and I was standing in front of a fireplace in a pair of flannel pajamas, and a spark popped out and set those flannel pajamas on fire, and they burned up just real quickly.
And my mother was coming down the stairs with a shirt and grabbed me and wrapped the shirt around the pajamas and put out the fire.
But it burned my left leg very badly.
I was out of school about four or five months, and the doctor never looked at it.
I asked Dad to please give me a reading.
He did immediately and described what to do for it.
I played football, basketball, baseball in high school and college.
And it doesn't bother me at all.
He even gave me something to remove the scar and I rubbed it on for a while and then I decided I couldn't see it and I didn't really care about it and I quit doing it.
So I still have a scar on the back of my leg about half as big as the original one from my ankle to my butt.
And that was one of the things that got me into writing the first book.
I had had a life reading also that now not every life reading he gave described or mentioned Atlantis.
Of the 14,000 readings he gave, about 2,500 of them are the so-called vocational guidance readings, the life readings.
About 700 of them, maybe almost a third, did mention past incarnations of people in Atlantis.
Well, Atlantis was just a myth.
It is to many people still.
There isn't any proof that it ever existed.
Of course, there's no proof that it never existed either.
So I thought I could go down there to the Association.
We have copies of all these readings in the files at Virginia Beach.
At that time, they were on microfilm and had just been put on to preserve them.
When the dad gave a reading, a copy was given to the patient and a copy was kept on file.
I said, I could go down there and maybe look up all the life readings on Atlantis and find some proof that it either existed or didn't exist.
At that time, I didn't care which way.
I just wanted to know the answer.
So I said, well, I could probably do this in a few weeks.
And that was a very naive idea.
About a year later, I had read every life reading on Atlantis that I could lay my hands on.
And the amazing thing about it was some of these readings given 20 years apart.
They didn't contradict each other.
And it wasn't that he gave a reading on Atlantis and said it existed.
He gave a reading on a person and mentioned an incarnation in Atlantis and told that person's characteristics and life and described how it affected him now.
And by putting all those little pieces together, trying to arrange them in some kind of chronological order, that's what came out of that book.
There have been when he gave these readings, this was before radiocarbon dating.
And many of the statements he made back in the 20s and 30s, when many of them were given, sounded ridiculous because the ideas of geology and archaeology were quite different then than they are now.
And when he said that man had been in North America 10,000 years ago or 20,000 years ago and in South America even longer or that the poles had shifted in the past, all kind of things like that, well, it sounded ridiculous.
But now with radiocarbon dates of 17,500 in Pennsylvania, 20,000 in California, 35,000 in South America, it's turning out that man was in the places that Edgar Casey said he was at the time he said he was.
So it kind of stands to reason that if statements like that were true, well, he made the statement one time, Art, that the Nile River used to flow west into the Atlantic.
That was 60 years ago.
And of course, there wasn't any way to prove whether the Nile River flowed into the Atlantic or not.
But in 1987, when they took the pictures from the space shuttle with the ground-penetrating radar with Sahara, it showed that the old course of the Nile was west into the Atlantic, exactly where Casey said it was.
When you did all this research and you researched these people who had been said to have prior lives in Atlantis, what kind of proof did you run into or cooperation?
For example, people who may have known each other or references that could be checked from one person's reading to another person's reading, that kind of thing?
Oh, yes, about the times that he would very seldom did he mention dates unless somebody asked him.
But he did mention two or three.
Now the origin, I mean the myth of Atlantis or the story of Atlantis originated with Plato back in the 5th century BC.
And he described it as he said that Solon, someone had been in Egypt and the priest in Egypt had described to him this civilization that existed in the they called it beyond the pillars of Hercules, which was the Rock of Gibraltar and another mountain on the other side of the Mediterranean, the entrance to the Mediterranean from the Atlantic.
And he said it was beyond the Pillars of Hercules out in the South Atlantic, and it was a great civilization and very advanced, and that it had been destroyed in a volcanic catastrophe 9,000 years earlier.
Well, that put it in the class of a myth because nobody believed that there had been any civilization that long ago, 9,000 to 10,000 BC.
And since Plato's story, there have been thousands of books and pamphlets written about it, some of them trying to amass evidence that Plato was right, and some of them trying to prove he was wrong, and some of them try to rationalize the story by moving it to a different location or changing the date.
And the thing that convinced me about it was the fact that Dad said that people had had incarnations there, and he was so accurate in his physical readings, and he was so accurate in many of his other Life readings describing the characteristics of persons and the kind of occupation they were in, the problems they were having with their family.
I mean, the other readings had been accurate.
The things he said in the other readings about geological and archaeological events of the past.
When your father went under, he didn't really, he was called the sleeping prophet, but from what you've told me, it sounds more like he was the self-hypnotized prophet who would go into a sort of a hypnotic trance.
I think I know he didn't really go to sleep and say that this is going to happen and that's going to happen.
He always said that the future is not fixed.
We can change it.
And I think it's a hopeful statement rather than something that's inevitable.
But he did mention these things that had happened in the past.
And when the scientific evidence turns up for a pole shift in the past, when scientific turns up for evidence for climatic changes in the past at the times he said they were, and men being in the earth at the times he said they were, and the fact that man had been in the earth instead of a few hundred thousand years, millions of years.
My guest is Edgar E. Casey, the son of Edgar Casey, who was called the Sleeping Prophet.
Edgar E. Casey himself is now beginning to get up in years.
And it is a very rare and opportunity and certainly a great honor to have the chance to talk with him about his father and, in fact, about his own life.
We'll get back to him in a moment.
We're also monitoring, of course, the ongoing story that we spent the first hour and a half on with regard to anthrax.
And we had one whale of a scare in Las Vegas earlier today.
Well, when he referred, for example, to pole shifts, was he referring to the fact that the polls had previously shifted, or did he know they would shift again, or both?
Well, he always said, Art, that the future is not fixed, that people can change it.
He did mention one thing that we have some scientific corroboration of.
And speaking about future earthquakes, he mentioned some particular areas in the United States.
You know, the largest earthquake in the United States was not in California, but in Missouri, right.
Well, he mentioned these particular areas, and some 30 years, 25, 30 years after that reading was given, there was an organization, the American Association of Engineering Societies, that made a study of the fault zones in the eastern United States.
And they published maps of these areas.
And in fact, we have them in our book, Mysteries of Atlantis Revisited.
There's a chapter in there dealing with the earthquakes.
And we got permission to publish these maps of the fault zones.
And the interesting thing about it, they were exactly the same areas that Casey mentioned years ago.
And the unsettling thing about it is that this organization concluded that the likelihood of a major earthquake in the eastern United States in the next 25 years, this was published in 1987, was 100%.
But anyway, we thought that you could learn as much about psychic ability in general and Education in particular by studying these ones that were wrong.
Of course, you would only know in that case what that other person knew.
If you were trying to diagnose someone, I suppose unconsciously, subconsciously, that person, all the reactions in the body of the person he's diagnosing, if subconsciously, that person knows what's wrong with him.
Maybe he doesn't consciously know, but all the reactions are there.
And if you could communicate with his mind, subconscious mind, you could give a beautiful diagnosis of what his trouble was.
Suppose it existed yesterday, today, and tomorrow, and that we are only conscious of the present.
If dad could somehow move into this other dimension, let me give you an example.
Suppose we have a plane, a two-dimensional plane.
It has no thickness, but it's infinitely long and wide.
And we have a two-dimensional bug crawling in this plane in a little sine wave pattern.
And he has a free will, he has a memory.
He remembers where he was.
He knows where he is.
He knows nothing about the future.
You're sitting up here looking down on this plane.
You see where he's been, you see where he is, you see everything that could possibly Happen to him in the future, and you see it all at once.
Now, he could never understand how you could see his past and present and future all at once because he has no concept of this third dimension, height.
But if he has a free will, you could look at him and say, Well, now, if you continue in the way you're going at three o'clock tomorrow, you'll be right over there, and you'd be right.
But since he has a free will, he could decide to go off in another direction, to change his sine wave pattern and go somewhere else.
You could see everything that could happen to him and what would be most probable, but you couldn't be sure what he was going to do.
Well, this way, if the past and present and future all exist at once, and the future exist as probabilities, and he could see what was likely to happen, but he couldn't be sure because it said it depends on what people do.
And, of course, it's a little more complicated with millions of people than with one little bug, but you get the idea.
Also, it was said that your father, when he would go into trance, when he'd come out of trance, out of a particularly difficult viewing, and that this became worse as the years went on, it would drain him physically, make him weak.
Normally, he would give one or two readings a day.
That is, it took a certain amount out of it.
It wasn't exactly like physical exercise, but I suppose it was a mental strain in a way.
And when he became popular, when the book There's a River came out, and he became popular overnight.
People began to call him in the middle of the night, kind of like this conversation, but they would say, my wife is dying, my daughter's dying, you know, doctors can't help her.
Can't you do something for her?
Please give her a reading.
And he got hundreds of those requests.
He had to have the phone number, get an unlisted number.
They brought the mail there in trucks.
And he couldn't not help people.
He felt like it's something you had to do.
Instead of giving one or two readings a day, he started giving four, five, six, eight, ten.
I mean, it was too much of a strain.
In fact, he had a breakdown, and he had a reading on himself.
And it just said that you're trying to do too much.
I think it's not, you know, you don't get rich, but I think you have a satisfying life.
That is, if in my case, if you're happy in what you're doing, happy in the kind of work you do, I think that's the important thing, not how much money you make.
I realized it was pretty abnormal, but I had seen it work in so many cases.
You know, I grew up with it, and he had people that were successful, you know, had readings that were so successful for people.
They had remarkable cures.
They suggested vocations for people who succeeded in them after, you know, and they'd take up this occupation of this.
Well, you would be good in this or something like that.
And this had happened.
It happened to me, and it happened so many times that, you know, you had faith in it.
You thought that you knew that he was right.
You knew he was accurate.
Now, I don't know how.
That was one of the reasons we wrote this book, this Mr. Sufs of Atlantis Revisited, that it showed the archaeological, geological discoveries that have happened in the recent past to show how accurate he was.
Were there conflicts between his religion and the fact that he was a prophet, and we all know what it says of prophets in the Bible that they've got to be completely accurate or they're false prophets, and there must have been those accusations?
I guess that a lot of books have been written about him, Art.
Probably the best one is The Is a River by Tom Chagrew, who was my brother's roommate in college.
That's an account of how he started his work.
And Tom, in fact, I helped carry Tom upstairs when he had gone from 180 pounds down to about 90.
And the doctors told him to go somewhere and die.
There wasn't anything he could do for him.
He was paralyzed from his neck down.
He couldn't move a finger.
And he followed the treatments and the readings dad gave, and he wrote the book when he got well.
He never got so he could walk without crutches, but he did get up to the point he could go back to his job with the American Magazine and Herald Tribune newspaper.
Well, one of the things he said was that there would be a hall of records found beneath the left paw of the Sphinx.
Now, I interviewed the director of antiquity, Zahia Wass, not long ago, and he answered in his normal, a very boisterous Egyptian accented voice, there has never been one grain of sand found here to show that there is anything that would relate to Atlantis.
And that's what he said.
But on the other hand, Mr. Casey, there are radar records, ground-penetrating radar now, showing that there are chambers beneath the Sphinx.
There are records showing that there are certainly anomalies.
Whether they're chambers or not hasn't been proven.
You know, getting permission to dig beneath the Sphinx is kind of like going to Washington and said, I'd like to dig a hole under the Jefferson Memorial or the Lincoln Memorial or the Washington Monument.
Well, I know that the weathering there was, he says that it's water, and if it was, that means the Sphinx is much older than they thought.
In fact, the work that the ARE did and sponsored in carbon dating the pyramids, of course, you can't carbonate stone, but you can carbon date fiber or bugs or any kind of plant that's gotten in the mortar.
And the interesting thing about it was they wouldn't let us take any samples from inside the Great Pyramid, but they did let us take stuff from the outside.
Well, it turned out that the pyramid was several hundred years older than they thought, which means that the Pharaoh they thought built it didn't, or else he lived a lot earlier than they think.
And that really upset the Egyptologists.
In fact, the blocks at the top turned out to be 300 or 400 years older than the ones at the bottom.
Now, you know, it wasn't built from the top down, so that would indicate that the probably were repairs made to it.
And if that was true, then it must be much older than they think it is.
So then a lot of, Mr. Casey, a lot of the things that your father said as he took readings then later applied to other people in some way, in some help?
In fact, there's a doctor up in Pennsylvania, I believe, that has treated a number of people by putting together a lot of the readings that Edgar Casey gave on people with psoriasis and making up a sort of regimen of treatment.
And he's had great success in, as you say, curing people who have psoriasis.
If anybody's interested in knowing more about the readings, the Association for Research and Enlightenment in Virginia Beach does have a record of them.
The number is 1-800-333-4499.
And they can either call that number or they can write the Association of the Education Foundation at 67th and Atlantic Avenue, Virginia Beach, 23451.
It probably has 25,000, 30,000 members in the United States and many members overseas and other countries.
And the purpose is to preserve the records that Edgar Casey gave and make them available for study.
And one thing that, as you pointed out, as Loth pointed out, one thing that can be done is people can come there and look at it and see if there are any suggested treatments for ailments similar to what they have that might be useful in their case.
Of course, most of these readings were for individuals, and what might apply to one person might not apply to another.
He had life readings on himself that said it was developed in a formal life, in formal lives.
I think the sources that we talked about a few minutes ago, I think they apply, and I think he probably used a number of them.
The rest of that chapter on the nature of psychic perception in the book had some reasons for why sometimes they work better on others.
The fact that the attitudes and the purposes and the reason for the reading seem to affect it.
I know for a fact if Edgar Casey were physically ill, or if he had a bad cold, or if he'd had a stomachache, if he'd had the flu, or if he were emotionally upset about something, that he didn't get as good a reading as he would when he was perfectly healthy.
So certainly his physical health did affect the accuracy of some of the readings.
I think there's such a thing, I guess you could call it psychic static.
That, you know, sometimes you don't always get perfect radio or perfect television reception due to a thunderstorm or leaking ignition on a car or a transmission line or something that bothers the reception.
I think there's maybe a psychic static like that.
In other words, the purposes of the reading, dad wanted to help people.
If you had a woman with a child who wanted to get well, was sick, the woman wants the child to get well, the child wants to get well, Education wants to help the child get well.
Usually there's a sort of empathy between them that is conducive to a very good reading.
And sometimes if somebody comes up and says, well, I'm looking for an oil well or a gold mine, and I'll give you a little bit of it if we find it, what's their purpose?
You know, I was just about to ask you about that, whether he had been approached in that manner, and whether he, in fact, even used what he had to, at times, enrich himself.
He then went all over the world studying psychics and meeting them.
And he never found one that was as accurate as Casey was over as long a period.
There are many people in this country and all over the world that have varying degrees of psychic ability, but I don't know anyone who has the track record of Edgar Casey.
I mean, he gave thousands of readings over a period of 20 or 30 years, and we have the records of them there.
I mean, people can come down there.
The library is open.
It's free.
You can come and look at the readings and look at the reports and see what he said.
And we're not trying to hide anything.
In fact, we're trying to make it available for use.
But, Mr. Casey, still today, then, your father's power, where it came from, why he had it, we know how he used it, but all the rest, we don't know any more today than we did the day he did the first reading.
A, is it possible that Atlantis itself is buried beneath the sand at Giza, hence the pyramids, the Sphinx, and so on are actually the remnants above what may be the city beneath?
He said that Atlantis was located in the South Atlantic, that there were records of Atlantis buried in Egypt.
In fact, he said there were some buried in three places in the world, some in South America, Yucatan, and some in Egypt and some under the ocean.
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With regards to his Rata previous life, which some people have interpreted as having been that Casey himself in the previous life placed the records in the hall of records, was there anything further on that?
And interestingly, also, his suggestion that the Earth changes would culminate in 1998 has always struck me as suggesting perhaps that they would in effect kick in and culminate with the major release of that energy in 1998, which of course is today.
Yeah, again, he did mention 1998 as an important year, but again, he said the future is not fixed.
You know, we can change it.
I don't really know what's going to happen.
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Anything on alien civilizations?
There's been some suggestion by finds on Mars, which have some relationship to Giza, that other previous civilizations, perhaps the Sumerians, were descended from the Anunnaki, a race from another planet.
Was there ever anything as far as reincarnation from another species or any information about that at all?
Mr. Casey, as you look around today's world and listen to today's news with anthrax and wars and social disruption and so much that has changed in our society, would you think your father to be pretty much on track with regard to predicted changes beginning in 1998?