Edgar Cayce

An American Prophet

By: Sidney D. Kirkpatrick

Narrated by: Stephen Graybill

Length: 23 hrs and 50 mins

Publisher's summary

A New York Times best-selling author and documentary filmmaker presents the definitive biography of Edgar Cayce, the father of the New Age and harbinger of alternative medicine - the mesmerizing story of a simple man with a complex gift.

Edgar Cayce Jr., born in 1877 in rural Kentucky and educated only through the eighth grade, was a man with special powers. Known as the "sleeping prophet", Cayce was an endless source of information. Awake, he had no knowledge of any of the subjects he discussed, but in a trance he prescribed medical treatments, predicted future world events, interpreted past lives (including the life of Jesus Christ), designed innovative technologies, wrote screenplays, spoke in foreign languages, and brought spiritual messages from the "other side." Although he never examined patients and often gave trance readings for people hundreds of miles away, his medical diagnoses were deemed to be correct nearly 90 percent of the time, and his predictions were often uncannily accurate.

The first researcher to have unlimited access to thousands of Cayce's documents, Sidney Kirkpatrick has written a fascinating, definitive biography of a humble man whose psychic work prefigured the New Age movement and the alternative-health movement and brought him a huge following.

©2019 Sidney D. Kirkpatrick (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

An outstanding book!

Kirkpatrick does an amazing job in this book! He not only goes into great detail in reviewing Cayce's life history, but he gives a tremendous amount of information on the Readings. Outstanding!

fantastic and fun

Just when you think this story can't get any bizarre it totally does. pa-pow! Fun to listen to.

A very thorough account of Edgar Cayce's life

This book was well written and the narrator did an excellent job with the audiobook. It gave an in-depth account of Edgar Cayce's life without being boring or partial. I would highly recommend this if anyone is interested in Cayce's work and background.

Enlightening information

Awesome information that was very well narrated. I couldn't wait for my long drive to and from work just so I could take in all of the content.

Superb biography

I thoroughly enjoyed this biography. It was all around excellent. Mr. Cayce's life was utterly fascinating from start to finish and this account of it was spellbinding. I have so many thoughts to share about the man that I will just hold back here. Instead, I will simply offer a final few comments on this book. It is worth experiencing by any interested party. It's wonderfully written and plotted and is objective. The reader gets to make up their own mind and conclusions about this average man with above average abilities and outcomes. The wonder of the unknown and mysterious is on full display here.

Edgar Cayce revealed

Cayce’s health readings for countless individuals proved prophetic. He was a sleeping prophet because the information and wisdom provided clearly did not come from his own mind and mental abilities. Case in point was his poor management of both his health and financial understanding.

However many around him did profit from both in accordance with the readings and adherence.

I’m not convinced of his many past life reading for his friends and family.

But one thing I do concur is that people do incarnate as a whole group thus interactions and karmas can be worked out in those lifetimes. Rebirth is real and it’s a spiritual crime in my knowledge that it was removed from the Bible making Christianity one of the few major religions in the world to discard this wisdom and knowledge.

It was a great listen

After the first few hours it delves deeper into his psychic abilities. I would recommend.

Very detailed

Very detailed history of EC’s life and work. I have read many books about EC but this one has everything.

The Final Chapter

I suggest reading "Many Mansions" by Dr. Gina Cerminara & "There is a River" by Thomas Sugrue first as introductions to the capabilities of the Trance Psychic/Healer Edgar Cayce.

Once you are then fully aware of Cayce's true capabilities, this book becomes far more interesting as it reveals the life story - both good & bad times - of the man with those attributes.

My point is that, if I had read this book first, I may have had difficulty getting past the first few chapters. But knowing who Cayce was made it worth the read, as it becomes more & more interesting the further one progresses through the book.

It is interesting to note just how many unscrupulous people - even the medical & legal establishments - tried to take advantage of Mr Cayce - something not emphasized in other Cayce works.

In summary I found it to be one of those books that I just "could not put down".

Enlightening

This book has been an eye opener for me. The reader does an incredible job with expression. the only downfall is the occasional scratch word but they did not present a problem for me.