Edgar Cayce : An American Prophet

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Summary: The best biography yet about a fascinating and amazing man!
Review: This is the biggest and best book ever written about Edgar Cayce's life. It tells the whole story--and offers insight and compassion about the strange and bizarre lives led by Edgar Cayce and those around him. A must read for anyone interested in Edgar Cayce or great Americans of the 20th century.

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Summary: The best book ever written about a unique and amazing man
Review: This is the biggest and best book every written about Edgar Cayce's life. It tells the whole story--and offers insight and compassion about the strange and bizarre lives led by Edgar Cayce and those around him. A must read for anyone interested in Edgar Cayce, or great Americans of the 20th century.

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Summary: Skeptical at First
Review: This is the most intersting book I have ever read. At first, I didn't think I would like it at all, but my girl friend gave it to me, and said she wouldn't go out with me again unless I read the first fifty pages. So that's what I did. And after reading to page 50, I liked it so much that I read to page 100, and finally got all the way through it. Now I'm more interested in Edgar Cayce than my girl friend. Kirkpatrick does a terrific job pulling you through this fascinating story.

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Summary: The bizarre and strange life of Edgar Cayce!!
Review: This large volume is by far the most comprehensive ever written about Edgar Cayce--and wonderfully written too. Much more than any other book, it reveals what a bizarre and sacrificial life Edgar Cayce led. According to this book, his unusual psychic abilities manifested most or all of the time--not just when he was in trance. I can't imagine what life must have been like for Edgar Cayce or his wife, children or secretary--he could see auras, he could see and talk to "dead people", he couldn't play cards because he knew what was in his opponents' hand and he could know the contents of a book by just holding it to his forehead ( he made a great book salesman!!) No wonder he and his family spent his early life in denial-trying hard just to be normal. It must have been strange living with someone who could see and hear things you couldn't and who might be reading your mind or emotions at any point in time. The fact that he was so kind, humble and willing to serve must have made it possible to live with him. For the majority of his life he also lived in poverty-unwilling to sell his talent out for big bucks ( and he had the opportunity to do this). I cry when I read about him stuffing newspapers inside his light jacket to ward off freezing temperatures. There is no question that this man led a life of sacrifice. In one of his dreams he found himself in a large white tent surrounded by preachers and evangelists who he knew to be dead-all dressed in white. God's voice boomed out, "Who will warn my people." Jesus stepped forward and God said, " Not yet-it is not time." So someone else stepped forward and said, "Send Cayce, he's down there already." That perhaps, says it all. Cayce led a life of sacrifice to serve as a messenger of God. We owe it to him to hear his message.

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Summary: In Need of an Editor
Review: What should have been - oh, okay - is the best biography of Edgar Cayce since A SEER OUT OF SEASON is unfortunately marred by a plethora of errors in punctuation, grammar, and word usage. It's embarrassing to lend the book to my friends. This is a professional writer? Doesn't he know any editors? It is to be hoped that he finds one before the paperback version comes out. Otherwise, I'll have to continue giving away copies of THERE IS A RIVER to my new acquaintances who express interest in Cayce.

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Summary: Smiling from above
Review: While I was growing up my mother, a nurse and midwife, used to talk about Edgar Cayce's amazing medical treatments. She was quite taken by Cayce and credited him with extending her life and the lives of some of her patients. I hadn't given Cayce much thought since then, not until I heard Sidney Kirkpatrick on the radio talking about his new book. His comments were so fascinating that I went out and bought the book the next day. I was not disappointed. Cayce was everything my mother said he was, and so much more. He not only provided reasonable answers to life's big questions, but he gives us us plenty of insights into such subjects as child rearing, marriage, and friendship. I especially like chapter 40, in which the author discusses Cayce's treatments for ailments such as diabetes, cancer, and psoriasis--all the things that mom liked to talk about. My only regret is that I can't share this wonderful book with her. But if Cayce is right, she knows I'm reading and enjoying this book, and is smiling at me from above!

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Summary: A Hero for our Times !!
Review: Wow, this is a wonderful book ! I thought I knew alot about Edgar Cayce (having visited his organization and joining it in 1985) but this writer has told me things I never knew. Mr. Cayce sure was devoted to his "work" of bringing this "heaven sent" information to the world. I can't imagine what he and his family must have endured...still he (they) held fast to doing the right thing. The world owes them thanks for their sacrifice, and thanks to Sydney Kirkpatrick for telling the world about EDGAR CAYCE. I'm planning another trip now to Virginia Beach...have to get back into that heavenly energey that exsists at the Cayce Institute.