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This fascinating biography, written by on the country's foremost authorities on metaphysics, reached the No. 1 spot on the New York Times bestseller list. The Edgar Cayce story is one of the most compelling in inspirational literature. For more than forty years, the "Sleeping Prophet" closed his eyes, entered into an altered state of consciousness, and spoke to the very heart and spirit of humankind on subjects such as health, healing, dreams, prophecy, meditation, and reincarnation. His more than 14,000 readings are preserved at the Association for Research and Enlightenment, Inc., in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #314047 in Books
• Published on: 1989-10-01
• Released on: 1989-10-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 304 pages

Midwest Book Review
The life and story of Edgar Cayce is one of the most compelling in metaphysical literature. For more than forty years, the "Sleeping Prophet" closed his eyes, entered into an altered state of consciousness, and spoke to the very heart and spirit of humankind on subjects such as health, healing, dreams, prophecy, meditation, and reincarnation. Now in a 30th Anniversary Special Edition printing, Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet is a fascinating biography that will hold the reader spellbound and leaving him or her in wonder at the the potential of humankind.

Noel Langley
"Perhaps Mr. Stearn's greatest achievement . . . is that he has given his subject such universality. The reader is left with the firm conviction, not that Edgar Cayce was a unique 'odd-man-out,' but that he spoke for the sleeping prophet that lies dormant in every human being."

From the Back Cover
Dare we believe in prophecies? A native of Kentucky with a ninth grade education, Edgar Cayce accurately predicted two world wars, including the years they began and ended, racial strife in America, the death of John F. Kennedy and hundreds of other recorded events. He could apparently travel in time and space to treat the ill, and dispense information that led to innumerable cures where traditional medicine was useless. The first to introduce many Americans to the concept of reincarnation, Cayce drew on a subconscious Universal Mind for starting information about past and future. In The Sleeping Prophet, Jess Stearn presents the extraordinary story of Cayce's life, his healings, his prophecies, and his powerful legacy.

Customer Reviews

A Fascinating Edgar Cayce Biography
To me, the most fascinating part of Jess Stearn's biography is that Cayce predicted Stearn would write the book in Cayce's trance readings before Stearn arrived on the scene and after Cayce had passed away. Cayce never met Stearn in real life.

This is a different biography than the purely chronological ones such as There Is a River: The Story of Edgar Cayce, which is a comprehensive biography and Edgar Cayce: Mystery Man of Miracles, which concentrates on Cayce early years, or Edgar Cayce: An American Prophet, discloses many heretofore unrevealed tidbits about Cayce's personal life.

Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet tackles Cayce by subject with chapter headings on topics such as "The Incurable Diseases," World Prophecies," and "Reincarnation."

I found many interesting anecdotes, for example, how a woman was cured of cancer by following suggestions in the Cayce readings with the support of her doctor. Intrigued with Atlantis, I shiver at the supposed similarity between people in Atlantis' last days who did not heed warnings of earth instability with people who flagrantly ignore good geological sense and build their homes over fault lines.

Not surprisingly, since I met my husband first in a dream (described in my book, When We Were Gods: Insights on Atlantis, Past Lives, Angelic Beings of Light and Spiritual Awakening), one of my favorite chapters is "The Dream World." Cayce believed that we could all access our own innate psychic ability through a study of our dreams.

It's the kind of book that once you pick it up, you find so many intriguing stories to catch your interest that you want to keep reading and reading.

Highly recommended.

Carol Chapman, photographer for the Divine in Nature: With Quotes from Edgar Cayce and author of When We Were Gods: Insights on Atlantis, Past Lives, Angelic Beings of Light and Spiritual Awakening.

There's more here than prophesy
The story of Edgar Cayce and other people with parapsychological ability is a most compelling and interesting phenomenon of mental capacity. That some people have this type of psychic ability demonstrates the vast power and perception of the human mind that warrants investigation. That this type of phenomena doesn't necessarily "fit" into mainstream psychological study causes severe conflict with generally accepted mainstream beliefs about the workings of the mind. As a consequence, the field of orthodox study tends to put people like Cayce into the catagory of fakes and charletans, at worst, and to ignore them at best. The study of this type of psychic phenomenon would go far in explaining the unknown regions of the mind. Scientific discovery necessitates following examples that are exceptions to the general rule. People with parapsychological powers ala Cayce provide great opportunity to track the great uncharted regions of the human psyche.

A Prophet and Remarkable man
One has to consider the time this occurred and the level of education of Edgar Cayce. He was incredible and I find it sad that people reading it today are unable to grasp the importance of his work. I think this is a book all thinking people should read and understand in context. If a reader is too literally minded or unwilling to accept the possibility of miracles then (s)he should read something else.