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Deep in the heart of the largely unexplored jungles of the Yucatan lies a storehouse of records telling the history of all humanity and revealing the origin and meaning of life. According to the "Sleeping Prophet" Edgar Cayce, nearly 13,000 years ago these records were buried at three separate locations in the world. The Hall of Records at Giza in Egypt has eluded discovery and a second hall is covered by the Atlantic Ocean near Bimini. The third Hall, located in the general area of the Yucatan, may now be nearing discovery. The site ‹ Piedras Negras, Guatemala ‹ is concealing ancient buried records.

In this compelling book, John Van Auken, author of numerous Cayce-related books, and Dr. Lora Little present Cayce's story of how and why a Hall of Records was established in the Yucatan. Backed by solid archaeological evidence and astronomical correlations, the authors show how the Mayan creation story involves the constellation Orion and why Piedras Negras is the likely site of the Hall of Records. In addition, the authors reveal that Cayce has told us what is recorded in the Hall of Records through his many Akasha "readings." Finally, an explanation of the current cycle of the Maya calendar points to the end of our age in 2012 and the beginning of a strange, new era. Illustrated with 162 pictures, maps, and line drawings, fully indexed.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #337008 in Books
• Published on: 2000-08-11
• Binding: Paperback
• 279 pages

About the Author
John Van Auken
John Van Auken is a former director of the Edgar Cayce organization (Association for Research and Enlightenment ‹ A.R.E.) in Virginia Beach, VA. He is editor of the monthly newsletter Living in the Light and author of many books, audio tapes, and videos, and a columnist for Alternate Perceptions magazine. He is considered an expert in Egyptian, Mayan, Hindu, Hebrew, and Christian mysticism, and is a skillful teacher of meditation ‹ from kundalini to his own unique "passage in consciousness." He is a popular speaker and leader of retreats, workshops, and tours to Egypt, Israel, and the ancient Mayan lands in Yucatan.

Lora Little, Ed.D.
Dr. Lora Little holds a masters degree and doctorate in counseling from Memphis State University. Over the past 20 years she has studied archaeological findings and correlated them to Cayce's work. She has traveled extensively to Native American sites in both North and Central America. She is a columnist on Edgar Cayce's work for Alternate Perceptions magazine.

Customer Reviews

A Delightful Look Into Cayce's Readings on the Atlantean Records in the Yucatan
The Lost Hall of Records provides an excellent and extensive list of the clues found in the Cayce readings as to the location of the records left by the Atlanteans in the Yucatan.

This is a feat worthy of applause since Cayce's information on the Atlantean records in the Yucatan is scant and scattered throughout many psychic readings. Unlike the information on the Hall of Records left by the Atlanteans on the Giza plateau-that the Hall of Records can be accessed from a passageway leading from the right forepaw of the Sphinx--the many unconnected details about the Yucatan site make a search for it very difficult.

The co-authors Van Auken and Little chose to concentrate on a number of these clues to support their contention that the Atlantean records in the Yucatan were left in Piedras Negras, Guatemala, which is in the Yucatan Peninsula.

I disagree with them based on my own understanding of the clues in the Cayce readings. I wrote about my research and my travel in the Yucatan in my article, "Searching for the Hall of Records in the Yucatan," which was published in Edgar Cayce's A.R.E.'s membership magazine Venture Inward in their March/April 2001 issue. The article is reprinted in my book, When We Were Gods: Insights on Atlantis, Past Lives, Angelic Beings of Light and Spiritual Awakening.

I believe the Atlantean records in the Yucatan are actually in the Mexican state called Yucatan and are in or near the ancient Mayan ruin called Uxmal. When I read The World Before, I discovered that Ruth Montgomery's guides agree with me.

Although I disgree with Van Auken and Little, I enjoyed The Lost Hall of Records and learned a lot from it. It is also richly illustrated and has a scholarly feel to the writing.

By Carol Chapman, photographer of the only Edgar Cayce Calendar 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.

Lots of information weakened by too much supposition
There is lot of information here about the Pedras Negras site. The authors have collected information from a variety of sources and compiled them into this book. I believe one of the authors spouses (Greg Little) has even been to the site. Given that there are so few readily available resources on this site this book has value to anyone interested in Mayan sites.

Where the book fails to deliver is that ultimately it becomes a speculative piece trying to loosely tie Cayce predictions to findings and activity at the site. You get a lot of 'if', 'perhaps', and 'possibly' kind of talk. There is much waffling as to whether the correct years match, or the correct research teams from the 1930s, lots of confusion that is not really cleared up. After wading half-way through the book you realize the authors can prove little, if anything, in the way of any substanative connection between Cayce and Pedras Negras. Even more tenuous are Caycian references to this area of Central America being founded by surviors of Atlantis, etc. Not that Atlantis could not have seeded the Olmecs and/or Mayans, but that this book does not deliver in terms of making any firm arguments.

Towards the last third of the book the site Pedras Negras is largely left aside and we are taken on a ride through theories about the Akashic records and what supposedly occured in earth's past. What started as a marginally scientific work quickly turns into a mythical story book. Again, not that what the book says happened could not have occurred, but that the information is presented with no confirmation and nothing for you to really latch onto.

Ultimately metaphysical books today dealing with sacred sites MUST evolve to the point that the reader can actually get some understanding either of the site or how to interpret it for themselves. The authors do attempt to present concepts and ties such as the firestone of Cacye's reading to various elements at Pedras Negras. What is to be done with the firestone? If you are really into Atlantis then you might realize any physical technology was involved in Atlantis' destruction (sons of Belial) because the true priesthood would have cultivated internal power, not external power. The real halls of records are etherial (not necessarily Akashic). Looking for physical answers will only keep you within the physical. This is a huge change of view that was missed in this book.

The book fails to give you a better understanding of the Maya (better left to Friedel and Schele), and do not give you the solid archeological information (that was directly done by UPenn and now by BYU). You also find almost no solid information which would allow you to step into the intents and consciousness of the founders or occupants of the site. At the least mainstream archeology provides this insight. But this book has spent most of its capital focused on making connections back to Cayce. And Cayce was wrong about more than one thing (sorry Cayce fans, the poles did not flip in 1998) so trying to use him as the nexus for important research will tend to be both frustrating and error prone.

The experiential reader will pick up a couple of elements worthy of personal investigation including the mineral hematite and the six pointed diagrams presented.

Good Update On The Cayce Material
This book helps bring the reader up to date about the search for one of the lost halls of records described by the psychic Edgar Cayce. Interestingly Cacye indicated there are three identical sets of records which are all the same and are somehow really part of the same thing. This seems to parallel the idea of The Holy Trinity.

In this case the focus is on the lost hall down in the Yucatan. The other sites are at the Giza plateau in Egypt and Bimini near the Bahamas where Atlantis sank.

The conclusion as I understand it is some of the artifacts related to the lost hall may have already been discovered and they are in various museums but people don't realize what they are. Cayce indicated that back in the 1930s people had actually discovered some stones that had strange powers but they 'know so little about them'.

But the actual lost hall hasn't been discovered yet and nobody is really sure where it is exactly.

Van Auken believes he had lived in ancient Egypt in a past life and was some type of priest. He was in the great pyramid and was levitated off the ground and into the mysterious fire inside the pyramid.

A lot of the material in this book diverges from the search for the lost hall and gets into a discussion of Edgar Cayce's prophecies about the akashic record. The akashic record is the 'book' that contains the history of every souls activities in this earthly plain. Cayce was able to read from this psychic book.

The authors have another book out which expands on the akashic record and other things called 'Secrets Of The Ancient World'.

Secrets of the Ancient World: Exploring the Insights of America's Most Well-Documented Psychic, Edgar Cayce

Edgar Cayce's Atlantis

Edgar Cayce's Egypt: Psychic Revelations on the Most Fascinating Civilization Ever Known