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Cayce Healing Practices

Edgar Cayce taught us that complete healing requires attention to the Body, Mind and Soul.  There are two different schools that educate students in the philosophies and healing techniques from the Edgar Cayce readings.  The Cayce/Reilly School of Massage teaches students to apply many of the Cayce physical healing remedies and massage healing techniques.  Atlantic University offers programs that train practitioners in spiritual mentoring as well as techniques that create emotional healing.  Please click on the links above to take you to the pages that explain more about these schools and how to find practitioners in your area.

For access to information from the Edgar Cayce Holistic Health Database please click on this link. The complete Cayce Readings are available to all members of Edgar Cayce's A.R.E. to search through for healing remedies and information specific to your personal needs.  Click on this link to learn more about becoming a member to access this information.

The Readings Approach to Health and Wellness

In the 1920s and 1930s, long before traditional medicine began examining the impact the mind has on physical health, America's "sleeping prophet", Edgar Cayce, was laying the groundwork for one of the most fascinating truths presented in the twentieth century: What one thinks and feels emotionally will find expression in the physical body. Mental patterns can have a direct impact upon good physical health or disease. The mind, Cayce asserted, is a powerful tool in creating health and wellness.

Nearly seventy percent of the more than 14,000 psychic readings Cayce gave are concerned with the diagnosing of disease and the outlining of treatment. These readings are still being studied in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Many people who came to Cayce in the early part of the twentieth century came to him as a last resort: most had been diagnosed as "incurable", not only by private physicians, but by renowned medical institutions around the U.S. While Cayce himself had no medical training or education, when he entered a self-induced altered state, his unconscious mind seemed to tap an endless reservoir of helpful physical information. He could accurately diagnose illness and prescribe treatment for people he had never met or seen.

The information from the readings on health includes simple suggestions that each of us can do to stay well. The nature of many of these recommendations indicates that Cayce's understanding of physical care was really ahead of its time. These basic principles include such items as:

  • Maintaining a well-balanced diet

  • Regular exercise

  • The role of attitudes and emotions

  • The importance of relaxation and recreation, and keeping our physical bodies cleansed-both on the outside and the inside

 

According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, “The roots of present day holism probably go back 100 years to the birth of Edgar Cayce.” Cayce's approach to staying well had its roots in health maintenance and preventive medicine rather than in the treatment of illnesses as they arose. Yet, his contribution to healing and physical well-being was not limited solely to proper diet and regular exercise.

The readings make recommendations for a variety of health concerns-from acne, diet, and cancer to arthritis, mental illness, and psoriasis. Nearly every condition that existed between 1901 and 1945--whether it was childbirth, fractures, or vitamin deficiency--is represented in the files of the Cayce material. Interestingly, modern-day researchers have found that many of the recommended treatments, given to specific individuals, seem to be applicable today on a much wider scale. Two notable examples of this are psoriasis and scleroderma. For both of these diseases, the Cayce regimen involved specific diets, chiropractic medicine, and other natural remedies and procedures. In recent years hundreds of people with these two ailments have been helped by following a similar program.

Cayce also saw total health as involving coordination among the physical, mental, and spiritual components of life. Any complete approach to health needed to consider an individual's entire being rather than simply the illness. Because of this concept, it has been said that the beginnings of present-day holistic health started from the readings of Edgar Cayce.

Related Books:
Edgar Cayce's Everyday Health: Holistic Tips, Remedies & Solutions by Carol A. Baraff 
The Alkalizing Diet by Istvan Fazekas
Edgar Cayce on Healing Foods by William A. McGarey, MD

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