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Edgar Cayce was a well-known channeler who made accurate predictions and provided healing advice through accessing the “akashic records.” Despite skepticism, his talents attracted attention from academics and doctors. While controversial, channeling remains a topic of interest for those seeking to understand human experience beyond scientific validation.
Channeling is the supposed process of receiving dialogues of information through psychic, telepathic, empathic, or intuitive channels. Channeling also refers to divining information from one’s higher mind.
The best known and most well documented channeler was Edgar Cayce. Cayce was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky on March 18, 1877, and died on January 3, 1945. During his life, Cayce made numerous predictions accompanied by long dialogues of information about future events, the directions that health and science would take, and the world politics. The accuracy of many of his predictions continues to defy the odds, although his methods are not explained by science and therefore remain controversial.
Cayce, a photographer by profession with no medical experience, also reportedly performed approximately 22,000 personal readings, helping people around the world with healing advice for adverse physical conditions. Cayce’s seemingly unlimited knowledge, during the channel, could not be explained and attracted the attention of many academics, journalists and doctors in an attempt to expose what they expected to be a cunning deception. Instead everyone walked away believing Cayce was legitimate, albeit without an understanding of his talents.
Cayce is referred to as a psychic because the term channeler had not yet been coined. While Cayce might be called psychic, his talents went beyond what we normally associate with psychics. Psychics, such as those who aid in modern police investigations, normally receive flashes or hunches and disjointed bits of information. This is very different from the type of phenomenon seen in Cayce, where a topic could be fully discussed in full detail, although it is a topic that Cayce was unaware of when he was not in self-induced sleep, or channel state.
Cayce never claimed any special powers, nor did he claim to be a prophet. His channeling of him, as he explained it, came from attaining a state of mind that was in contact with the “akashic records,” a sort of universal database containing all knowledge. This pool of superconsciousness contained, according to Cayce, the subconscious mind of every individual who has ever lived on earth. Cayce believed that this realm of knowledge underlies all consciousness and is available to anyone who learns to exploit it.
Cayce was a Christian who read the Bible through and through once a year for the duration of his life, and believed that people should love one another and tolerate all religions. He dedicated his life to helping others, and continued to give personal readings even when his health was in danger from exhaustion trying to keep up with the requests for scores that came in from all over the world.
While the world has yet to see another Edgar Cayce, there are a few intriguing ones who have garnered widespread attention and earned a reputation for legitimacy among believers. An example is Jane Roberts (1929-1984) who channeled the Seth series, probably the best known and most respected channeler of recent years. The Seth series has sold millions of copies translated into a dozen languages and has been praised by people like Deepak Chopra for its message of living life more happily through self-actualization. Still in print, the Seth series continues to captivate readers worldwide.
Today, many people claim channeling, while few have the kind of overwhelming legitimacy recognized by many in the works of Edgar Cayce. Until the mechanics of channeling is scientifically proven or disproven, it will likely remain a controversial topic, especially for those who demand that science legitimize human experience before it can be considered valid.
