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In 1945, as World War II was grinding to its close, a man named Edgar Cayce died. He was famous

throughout the land for the thousands of psychic readings he had given in hypnotic trances.

People referred to him as the Sleeping Prophet. His influence on alternative medicine was so great

that he's been referred to as the father of holistic medicine. He's also considered one of the

fathers of the New Age movement. The extensive transcripts of his psychic readings make him the

most documented psychic of the 20th century, and he's arguably the most famous psychic of the 20th

century, with hundreds of books having been written about him. Who was Edgar Cayce? What did his

psychic readings say, and what should we make of them? What theories about Edgar Cayce will we

be looking at? As always, we're going to look at this mystery from both the perspectives of faith

and reason. From the reason perspective, we need to consider whether there is a natural or a

paranormal explanation for all this. Could Cayce's readings have been the product of his imagination?

Could he have been a hoaxer? Could he have been a genuine psychic? Could the explanation be more

complex than that? What does the evidence say? And what should we make of Cayce's claims from

the face perspective? You're listening to episode 225 of Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world.

We look at mysteries from the twin perspectives of faith and reason. In this episode, we're talking

about Edgar Cayce's psychic abilities and what to make of them. I'm Don Betanelli, and

Jeremy Today is Jimmy Aiken. Hey, Jimmy. Howdy, Don. Last time, we talked about psychic Edgar Cayce

and his remarkable story. Cayce passed into the great beyond in 1945, but he left behind a legacy

that's fascinated people ever since. So what startled him claims did he make in his readings?

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