preserved at the headquarters of the Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.), an organization that he founded in 1931.
Cayce Biographies
Even though it’s now been over six decades since Edgar Cayce passed on, the timeless value of his readings has brought ever-increasing numbers of seekers to the A.R.E. over the years to study the priceless treasure trove he gave the world. Countless articles and papers and hundreds of books have been written about him! Several television specials about his life and work have also aired nationally. Among the most popular of the biographies that have been published about Edgar Cayce are the following four titles:
• There Is a River, Thomas Sugrue (1942)
• Many Mansions, Gina Cerminara (1950)
• The Sleeping Prophet, Jess Stearn (1967)
• Edgar Cayce: An American Prophet, Sidney Kirkpatrick (2000)
The Amazing Cayce Readings
Upon Edgar Cayce’s death, Gladys Davis, Cayce’s long-time secretary, dedicated herself to preserving and organizing the readings, undertaking the enormous task of cataloging and indexing a total of more than 14,000 of them. She found that nearly every imaginable question on some 10,000 different subjects had been put to Cayce! Due to the sheer number of readings, plus follow-up reports and documentation, she did not complete the indexing project until 1971. Copies of the original readings are still preserved in the A.R.E. library for study, and they also have been available for some time now on a CD-ROM. They represent the largest collection of psychic information from a single source in the world today.
For more than a century, the Cayce readings have been explored by individuals from every possible background. They have been intently studied by professionals in the fields of medicine, nutrition, science, education, theology, psychology, and even history. Cayce’s pioneering emphasis on the importance of diet, mental attitude, emotions, exercise, and even prayer and spirituality in the treatment of illness earned him recognition by medical practitioners as “the father of holistic medicine.” Psychologists have compared him to Carl Jung and educators to Rudlolf Steiner. A famed religious scholar, author, and retired academician, Richard Drummond, Ph.D., referred to the Cayce readings as “the finest devotional material of the twentieth century.” Historical insights that the readings provided into early Christianity and Judaism were subsequently verified only long after Cayce’s time. And as will be seen in this book, the information contained in the readings on sciences like astronomy, cosmology, and physics is simply astounding! (This information is examined further in the section “An Astounding Revelation” in Appendix 3.)
Many have described the language used by Edgar Cayce in his readings as strange, odd, cryptic, rambling, redundant, and/or difficult to understand. This is perhaps not unexpected, given the source of the readings (as explained later). A wonderful article on the nature of this language by Dr. Gina Cerminara, one of his biographers, originally appeared in the A.R.E. Bulletin for December, 1945, and was later reprinted in the April 1966 issue of The A.R.E. Journal. It is given in full in Appendix 2.
And now, dear reader, together let’s embark upon our exciting cosmic journey—not only through the eyes of the Hubble Space Telescope and the latest discoveries in the physical sciences, but also through those of the most amazing psychic the world has ever known!
James Mullaney
Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
U.S.A, Planet Earth
1Perhaps the ultimate reference about these records is Kevin Todeschi’s superb Edgar Cayce on the Akashic Records, available from the A.R.E. Press.
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Worlds Beyond: Stars and Stellar Systems
THE COSMIC HIERARCHY
Before looking at some of the many references to stars and stellar systems contained within the Cayce readings, let’s say a few words about the cosmic scheme of things. We are living in a vast pinwheel of stars known as the Milky Way Galaxy, which is only one of an estimated 100 billion galaxies within the observable universe! Although Edgar Cayce didn’t specifically mention the Milky Way2 or other galaxies in his readings, he did talk about “other universes.” Some of these may very well be references to other galaxies.3
Stars themselves are born within immense clouds of hydrogen gas in the spiral arms of galaxies, becoming ever hotter and more compressed as they condense out of these rotating nebulous masses. (As related later, Cayce actually mentions these “nebulae” and talks about the “mists that are gathering” as part of the creation process.) Like spinning ice skaters pulling their arms in close to their body, the protostars spin faster and faster as they become ever smaller, and if something doesn’t slow them down, they’ll eventually tear themselves apart. Even as the skaters slow their spin by throwing out their arms, these infant stars in essence do the same thing by shedding rings of material, which act like stellar brakes. This material in turn forms the planets and their satellites. It’s been statistically calculated that there are more stars within reach of today’s largest telescopes than all the grains of sand on all the beaches and deserts on the entire planet Earth. And we now know that virtually all of those stars must have planets as a result of their natural birth process, so we’re talking about a lot of worlds out there!
Most if not all stars are born in families. These range from orbiting double and multiple systems in which two or more suns (often of different lovely colors!) would appear in the skies of their planets, to clusters of stars—glittering stellar jewelboxes containing hundreds or thousands of suns to as many as a million in huge stellar beehivelike swarms. Our Sun is a star—our “Daytime Star” as many like to call it. And while it appears to be single, it’s believed that it may actually have a very dim distant red-dwarf companion, slowly drifting through space with it. (At the opposite extreme are double stars orbiting so close to each that they complete a mutual revolution in a matter of just hours and their outer atmospheres are actually in contact!)
Stars Named in the Readings
While references to the stars appear hundreds of times in the Cayce material, only two appear to actually be mentioned by name. One of these is Polaris, better known as the North Star or Pole Star. Within the text of the readings it appears only three times, in the following contexts:
For, as long as an entity is within the confines of that termed the earth’s and the sons [suns?] of the earth’s solar system, the developments are within the sojourns of the entity from sphere to sphere; and when completed it begins—throughout the music of the spheres with Arcturus, Polaris, and through those sojourns in the outer sphere.
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(This reading actually does mention the other named star—Arcturus—and also the “music of the spheres,” both of which are discussed below.)
At the correct time accurate imaginary lines can be drawn from the opening of the great Pyramid to the second star in the Great Dipper, called Polaris or the North Star. This indicates it is the system toward which the soul takes it flight after having completed its sojourn through this solar system.
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(Note that Cayce referred to Polaris as the second star in the “Great Dipper,” which means the Big Dipper. But it’s actually located at the end of the handle of