Edgar Cayce’s primary source of information while he was giving readings was the Akashic records. Cayce also discussed the connection between the Akashic records and the human aura, suggesting that the aura was in some ways a holographic image of the record itself, containing the very same type of information for the individual. For example, while giving a reading to a thirty-year-old oil prospector, Cayce discussed what he was seeing in terms of the individual’s record:
Yes, we have the body, the conditions here, and the record as has been made, and as will be made, both in the present and past and future, as we see from conditions existing in the present sphere or aura of the individual. All is not good, yet in many phases of earth’s sphere, known as success, this individual will rise high, yet ever those of the wandering forces . . .
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And while beginning a physical reading regarding the health of a thirty-four-year-old woman, Cayce stated that her aura contained a warning regarding the possibility of an accident, causing him to recommend caution: “Before giving the Physical we would give a warning here as indicated in the aura of the body, [{Ms.} 1300]. Beware or be careful of an accident in something moving—as in elevator or cab.” (1300-2)
Over the years Edgar Cayce provided many readings and suggestions for individuals to enhance their own intuition. While examining the ways in which psychic ability might manifest, the readings state that intuition can be heightened by subjugating material thoughts and influences to the soul self, such as through the use of prayer, meditation, the imagination, and personal reverie. In this type of state, which on one extreme might be similar to a literal trance and on the other extreme might simply involve an increase in the imaginative and intuitive forces, the mind could experience heightened psychic ability. This heightened intuition could be demonstrated, for example, in the ability of individuals to look into the past as well as to see the human aura. (507-1)
On frequent occasions Cayce suggested that each individual’s aura has an affinity to specific colors—an affinity that causes the person to feel more comfortable or in sync with people, situations, and even the environment. Throughout the years he gave readings, one of the questions generally included with “color affinity” in mind was something along the lines of: “To what color do I best vibrate?” For example, when a thirty-six-year-old restaurant owner asked, “To what color or colors do I vibrate?” Cayce replied, “Blue. And when wearing blue you won’t get mad! And make much of these in the underthings, too, close to the body.” (594-1) In other words, the reading suggested that the color blue would provide her with a vibration (even when worn as underwear) that would help her in controlling her own temper. On another occasion a teenage girl who was both deaf and mute went to Cayce for physical assistance. In addition to recommending some more conventional health protocols, he encouraged the parents to let her work with stringed musical instruments so that she could “feel the vibration,” as well as to keep two specific colors on her body and in her surroundings—deep violet and red. (4223-3) The colors were recommended because of the specific vibrations associated with each. Throughout the readings the vibration of red is often associated with energy and deep violet corresponds to higher states of consciousness, spiritual attunement, and healing.
Color and music were also recommended for a five-year-old boy to his parents who were looking for guidance on raising their child. During the course of their reading, Cayce outlined what kinds of music and colors the child would be drawn to and how the parents could use these in the boy’s life as he grew older:
One that, it will be found, music, musical tendencies, will be an influence in the entity’s activities. The music will be quieting, especially that of stringed instruments—yet those of the horn, or pipe, or reed, will later be a more active influence in the entity’s experience.
Colors will also find an influence in the entity’s activities, especially those of not too severe, but the violet, ultra-violet, shades of green, of mode [light/drab bluish-gray?], and pink; though the others may make for a rigor oft in the entity, the delicate shades—or those as may be termed the spiritual—will influence the entity. When illness or the like were to come about, soft music and the lighter shades or tones will quiet where medicine would fail.
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In addition to present-life information on colors and the aura, the Cayce material also examines both subjects in the context of reincarnation and past lives. For example, the readings state that previous experiences in the earth could be seen in “. . . feelings towards places, conditions, individuals . . . ,” all containing an energy that was visible in the aura. (2067-1) Cayce also discussed how the influence of color and the desire to use color frequently resided in consciousness as a carryover from previous lifetimes.
As one case in point, a twenty-seven-year-old speaker and designer was told that during a previous lifetime in Egypt she had been in service to one of the temples. Her role there was to assist individuals in understanding their life’s expression and purpose by working with colors and the aura. The reading encouraged her to read everything she could find on the subjects. It also advised her that the best information and knowledge she would have at her disposal would be obtained through working with auras and colors in her present experiences and practice, just as she had once done in the ancient past. In the language of the readings: “For there the entity gained the abilities to make for the harmonizing colors to those extents wherein each individual was and is as yet clothed with its individual color—as ye call aura.” (1436-2)
She was encouraged to expand her work with color in lecturing on the subject, such as she might be able to accomplish on radio, as well as to become involved with the motion picture industry and the use of color in film. She was heartened with the statement that she could bring an understanding of the importance of color to others from both a metaphysical and a practical standpoint. When she asked specifically, “Am I fitted to do some special work in the new science of color?” the answer came:
As we find and as has been indicated, that so far as the commercial field is concerned, associated with the new color for the cinema—these are the fields of activity in which the entity may make the application of the abilities for the means of the world.
As for colors pertaining to life itself—as the self or the entity set in motion, study auras and aid others in knowing what they mean! There are those that interpret same in the form of spiritism. There are those that interpret same in the form of vibration. They are all of these and more, as the entity knows and may experience!
Hence the studies that the entity may make will give, again, again, that leaven that leaveneth the whole, for the use of the masses in their daily experience!
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During a follow-up reading the woman mentioned that she had become interested in talking about the use of color to enhance beauty and charm and thought that might lead to working with both radio and the motion picture industry. Cayce reassured her that she was going in the right direction. When she asked what specific studies she should undertake regarding color, the reply indicated that studying color was ultimately the study of the self:
First study self! in relationship to the Creative Forces, as has been the direction. Or the study of auras as related to the individual life, the individual expression in others. For this, as has been pointed out, was the greater portion of the physical activity in the material plane for giving out by the entity during the Egyptian period.
Hence this as applied to material things, or as to commercial value within self, becomes the means, the manners, the way through which this may be given out the most.
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The reading went on to indicate that she needed to continue learning about the human aura, including comprehending how the daily activities of each individual affected the aura. Cayce suggested that realizing the connection among the body, an individual’s activities, and the aura was central to truly understanding the subject: “. . . First learn the basic forces or basic principles of same as related to the bodily forces . . . learn the activity of the etheronic and the vibrations of the body, for these are they that produce color, that produce aura, that produce the activities seen