Gladys Davis, Hugh Lynn Cayce (right) and Harmon Hartzell Bro were among the members of this A Search for God study group meeting at A.R.E. Headquarters at Lake Holly in 1950. This photo is from Edgar Cayce's Photographic Legacy (1978) compiled by David M. Leary. Some of Edgar Cayce's psychic (channeled) readings diagnosed and prescribed for people's physical ailments and disturbances. These were described by Thomas Sugrue in There Is A River (1942) as presenting "cases, hundreds and hundreds of them, wherein the treatments have been faithfully followed, and the predicted results have been achieved." When information that was sought wasn't successfully forthcoming (such as locations for lost treasure or oil wells), Cayce and his associates were baffled. These circumstances are chronicled in the book The Outer Limits of Edgar Cayce's Power (1971) by Edgar's sons Edgar Evans Cayce and Hugh Lynn Cayce. One chapter, "Readings for...
Among the perspectives about contemporary life in The Call of the Trance (2014) is author Catherine Clément's declaration "The possessed today are singers . . ." Nowadays 'possession' is associated with the word 'demon' or 'demonic' connoting evil as a superstitious derivative of the Latin/Greek 'daemon'/'daimon.' A point of reflection for Clément was a reviewer's comparisons of a rap singer's movements to those of animals. 2014 TV image The Call of the Trance was translated to English by Chris Turner. Catherine Clément's writings include essays on anthropology and psychoanalysis. Contemplating some of the occurrences mentioned in the book, I recalled circumstances documented in case studies of visions, trance mediumship and channeling (topics of many previous blog articles) . Garabandal (1960s) is one of the sites where people experienced visionary trances that are now known categorically as cases of 'Maria...
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