“our present reality is too terrestrial and too physical”
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From Karma to Grace: The Power of the Fruit of the Spirit
books.google.com/ John Van Auken – 2010 – Body, Mind & Spirit – 198 pages
Our present reality is too terrestrial and too physical. Deep within us is a celestial soul that has existed before, exists now, and will exist after our … -
Edgar Cayce and the Kabbalah: A Resource for Soulful Living
books.google.com/ John Van Auken – 2010 – Religion – 302 pages
Our present reality is too terrestrial and too physical. Deep within us is a celestial soul that has existed before, exists now, and will exist after our …
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The following is excerpted from:
Edgar Cayce and the Kabbalah: A Resource for Soulful Living
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… The key element is the influence
of the spirit within them and the dark thoughts that make them so danger-
ous and coldhearted versus the disposition of those that keep on keep-
ing on in ways that are constructive rather than destructive, despite the
surrounding circumstances.
Cayce’s readings acknowledge the “warring” that often occurs within
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humans, between the unseen realms and the seen. (EC 281-7) His read-
ings even call this war the true Armageddon (EC 3976-15, from Revela-
tion 16:16), a battle within each soul between the energies and thoughts
of dark, destructive influences and the energies and thoughts of illumi-
nating, constructive influences.
Even the Light-bearing souls have to struggle to maintain their hold
on the Light. It is difficult to be pure channels of the Light in this life, in
our families and workplaces and in our own hearts and minds. It is a
terrible battle between selfishness, contention, and faultfinding versus
loving care for others and for self, and valuing the light of truth, hope,
and love.
Cayce’s readings warn the Children of God, the Children of the Law
of One (as he often referred to them), to seek and maintain their aware-
ness of the Divine Forces, for these will protect them from dark motiva-
tions within themselves and dark intentions in others.
As experienced my many, in opening self to the unseen forces about us,
yet warred ever by those influences save when in the presence of His
[God's] influence, then as the forces are raised in self know – without
doubt – there are His protecting influences, able, willing, capable, and
will aid in that direction in which such vibrations, such influences, are
raised to those individuals to whom they be directed, even by the spo-
ken word; for, as is seen, as is understood by many, by most, the unseen
forces are the active forces, the active principles.” EC 281-7
To avoid the influence of evil and selfishness, even the best among
us must seek the protection and assistance of the Divine’s influence,
that consciousness of the Divine with us in our daily lives. “The spirit is
indeed willing, but the flesh is weak,” taught the masterful Jewish teacher
Jesus, who faced Satan’s temptations and walked away, free from the
temptations. (Matthew 26:41 and Mark 1:3) And when we fail to main-
tain our mindfulness of the Divine and the higher bodily vibrations of
the Divine awakened within us, we must get up and try again, never
condemning ourselves or limiting the Divine’s ability to redeem us, to
cleanse us, and to make us stronger. Cayce taught:
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Be not faint hearted because failure seems to be in thy way, or that self
falters – but “how many times shall I forgive, or ask forgiveness – seven
times?” “Yea, seventy times seven!” or, “not how I faltered, but did I seek
His face again?” “Could ye not watch with me one hour?” The man crying
out! “Sleep on, now, and take thy rest, for the hour cometh when I shall
be even alone.” So we find the changes, the weaknesses in the flesh –
yet he that seeks shall find, and as oft as ye knock will the answer come.
Seek to be one with Him [God], in body, in mind, in soul! EC 281-7
Life is a challenge. It is a dance between the loneliness of self-con-
sciousness and the cooperative consciousness that is aware of and seek-
ing the guidance of the Creative, the Good Forces, and the higher vibrations.
Consider the challenges Jesus, a Jewish-trained master, faced – as de-
scribed in this Cayce discourse.
In sending such forces out, then, be mindful that there is no doubt that
these will bring that as He [God] sees fit, “Not my will, Oh Father, but
Thine be done!” What did this bring to Him [Jesus]? The cross, the bur-
dens, the crown of thorns – yet in its essence it brought those abilities
to overcome death, hell and the grave. So, as in our raising ourselves to
that understanding this His [God's] presence is guiding and directing
those influences about those to whom we would direct His cause (for
they have called on us), then know His will is being done in the manner as
thou hast sent same to that individual!” EC 281-7
Why the struggle? Why the confusions and misgivings? Because we
are godlings in the making, lost angels with the potential to become
God’s companions forever. We are not simply newly born humans try-
ing to live our lives so that our deaths will lead us to a good afterlife.
We are celestial entities that have been alive from the moment our
Creator said, “Let there be Light” (Genesis 1:3), “Let us make them in our
image, after our likeness,” (Genesis 1:26) and “You are gods, sons and
daughters of the Most High.” (Psalm 82:6). We come into this incarnation
with many, many karmic influences from preincarnation activity. We
need to become aware of our lives as celestial souls, not just our lives as
physical personalities.
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Our present reality is too terrestrial and too physical. Deep within us
is a celestial soul that has existed before, exists now, and will exist after
our physical death. The transition from terrestrial, self-conscious beings
to celestial souls and minds consciously one with the forces of Life and
Light requires some adjustments, some breakthroughs. Holding us back
are deep, karmic habit patterns that we have built over many incarna-
tions and even in sojourns in nonphysical dimensions of life. These
transitions can be compared to a woman pregnant who is attempting to
adjust her body to deliver a new life. We have conceived in the wombs
of our consciousness our true selves, our divine nature, yet we have to
dilate our minds and hearts sufficiently to deliver this soul self, this
resurrected, wiser self, which is destined to be an eternal companion to
the Creator of the entire Cosmos.
The following is excerpted from:
Expanding Our Senses — Cayce and Seeing What Is Often Invisible
http://www.scribd.com/doc/37934498/2010-1201-PS
Science tells us that there is much
more reality than we physically see. Humans
can only see within a very narrow
range of the electromagnetic spectrum
(EM spectrum). This range is less than
5% of the entire EM spectrum. See illustration.
The rods and cones on the
inside of the human retina are nerve
endings physically tuned to respond to
a narrow range of energy wavelengths.
When energy frequencies within the
“visible light” spectrum strike the retina,
electrochemical impulses are created
that are transmitted to the area of the
brain responsible for vision. A pattern in
the visual cortex is created by these electrochemical
impulses that mimics the
visible light pattern striking the retina.
Energy outside of this narrow range of
visible light produces no response from
the retina’s rods and cones. But many
nonhuman species have rods and cones
tuned to energy frequencies outside of
the visible light spectrum. Owls, hawks,
and eagles, for example, can see infrared
frequencies, that is, they can see the
energy waves created by body heat. And
even this is still a very narrow portion of
the massive EM spectrum.
Since early childhood, Edgar Cayce
could see fairies, sprites, angels, and
invisible friends. As a child, he thought
that everyone was seeing these. As he
grew, he learned that it wasn’t so. He
began to keep quiet about his abilities
because they caused unpleasant reactions
in others and ridicule of him and
his family. When he became a more self-
confident adult, he shared this recollection,
as his stenographer recorded it:
“I remember so distinctly the garden
at my mother’s old home place when
I was a very small child. My mother’s
father was one of the first settlers in
southwestern Kentucky; had a fine old
place, and the old-fashioned garden,
with all the old-fashioned flowers, was
known throughout
that part of the country.
Your mentioning
your mother destroying
bleeding hearts
[flowers] calls to my
mind what beautiful
bunches of these
grew in that garden,
with a large bunch of
striped grass, some
very old peonies, all
kinds of buttercups,
and the like; a gorgeous
bed of sweet
violets, and all those
old flowers. It was
here that often in my
early childhood I met
and played with those
that others could never see. These are at
least some of my experiences.
“As to just what was the first experience,
I don’t know. The one that appears
at present to be among the first, was
when I was possibly eighteen or twenty
months old. I had a playhouse in the back
of an old garden, among the honeysuckle
and other flowers. At that particular time
much of this garden had grown up in tall
reeds, as I remember. I had made a little
shelter of the tops of the reeds, and had
been assisted by an unseen playmate in
weaving or fastening them together so
they would form a shelter. On pretty days
I played there. One afternoon my mother
came down the garden walk calling me.
My playmate (who appeared to me to be
about the same size as myself) was with
me. It had never occurred to me that he
was not “real,” or that he wasn’t one of
the neighbors’ children, until my mother
spoke and asked me my playmate’s name.
I turned to ask him but he disappeared.
For a time this disturbed my mother some
what, and she questioned me at length. I
remember crying because she had spied
upon me several times, and each time the
playmate would disappear.
“About a year or eighteen months
later, this was changed considerably—
as to the number of playmates. We had
moved to another country home. Here
I had two favorite places where I played
with these unseen people. One very peculiarly
was in an old graveyard where
the cedar trees had grown up. Under a
cedar tree, whose limbs had grown very
close to the ground, I made another little
retreat, where—with these playmates—I
gathered bits of colored glass, beautifully
colored leaves and things of that nature
from time to time. But, what disturbed
me was that I didn’t know where they
[the playmates] came from or why they
left when some of my family approached.
The other retreat was a favorite old straw
stack that I used to slide down. This was
on the opposite side of the road (main
highway) from where we lived, and in
front of the house. The most outstanding
experience (and one that I am sure disturbed
her much) was when my mother
looked out a window and saw children
sliding down this straw stack with me.
Of course, I had a lovely little retreat dug
out under the side of the straw ring, in
which we often sat and discussed the
mighty problems of a three or four year
old child. As my mother looked out,
she called to ask who were the children
playing with me. I realized I didn’t know
their names. How were they dressed, you
ask? There were boys and girls. It would
be impossible (at this date) to describe
their dress, figure or face, yet it didn’t
then—nor does it now—occur to me
that they were any different from myself,
except that they had the ability to appear
or disappear as our moods changed. Just
once I looked out the window from the
house and saw the fairies there, beckoning
me to come and play. That time also
my mother saw them very plainly, but
she didn’t make any objection to my
going out to play with them. This experience,
as I remember now, lasted during
a whole season—or summer.
“A few years afterwards (when I had
grown to be six or seven years old) our
home was in a little wood. Here I learned
to talk with the trees, or it appeared that
they talked with me. I even yet hold that
anyone may hear voices, apparently
coming from a tree, if willing to choose
a tree (a living tree, not a dead one) and
sit against it for fifteen to twenty minutes
each day (the same time each day) for
twenty days. This was my experience. I
chose a very lovely tree, and around it
I played with my playmates that came
(who then seemed very much smaller
than I). We built a beautiful bower of
hazelnut branches, redwood, dogwood
and the like, with wild violets, Jack-inthe-
Pulpit, and many of the wild mosses
that seemed to be especially drawn to
this particular little place where I met
my friends to talk with—the little elves
of the trees. How often these came, I
don’t know. We lived there for several
years. It was there that I read the Bible
through the first time, that I learned to
pray, that I had many visions or experiences;
not only of visioning the elves
but what seemed to me to be the hosts
[angels] that must have appeared to the
people of old, as recorded in Genesis
particularly. In this little bower there was
never any intrusion from those outside.
It was here that I read the first letter from
a girlfriend. It was here that I went to
pray when my grandmother died, whom
I loved so dearly and who had meant so
much to me. To describe these elves of
the trees, the fairies of the woods, or—to
me—the angels or hosts, with all their
beautiful and glorious surroundings,
would be almost a sacrilege. They have
meant, and do yet, so very much to me
that they are as rather the sacred experiences
that we do not speak of—any more
than we would of our first kiss, and the
like. Why do I draw such comparisons?
There are, no doubt, physical manifestations
that are a counterpart or an expression
of all the unseen forces about us, yet
we have closed our eyes and our ears to
the songs of the spheres, so that we are
unable again to hear the voices or to see
the forms take shape and minister—yea
strengthen us—day by day!
“Possibly there are many questions you
would ask as to what games we played.
Those I played with at the haystack were
different from those in the graveyard, or
in the garden. Those I played with in the
wood were different. They seemed to fit
more often to what would interest or develop
me. To say they planted the flowers
or selected the bower, or the little cove in
which my retreat was built, I don’t think
would be stretching it at all, or that they
tended these or showed me—or talked
to me of—their beauty. It was here that
I first learned to read. Possibly the hosts
on high gave me my first interpretation
of that we call the Good Book. I do not
think I am stretching my imagination
when I say such a thing. We played
the games of children, we played being
sweethearts, we played being man and
wife, we played being sisters and brothers,
and we played being visitors and
preachers. We played being policemen
and the culprits. We played being all the
things that we knew about us.
“No, I never have any of these visions now,
or, if any, very rarely.” (EC Report 464-12)
[….]
Seventy-two of Edgar Cayce’s discourses
mention the “the unseen forces.”
These readings describe the unseen
forces as “a consciousness of that divine
force that emanates in Life itself in this
material plane.” (EC 281-7, my italics)
My personal experience leads me to
share the need to develop a sense for the
subtle, because most of our sensory perceptions
are gross, requiring profound
light, sound, flavor, odor, and texture.
But the higher perceptions are gossamer-
like, translucent, still (as in the still,
small voice), and ever so delicate. Cayce
taught that the higher senses awaken as
the soul awakens. Seek that first, then
the abilities come naturally. §
“Although there is controversy among Cayce experts as to the meaning of his “earth change” readings—whether they are literal or represent only the changes that occur within ourselves— Todeschi suggests that the changes we see in the world are the “birthing pains” of our ultimate destiny as a people on this planet—a birth that will eventually lead to oneness and global connectedness.”
http://www.edgarcayce.org/edgar_cayce/news.aspx?id=4412
Laura Jackson-Edgar Cayce’s Predictions of Earth Changes-April 25, 2011
John Van Auken – Edgar Cayce, Reincarnation, Earth Changes, Dreams, Biblical Prophecy and More! – July19, 2011
“New York has been destroyed and is in the process of being rebuilt”
Edgar Cayce’s Predictions for the 21st Century
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Mark Thurston – 2004 – Body, Mind & Spirit – 268 pages
New York has been destroyed and is in the process of being rebuilt. It is not clear to him in the dream exactly how this destruction took place. …
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But occasionally Edgar Cayce’s own
curiosity about the future was the impetus for a prophetic reading to be
given.
One excellent example is from June, 1936. It makes an
especially appropriate starting point for our consideration of the Cayce
prophecies, simply because in this reading Cayce looks farther into the
future than he did in any other reading. His vision extends out to the
year 2158.
First a little background about how this reading came to be.
Like all of us, Cayce was a dreamer – not just visionary about the
possibilities of what could be, but also a dreamer at night as he slept.
And some of his most important psychic and spiritual experiences
came through his own dreams. But one dream that had come some
three months earlier had continued to haunt Cayce, even to the point
that he felt it was necessary to ask for a reading in which this very
dream could be interpreted by Cayce’s own higher mind.
The context for this dream is particularly important. It had
come to him on March 3, 1936 as he slept on a train bound from
Detroit back to his home in Virginia Beach, Virginia. But this trip
home was no triumphant return. The good work that he had intended
to do in Detroit, giving readings to a variety of interested people, had
turned out a disaster. On November 23, 1935 he had been arrested for
practicing medicine without a license and even jailed briefly. When he
was finally able to clear up his legal problems and head back to
Virginia, he was deeply discouraged about this work. So much had
gone wrong in the previous five years that it was hard to see much to
be hopeful about. The Edgar Cayce Hospital suffered financial
collapse. And the small educational institution he had co-founded,
Atlantic University, had been closed. Now this humiliating arrest and
jail time.
But suddenly on that train ride home, a dream comes to put all
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of these trying events into a bigger picture. The dreaming Cayce finds
himself in the future. It is the 22nd century. Somehow he even knows
that the year is 2158 and he has reincarnated, living in Nebraska. But
it’s not Nebraska as we know it today. Big changes have happened
because Nebraska has seacoast. This is not the coastline of an inland
sea, such as one of the Great Lakes. In the dream Cayce realizes, “the
sea apparently covered all of the western part of the country, as the city
where I lived was on the coast.”
In this dream as a boy, he remembers his past life as Edgar
Cayce and tells others about the memory. Perhaps reincarnation is
taken more seriously in the Nebraska of the mid-22nd century than it is
in the early part of the 21st. An investigation of his past life memory is
initiated. “Scientists, men with long beards, little hair, and thick
glasses, were called in to observe me.” They decide to take him to
some of the places that he remembers having lived in the late 19th
century and early 20th Centuries – Kentucky, Alabama, New York,
Michigan, and Virginia. They travel in a science fiction-like flying
machine, long and cigar-shaped.
His extraordinary air trip in the dream gives him a bird’s eye
view of the world of 2158. Much of life has become decentralized,
with industries scattered across the countryside. Homes look to be
rather high-tech with their architecture fashioned of glass. The
Norfolk/Virginia Beach area has grown immensely from the time
Cayce lived there and is now a huge seaport.
But most dramatic are the destructive changes he sees. New
York has been destroyed and is in the process of being rebuilt. It is not
clear to him in the dream exactly how this destruction took place.
Tremendous flooding has left large portions of Alabama now
underwater.
Especially important to the dream was the success of this
scientific investigation team. They locate the records of his work as
Edgar Cayce in the 20th century. Apparently his readings have proven
to be valuable over the generations. The team gathers the evidence
about his previous lifetime and they all return to Nebraska.
We can imagine the bewilderment that Cayce no doubt
experienced upon awakening from the dream. On that train headed
back to Virginia, the recent traumas and discouraging events in Detroit
still with him, what would he have interpreted all this to mean? Was
this a precognitive dream – a prophetic dream – that had come as a
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warning? Was it merely the byproduct of his imagination, the fantasy
of a mind that was disturbed, worried, and fearful about the future of
his clairvoyant work?
Even after returning to Virginia Beach, the dream stayed in his
thoughts, still a riddle in need of solution. Finally, it seemed best just
to ask for an interpretation in a psychic reading.
On that June morning in 1936, Cayce’s own superconscious
mind – his own higher wisdom – offered an explanation of the dream.
The interpretation was two-fold. First, the reading indicated that the
dream was metaphorical. It had come as an experience to leave the
dreaming Cayce with a feeling. The dream was to reassure him of the
value of his work – “that there might be strength, there might be an
understanding that though the moment may appear as dark …” In
essence the dream was an indication that his clairvoyant work would
have a lasting impact, that it would be remembered for centuries to
come. And certainly at this very discouraging point in Cayce’s career
this would have been a welcome message.
But that day in the psychic reading, a second level of
interpretation was also offered. This was a prophetic dream, too.
“These changes in the earth will come to pass.” This is certainly an
extraordinary claim, if for no other reason than the extent of some
changes depicted in the dream.
What could Cayce himself or any of us do about such a scary
prospect? Near the end of the interpretation offered by this reading is
a reminder to stay focused on today. “Do thy duty today! Tomorrow
will care for itself.”
[….]
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Next came one of his most famous prophecies concerning the
West Coast of America, of a warning sign for which people could be
alert. Significant eruptions at one of two volcanoes would be the sign
– either Mt. Vesuvius on the island of Sicily or Mt. Pelee on the island
of Martinique in the West Indies. If either were to take place, then
within three months severe flooding would be widespread as a result of
major earthquakes. The areas specifically mentioned were the
southern coast of California plus the areas between Salt Lake and the
southern portions of Nevada.
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[Me: Not sure, but I think this author has got this wrong. I thought it was the Salton Sea in California that was referenced in this reading.]
http://www.scribd.com/doc/18648307/Surviving-the-Upcoming-Earth-Changes
“If there is the greater activities in the Vesuvius, or Pelee then the southern coast of California
and the areas between Salt lake and the southern portions of Nevada may expect within the
three months following same, an inundation by the earthquakes.”
http://www.geonames.org/3993103/isla-el-pelicano.html
http://www.geonames.org/5391505/salton-sea.html
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One of the most famous of these predictions was channeled by Cayce in 1934:
“As to the changes physical again: The Earth will be broken up in the western portion of America. The greater portion of Japan must go into the sea. The upper portion of Europe will be changed as in the twinkling of an eye. Land will appear off the east coast of America. There will be the upheavals in the Arctic and in the Antarctic that will make for the eruption of volcanoes in the torrid areas, and there will be the shifting then of the poles — so that where there has been those of a frigid or the semi-tropical will become the more tropical, and moss and fern will grow. And these will begin in those periods in ’58 to ’98, when these will be proclaimed as the periods when His light will be seen again in the clouds. As to times, as to seasons, as to places, ALONE is it given to those who have named the Name — and who bear the mark of those of His calling and His election in their bodies. To them it shall be given.
“As to those things that deal with the mental of the Earth, these shall call upon the mountains to cover many. As ye have seen those in lowly places raised to those of power in the political, in the machinery of nation’s activities, so shall ye see those in high places reduced and calling on the waters of darkness to cover them. And those that in the inmost recesses of their selves awaken to the spiritual truths that are to be given, and those places that have acted in the capacity of teachers among men, the rottenness of those that have ministered in places will be brought to light, and turmoils and strifes shall enter. And, as there is the wavering of those that would enter as emissaries, as teachers, from the Throne of Life, the Throne of Light, the Throne of Immortality, and wage war in the air with those of darkness, then know ye that Armageddon is at hand….”
(Edgar Cayce Reading #3976-15, 1/19/34)
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294-185
Make thy will then one with His. Be not afraid.
That is the interpretation. That the periods from the material angle as visioned are to come to pass matters not to the soul, but do thy duty TODAY! TOMORROW will care for itself.
These changes in the earth will come to pass, for the time and times and half times are at an end, and there begin those periods for the readjustments. For how hath He given? “The righteous shall inherit the earth.”
Hast thou, my brethren, a heritage in the earth?
[10/47 A.R.E. Bulletin secondary article by HLC entitled DREAMS used 294-185, Par. 19-A, also 4/61 EARTH CHANGES booklet "akashic" pp. 46-48.]
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In 1940 America’s famous “Sleeping Prophet” Edgar Cayce predicted that a portion of Atlantis would be found. This film is an Underwater Archeology Adventure to discover submerged megalithic sites that fulfill Edgar Cayce’s predictions.
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Presentation: “Mentoring the Earth,” Alex Collier will discuss his most recent contact experiences with the Andromedans, and how they are helping mentor humanity in the transition to a galactic society. According to the Andromedans, open contact with extraterrestrials will require great discernment. Not all extraterrestrials have our best interest at heart according to what has been revealed to Alex. The Andromedans warn that some groups will bare gifts and then ask for something that we could not possibly give. And turn on us………….For 2 thousand years religions have believed in the Book of Revelations. And the universe is going to oblige us by playing it out. Except it’s not about being saved, its about self-responsibility, voluntary introspection and spiritual evolvement.
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