I was more than disappointed in this book. I bought it because it said "Edgar Cayce" on Soulmates, but in reality it is Kevin J. Todeschi on Soulmates.
I love to read Edgar Cayce's readings because of the truths it contains, the wisdom, so much said in so little words... his readings don't confuse me (like many psyhoclogy books do) but help me define what it is I already know... but very few readings were in the book - it was mostly Kevin J. Todeschi.

I don't know what the reviewer from the Netherlands is talking about. This book is excellent and contains MANY case histories from the Cayce files. However, Todeschi doesn't stop there, he also includes contemporary examples exploring the same principles discussed by Edgar Cayce. I highly recommend this book. It's about how our relationships work.

I absolutely loved this book, it's a shame that it was so short - I finished it the same day I got it! The revelations and truths contained inside are priceless, once you read this you'll never look at the people in your life the same way again. It'll change your outlook on life, love and relationships for the positive, believe me.

Frank Joseph's book is a fascinating well researched 'take' on Edgar Cayce's vision of Atlantis and Lemuria but it is also a personal and therefore ideosyncratic one.l have read a smattering of books about Edgar Cayce, though far from all there is dealing with him. l've seen him mentioned in many other books and articles.My particular obscession is Atlantis, mainly from the Platonic perspective, yet Lemuria and ancient cycles of catastrophe are all interelated to the subject.ln my research l've read several of Mr. Joseph's books and articles as well as the magazine he edits [ANCIENT AMERICAN]. So l'm familiar with both the author and his subject and Atlantis in general.From his past work l know that Joseph respects Cayces vision and personal integrity and that he is sympathetic to subjects of a mystical nature.But he is not a devotee of psychics and occultists where Atlantis is concerned, squarely choosing archaeology and geology over 'NEW AGE' mysticism. This approach may well not be acceptible to those already committed to Cayce because Joseph's chronology and scale differ markedly from those of the 'sleeping prophet'.Whereas Cayce put the final destruction of Atlantis slightly but indefinitely after 10,000 B.C., similar to Plato, Joseph sets it ca. 1200 B.C., 8800 years later.While Joseph sees the origins of Atlantis between 5000 and 3000 B.C. [ the Neolithc] Cayce places it beyond 50,000 years ago, maybe as long as 10,500,000 years ago! Cayce's vision involves the descent of spirit into matter, an 'event' largely beyond the methodology of science to prove or disprove.And yet if Atlantis existed it aught to be susceptible to physical investigation by geology,archaeology and other disciplines.Joseph believes it is. But the results of that quest do not often mesh with what Cayce said about the lost civilizations, as Joseph reads the evidence. This is bound to enfuriate those who take Cayce literaly.Right or wrong many of the late psychic's supporters treat his words like biblical creationists do with a face value interpretatation of the Bible.Science can be drawn on for support but only when it is in agreement or can be made to sound like it.Admittedly the subject of Atlantis is so taboo amongst conventional scholars that no historical interpretation of the story Plato told is acceptible Joseph's included. For them it is pure allegory.'Cayceites' would like to overturn much of orthodox science in favor of his worldview, at least a few being actively anti-intellectual.Thankfully, Cayce himself, while believing what he said never asked for this 'cultish' attitude. Niether have his direct eirs. They seem to have honestly tried to interpret and verify what he said without demanding a single 'party line'. Understandably they prefer to see him vindicated by science but have never pretended that this has been achieved or may ever be, entirely. l presume that it was with this open attitude that the A.R.E. commissioned Mr. Joseph to write this book as he has made no secret of his theories. They must've realized many of his ideas clashed with those of Cayces' vision of the lost continents yet were sympathetic to the latter.No conventional Academic or 'science journalist' would've touched the subject.They might have been intrigued by Josephs 20 years of research on the subject, often including on site investigations [ at Bimini for example].Perhaps they hoped for a fresh angle rather than a slavish paen to Cayces' infalliblity.What do l think myself? After 33 years of research into Atlantis l believe it existed and l agree with the author that it met it's final end 3200-3100 years ago. l'm less sure of where that last bastion of Atlantean civilization was.l also think, however, that one or more presently unknown acmes of civilization existed before the ' dawn of history', 5000-6000 years ago.Yet how old they ultimately were l've still to decide. As the Caribbean is one strong candidate for the location of such a 'culture-x' maybe Cayce was in part right, though l don't see it as Plato's Atlantis any more than Joseph seems to.I admit my own bias agaisnst accepting everything Cayce said literally. Some evidence appears to support him yet much does not.Far too many blindly believe because the Akashic records reported by Cayce 'could not be wrong'.But any close look at psychic depictions of Atlantis reveals as many devergences as agreements. Allegorical interpretations are only marginally less varied and historcal ones that eschew occult methods may be worse. But they have one great advantage. they admit to being theories, subject to change as new evidence becomes available. They do not claim to be the equivalent of divine revelation. Most psychic sources do. As noted before Cayce himself made no claims to be infallible. So why do so many of his followers ? lf you are interested in Cayce or lost continents but not already committed in your oppinions, buy this book. Those already cmplete beleivers in Cayces' vision doubtless will not appreciate what the author tried to accomplish unless they can agree to dissagree.Even for them it may be worthwhile to give Joseph a fair hearing before deciding for or against his ideas.

I feel this is a great book, especially for followers of Edgar Cayce. I don't understand why some other reviewers said that this book somehow corrects what Edgar Cayce said. To me it is in complete agreement with what Cayce said, even to the point of devoting an entire chapter to people who were identified in the Cayce readings as having lived in Atlantis. They had names like 'Aa-rr-ll-uu' and 'Sululon'.

Scientific evidence does not exist to prove things like the Atlanteans' crystal technology, their ability to travel through time and space, etc.. Since the author is a researcher he doesn't claim that scientific evidence exists where none does exist. But I don't see where he tries to disprove these fantastic but possibly true theories either.

This book discusses the Atlantis that Plato spoke of but by then Atlantis was much like the other races that existed around 1200 BC. This was a much different Atlantis than the one Cayce spoke of with its crystal technology, death rays, genetically engineered 'things', etc.. The islands of Atlantis sank over a period of thousands of years, not all at once if I understand the legends correctly.

I believe that proof of Atlantean technology does exist. It's been sitting on the Giza plateau for thousands of years. It's called 'the great pyramid'. In his book The Giza Power Plant Christopher Dunn proves that the great pyramid was a form of nuclear reactor. Dunn's book proves that the great pyramid was built by people who had god like powers and knowledge of time and space. It was Edgar Cayce in another incarnation as the high priest Ra Ta who built the great pyramid. The sacred geometry for building the great pyramid was given to Ra Ta by another god like being named Horus.

This idea is consistent with 'Edgar Cayce's Atlantis And Lemuria'. This book indicates that these god like beings from Atlantis and Lemuria became the mythical gods of later races such as the Incas and Myans. Those later races talk of 'gods' who came from the sea and taught them about new technologies, astronomy, etc.. Eventually most of this knowledge was lost as these civilizations de-volved to the point of like the Incas began the practice of human sacrifice.

There's a big part of the Atlantis story that's still enshrouded in mystery. All we have is a few statements from Cayce's psychic readings and a few archeological sites under water. You get glimpses of these mysterious topics when in the Cayce readings it refers to things like 'visitations of those from the outer spheres'. This would seem to imply that Atlantis was being visited by beings from other planets, other dimensions, etc..

This book offers a comparison between what happened to Atlantis and our modern world. Atlantis was destroyed by the greed of individuals. For them this was catastrophic because their greed could be transformed into energy by the terrible crystals.

The final paragraph of this book is:

"Everyone senses a crossroads just ahead. When we reach it, which example will we follow - Lemuria or Atlantis."

I would answer with a quote from a book called 'UFO Contact From Planet Iarga' which was supposedly communicated to someone by people from another planet called Iarga. The Iargans stated:

"The human race lives for the present since it really has no future."

The Iargans may mean that our human race doesn't have a long term future. Even if we last for another thousand years that's a relatively short time in relation to the universe.

I think most people would agree that many industries have a relatively short term view of using the earth's resources. Maybe somehow everyone knows that what the Iargans said is true.

The Iargans also said that sometimes when people see flying saucers those are our ancestors from Atlantis travelling through time to see us.

Although Joseph's book is unique and controversial, it offers the most persuasive, up-to-date evidence for the former existence of both sunken civilizations. In so doing, he helps to verify Edgar Cayce's vision of these two lost cultures, while showing that the "Sleeping Prophet", for all his exceptional psychic gifts, was a mortal human being prone to error like the rest of us.
Joseph convincingly demonstrates that Cayce's perceptions of Atlantis and Lemuria were filled with abundant, credible images, although chronolgically inaccurate. They were like lucid dreams, in which the visual elements are clear, but the dreamer's sense of time is confused. None of this detracts in the least from Cayce's "life-readings". On the contrary, Joseph supplies abundant, newly discovered evidence confirming their astounding accuracy in almost everything, save a realistic time-scale. Joseph's book is the only one I've read that describes in detail the Lemurian-like ruins found underwater near Japan, including their photographs. His discussions of crystal-use in Atlantis and the Crystal Skull as an Atlantean artifact are the most thorough I've encountered.
As he points out, modern research shows that a continent did not sink below the Atlantic Ocean 12,000 years ago, as the old theorists insisted. That conclusion has been thoroughly out-dated and debunked by contemporary science. But a large ISLAND did indeed exist were Plato and Cayce said it did until the Bronze Age was brought to an abrupt end by a worldwide cataclysm. It is in that time-period, Joseph writes, that we must seek for Atlantis and Lemuria. The former civilization was characterized unmistakeably by Plato as a Bronze Age culture, dating back 3,200 years ago. Atlantis has thus been established in a proper and far more credidible historical context. Otherwise, to conceive of Atlantis as an Ice Age civilization is ludicrous.
Readers preferring to cling to obsolete notions of the past should not read Joseph's book. But anyone interested in learning the truth about Atlantis and Lemuria, and the stunning discoveries presently being made to establish their former existence, will find his presentation particularly exciting and revealing.

The book gave excellant background information on the subject.

I was not looking for background, so it was not helpful to me. I believe it would be very good for someone interested in the technical aspects of the subject.

This book is just full of information about colors and gem stones. It makes you realize we live in a world that is alive with atomic particles and their vibrations and influences on the human body. It is almost like reading about magic, but without the mystery produced by illusions. Any reader interested in these subjects will enjoy reading it. Even the scientific parts are really interesting.

An engrossing and informative book that is chockful of facts and esoterica. I knew about Edgar Cayce before reading this book, but I didn't realize he covered these subjects in his clairvoyant readings. It made me realize even more how the world and everything that is in it is made up of atomic vibrations. The author covers a lot of material and keeps it in perspective throughout. I wish there had been more. Just wonderful! Mr. Cayce was a man of faith and a devout Christian.

The trouble with this book is that it tries to be everything to all people. Perhaps it should have been described as a dictionary, for that what it feels like. I've read many books from the A.R.E. press, and many of them were very good indeed. Many like this ARE one however, feature that annoying "Cayce-ese" "English" dialect that I suspect even the authors themselves didn't completely comprehend anymore than we did. And then of course the most important priniple was missing: Patience...or "active patience" as Cayce called it. Still scratching your head over that term? Don't look to any A.R.E. authors for clarification of it, for all they seem to do is essentially parrot Cayce and each other. This author didn't even touch upon the phenomena; yet even in the "Edgar Cayce Primer," (on page 90 fourth paragraph) Cayce is paraphrased as referring to same: "It is ONLY in patience that we may ultimately read and become aware of these [man made] records [in relation to the dimention we live in and his successful relationship to the spiritual laws] ." Clearly Cayce held patience in GREAT esteem, seemingly as a phenomena to enable ALL the other laws. Yet its reference is painfully absent in this author's book. This book may be a good reference manual for some who like it extra dry and stirred not shaken. But if your goal is to inspired to BE the law rather than to simply memorize and categorize them there are many more inspiring and enabling books out there. Try "Seven Laws of Spiritual Success," by Chopra, "You Can Have it All," by Patent or best of all "The Game of Life," by Florence Shinn, and even "The Four Agreements" by Ruiz. If you read those three, AND if you're quicker on the uptake apparently than the average A.R.E. author, I guarantee that you'll have a better idea what Cayce meant by "active patience" from these three books in a fraction of the time than from ANY I've ever encountered from the A.R.E.. Just keep in mind that these non-A.R.E. authors use different terms to describe this exact same phenomenon. You may be glad you read these other books and might be actually APPLYING "active patience," or rose by another name much...long after your eyes would have permanently crossed from trying to divine it from most if not all A.R.E. books like this one which either don't fully grasp it or avoid it altogether. As Patent and similar implied: Apply a BIG law, any law, and all it sub laws follow suit and subsequent behaviors therefrom. It can be as easy and immediate as you want. All you need is a teacher who inspires you and the discipline to walk the talk. However if you like to memorize every little thing intelletually first then maybe this guy is for you, but he sure ain't for me!

Needed text for seekers of Truth. Written by a lifelong student of Cayce with a tremendous depth of understanding of Cayce's often cryptic nature. If you made it this far, get it: I assure you that it will not disappoint.

This book can change your life. It has changed mine very much for the better. I sincerely recomend this book to anyone who wants to have a common sense no nonsense view of how we all interact with our spiritual world. It can definetely help answer the questions of how and why things in our lives are the way they are and how you can change them through your own thoughts and actions.

This book is ideal for someone who is relatively new to the concepts of intuition and dream interpretation. The authors discuss the subject matter in a clear yet informative, easy-to-follow manner that keeps the reader interested. The vivid examples of others' dreams are compelling, and I enjoyed learning how these dreams tied into specific events occurring in people's lives. It has really helped me to understand some of my own dreams better.

This is a wonderfully written and very practical guide for understanding and using our dreams and intuition in everyday life. It has numerous examples of how other people have received guidance from their dreams and intuition, which is very encouraging for anyone just starting out with this material. Easy to read, engaging and filled with lots of practical ideas and exercises to follow in order to "awaken the real you," this book is one I highly recommend for anyone wanting to access their higher self and live life more fully.

Nelson Lynch's story entitled "Edgar Cayce and the Sheriff" is an enjoyable one. It contains mirth and murder as the protagonists, Lt. Jones and Madame Z, race against time and an impending fake séance to catch a killer. There is also jockeying for local political position as the current sheriff and company race to catch the killer and save face. For the price paid it is a great entertainment value.

Well, I just read Edgar Cayce and the Sheriff, by Nelson Lynch, and I can say that my money was quite well spent. It's a humorous murder mystery set in a small town on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in the early 1990's. In the main plot, a Worcester County woman has been missing for six months, and both the Sheriff (who is up for re-election), and his rival, the local police chief, believe that she has been murdered. The police chief tries to upstage the Sheriff, calling in a policewoman from Baltimore to masquerade as a world-famous psychic. When the killer reads that this (fake) famous seer is going to consult with Edgar Cayce from the Great Beyond in order to solve the disappearance, he plots her murder with the aid of horoscopes. The Sheriff also has plans about the seer, since if she solves the case before he does, he could lose his upcoming election. What follows is a comedy of errors full of murder and mayhem, as all of the rival factions race madly to achieve their own goals. Overall, I liked the plot, and it's clear that author has gone to a lot of effort to write a solid mystery story that still gives lots of laughs.

Much of the Kirkus review was accurate, although, the point that New Agers will find little that resonates is probably the most compelling reason to buy this book. It isn't New Age mystical garbage---I wasn't levitating when I read this book.

Cayce is a fascinating character. Because of his deep faith, he wrestled with the concept of reincarnation and tries to reconcile a biblical explanation for what he experienced in the "life" readings. I found the final chapters of the book more interesting than much of the rest of the book. But it deserves better treatment overall than was given by Kirkus.

Have you ever wondered what it might be like to see inside the mind of a great psychic? To be able to access information about people and places that reaches far beyond the physical dimension? Edgar Cayce's biography, expertly compiled by a professional journalist and editor from Cayce's never-before-published autobiographical notes, a personal diary, and lecture records, allows us just such a rare glimpse. Cayce (1877-1945) is the world's best-documented psychic, with over 14,000 verbatim transcripts of 'readings' on topics ranging from health concerns, reincarnation, astrology, spiritual development, earth change predictions, and other metaphysical topics catalogued in the Library of the Association for Research Enlightenment in Virginia Beach, VA.

Edgar Cayce is also known as the "Father of Holistic Medicine," whose unorthodox naturopathic cures, while helping many regain their health who had been given up as hopeless by the medical establishment, once led to his arrest on grounds of practising medicine without a licence.

In "My Life As a Seer," we get to know the Edgar Cayce who struggled with self-doubts regarding his psychic gift, and with concerns about the impact which the information from his readings might have on those who sought his counsel. We meet Cayce the family man, a photographer by profession, whose deep faith sees him through a series of defeats, including the destruction by fire of his studio; the closure, for lack of funds, of the hospital he had spent years trying to build; an eviction from his home; and physical injuries suffered while being the target of a humiliating attempt to expose him as a fraud. Through it all, Cayce remained a sincere and humble man,who was motivated not by fame nor by riches (which eluded him all his life), but by an overwhelming desire to serve God and help his fellow human beings.

"My Life As a Seer," as grandson Charles Thomas Cayce says in the foreword, represents "the first account of Edgar Cayce's life told completely in his own words. He does not dwell on all of the personal aspects of his life, but focuses primarily on those experiences that marked him since childhood as decidedly different from anyone else in his world."

Reading this fascinating book is the closest most of us will come to talking with Edgar Cayce in this lifetime.

While any story about Edgar Cayce is fascinating, this falls short for me. It is interesting, but when the author (Hugh Cayce) quotes his father, I can't understand a word he's saying. Most of the book is done in a question and answer format between Edgar Cayce and his client, in quotations (his own words). For instance : "(Q) What form of consciousness does the spirit entity assume?" He is asked by the client.
"(A) That of the subconscious consciousness, as known in the material plane, or the acts and deeds, and thoughts, done in the body, are ever present before that being. Then consider what a hell digged by some, and what a haven and heaven builded by many." HUH ??? The whole book is like this......impossible to decipher and understand. Reading this was more frustrating than enjoyable. I didn't finish it.

This revision of Hugh Lynn's 1958 48-page booklet, "God's Other Door," is brimming with a wondrous collection of readings and stories. The original material is there, but Graham has added masses of new research. As the preface indicates, Hugh Lynn, when he wrote it, didn't have much time for research. He was on the road constantly, speaking in any state on any Cayce topic, trying to build and keep alive the A.R.E., which then had only a few thousand members. Graham's dream of a conversation with Hugh Lynn is the first choice gem in a book full of Cayce wisdom, insight, and comfort. The 22 chapters range widely around the central fact, as Cayce put it, "you are a soul, you have a body." And the soul does not die. Out-of-body travel, the finer body, the silver cord, the light, the inter-between, soul communication, angels, reincarnation, love, wonderful and awesome aspects of being -- all of these and more -- are arranged and presented with skill by a master sotryteller. The final chapter is Edgar Cayce's 1934 lecture, "The Continuity of Life."

It doesn't tell you how to contact the dead yourself, but I still enjoyed reading the experiences of others.

According to this book, the many Earth changes that were predicted in Cayce's psychic readings will be occuring soon (before the end of 2001). They will be due to the beginning of a shift in Earth's poles. Mr. Hutton believes that the poles cannot shift more than about 10 degrees, but that the mechanism of pole shift will be able to move units of the crust of the Earth up and down, to the point of causing parts of Atlantis to rise off the East coast and parts of Lemuria, another "lost continent," to rise in the Pacific. He refers to evidence from modern geology studies that indicate that both continents once existed. The author carefully documents Cayce's record of past successful predictions of Earth changes, including earthquakes in California. Some of the predictions sound extreme, by historical standards. But they are fascinating nonetheless. Imagine part of New York being submerged, San Francisco and Los Angeles destroyed, and the greater portion of Japan submerged beneath the Pacific. The spiritual answers to such events are treated also by Hutton in this interesting and informative book. One also is forced by Hutton to think about how we humans, as spritual beings who have fallen asleep in materiality, may be hastening our own demise here at the beginning of a new millennium, and what role esoteric teachings might have in our modifying the worst Earth change events.

In this book, author William Hutton analyzes Edgar Cayce's startling psychic predictions for coming earth changes. As a degreed geologist and student of Cayce, I found the author's careful analysis of earth change readings the most complete and scientific ever documented. Cayce spoke of upheavals in Utah, Nevada, and southern California which conform to what we now know about seismo-tectonics in these areas. This information was developed by geoscientists years after Cayce gave his "readings" for the western region.

Some of Cayce's more catastrophic predictions suggest that "Los Angeles, San Francisco, most all of these will be among those that will be destroyed before New York even." Under "most all of these" apparently vulnerable places Hutton describes what can happen to the cities of the northwestern states, like Seattle and Portland, if Earth's tectonic plates suddenly accelerate in their movement in response to a pole shift. Here again, the author draws upon the latest geophysical information to explain how such predictions are not only possible, but probable, should Cayce's pole shift occur.

Possible physical, mental, and spiritual causes of potential Earth changes are covered as well. This book is perhaps the most thorough analysis of Cayce's earth change readings ever written and is well worth a careful read by anyone curious about the psychic's predictions for our planet.

This unparalleled study compares psychic Earth-changes forecasts by the late Edgar Cayce with scientific data that show the increasing probability that Cayce's historically unprecedented Earth changes may occur, before the end of 2001. Hutton delves into Cayce's readings on lost continents, especially Atlantis, using current ocean-floor tectonic theories to explain how these lands could have been destroyed and might reappear in the future. He also includes a short section on the concepts of danger lands and safety lands, together with a map of the U. S. and Canada that shows places to be upheaved, to sink, or to be safe from the coming Earth changes. The book's final section deals with several philosophical models of why Earth changes might be necessary, drawing from Hopi medicine man Rolling Thunder, Cayce's readings, and his own thoughts on weapons proliferation. Hutton concludes on a positive note by emphasizing the promises of the new age and how we ultimately hold the key to whether catastrophic Earth changes actually happen.