The return of Edgar Cayce

by C. Terry Cline Jr.

"Before the body died in 1945 it said we'd be back in 2050. That alone should have told you the world would not end December 21, 2012. But now as part of the Universal Wave that contains all of everything any of us needs, it seems important to report on what is, and what will be. Therefore these observations come from beyond the corporeal world, using the physical body of this author to take notes for your benefit."

152 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 30, 2011

About the author

C. Terry Cline Jr. had an extensive career, producing works that included a number of suspense novels, a children’s play and an unconventional late project titled “The Return of Edgar Cayce,” which he presented as a channeled communication from the spirit of the early 20th-century psychic.

C. Terry Cline was born in Birmingham, Alabama, "on a train going out," he always said, because his family moved often during his youth. He was married to author, Judith Richards. They lived in Fairhope, Alabama.

Reviews

[Sverre · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mr Cline may have channelled an entity from the beyond but I hardly sensed any commonality with the “readings” of Edgar Cayce. Perusing the contents of Cline’s many novels revolving around the supernatural, mysterious and occult should tell most readers that it wasn’t much of a stretch for him to creatively identify with Cayce’s material. I am not saying that this book is completely invented by Cline, without some input from ghostly entities, but it lacks the consistent erudition found in the readings. A case for Cline’s defence could be that the source of the readings was Cayce’s superconscious tapping into the Akashic records whereas this book is a communication from the soul persona which was incarnated as Edgar Cayce.

Nevertheless, this book has some interesting observations and prognostications, whatever their source. Most of the time “Cayce” is superficially brief but occasionally he gushes forth with page after page of reportage worthy of Time Magazine or Psychology Today. Non-Americans may find his patriotic American chest-thumping idiosyncratic. His trumpeting of stereotypical late 20th century environmental viewpoints bares comparison with true believer PBS documentaries. Not infrequently he presents present day (2011) trends and facts as revelations of unknown future events. Although he repeatedly cautions that changing circumstances and the vagaries of humankind prevents him from making definite prophesies, he still presents numerous date-specific prophecies. Some readers may find his predictions worrisome, and many seem curiously improbable. The last two pages read like an inspirational sermon from the mount. So, what next? We are told that we can expect Cayce to reincarnate in 2050 but it will take him twenty years more to realize he is Cayce and then fulfill his destiny. Doesn’t it seem odd that finally, after having succeeded in making contact with a scribe over six decades after his passing, he can only produce 120 pages of communication and then will take another sixty years to again emerge to reveal additional wisdom, in 2070?

[Laurel-Rain · Rating 4 out of 5]

In this "message" from Edgar Cayce, who left the physical world in 1945, the author reports that he sat down at his computer one day in 2011 and saw "text flowing onto the screen as he typed. The words were not his own--and he soon realized the text was in fact coming from the world famous prophet and psychic Edgar Cayce...."

Over the next 160 pages, the reader is offered various philosophical ideas, as well as descriptions of what happens to the entity (the person) after death. Questions arise about what the next plane is like.

"Free of physical limitations, time and space become a continuum of past, present, and future. There are no walls of daylight and dark. Years become a trillionth of a second in the tick of creation."

He goes on to describe that birth is not the onset, nor death the terminus, but merely aspects of existence. He makes logical arguments for the job of the physical entity and how successfully achieving "goodness" by helping others will result in fewer regrets in the spirit world. In talking about reincarnation, he describes that the spirit entity "chooses" a new incarnation because of the desire to return to the physical plane and what it offers. However, when the new incarnation is achieved, the fourth spiritual dimension will no longer be present; in the new incarnation, the past life or lives will not be remembered.

Some of the format is in the Q. and A. structure, addressing what will happen to mankind; what destruction will occur in the world; and what global warming has to say about the future.

In the end, he advises entities to "Forgive yourself, make the world happy to have had the pleasure of your company."

He adds:

"Man will survive.

So will you."

A provocative exercise in enlightenment and hope, "The Return of Edgar Cayce" was thoroughly enjoyable to me. If nothing else, I felt peaceful afterwards, as if the fears we face in life can be assuaged with the proper actions. Four stars.

[Sevenponds · Rating 4 out of 5]

Suspense novelist C. Terry Cline, Jr. has been an Edgar Cayce fan for some time. Since the sixties, more accurately. For those unfamiliar with Cayce, as this reviewer was until reading this book, the famed psychic, mystic and seer was born in 1877 and died on January 3rd, 1945, during which time he performed at least 15,000 “readings.” These were originally on topics as diverse as world politics and horse racing, but eventually settled for the more focused goals of helping the sick and elderly. Woodrow Wilson, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, and Thomas Edison at one point counted themselves his clients. He garnered legions of fans, and in 1929 founded a hospital on Virginia Beach devoted to his abilities. Some believed him to be a modern day prophet. At the same time, many remained skeptical, and went to great lengths to prove him a hoax — none of which efforts were definitively successful.
On January 3rd, 1945, Cayce died. The opening page of this book, The Return of Edgar Cayce, begins thusly: “Before the body died in 1945, it said we’d be back in 2050. That alone should have told you the world would not end December 21, 2012.” He is referring, of course, to the termination of the Mayan Calendar, which, as Cayce later explains, does not in fact foretell the apocalypse, but is rather the result of the stone cutter’s carpal tunnel syndrome. [Continued]

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