In A Waking State: The Edgar Cayce Lectures

by Edgar Evans Cayce

Edgar Cayce has often been called "the sleeping prophet", his unique information being spoken while he was in a sleeplike state. But Cayce also lectured while conscious. This book is a collection of some of those lectures on topics such as "What is the Soul?,"" Man’s Relationship to God," "The Aura," and "The First Ten Minutes after Death," Along with Cayce’s fascinating insights, editor Richard Peterson provides a perspective on what was happening in Cayce’s life as well as in the world at the time of the lecture. With a foreward by Charles Thomas Cayce, Edgar Cayce’s own grandson, this book is a unique and fascinating look into the world of America’s most documented mystic.

257 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2004

About the author

The origins of life, in the metaphysical sense, began with the creation of the celestial beings. According to Edgar Cayce’s readings of the Akashic Record, first came the Son, the Logos, or the Word -- as indicated in John’s Gospel: “In the beginning was the Word; and the Word was with God and the Word was God.” Out of the Word or this central primordial expression of life, all else was created. Again in John’s Gospel: “All things were made through this One.” In Cayce’s readings: “We have first the Son, then the other sons or celestial beings that are given their force and power.” Evil and the forces of what humanity has called the Devil developed as a result of rebellion against the flow of creation, the harmony of the original ideal that all life was to follow. Cayce puts it this way (note: the emphasis and parentheses are Cayce’s)
Edgar Cayce has been called the "sleeping prophet," the "father of holistic medicine," and the most documented psychic of the 20th century. For more than 40 years of his adult life, Cayce gave psychic "readings" to thousands of seekers while in an unconscious state, diagnosing illnesses and revealing lives lived in the past and prophecies yet to come.