# Did Edgar Cayce get anything right? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 8, 2013, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-edgar-cayce-get-anything-right/655120 "2013-04-08T00:36:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MBCurious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@MBCurious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MBCurious)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-edgar-cayce-get-anything-right/655120/1 "2013-04-08T00:36:54Z")
I know Cayce gave thousands of readings, and these are archived by some organization that survived him. I also know he got a lot of things wrong, and it’s probable he’d get some things right (if only by chance.) But despite all that’s been written and said about him, I wonder if it’s possible to document his getting anything right. I mean, were any of his predictions actually published at the time they were allegedly given? He’s said to have predicted the 1929 stock market crash, the discovery of the dead sea scrolls, and the independence of India, but is it possible to document his predicting any of these things before they happened? Is it just as possible that the organization in charge of these readings simply manufactures alleged fulfillment? I mean, it would be interesting if the readings that “predicted” the discovery of the dead sea scrolls were published only after their discovery. And it would be interesting if the readings that predicted the independence of India were published only after the British pulled out. Does anyone know if that’s what happened? ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-edgar-cayce-get-anything-right/655120/2 "2013-04-08T00:38:49Z")
aren’t we supposed to avoid talking about these types of subjects? It gets people are riled up. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-edgar-cayce-get-anything-right/655120/3 "2013-04-08T00:51:55Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > aren’t we supposed to avoid talking about these types of subjects? It gets people are riled up. I’m not sure where you get that idea. They seem like reasonable questions for GQ as they stand. Colibri General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![MBCurious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@MBCurious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MBCurious)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-edgar-cayce-get-anything-right/655120/4 "2013-04-08T01:44:42Z")
So does anyone have an answer? ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-edgar-cayce-get-anything-right/655120/5 "2013-04-08T02:12:07Z")
> [@MBCurious](#): > > So does anyone have an answer? [The Master does](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1874/whats-the-scoop-on-edgar-cayce-the-sleeping-prophet). ETA - Actually, the answer was beneath Cecil so his Advisory Board answered. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-edgar-cayce-get-anything-right/655120/6 "2013-04-08T02:14:39Z")
> [@MBCurious](#): > > So does anyone have an answer? Patience, you posted it less than an hour ago. You shouldn’t bump your own thread until it’s disappeared off the front page, and then only once. Colibri General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-edgar-cayce-get-anything-right/655120/7 "2013-04-08T02:15:16Z")
I was looking online and I came across this: > [@](#): > > Edgar Cayce predicted in January 1934 that Adolf Hitler would rise in power to reign over Germany. Cayce stated that “imperialism is entering.” Then, in August 1935, he predicted Hitler would remain in power until it will “come as an overthrow or an outside war.” Wow, what an amazing prediction to make in 1934. A year after Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933. And predicting in 1935 Hitler would not voluntarily step down from power? Okay, technically, that’s a future prediction but come on. Here’s my psychic prediction: Kim Jong-un will not voluntarily step down from power either. So now if he gets overthrown or forced out by a war, you can say the Amazing Nemo predicted it back in 2013. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-edgar-cayce-get-anything-right/655120/8 "2013-04-08T03:28:37Z")
He apparently was quite proficient at metabolizing both carbon _and_ oxygen for the better part of sixty-seven years, so it could be argued he pretty much got those things right… ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-edgar-cayce-get-anything-right/655120/9 "2013-04-08T14:05:47Z")
From the linked Straight Dope article: [repeating above link](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1874/whats-the-scoop-on-edgar-cayce-the-sleeping-prophet) > [@Straight Dope](#): > > Another amusing prediction was that the U.S. would discover an Atlantean death ray (as in, one from Atlantis) in 1958. I suppose his supporters might claim the government actually did find it, but it’s hidden away with the aliens from Roswell due to its dangerous nature. I went to wiki and found this: [wiki link](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_in_science) > [@wikipedia](#): > > [ul]December 15 - Arthur L. Schawlow and Charles H. Townes of Bell Laboratories publish a paper in Physical Review Letters setting out the principles of the optical laser. [/ul] 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-edgar-cayce-get-anything-right/655120/10 "2013-04-08T14:31:25Z")
Frankly, the longevity of this “prophet” is amazing. His medical “cures” are ridiculous (inhaling brandy fumes to cure tuberculosis), his mutterings about “Atlantis” absurd. Martin Gardner did a nice article on him-yet people still buy and read this crap-why? ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-edgar-cayce-get-anything-right/655120/11 "2013-04-08T16:06:21Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > Frankly, the longevity of this “prophet” is amazing. His medical “cures” are ridiculous (inhaling brandy fumes to cure tuberculosis), his mutterings about “Atlantis” absurd. > Martin Gardner did a nice article on him-yet people still buy and read this crap-why? To be entertained.