Edgar Cayce

[SiXSwordS]

@askeptic

I don’t need no stinking guide.

I have seen your internets smileys which are disclosive of your spite. If you were receptive to the inner vulnerability of your child-soul you could partake of the akashic virility that is the salve for the rash of human ignorance. Verily, your smiley tirade will not undermine my truth.

There once was a frog on a bender
who put a fly in a blender
he added some Gin
it started to spin
what a mess that froggy did render

I think I’ve made my point.
Until someone can fathom my wisdom I’ll just sit over here and look smug!

[Exapno_Mapcase]

Just for fun, I took a look at my copy of Martin Gardner’s classic Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science. (Second revised edition, 1957. First edition was published in 1952 as In the Name of Science.) This was before soffty was even born, remember.

Here is a portion of a Cayce reading of his wife, who was suffering at the time with tuberculosis:

The condition in the body is quite different from what we have had before … from the head, pains along the through the body from the second, fifth and sixth dorsals, and from the first and second lumbar … tie-ups here, and floating lesions, or lateral lesions, in the muscular and nerve fibers which supply the lower end of the lung and diaphragm … in conjunction with the sympathetic nerve of the solar plexus, coming in conjunction with the solar plexus at the end of the stomach… [ellipses in original]

This is talk which makes sense to an osteopath, and to almost no one else.

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In addition to spinal massage, Cayce advocated a bewildering variety of medications borrowed from homeopathy and naturopathy, with occasional inventions of his own subconscious tossed in. There were special diets, tonics, herbs, electric treatments, and such medicines as “oil of smoke” (for a leg sore), “peach-tree poultice” (for a baby with convulsions), “bedbug juice” (for dropsy), “castor oil packs” (for the priest mentioned above [with epilepsy]), almonds (to prevent cancer), peanut oil massage (to forestall arthritis), ash from the wood of a bamboo tree (for tuberculosis and other diseases), and fumes of apple brandy from a charred keg (for his tuberculous wife to inhale).

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Although thousands of people believed themselves cured by Cayce’s trance-given remedies, in many cases even the initial diagnosis was widely off the mark. Rationalizations, however, always comes easily. If the patient had “doubts” about the procedure, [Cayce friend Thomas] Sugrue naively writes, the diagnosis would not be a good one. Since almost anyone would have some doubts, which he would be quick to express of the reading was obviously bad (but would not mention otherwise), it is hard to see how evidence could be found that would shake the faith of a Cayce believer. [italics in original]

Rationalizations come easily, indeed. At least to some.

[C_K_Dexter_Haven]

@Chefguy

You’re like the house guest who never leaves. You’re like Cousin Eddie. You’re like a persistant zit that won’t go away. You keep promising to go away, but every day I see a new page festering in this stupid thread. If I pretend like I’m interested, will you shut up and leave?

Can we please stop feeding this. . .thing? (said the guy who couldn’t resist coming back one more time :smack: )

Chefguy: Personal insults are NOT permitted in this forum, no matter how annoying someone may be. Period.

That applies to everyone else, too. If you want to open a Pit thread, be my guest. But not here, please. Here we conduct reasonably polite discussions. If you feel someone is being deliberately provocative with no real agenda other than to stir up angry emotions, then please use the REPORT button (the little ! in the red triangle in the upper right corner of the post) rather than responding in kind. (And, for the record, we mods have done a bit of digging, and we don’t think trolling is going on here. We will keep an eye on it, however, in case any subsequent posts cause us to change our mind.)

[Chefguy]

@C K Dexter Haven

Chefguy: Personal insults are NOT permitted in this forum, no matter how annoying someone may be. Period.

That applies to everyone else, too. If you want to open a Pit thread, be my guest. But not here, please. Here we conduct reasonably polite discussions. If you feel someone is being deliberately provocative with no real agenda other than to stir up angry emotions, then please use the REPORT button (the little ! in the red triangle in the upper right corner of the post) rather than responding in kind. (And, for the record, we mods have done a bit of digging, and we don’t think trolling is going on here. We will keep an eye on it, however, in case any subsequent posts cause us to change our mind.)

Sorry: I was just commenting on the fact that this person continues to make dramatic exits, then keeps coming back for another round. Guess I got carried away.