Edgar Cayce, Sidney D. Kirkpatrick
Edgar Cayce, Sidney D. Kirkpatrick
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Edgar Cayce
An American Prophet

Author: Sidney D. Kirkpatrick

Narrator: Stephen Graybill

Unabridged: 23 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/27/2019

Synopsis

A New York Times bestselling author and documentary filmmaker presents the definitive biography of Edgar Cayce, the father of the New Age and harbinger of alternative medicine—the mesmerizing story of a simple man with a complex gift.Edgar Cayce Jr., born in 1877 in rural Kentucky and educated only through the eighth grade, was a man with special powers. Known as the “sleeping prophet,” Cayce was an endless source of information. Awake, he had no knowledge of any of the subjects he discussed, but in a trance he prescribed medical treatments, predicted future world events, interpreted past lives (including the life of Jesus Christ), designed innovative technologies, wrote screenplays, spoke in foreign languages, and brought spiritual messages from the “other side.” Although he never examined patients and often gave trance readings for people hundreds of miles away, his medical diagnoses were deemed to be correct nearly ninety per cent of the time, and his predictions were often uncannily accurate.The first researcher to have unlimited access to thousands of Cayce’s documents, Sidney Kirkpatrick has written a fascinating, definitive biography of a humble man whose psychic work prefigured the New Age movement and the alternative-health movement and brought him a huge following.

About Sidney D. Kirkpatrick

Sidney D. Kirkpatrick is an award-winning filmmaker and New York Times bestselling author.

About Stephen Graybill

Stephen Graybill was recently in HBO's Big Little Lies, opposite Shailene Woodley, Reese Witherspoon, and Nicole Kidman; in Framed, opposite Jordi Vilasuso; in the second season of Game Shakers; and opposite Denise Richards in the feature film Altitude. He has been seen in HBO's The Wire, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order, Six Degrees, All My Children, As The World Turns, and The Girl's Guide to Depravity. On stage he's appeared with Primary Stages, Drama Dept, NY Theater Workshop, F*It Club (world premieres by Kate Gersten, Mark Schultz, Lucy Boyle, and Nick Jones), Studio 42, Shakespeare Theatre DC, and Woodshed Collective in their acclaimed immersive theater production of The Tenant. He has worked on over fifty audiobooks, was awarded the Readers Choice Award of "Narrator of the Year," and his narrations have fans saying he's "even better than reading the story." He won a Gold Clio Award and a Silver Effie for his work in the award-winning commercial in Vaseline lotion's "Sea of Skin" Campaign (BBH), and his work in promos has included Brian Williams's NBC Nightly News with Edward Snowden. Stephen has produced and written a number of films independently: LA Awake directed by Spencer Grammer and starring Natalie Dreyfuss, On The Hook, Spring Training, and Easter Island. He's written a number of biopics, on topics ranging from Edgar Allan Poe to World War II. He has founded, developed, and financed the producer of a number of other projects as well.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Brett on May 02, 2021

"I'm no fortune-teller; I'm a psychic diagnostician", pg. 24 Edgar Cayce, the Sleeping Prophet, was an American clairvoyant who had thousands of readings during his life. But he could only get readings when he went to sleep. He would put himself in a trance/sleep state and visions would come to him.......more

Goodreads review by Alexis on October 22, 2012

This was my first introduction into Edgar Cayce when I barely knew anything about him. I read it about 8 years ago whilst still studying and remember finishing it within a number of days because of how intrigued I was all the way through the book. I didn't think Edgar Cayce was anything particularly......more

Goodreads review by Tony on February 13, 2010

Never thought I would read something like this...long story short, the book was sent to me by a woman after having an in-depth conversation about ghosts and spirits. The next thing I knew, I had this book sent to me and a membership with the Cayce Foundation! I felt obligated to at least peruse the......more

Goodreads review by Lawrence A on October 29, 2007

When I read this book in junior high school, I was impressed and somewhat awed by Cayce's alleged powers. As a more skeptical adult, I realized that the author was writing more of a hagiography, and did not question the validity of any of the claims made on Cayce's behalf. Cayce remains a fascinatin......more

Goodreads review by Ann on December 04, 2019

I first read this book many years ago and when I came across it recently I thought I would dip back into it to see if it still intrigued me. It did. I re-read it completely and marveled once again. Born in Kentucky and not well-educated, Edgar Cayce was a man who learned he could fall asleep and then......more

Quotes

“Sidney D. Kirkpatrick does an excellent job of giving a complete chronicle of Cayce’s life. He holds us spellbound with an engrossing narrative of this remarkable man.” Sylvia Browne, New York Times bestselling author

“This engaging biography reads like a codex for the New Age…[and] lets the facts of his subject’s life speak for themselves.” New Yorker

“Presents an evenhanded story about the life of this American prophet…What makes this biography especially fresh and lasting is Kirkpatrick’s excellent storytelling skills… Kirkpatrick always stays grounded in documented facts and clear information. Cayce aficionados will enjoy especially the accounts of encounters with George Gershwin, Marilyn Monroe, and even the likelihood that he met with President Woodrow Wilson.” Amazon.com

“Presents what every Cayce fan hungers for: a detailed and complete biography that reveals family secrets that were deemed too sensitive to include in earlier works, as well as the long-suppressed identities of the many famous people, from Woodrow Wilson to Thomas Edison, who benefited from Cayce’s readings.” Booklist

“Unlike Cayce’s other biographers, who were affiliated with the Cayce Foundation, Kirkpatrick steers a middle course; he does not completely believe in or refute the effectiveness of Cayce’s medical reading…[A] fair, fascinating, and well-researched biography of one of twentieth-century America’s most famous psychics.” Library Journal

“There have been several hundred books written about my grandfather, but this definitive biography is in a class by itself. A tour de force, this book carefully documents startling new details of his life and clearly articulates the complex and life-transforming concepts of his psychic readings. For anyone curious about the life and work of Edgar Cayce, this book should be at the top of your reading list.” Charles Thomas Cayce, grandson of Edgar Cayce

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