ENGLISH RECORD 07
Edgar Cayce Special Archive
Recorded trance readings · 1901–1945Early twentieth-century United StatesUnited States · AmericasHealth · reincarnation · Earth change
01 · WHAT IT IS
Overview
A large body of readings attributed to Edgar Cayce while in a trance-like state. Subjects range from individual health advice to reincarnation, Atlantis and physical changes to the Earth.
02 · ORIGINAL TEXT AND EARLIEST SOURCE
What can be traced?
03 · HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
The world behind the text
07 · EDGAR CAYCE SPECIAL ARCHIVE
14,306 records are not the same as a list of hits
Edgar Cayce · 1877–1945 · recorded readings, 1901–1944The Cayce corpus is unusually traceable because readings have identifiers, dates, questions and answers. The existence of a transcript, however, does not establish that its diagnosis, history or forecast was correct.14,306preserved readings
01 · LIFE & ARCHIVE
How the ‘Sleeping Prophet’ record developed
Born in Kentucky, Cayce worked as a photographer and became known for answering questions while reclining in a sleep-like state. Early readings focused on individual health; later material expanded to reincarnation, Akashic records, Atlantis and Earth changes. The A.R.E. was founded in 1931, and transcripts are preserved in Virginia Beach and a members’ database.- Born in Kentucky
- Early reading work
- Life readings expand
- A.R.E. founded
- There Is a River published
- Death
- 14,306 readings preserved
02 · READING ANATOMY
How to read one citation
An anonymized person or subject identifier
The reading’s position within that case
Tests whether wording existed before an event
Restores conditions omitted by short quotations
Separate evidence needed to assess results
03 · READING LOCATOR
Find readings by subject
A number is a locator, not a truth certificate. Where the full transcript is not public, the status remains ‘check against the A.R.E. member text.’| Subject | Reading | Date | Text status | Review note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Financial disturbance | 900–425 | Mar 1929 | Number and excerpt traceable | Often cited as a pre-crash warning; earlier optimistic advice and all finance readings belong in the denominator. |
| Atlantis sequence | 364 series | c. 1932 | Reading series traceable | A long narrative of civilization, technology and destruction; archaeological confirmation is a separate question. |
| Pyramid record | 5748–6 | 1 Jul 1932 | Reading number traceable | Connected to Hall of Records claims; the popular 1998 deadline must be tied to its exact reading. |
| U.S. coastal changes | 1152–11 and others | 1930s | Full text check required | Later maps may combine multiple sentences and are not necessarily drawings by Cayce. |
| Japan and Earth changes | 2012–1 and others | c. 1941 | Full text check required | The famous ‘greater portion of Japan’ translation needs its exact context, conditions and deadline. |
| Pole and climate change | 3976 series and others | Multiple dates | Number mixing risk | Geological sentences from different readings are often assembled into one chronology. |
04 · HEALTH BOUNDARY
Health readings are historical records, not prescriptions
Most readings concern health and illness, including diet, massage, osteopathy, castor-oil packs and other period treatments. Client testimony is not a clinical trial, and systematic data on diagnostic accuracy, adverse effects and comparison groups remain limited.05 · CLAIM LEDGER
Famous claims and verification boundaries
The 1929 crash
Reading 900–425 is presented as a pre-event warning of financial disturbance.
Pre-event wording · denominator missingWorld War II
A 1935 reading is reported to warn of international war.
Advance warning · limited specificityAtlantis
The readings describe an advanced civilization, crystals and repeated destruction.
Textual corpus exists · material evidence absentHall of Records
Atlantean records are said to remain near the Sphinx.
Not found within forecast windowJapan and U.S. coasts
Sentences about vast inundation circulate with dramatic maps.
Unstable window and scopePole shift
Readers alternate among geographic, magnetic and spiritual meanings.
Meaning-drift risk06 · METHOD
SALGIL verification rules
- 1No number and date means unverified
- 2Preserve the full question-and-answer context
- 3Score only interpretations fixed before events
- 4Count failures and conditional claims with successes
- 5Separate clinical evidence from historical testimony
07 · PROVISIONAL VERDICT
High document traceability; paranormal accuracy unproven
Unlike oral prophets without a fixed corpus, Cayce left an extensive numbering system. Individual pre-event wording can therefore be researched unusually well. Members-only full texts, selected success stories, broad language and expired windows still prevent a defensible overall hit rate.08 · SOURCES