Spiritual Understanding – Wonderings and Wanderings

Remembering Edgar Cayce

In conversations that turn to certain subjects, I ask “Do you know who Edgar Cayce was?” Almost always the answer is, “No.” I responded the same many years ago when a friend asked me. She gave me a book, Thomas Sugrue’s There Is a River, Cayce’s first biography. I read it, and my understanding of life and why we are here on Earth began changing.

Born on March 13, 1877, in a racist Kentucky town still influenced by the Civil War, Cayce felt awkward in elementary school and shared his problems with his father. An angel visited him during the night and suggested that he sleep with a book under his head. The next morning, he could recall everything in the book. He never lost this ability the rest of his life. As a teenager, he wanted to be a minister and decided to read the entire Bible every year. But he lost his voice, unable to talk above a whisper. No treatment worked until a hypnotist came to town (a new modality at the time), and desperate Cayce went to him. After experiencing this trance, Cayce’s voice returned. He soon discovered that he could hypnotize himself, but the knowledge he received included little of what he had believed as a staunch Fundamentalist Evangelical Christian. Instead of becoming a minister, he became an excellent photographer, a skill that supported him before his reputation for accurate readings changed his life’s path. Sydney D. Kirkpatrick recounts all of this and much more in his biography of 2000, Edgar Cayce: An American Prophet. He tells the story of how and why Cayce became known as the “Sleeping Prophet.”

In 1905, Cayce read the health of a young girl of 6 who had not been developing normally since she was two. Doctors decided that she had a fatal disease since she was even regressing into “baby” talk. Cayce read her body and told her parents that a fall at the age of two had injured her spine. He believed simple chiropractic treatment would return her to normal. It did. In other trances, Cayce used medical terms of which he had no knowledge when he was awake that correctly described the client’s condition. His accuracy rapidly gained him a wide reputation with people soon clamoring for readings. His fame allowed him to establish ARE, the Association for Research and Enlightenment, after he relocated to Virginia Beach, Virginia. His wife helped him, and, eventually, Gladys Davis (Turner) became his secretary, keeping meticulous verbatim records of his readings (all of which are catalogued and categorized at ARE). Because of her assiduousness, many researchers have written books about the various topics that Cayce covered in his 14, 145 readings for 5,744 people. For the last 14 years of his life, he could do readings without going into a trance. His guides told him to do no more than two readings a day toward the end of his life, but he worried that people needed his readings. He did not listen, reading up to six people a day. He “burnt” himself out devoting himself to helping others.

Cayce’s readings told him that “mind is the builder” and that “thoughts are things.” In essence, he was one of the first mediums to gain respect for presenting information beyond space and time, including information about reincarnation. Even then, police arrested him as a charlatan after he had gained renown. A well-known citizen identified Cayce, and he was immediately released.

He did not need to have the subject in the room with him. He could identify the problem at a distance. The one reading in Cayce’s detailed biographies that convinced me of Cayce’s ability involved a woman who had written him about her condition, frantic (as were all his subjects) to find a cure. He told her to go to her local drug store for a particular medicine. She went, but the druggist said that he had not sold that drug for years. When she told Cayce, he responded that the druggist needed to look on the left side near the back of the top shelf of his bookcase. The disbelieving druggist climbed his ladder, and the medicine was there. It cured the woman. Cayce wanted people to have well-being and never made extra money with his ability. He could have “played” the stock market, but he refused. He understood that consciousness exists before birth and after death, and that death is merely a shift from one frequency to another. Other myriad examples only add to the evidence that certifies him as a true seer. Contemporary researcher Stephan Schwartz thinks that Cayce’s work is an excellent body of non-local consciousness examples.

Cayce also predicted many things that have since come to pass—both before his death on January 3, 1945, and after. He noted that Atlantis had disappeared 10,000 years ago and was located near the island of Bimini. In 171 of his readings, in the early 1930s, he described the Essenes at Qumran, long before the Dead Sea Scrolls started appearing in 1946. He knew about that sect and the integral role of women at the time. He also recounted the life of Jesus after he disappeared from Bible stories at age twelve until becoming an adult. Jesus had traveled to India where he learned about Hinduism and Buddhism; Cayce identified himself as one of Jesus’s friends in that past life.

Many consider Cayce to be the father of holistic medicine. Over 9,000 of his readings were concerned with health and healing. The health treatments he repeatedly suggested were castor oil packs, diet change to fewer fried foods and more vegetables and fruits, as well as massage. (ARE has a massage school on its grounds in Virginia Beach.) He predicted that doctors would soon be able to identify various illnesses in one drop of blood. But his healing went further than the physical. He felt that humans were living in an artificially limited state of consciousness. They did not understand that the consciousness one has for well-being of the world creates social consciousness such as Gandhi and Martin Luther King espoused after Cayce’s death. Cayce realized that when people try to foster well-being, they discover that are part of the whole universe; they are interdependent.

Humans have the power to influence their physical reality through personal spirituality, holistic health, dreams, finding their life’s purpose, reincarnation, intuition, meditation, mindful living, the Akashic records, and the ancient mysteries. Cayce believed that humans should aspire to be helpful to others by eating properly (alkaline foods, pure water), meditation with attunement to the universal, and understanding their responsibility to others. That would be success, not money or prestige.

Cayce also predicted the telegraph, the telephone, Western Union, and Westinghouse. Cayce suggested to his wealthy friends that they should get out of the stock market before the crash in 1929. Those who did kept their money. He foretold of the Depression in 1931 while noting that it would ease in 1933. On May 28, 1926, he suggested that temperatures in deep ocean currents would indicate the weather—Niño and Niña not yet known. He predicted that Hitler would rise to power in 1935 and that only a war among many countries would be his downfall. Not until World War II was he defeated.

If you are interested in the myriad subjects about which Cayce spoke, consult edgarcayce.org to find out more about this remarkable man and the legacy he left.

The Telepathy Tapes # 4

Segment 9 “Profound Kid Spiritual Messages”

In the penultimate segment of Season 1’s The Telepathy Tapes, Kai Dickens explores the limits of telepathy. The earlier segments contain proof of mind-to-mind communication at great distances, and the next question becomes can telepathy occur between dimensions? Dickens’s examples start with Tani, the mother of Josiah in Minnesota. His first independent sentence was “God is a good gift giver.” Then he spelled “A-U-N-T-I-E,” referring to her great aunt whom he had never met but with whom he had been communicating. Then Tani discovered that he could describe places he had never been, had knowledge he had never been taught, and knew words he had never heard. Additionally, Josiah asked his mother to deliver messages to complete strangers in the mall. His requests made her fearful, but the people she approached were happy to hear what she told them.

When Tani was writing Josiah’s Fire, Josiah started talking about someone named Max, a famous writer who lived in Louisiana. Max had slurred speech from Covid and didn’t want other people to know. Josiah knew where Max was hiding while he was writing his new book. Tani found Max and relayed the information that Josiah had told her about him. Then Josiah and Max started their own conversation. From Atlanta, Houston states that everyone with non-speaking and unreliably-speaking autism has the ability to hear thoughts and to communicate at a distance. John Paul said goodbye to all of his Hill friends, telling them that he was going to leave. The friends both comforted and dismayed his mother Libby after John Paul transitioned. John Paul had wanted to fulfill the mission that God had given him, and he shared that he lived in a cabin by the sea surrounded by children on the “Other Side” who had not had a voice on earth.

A former military officer, Becky, had a near-death experience (NDE) in the hospital when she went to have shrapnel removed from her brain. When she recovered, she knew that her relationship to others and to the heaven that she now understood had changed. Afterward, in the grocery store, a young man in a black leather jacket was standing in front of her. He asked her to give the clerk a seven-up and say “make seven up yours.” That guy disappeared, but she did what he had asked. The clerk fainted. The leather-jacketed man had been dead for several years, and they had once been best friends. The clerk later admitted to Becky that he had planned to go home and commit suicide. Her giving him the message from this angel changed the direction of his life. Others who have had NDEs report similar events.

John Paul also communicated with Becky, saying goodbye to her when his mother was napping. Becky told Libby that John Paul was with his grandfather and step-grandfather. She divulges to Libby that John Paul is always with her, but that he is also very happy. At John Paul’s funeral, Houston and his mother read that “earth is to love, Love is God and God is love. Nothing else matters but love.” They echo John Paul’s statement that we need an “eternal, interconnected existence where love and purpose continue to thrive.” Dickens says of the non-speakers that “they go to places most of us can’t go. They see things most of us can’t see.”

Others describe similar experiences. Houston himself loved to study, and he read Twain and Fitzgerald. He noted that he “went to school in heaven.” His favorite, Fitzgerald, expressed to him that “love really hates when we choose money.” Amelia learned at night from rabbis, Buddha, God, and an “angel took her to meet God.” Dickens notes that “heaven is feeding a lot of the most brilliant minds on earth.” Katie and Houston wrote a book, The Book of Heaven, in which Houston describes his experiences when visiting other realms. He says that all the jobs in heaven are tied to what we loved on Earth. He elaborates that he has an open vision during his supernatural experiences where he sees something that seems real but that isn’t actually happening then. “I see it with my spiritual eyes like full pictures.”

Asher from England has experiences in another realm where he can access information on any topic. He speaks of reincarnation and that all our lives are happening at once. When we find out something amazing in this life, it will have repercussions in our other lives because “it’s all parts of our soul exploring consciousness in different ways.” However, we have to get this knowledge through our physical 3D life first. Out of these discussions, Dr. Powell has posited a simulation theory, a theory that “our reality was created by someone or something else” and another called “change blindness” when “people don’t see what they don’t expect to see.”

Dickens concludes this segment by quoting Socrates who 2,500 years ago said that relying merely on reading and writing might give people a “false belief” that they understand something. And to counteract this, non-speakers say that time is an illusion, that other realms exist, and that telepathy is the norm. Asher notes that beings, entities, have always visited our world, but that only some people are open to that reality. These beings are guides and advisors rather than enemies. He concludes, “We need to adopt a humble and wondering attitude, because our instruments cannot measure all that is taking place in and beyond our reality.”

Segment 10 “Voices of Non-Speakers”

In the final segment of Season 1 of The Telepathy Tapes, Kai Dickens gathers the “voices” of the non-speakers. She first introduces Sammy, 25, who lives in Carmel with her family. Sammy spells for her that those who have participated in the tapes have helped them to “shatter reality for our parents . . . then we shatter reality for the schools, the teachers, the therapists.” Alex comments that neurotypicals need to understand that non-speakers are not broken, that they need support like everyone else, that they are “inside these uncooperative bodies.”

At this point in society, many non-speakers have been lost in the care system. Their “ultra-functioning” has not been acknowledged or recognized. They have often been damaged with drugs and erroneous diagnostics. They need complementary therapies like sound healing, acupuncture, massages, Kinesiology, tuning forks, and shiatsu. One of their communication problems has been the lack of trained spellers who are willing to work with non-speakers and help them learn to use the letter boards.

Other non-speakers also share their abilities. One sees auras and peoples’ energy. Another refuses to communicate telepathically if he does not experience loving feelings–and all non-speakers agree. Still another spells that he is a “futuristic human being. . . I’m a pure, transparent soul here to help humanity evolve . . . I am in tune with vibrational frequencies and can match specific frequences to access and to transfer thought forms into words that allow me to communicate interdimensionally.” Anthony adds that he extrapolates information from the Akashic records and works between dimensions with different energies. He needs to adjust his frequency, but he is able to do that when frequency is attuned to love. He continues, “love is eternal. Everything else is an illusion caused by separation. Great change occurs when we join our souls as one. Humans must be driven by loving kindness.” Two brothers say “What we would like for the world, for humanity, is to shut their mouths more and to connect more.”

And Jackson from Virginia says, “it is difficult to live in my mind because it moves so fast. . . the compassion we can offer can change everything”

More non-speakers express similar thoughts. They say “we are the light workers.” And “now is the time for Waked Love to open the hearts of those who deserve understanding.” They add, “be open to the possibility that we are beyond what you think you know about our capabilities, knowledge, and worth. And finally, “emotional intelligence is the key. It goes back to the knowledge of oneself.” Another adds, “world change is not a pipe dream. It’s truly why we are here.” Lily believes that “no change in humanity will come until humanity can realize that we are all mutually connected to each other.” Finally, “love and helping others has to be more important than serving yourself.”

So much is included in these tapes, that I suggest you listen if you have time. What non-speaking persons know is astounding; what speaking persons know is not!

Near-Death Experiences from Dr. Robert Coppes’s Interviews

Why would someone with a doctorate in economics decide to write a book about near-death experiencers? Amsterdam’s Dr. Robert Coppes is uncertain about the genesis of his interest although he did read Dr Raymond Moody’s book in 1975, Life After Life, the first account of near-death experiences. As a medical doctor, Moody risked his reputation with his research presenting a metaphysical concept of life after death.Coppes’s recent book, Impressions of Near-Death Experiences (Iands), presents generally contemporary stories from over 100 experiencers.

Some have written and spoken widely of their experiences, including Anita Moorjani and Eben Alexander. Others have been reluctant to share, fearing ridicule or disbelief. Coppes related some of his interviews in an Iands presentation that underscored the validity of these stories—the similarity of their events and the changed lives that the experiencers now enjoy. Coppes discovered that they are some of the best tutors for how to live this life.

According to the experiencers, what we see of reality limits our perception of what actually is. They have simultaneously seen the front, back, top, and sides of something. We as humans on earth can only see the front OR the back OR the sides, not all of them at once. They have had different, and ineffable, experiences—from accidents, cardiac arrest, or psychological hardships. Coppes notes that such differences make research problematic. Verbalizing the breadth and depth of their situations becomes almost impossible. Language limits explanations of what NDEers have seen. Coppes compares them to playing Beethoven on a bucket or painting like Rembrandt with two colors of chalk. They all learn so much more than they can recount after returning to their bodies; one compared reentry to an elephant trying to squeeze into a Coca-Cola bottle.

A generality of these experiences is being out-of-body. One person surveyed the scene of her car crash from outside it. She watched the driver who hit her go to her car and turn off the lights so it would look like she was at fault. She won in court, not because the judge believed her but because the defense did not appear. Another woman hovered near the hospital ceiling, surprised that the woman below had a nightgown like hers. She did not realize at first that she was looking down at her own body. She heard her husband talking on the telephone and then found herself in the location of the person to whom he was speaking. A third woman went into her synagogue during a lightning storm, turned around to see what everyone was watching, and saw a woman on the ground outside with a burned umbrella. She realized that that body was hers. The examples continue.

Most of them have life reviews which show no judgment of what they have done. They see their own actions and the reactions of those whom they have either hurt or helped. If they have smiled, they see the pleasure of the recipient. If they have hurt an animal, they feel the animal’s pain. The judgment, therefore, comes from each of the experiencers themselves, not from beings on the Other Side.

The main things the experiencers repeatedly espouse, according to Coppes, are:

Heaven is for all—no exceptions. People may choose evil in this life, but their souls, not their egos, are pure.
We cannot imagine how much we are loved, and we ourselves are all love.
We are One with everything in the universe. Everything is part of the “divine all.”
Whatever someone does to someone else does the exact same thing to himself/herself.
NDEs are real, based on veridical observations.
Everyone on earth, now and for all times, is important.
The greatest lesson is to love, be loved, and just be, just experience life.

Coppes includes these observations and many more from his interviews in his fascinating book. Other important physical results also affect NDEers. Estimates of how long an experiencer takes to reintegrate with life on earth is around seven years. Some become depressed. Many may not be able to tolerate electrical currents—interference with lights, cell phones, or other items. They often feel others’ emotions. They can become more psychic. They realize that organized religion is not as advertised and become more spiritual. And none are afraid of death. Light and unconditional love surround all of us. We just need to notice it. The feeling resembles air pressure because it is all around, but no one observes it. All who have had NDEs say that they now know that “we are one;” “all is everything, and everything is one;” and “God is in everything and unites us all.”

Military Officers in an After-Duty Conversation

What do you hear when a West Point graduate and a former Navy Commander converse? Surprise! Not military rigor or “war” stories but metaphysical understanding of self and soul in relation to the universe. In early November, Alec Zeck interviewed Suzanne Giesemann to uncover tenets of her “The Awakened Way” teaching while interjecting his own discoveries leading to his “The Way Forward.” Both admitted that during military service they had little interest in religion and certainly no belief in an afterlife. Personal experiences, however, changed the trajectories of their thoughts. Suzanne evolved when searching for a connection to her stepdaughter after she was struck and killed by lightning when six months pregnant. Alec did not share his story during the interview.

Giesemann’s website describes her as “a spiritual teacher recognized on Watkins’ list of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People. Others on the list include Pope Francis and the Dalai Lama. She was recently honored with the prestigious 2024 Humanity’s Team Spiritual Leadership Award, which has only been given 11 times since 2006. Past recipients of this award include Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela (posthumously).”

Giesemann’s team of guides, Sanaya, has channeled through her that we are not only human, that we are part of one big universal web, and that love is the creative force in the universe. Those who would control us use fear, a human emotion, to give us the misperception that we are all separate. Giesemann has elsewhere used the image of a disco ball. Tiny pieces of mirror encircle a ball. If one piece of the mirror falls off, it distorts the image of the whole. The ball, the universe, needs each facet just as the universe needs each soul to co-create life. Everyone’s souls need to unite in love, not fear, for the greater good.

As Giesemann and Zeck assert, we’re not supposed to be happy all the time. We will have grief and distress, but becoming centered in our universal soul will help turn us to love. “We are human with an emptiness that can’t be filled searching for a fullness that can’t be contained.”

The way to discover our Spirit is to educate ourselves about life beyond the physical by reading, to experience meditation and other spiritual practices, and to engage the higher self by asking why we come to earth. We will quickly find out that it is for the experience of it, for the “fullness” of living as a human that one cannot achieve on the Other Side.

YouTube also offers other interviews of Giesemann—Alex Ferrari’s Next Level Soul, Buddha at the Gas Pump, Michael Sandler’s Inspire Nation, Danny Morel’s The Higher Self, Life with Ghosts, Lisa Garr’s The Aware Show, Bridgitte Jackson-Buckley’s Beyond Talking Points, Humanity’s Team. And Giesemann herself has interviewed many guests on her own podcast, Messages of Hope.

If you need information about who we are and why we are here, visit SuzanneGiesemann.com. The vast array of resources will guide you and answer many of your questions. She, through her guides Sanaya, has been my “North Star” for several years—since I first heard about a former Navy commander become Psychic Medium. She has comforted me and many, many others during her service to the Spirit.

Wow! Part 2

That we can affect the universe’s quantum field with merely our thoughts is both frightening and empowering. Science has shown that we are all entangled and united in this quantum field. In 2012, scientists validated the field of energy that underlies all existence. The conclusion was that the field is entangled, holographic, and fractal. In fact, 3 scientists received the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for proving entanglement, more familiarly known as the “butterfly effect”—a butterfly fluttering on one side of the world can affect the air on the other side of the world.

Braden notes that each of us is our own quantum field. As matter in the universe, we are physically separate, but energy unites and entangles us. Every particle in the universe reflects the whole—we are the quantum field. If you picture the mirrors on a disco ball, you might have an idea of what that means. Each one of us is a tiny square mirror, made of the same stuff as all of the other tiny mirrors. We are glued at minuscule angles different from each of the other mirrors. Thus, we are all separate, but we form a whole that functions as one object, glistening in the light it reflects.

Psychological positivity in our energy often encourages others and gives them permission to be successful. Braden mentions Roger Bannister’s 4-minute mile run in 1954, the first ever, after runners had been attempting and failing for years. But within six weeks of his achievement, another racer broke that time. Others have overcome that psychological block so that by 2022, nearly 1800 had broken this barrier. When we emit success and love into the quantum field, we fill the field with what we would want others to do for us. Braden suggests, “Be the best version of self because we love ourselves enough to be the best we can be.” He says that we have always been “wired to thrive,” and only our thoughts thwart our success.

We can transcend our perceived limitations through our intuition—that divine part of us that we want to share with others. “We must become the things in the field that we want. We can’t feed the field what we don’t want.” And we must accept that we are “divine.” And when we accept this state, we will appreciate the beauty we “live with,” “live by,” and “upon which we base our lives.”

For more information about Gregg Braden, consult his website, greggbraden.com.

For more information about Global Oneness, see Humanitystream.org.

Wow!

Did you know that our bodies emit enough voltage to light a 100W electric light bulb—or more when we’re exercising? The body, according to Gregg Braden, houses 50 trillion cells. Each cell contains 100 trillion atoms. Every cell has input and output photons of light, enough for each body to generate an electrical potential of nearly 3.5 trillion volts. When we enter a room where people are gathered, we are all separate bodies, but our energy interacts with the energy of all the others in the room. We become one, and as our energy expands outside the room, it joins energy throughout the universe. We control the emotional state of our energy. If we want to live in a world of peace and love rather than fear and frustration, we must transmit a loving energy into the quantum field. Then with other positive energies, we can become this world of peace and love we desire.

Humanity’s Team, a streaming platform, espouses Global Oneness for everyone on the planet by the year 2040. During this year’s Global Oneness Summit, the founder Steve Farrell interviewed Gregg Braden. Braden, a trained structural geologist PhD, began his career working on the Strategic Defense Initiative during the Reagan era. While in this position, trying to conceive the necessary weapons to win the “Cold War,” he decided to vacation in Egypt. There, he wanted to see the sunrise from Mt. Sinai. What he experienced was a scene so beautiful that he wondered “If I left this world today, would I feel complete with my life?” When his answer was “no,” he decided to quit his job and do only what would fulfill a “yes” answer for him. He became a best-selling NY Times author, a scientific researcher and seeker, a musician, a speaker, a teacher. He refused any invitation to which he could not respond “yes.” Since then, he daily praises “the Beauty I live with, the Beauty I live by, and the Beauty upon which I base my life.”

In his interview, Braden asserted that we, as humans, have been taught since early childhood that we are not “worthy,” that we are not “enough.” He disagrees. He calls humans “soft technology” who are much more than we have been led to believe. When compared to “hard” technology (the computer), the human brain exceeds it in capability, 100 million times more efficient than a computer chip. (After all, our human genome has never changed. All technology today comes from human sources.) He references a Stanford study at the Salk Institute comparing brain synapses to a microprocessor. The computer is, of course, faster. However, a chip’s material, silicon, restricts its ability. It can never attain any greater capability than that of the material’s capacity. The human brain has unlimited possibility. When the brain’s neurons reach an alleged apex, they morph and adapt so that they open a new dimension and expand past that prior perceived limit.

In 1991, scientists identified the neural network in the heart. Further research reveals that coherence between our brains and our hearts helps spread positive energy. Scientists have measured the magnetic field of the heart and discovered that it extends 5-8 feet out from the body. Since energy has no boundaries, why does this field extend only 8 feet? The answer: the machine can only measure out to 8 feet. Therefore, the energy potentially extends much further into the universe. How can we ascertain that this energy has quality? Braden asks, “Do we love ourselves enough to embrace the truth of being human today and the responsibility that comes with it?” We need to decide what we want the world to be and project that world ourselves by directing our own biology. We need to expand our emotion to love rather than contract it in fear.

Reducing stress increases our immune responses. If we slow our breathing, we can bring coherence (reduced stress) between our heart and our brain. The breathing is simple: slowly inhale four counts, stop the breath briefly at the top of the inhale, and then exhale 8 counts. Such breathing triggers the parasympathetic response by affecting the Vagus nerve and relieving bodily tension. It also increases measurable heart rate variability. The more variability we have, the more resilience we have when things change. (One simple addition to aid this process is to think of something for which you have gratitude.) The breathing also affects DNA. The protein chromatin sheafs our DNA. Spooling winds our DNA and controls its elasticity. When not wound too tightly, DNA spools more efficiently. Scientists now know that our body’s stress level strongly affects the tightness of the spooling. Less stress positively affects DNA function. And we can reduce our mechanical stress, regardless of its source, with only three minutes a day of breathing into coherence. If we chose diets without added chemicals or food prepared properly and try not to breath toxic air, we can further contain molecular stress. When we began treating our bodies, our temples, the way they should be treated and listen more to our hearts, we can retain our power. The question we must ask is “what power have we given away to fear?” Each of us can only answer that question for ourselves.

(To be continued)