Science Discovers Eternal Wisdom

Author(s): Amarendravijay, J D Lodaya, Bhuvanchandra
Publisher: Jain Sahitya Academy

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The 'Miracle Man' of Virginia beach :
As already mentioned earlier, during deep trance as spiritual powers of ESP are awakened, it is possible even to 'read' the past or the future of others. During deep trance, Cayce thus revealed previous life-histories of twentyfive hundred persons. Here a doubt may be raised that while recollecting one's own past, the subject under trance acts out the event and the overt emotional expression is self-evident and consistent with the event so recalled. But when 'reading' someone else's life-story, such self-evident proof is lacking, hence the validity of such 'life-reading' would be questionable. How can one be sure that it is not just imagination let loose? However, this objection could not apply to Edgar Cayce who had given ample proof of his ESP capability by correctly diagnosing the disease and pointing out the effective line of treatment in more than thirty thousand cases without even examining the patients who, in some case, were physically separated from him by some thousands of miles.
This fantastic story of Edgar Cayce goes back to the time when he was twenty-one. He was down with a serious illness from which he managed to scrape through but suffered a loss of speech as a consequence. All attempts at recovery of his speech failed. Once, a visiting hypnotist put him under trance and made him regain his speech temporarily during that brief spell. On awakening from the trance, he relapsed into speechlessness. The professional hypnotist who could make him talk in the trance had left for elsewhere, but an amateur hypnotist who had witnessed Cayce regaining speech during that brief trance, felt that the cause underlying Cayce's inability to speak could be elicited from his subconscious mind itself during a trance and hence thought of giving it a try. He put Cayce under trance and lo ! during this experimental trance, Cayce who had very limited education upto ninth standard only, rattled off the diagnosis, the causative factor and the line of treatment in a thoroughly professional manner of a qualified physician. When Cayce's suggested line of treatment was followed, it resulted in complete cure with his speech returning
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