Science Discovers Eternal Wisdom

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

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to normal. The amateur hypnotist who was suffering from longstanding abdominal ailment proposed to Cayce to try out the same method for arriving at the diagnosis and treatment to cure his chronic complaint. Cayce obliged and on following the line of treatment suggested during trance, the hypnotist was also relieved of his trouble. Gradually, word about this amazing phenomenon spread among the doctors who began taking Cayce's help in solving some difficult diagnostic dilemmas. Thus began the long series of some thirty thousand health-readings by Cayce. Later, it became apparent that physical presence of the patient in question was not a 'must' for successful result and it was sufficient for Cayce to know where the patient was located at the time of inquiry. By then, Cayce had become adept at inducing the state of trance by self-hypnosis and during such a trance when he was questioned about a patient, he would start commenting as if he was visualising the body of a patient through an X-ray screening machine. Thus, he may exclaim, "We can see the body ... etc ...". Cayce who did not have an iota of medical knowledge would pronounce the diagnosis, the etiology and line of treatment in the manner of an expert medical consultant advising a referring family physician about the management of a case. His suggestions regarding the treatment used to vary from case to case and were not restricted to any one particular medical system like allopathy alone. Some of the complicated cases, given up as hopeless by expert specialists recovered under Cayce's treatment although he had no textbook knowledge of medicine. Some of his successes were so spectacular that even today his methodology and records of case-histories are being keenly researched by medical men.
Cayce's 'Life-readings' :
Arthur Lemurs of Ohio, USA, a well-to-do publisher, on hearing about Cayce's mystic powers, wondered why such extraordinary perceptive capability could not be put to use for solving the age-old questions plaguing human mind e.g. what is the purpose of human life? Is there life after death? Which philosophical school is nearer to truth ? etc. For this specific
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