Edgar Cayce

Early Life and Abilities

Edgar Cayce (1877–1945) was born near Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and grew up in a rural Christian household with limited formal education. His psychic abilities emerged in childhood, when he claimed to see and converse with his grandfather's spirit. By the 1920s, Cayce had developed a reputation as a faith healer and spiritual diagnostician, combining trance states with folk remedy prescriptions.

The "Sleeping Prophet"

Cayce became known as the "Sleeping Prophet" because he would enter self-induced trance states to conduct what he termed "readings"—detailed psychic consultations on health, past lives, prophecy, and metaphysics. Over the last three decades of his life, he produced an estimated 14,000+ recorded readings, making him one of the most prolific psychic practitioners in modern history. These readings were meticulously transcribed by stenographers and remain preserved in the Association for Research and Enlightenment's (A.R.E.) vault in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Extraterrestrial References

While Cayce's readings contain only approximately two explicit UFO or alien references, his broader cosmological framework emphasizes non-human intelligence and interplanetary exchange. In a reading about a client's past incarnation as a Mayan priestess, Cayce mentioned "those that were visiting from other worlds or planets" during the time of Atlanteans. He also referenced "the people of the universe" and suggested that humans could "become, with the people of the universe, ruler of any of the various spheres."

Most intriguingly, Cayce provided a past-life reading to a woman stating she had previously incarnated in "a Moon colony" before coming to Earth. The woman later reported unusual sleep patterns and heightened mental clarity at night, which she attributed to her remembered lunar origins. As a child, she had even told neighbors stories of living on the moon.

Star Beings and Cosmic Reincarnation

Rather than depicting aliens invading Earth, Cayce proposed that humans are fundamentally "star beings"—souls who sojourned through various planetary dimensions and celestial realms before incarnating on Earth. This framework reframes the UFO question: rather than extraterrestrials visiting humanity, Cayce suggests humans are themselves cosmic emigrants with embedded multidimensional memory.

Legacy and Archive

Cayce died in 1945, but his influence on esoteric UFO circles remains substantial. The A.R.E., founded by Cayce in 1931, continues to catalog and digitize the readings. The organization maintains a comprehensive online readings database with searchable access to over 10,000 topics. Despite mainstream skepticism, Cayce remains a touchstone figure in paranormal and UFO research communities, and his readings are frequently cited in discussions of non-human intelligence, ancient astronaut theory, and metaphysical cosmology.