美国奇人：爱德加·凯西-序1

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现在是整个世界的人们关注“关于灵魂和心智的神秘性” 的时候，正如我的祖父爱德加•凯西在他的入定状态---在那种去意识状态下他表现出令人惊讶的特异能力---所讲的那样。他那预言性的言语为这个世界上越来越多人们所认识，并将其使用于对日常生活种种现象的理解，同时于其中寻求关于身体健康和心智开发的帮助和智慧。例如，根据国家意见研究理事会(National Opinion Research Council) 最近的民意调查显示，有将近50%的成人相信与已逝去的人有过某种接触。这一数据是十年前的一倍。有三分之二的人有过超感知(E.S.P.)体验，而十年前这个数据只有现在的一半。

在人类历史中，每一个文化均有超五官感觉的天赋的人物。大家对这些寻常不易见到的人物有浓厚的兴趣，因为可以从中发现解决生命困苦的智慧和办法。二十世纪的美国也同样如此。

爱德加•凯西应该是我们时代最出名的记录完整的同灵人。在他很年轻的时候，他开始使用他的异常能力，在以后的四十年中，他每日两次躺在沙发上，进入睡眠式的入定状态回答问题。有超过一万四千分这样的记录---称为解读报告---保存在弗吉尼亚海滨市的凯西基金会和探索和研究协会。这些解读报告为千万人提供了各种帮助。

从世间标准来看，仅有八年教育程度的凯西过着平常、简单的生活。但早在孩童时期，他就感觉出他拥有的不平常的能力。他曾在独处时，遇到一个幻像式的女子告诉他拥有可以帮助别人的能力；他还有看到死去的亲戚的经历；在学校期间，他曾将头睡在拼读书本而记住整个书本的内容。

年轻时他有过喉咙的问题而无法出声，经历催眠得到医治。他也发现在催眠期间，他可以为别人诊断和建议治疗方案---这些人常常不在现场。后来人们有发现他可以回答他们所提出的许多其它种类的问题。

在1910年，纽约时报用两页的版面报导了凯西的灵异能力并附了照片。从那时起来自全国各地的人们，带着不同的问题，来寻求凯西的帮助。

我祖父死于1945年。他的解读中多处提及中国和中国人民的巨大的、积极的潜力。从我的理解来看，整个世界观察到这种正在上升的积极的潜力。希望云思腾对我祖父工作的描述为现时的中国人民提供激励和智慧。

 

查尔斯•托玛斯•凯西博士

 

探索和领悟协会执行长

凯西基金会主席

 

It is a time in the earth when people all over the world "seek to know more of the mysteries of the mind, the soul," said my grandfather Edgar Cayce in an unconscious trance, from which he demonstrated a remarkable gift for clairvoyance. His words are prophetic even today as more and more people all over the world, in these unsettled times, are turning to psychic explanations of daily events, as well as for additional help and insights re garding their own health and development. For example, according to a recent survey by the National Opinion Research Council, nearly half of the adults today believe they have been in contact with someone who has died, a figure twice that of ten years ago. Two thirds of all adults say they have had an E.S.P. experience; ten years ago that figure was only one half.

Every culture throughout history has made note of its own members' gifted powers beyond the five senses. These rare individuals held special interest because they seemed to provide insights to life's pressing problems. America in the twenty-first century is no exception.

Edgar Cayce was perhaps the most famous and carefully documented psychic of our time. He began to use his unusual abilities when he was a young man, and from then on for over forty years he would, usually twice a day, lie on a couch and go into a sleep-like trance state, and respond to questions. Over 14,000 of these discourses, called readings, were carefully transcribed by his secretary and preserved by the Edgar Cayce Foundation and the Association for Research and Enlightenment in Virginia Beach, VA. These psychic readings continue to provide inspiration; insight and physical help to tens of thousands of people.

Having only an eighth grade education, Edgar Cayce lived a plain, simple life by the world's standards. As early as childhood in Hopkinsville KY, however, he sensed he had unusual intuitive abilities. While alone he had a vision of a woman who told him he would have the ability to help people. Other times he related having experiences of "seeing" dead relatives. Once while struggling with school lessons he slept with his head on his spelling book and awakened knowing the entire contents of the book.

As a young man he experimented with hypnosis to treat his own recurring throat problem, which had caused him to lose his speech. He discovered that under hypnosis he could diagnose and describe treatments for the physical ailments of others, often without knowing or seeing the person with the ailment. People began to ask him other sorts of questions and he was able to answer these as well.

In 1910 the New York Times published a two page story with pictures about Edgar Cayce's psychic ability as described by a young physician, Wesley Ketchum, to a clinical research society in Boston. From that time on people from all over America, with every conceivable question, sought his help.

Before he died in 1945 my grandfather gave readings about the tremendous, positive potentials of China and its people. It seems to me that the world is watching those positive potentials develop at this time. Hopefully Winston Cui's descriptions of the work of my grandfather will provide insights and inspiration for the people of China at this time.

 

Charles Thomas Cayce

 

Excutive director, A.R.E.

President, Edgar Cayce Foundation