美國奇人：愛德加·凱西-序1

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現在是整個世界的人們關注“關於靈魂和心智的神秘性” 的時候，正如我的祖父愛德加•凱西在他的入定狀態---在那種去意識狀態下他表現出令人驚訝的特異能力---所講的那樣。他那預言性的言語為這個世界上越來越多人們所認識，並將其使用於對日常生活種種現象的理解，同時於其中尋求關於身體健康和心智開發的幫助和智慧。例如，根據國家意見研究理事會(National Opinion Research Council) 最近的民意調查顯示，有將近50%的成人相信與已逝去的人有過某種接觸。這一數據是十年前的一倍。有三分之二的人有過超感知(E.S.P.)體驗，而十年前這個數據隻有現在的一半。

在人類曆史中，每一個文化均有超五官感覺的天賦的人物。大家對這些尋常不易見到的人物有濃厚的興趣，因為可以從中發現解決生命困苦的智慧和辦法。二十世紀的美國也同樣如此。

愛德加•凱西應該是我們時代最出名的記錄完整的同靈人。在他很年輕的時候，他開始使用他的異常能力，在以後的四十年中，他每日兩次躺在沙發上，進入睡眠式的入定狀態回答問題。有超過一萬四千分這樣的記錄---稱為解讀報告---保存在弗吉尼亞海濱市的凱西基金會和探索和研究協會。這些解讀報告為千萬人提供了各種幫助。

從世間標準來看，僅有八年教育程度的凱西過著平常、簡單的生活。但早在孩童時期，他就感覺出他擁有的不平常的能力。他曾在獨處時，遇到一個幻像式的女子告訴他擁有可以幫助別人的能力；他還有看到死去的親戚的經曆；在學校期間，他曾將頭睡在拚讀書本而記住整個書本的內容。

年輕時他有過喉嚨的問題而無法出聲，經曆催眠得到醫治。他也發現在催眠期間，他可以為別人診斷和建議治療方案---這些人常常不在現場。後來人們有發現他可以回答他們所提出的許多其它種類的問題。

在1910年，紐約時報用兩頁的版麵報導了凱西的靈異能力並附了照片。從那時起來自全國各地的人們，帶著不同的問題，來尋求凱西的幫助。

我祖父死於1945年。他的解讀中多處提及中國和中國人民的巨大的、積極的潛力。從我的理解來看，整個世界觀察到這種正在上升的積極的潛力。希望雲思騰對我祖父工作的描述為現時的中國人民提供激勵和智慧。

 

查爾斯•托瑪斯•凱西博士

 

探索和領悟協會執行長

凱西基金會主席

 

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