Join the A.R.E. Staff in Meditation Every weekday the A.R.E. staff meditates from 12 noon to 12:30 p.m. (E.T.). We invite you to ob- serve this special time with us, focusing on these affirmations from A Search for God, Book II, used in the A Search for God Study Group program. To find a Study Group near you or to download a FREE Starter Kit on how to start your own, visit EdgarCayce.org/studygroups, call 800-333- 4499, or email [email protected]. October Affirmation Wisdom Our Father, our God, may the light of Thy wisdom, of Thy strength, of Thy power, guide—as we would apply ourselves in Thy service for others. In His name we seek. (262-102) November Affirmation Happiness Our Father, our God, in my own consciousness let me find happiness in the love of Thee, for the love I bear toward my fellow man. Let my life, my words, my deeds, bring the joy and happiness of the Lord in Jesus to each I meet day by day. (262-106) December Affirmation Spirit Father, God, in Thy mercy, in Thy love, be Thou with us now. For we know and we speak of Thy love. And help us then to put away, for the hour, the cares of this life; that we may know in truth that the Spirit and the Lamb say, "Come." Let them that hear also say, "Come." Let all that will, come and drink of the water of life. (262-113) GET INVOLVED! Join our international prayer list, request prayer for yourself or a loved one, become a pray-er for those in need, host a prayer healing group in your area, or simply request our booklet: Edgar Cayce’s Meditation for Everyone. A.R.E. Prayer and Meditation Services, 215 67th Street, Virginia Beach, VA 23451, 800-333-4499; [email protected] • EdgarCayce.org/prayer 2 EdgarCayce.org FEATURES OCTOBER-DECEMBER 2017 VOLUME 33, NUMBER 4 Sidney and Nancy Kirkpatrick /Managing Editors Lewis Lesansky /Research Associate Cindy Stone, Jennie Taylor Martin, Susan Lendvay /Editorial Team Kim Cohen /Layout Cassie McQuagge /Production 5 Customs, Rituals, and 30 Healing Body, Mind, Jo Adamson, June Bro, Lynn Sparrow Christy, Traditions and Spirit Simone Gabbay, Doug Knueven, Jerry Lazarus, Eileen Malo, Raye Mathis, Gladys T. McGarey, By Jack Rosen Henry Reed, Mark Thurston, Kevin J. Todeschi, A lecturer on Cayce health treatments John Van Auken /Contributing Writers 6 Readers’ Favorite must now use those treatments to Traditions heal himself • VISIT OUR WEBSITES • A.R.E.: EdgarCayce.org The Invitation of Ritual ESP: Not just Good, but A.R.E. 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The Cayces’ financial plight comes Atlantic University experience Reproduction by permission only. into sharp focus on Christmas Day in Founded in 1931, the mission of the Association for Dayton Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.) is to create profound opportunities for personal change in body, mind, and spirit through the wisdom found in the Edgar Cayce material. COLUMNS AND DEPARTMENTS Edgar Cayce (1877-1945) has been called the “sleep- 4 From the Desk of 32 A.R.E. News 58 Calendar of Events ing prophet,” the “father of holistic medicine,” and the Kevin J. Todeschi most-documented psychic of the 20th century. For more 36 Prison Outreach 61 A.R.E. Tours than 40 years, while in an unconscious state, Cayce gave over 14,000 psychic “readings” to thousands, diagnosing 8 Personal Transformation illnesses and outlining treatments, revealing lives lived in 38 Enlightenment Series: 62 A.R.E. 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TODESCHI A Message for the Holidays t became a tradition during Brother, the Christ, IEdgar Cayce’s lifetime that indi- his God, the Father, viduals seeking readings would ask do unto him… Let the sleeping Cayce for a personal it never be said, then, message during the holidays. of a single member of the Since many were coming from a group that ye offended the Christian perspective, the message least of any of His little ones... generally requested was a “Christ- Show ye mercy and love one to another, then, if mas message.” Some of the groups ye would have love and mercy shown to thee. For this is the who received readings (such as beginning and the end of wisdom. (5758-1) KEVIN J. TODESCHI the original Study Group #1) also Executive Director and CEO requested messages. Taken together, Two weeks after the bombing of Pearl Harbor amidst this information provides a beau- the growing fear of a world at war, the Glad Helpers Prayer tiful thematic overview of our opportunity to bring peace on Healing Group asked for a seasonal message that could be Earth and good will toward all during this very special time sent to everyone; it was eventually sent to all A.R.E. members of year. as well as all individuals on the prayer list and included the One of my favorite messages was given to the first study following: group (Norfolk #1) five days before Christmas in 1936. The group asked for a reading to better understand Christmas and And though there may be abroad hate, avarice, selfish- the birth of Jesus. In part, Cayce responded: “For time never ness, and those things that make men afraid—be still within was when there was not a Christ and not a Christ mass.” thine own heart, thine own consciousness, and know that The reading goes on to say that any individual who had He is with thee... been a seeker and had been located near the birth of Jesus in Let that heart, that mind then be in thee as was in Bethlehem had been able to hear the angelic choir sing; it then Him—“that ye love one another.” adds that the angels sing for every birth because: It is not in the tempest, not in the roar or the lore of the might of battle. Though there may be the destruction of life, For this, then, is in every birth—the possibilities, the glo- of property (as is known materially)—no one can destroy ries, the actuating of that influence of that entrance again of the soul but self! no one but self! god-man into the earth that man might know the way. God hath not willed that any soul should perish, but hath Thus this comes at this time to bring to the hearts and given even His Son, that brought even into the world that minds of those of that Glad period the fact that not only spirit of Christmas. 1900 years ago but today, He may be born into thine own Let thy message be: consciousness, thine own understanding… (262-103) There is hope in Him. For there is the promise through, “Lo, I am with thee always, even unto the end of the On another occasion, through the efforts of study group world.” (281-59) member Florence Edmonds, members of the Park Place Methodist Church in Norfolk received a group reading in And finally, during another of the study group readings, which Cayce gave each individual person messages, as well as an 18-year-old woman [2468] asked for a personal message a collective group message that included the following: appropriate for the holidays and received the following: “Let patience, love and mercy be thy watchwords.