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Although the term Energy Medicine was not in use until less than a quarter century ago, clairvoyant Edgar Cayce (see The Story of Edgar Cayce: There Is a River by Thomas Sugrue and Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet by Jess Stearn) often spoke of energy and recommended many of the alternatives increasingly in use now. With the founding of The International Society for the Study of Subtle Energy and Energy Medicine (ISSSEEM), Dr. Elmer Green created the term Energy Medicine, but the concepts of Cayce laid a broad foundation for many energy therapeutics. My own concept of holism came from attending my first meeting at the Association for Research and Enlightenment (the A.R.E. which was founded by Edgar Cayce) in 1972. That meeting ultimately sparked my interest in founding the American Holistic Medical Association six years later.

Cayce was the most talented intuitive known and documented. In a sleep-like state, he gave almost 15,000 “readings,” of which almost 10,000 were related to health, healing, and treatment. It has been estimated that Cayce’s accuracy was 80 percent (see The Outer Limits of Edgar Cayce’s Power by Edgar Evans Cayce and Hugh Lynn Cayce). I know of no one who has covered the broad field of Energy Medicine as thoroughly as Cayce did. Although he died in 1945, Cayce’s contributions have endured for almost a hundred years since his first reading.

Cayce could also sometimes be quite humorous. For instance:

(Q) Is there any way of sleeping on the back without snoring?

(A) Not that has been invented yet!

1861–8

Here I will cover some of Cayce’s thoughts related to some of the important energy aspects of life. (The reader should be aware that the numbers assigned to the readings quotes merely designate the individual who received the reading and the order in which the individual received it.)