Edgar Cayce

Edgar Cayce was one of the most famous clairvoyants of all time. Born in 1877 in Kentucky, he fell off a fence post onto a board with a protruding nail, which entered his brain. He managed to escape any serious consequences, but his life would be changed forever.

Starting when he was about 24 years old, Cayce did more than 14,000 clairvoyant readings based only on his clients' names and addresses. He told to his secretary about his visions while putting himself in an out of body experience. Of these 14,000+ readings, more than 9,400 dealt with medical diagnoses and treatment recommendations, of which he had no prior experience. He originally wanted to be a photographer but he took up his readings as a hobby. But his hobby eventually became all for which he was known, and he continued it for the rest of his life, though he got very little out of it financially. Others, however, did get lots of money from his predictions; he correctly foresaw events involving the stock market and pointed to people places to drill for oil.

In 1910 Dr. Wesley Ketchum, a famed homeopath, decided to see if Cayce was for real. Dr. Ketchum had a condition which he self-diagnosed as appendicitis, which was confirmed by other doctors. Cayce, on the other hand, told Ketchum that the doctor had a spinal condition that was impinging upon a nerve. This diagnosis was confirmed by successful spinal manipulation.

Among Edgar Cayce's visitors were Woodrow Wilson, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, and many others. His sons compiled their own study of their father's work and found only 200 flawed readings out of 14,246. Now Cayce is considered the "father of holistic medicine." He actually advised the use of colonic therapy as a way to detoxify the body.

Edgar Cayce died in 1943.