Psychic Vibrations by Sheaffer Robert

Author:Sheaffer, Robert [Sheaffer, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science
Publisher: James Randi Educational Foundation
Published: 2013-01-15T16:00:00+00:00

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A FRENZIED attempt to “save the appearances” is evident in the May 1984 article in Fate magazine titled “Cayce Revisited.” Written by Gina Cerminara, author of Many, Mansions, a widely read book about the reputed psychic Edgar Cayce, the article (excerpted from a new book) suggests that “what Cayce said about caffeine and nicotine and what he did not say about sugar suggest urgent need for reevaluation.”

The problem is this. Many of Cayce’s followers are health faddists, and a lot of Cayce’s pronouncements on health don’t square up with the fads of today. For example, Cayce often told his followers that “coffee is a food.” However, there are now reasons to believe that regular use of products containing caffeine may be dangerous, according to the author. (Cerminara, who is swept up in today’s “holistic health” craze, is clearly more worried about moderate caffeine use than are most doctors.) But, if Cayce’s “psychic” advice on coffee is not to be trusted, perhaps his other pronouncements were similarly fallible? The faithful need not fear. Cerminara explains how “it may be that because of the way coffee is being grown today, with worldwide pollutants in the air including insecticides, sprays and chemical fertilizers,” the coffee beans themselves may be rendered unhealthy. Or, worse yet, because today your coffee might be made with “polluted, fluoridated, or otherwise chemically treated water,” you may be harmed by the water, and not by the coffee itself. Thus, she suggests, one should interpret Cayce’s teachings to mean “coffee was a food at one time,” even if it is practically a poison today.

A worse difficulty is encountered with Cayce’s frequent advice that not only is moderate tobacco use harmless but that “smoking in moderation to most bodies is helpful.” Practically everyone today, and not just the health faddists, knows how wrong this is. Yet how could a great psychic have been so misguided? The situation is much the same as it is with coffee: “at the time Cayce was giving readings tobacco was produced in a simpler, more natural way.” Cayce seemed to be aware of the necessity, says she, of smoking unprocessed tobacco, and today “arsenic and lead sprays are widely used on tobacco plants to repel insects,” not to mention the “cancer-producing” or at least “highly suspicious” substances added to cigarettes to make up for the flavor they lose in removing much of the tar. So presumably the only reason not to smoke cigarettes is that you can’t get any today that have been organically grown.

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