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Miracle Man of America: Edgar Cayce

  




















云思腾 编著

 
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这本书是关于一个人的传记。爱德加"凯西(Edgar Cayce, 1877-1945) ,被称为“睡着的预言家” 、“美国先知” 。目前单在美国,有六百多本关于凯西和他的“灵异解读” 的书籍,无数关于他的文章和对他的灵异解读的研究,数个关于他的电影脚本,还有纪录片及专题片。其中以第一本传记“有一条河” 最经典、占据畅销书排行榜数月的“睡着的预言家” 流传最广,最新传记“美国先知” 则最全面。05年11月历史频道播出的专题片“另一位诺查丹玛斯” ,又让千万人重温了凯西的风采。几十年来,数百万人直接或间接地受到凯西及他的灵异解读报告的帮助。他到底做了什么?


他是一个信息源。用他自己的话来说,他“是一个卑微的、不足取的通道。” 他一生的愿望就是利用这一通道,为别人提供问题的答案。


从1901年起到1944年的长达四十三年中,他几乎每天躺下两次,利用自我催眠失去显意识,在“睡着的” 状态中提供信息或回答咨询者的问题。咨询者在多数情况下并不在场,而他们问题却无所不包:天上星空、地下石油矿物、千里外患者的病情、现时股票市场的价格,还有饮食、草药、打坐、梦的原理、家庭关系、上古文明、未来事件等等。在通常情况下,有速记员记录下“睡着的”凯西的讲话,打印出来,一份给咨询者,一份作为原始记录保存。现今,在凯西基金会的档案中,有整理出来的解读超过一万四千条。凯西基金会及其姊妹机构“探索和领悟协会(ARE)” 和亚特兰大大学有几十名研究人员,其中不乏博士、教授、医生、学者,对凯西留下的解读进行探讨和研究。每年有百万人次访问位於弗吉尼亚海滨市的“探索和领悟协会”;每月有数十万人次点击ARE的网站;每周有几百个读书会在世界四十几个国家进行。


本人在一次偶然地的机会接触到凯西的解读,立即为其所包含的真理所吸引。在两年内,我翻阅了我能够找到的所有有关凯西的书籍和资料,访问了凯西的家乡和他的一些工作过的地方,参加过许多关于凯西的讲座,并有幸作过“探索和领悟协会” 中文网站的编辑人员。同时自己按照解读的指引,参加和组织过几个读书会和冥想集会,实践解读的信息。我深深为解读所提供的信息所折服,因为在其中我发现了所有问题的答案。所以,仅将我对凯西的粗浅的理解,加上无数先行研究人员的成果编成此书,希望能够给大家带来对生活和生命根本意义重新思考的基石。


 

现在是整个世界的人们关注“关于灵魂和心智的神秘性” 的时候,正如我的祖父爱德加"凯西在他的入定状态---在那种去意识状态下他表现出令人惊讶的特异能力---所讲的那样。他那预言性的言语为这个世界上越来越多人们所认识,并将其使用于对日常生活种种现象的理解,同时于其中寻求关于身体健康和心智开发的帮助和智慧。例如,根据国家意见研究理事会(National Opinion Research Council) 最近的民意调查显示,有将近50%的成人相信与已逝去的人有过某种接触。这一数据是十年前的一倍。有三分之二的人有过超感知(E.S.P.)体验,而十年前这个数据只有现在的一半。


在人类历史中,每一个文化均有超五官感觉的天赋的人物。大家对这些寻常不易见到的人物有浓厚的兴趣,因为可以从中发现解决生命困苦的智慧和办法。二十世纪的美国也同样如此。


爱德加"凯西应该是我们时代最出名的记录完整的通灵人。在他很年轻的时候,他开始使用他的异常能力,在以后的四十年中,他每日两次躺在沙发上,进入睡眠式的入定状态回答问题。有超过一万四千分这样的记录---称为解读报告---保存在弗吉尼亚海滨市的凯西基金会和探索和研究协会。这些解读报告为千万人提供了各种帮助。

从世间标准来看,仅有八年教育程度的凯西过着平常、简单的生活。但早在孩童时期,他就感觉出他拥有的不平常的能力。他曾在独处时,遇到一个幻像式的女子告诉他拥有可以帮助别人的能力;他还有看到死去的亲戚的经历;在学校期间,他曾将头睡在拼读书本而记住整个书本的内容。


年轻时他有过喉咙的问题而无法出声,经历催眠得到医治。他也发现在催眠期间,他可以为别人诊断和建议治疗方案---这些人常常不在现场。后来人们有发现他可以回答他们所提出的许多其它种类的问题。


在1910年,纽约时报用两页的版面报导了凯西的灵异能力并附了照片。从那时起来自全国各地的人们,带着不同的问题,来寻求凯西的帮助。

我祖父死于1945年。他的解读中多处提及中国和中国人民的巨大的、积极的潜力。从我的理解来看,整个世界观察到这种正在上升的积极的潜力。希望云思腾对我祖父工作的描述为现时的中国人民提供激励和智慧。

 

查尔斯"托玛斯"凯西博士

 

探索和领悟协会执行长

凯西基金会主席

 

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


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