Edgar Cayce’s teachings are to do good through fellowship, kindness, gentleness, patience, long-suffering, and love for soul growth and fruits of the spirit.
Understand, forgive, and forget.
The negative side expresses doubt, fear, avarice, greed, selfishness, self-will.
He teaches that seeking and meditating on the positive aspects of self lead to finding the way and that it is the irritants around us that give us our soul-opportunities. By group participation we form valuable relationships. Working out issues within our own set of given family and friends is the other obvious most important karmic opportunity in our lives.
“It was during a set of philosophical questions that Edgar Cayce first began to talk about reincarnation. Eventually, this lead to an entirely new way of using Cayce’s abilities that came to be know as Life Readings. The subject was examined in extensive detail and would become the second major topic examined by the sleeping Cayce.
The concept of reincarnation shocked and challenged Edgar Cayce and his family. They were deeply religious people, doing this work to help others because that’s what their Christian faith taught. Reincarnation was not part of their reality.Yet, the healings and help continued to come. So, the Cayce family continued with the physical material, but cautiously reflected on the strange philosophical material. Ultimately, the Cayce’s began to accept the ideas, though not as “reincarnation.” Edgar Cayce preferred to call it, “The Continuity of Life.” . .
In one dream’s example, a holy man stepped just outside of his prison cell, but chose to stay and not run, thereby he was accepting his karma. He was at peace because he was able to see it from a different perspective. The ability to see from a different perspective is also a result of grace. Karma is the physical law. Grace is the spiritual reality! Grace then, is the absolute reality!
Think then on this—perception is everything. If we meet a situation with positive thoughts, looking to God, it frees us from doubt, fear, and worry. That freedom is a direct result of being in a state of grace. Hence grace frees us. That freedom brings us peace so we are able to be truly at rest even while working out our karmic debt.
This aligns with the current Zen studies that I’m doing. When we are taught a lesson in Buddhism, it ends in the “ultimate reality” of being empty or non dual. Just as Cayce speaks of the “absolute reality” being spiritual grace.
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