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NARRATOR: He was a world-renowned psychic,

who claimed to receive visions while in a trance.

CAROLINE CORY: Edgar Cayce would download messages

during his sleep.

He was able to receive messages

on all sorts of topics,

from past lives to future events...

you name it.

NARRATOR: He could diagnose any ailment

and prescribe a cure.

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: Edgar Cayce, as a fact, has healed

and helped thousands of people

and did amazing things.

NARRATOR: And he professed to have had encounters

with otherworldly beings.

ANDREW COLLINS: Edgar Cayce said that he received information

from some kind of angel.

NARRATOR: Could it be that Edgar Cayce was not merely clairvoyant,

but a vessel used to carry out an alien agenda?

DAVID CHILDRESS: You have to wonder if Edgar Cayce wasn't chosen

by extraterrestrials

to be a messenger to mankind.

NARRATOR: There is a doorway

in the universe.

Beyond it is the promise of truth.

It demands we question everything

we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is right before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

Dolní Vestonice, the Czech Republic.

In 1949, archaeologists conducting excavations

near this ancient village

came upon the remains of a middle-aged woman.

Based on the manner in which she was buried,

and the ritual items discovered with her body,

they determined that she was a shaman,

and more significantly, the oldest shaman

ever discovered, having died roughly 30,000 years ago.

Throughout human history, and in every culture,

shamans have been people who appear to have the ability

to communicate with a higher realm,

cure the sick, and even see into the future.

But perhaps the most astounding of them all

is a modern-day prophet from the hills of Kentucky

named Edgar Cayce.

Edgar Cayce was arguably the most significant

Christian mystic of the 20th century.

LYNN PICKNETT: His reputation preceded him en-enormously.

He became incredibly famous for his readings and his healings.

DEEPAK SHIMKHADA: He was unlike any other psychic

who could do one ability at a time.

He could predict the future or he could heal someone,

all at once.

There is no one like Edgar Cayce,

before and after him.

NARRATOR: Edgar Cayce was born on a Southern farm in 1877

and came from humble beginnings.

But, over his lifetime, he would become world-renowned,

recording more than 14,000 psychic readings,

making him one of the most prolific

and documented mediums of the 20th century.

And, according to Cayce's friends and family,

his unique gifts were on display from a very early age.

CORRINE CAYCE: Edgar Cayce was my great-grandfather,

and there are these stories that I heard for my whole life

about the breathtaking

level of his psychic ability.

From a pretty early age, his psychic ability

and his psychic experiences were happening for him.

The stories that I would hear was that

the way that his psychic ability kind of formally started

was through a very particular experience

that happened one afternoon when he was outside by a creek

where he had built this little fort,

and he was reading the Bible.

From a very young age, he discovered the Bible,

and he loved to read it.

And he heard a woman's voice call his name.

And he looked up, and it was a figure of a woman

who had wings.

HOROWITZ: This feminine apparition told him that he possessed

some kind of extra gift of insight,

and he was asked what did he want in life?

And he responded that he wanted to find ways to help people,

and this angelic apparition

said to him, "Thy wish shall be granted."

And thereafter, Edgar's psychical

or clairvoyant abilities seemed to increase.

NARRATOR: Cayce claimed that this winged visitor

soon returned and began to instruct him

on how to unlock his incredible psychic abilities.

His father was quizzing him on the spelling words

that he needed to have memorized for school the next day.

And, uh, he was getting increasingly frustrated,

and Edgar was feeling defeated and sad and very tired.

And, finally, Edgar heard a voice inside

that was the same voice that he had heard the day before

at the creek, this woman's voice who said,

"If you'll sleep on your book, we can help you."

HOROWITZ: Edgar went to sleep with a schoolbook under his pillow,

and he awoke the ability to have memorized

all the key lessons that appeared in the schoolbook.

And this uneven student went to school the next day,

and he aced it.

COLLINS: Something was guiding him. What was this angel?

Who was this angel? Obviously, we cannot say, but

Cayce was being influenced by otherworldly intelligences.

NARRATOR: Is it possible,

as ancient astronaut theorists suggest, that Edgar Cayce

was visited by an otherworldly being?

And did he truly possess psychic abilities?

According to those who have studied Edgar Cayce's

life and readings, some of the most compelling evidence

can be found by examining accounts

of his astounding ability

to both diagnose and cure illnesses.

Edgar spent his first 20 years

focusing on health readings for people,

but he didn't go and examine the people.

He could access them clairvoyantly

and actually see the condition of their body,

the blood condition, the injuries they had had,

and start to prescribe a way of overcoming the ailment

they were dealing with.

And he would give them sometimes very strange formulas

to get through toward healing.

NARRATOR: Cayce had no medical training

and had not even attended high school.

He claimed that visions of the past, present,

and future would come to him while in a self-induced trance.

It was this practice that earned him the nickname

"The Sleeping Prophet."

Edgar Cayce would lay down on a couch

and put himself into a self-induced hypnotic state.

And his breathing would deepen, and his eyelids would flutter,

like they do when we're in REM sleep.

He would wake up and have absolutely

no memory of what he had said.

NARRATOR: Although Edgar Cayce performed his readings while in a trance,

a rare audio recording reveals that he spoke clearly

and gave very specific instructions

when providing health remedies.

One of the most amazing, uh, health stories

in the Cayce psychic files

is his own wife, Gertrude.

She contracted tuberculosis.

That was the kiss of death in those days.

CORINNE: Gertrude asked Edgar to please give her a reading

to see if she could get better, and Edgar was terrified

that what he might say might cause

this person, who is the most precious to him,

harm in any way.

But, at that point, she was going to die,

according to the doctors.

And so, he did give her the reading.

And there were suggestions that were given

in that reading for her getting better.

Here's the formula:

you had to get a two-gallon charred oak keg,

and you had to put heated apple brandy in it,

and inhale the fumes deeply into your lungs.

All she did was inhale the fumes coming out of the keg,

and she recovered from tuberculosis.

And then he started, uh, prescribing this method

to many other people, and it worked. It worked.

NARRATOR: Many of the natural remedies

Cayce prescribed are still used today.

And, in fact, he was one of the first people

to introduce holistic medicine to the western world,

in which body, mind, and spirit

are considered together in the management

and prevention of illnesses.

But if some otherworldly intelligence

was responsible for helping him to develop

his psychic abilities--

as ancient astronaut theorists suggest--

what could have been the purpose?

Perhaps further clues can be found

by examining Cayce's incredible predictions

about events that would change the course of humanity.

NARRATOR: A prodigy in numerous psychic arts from a young age,

Edgar Cayce quickly rose to fame in the early 20th century

as one of the most sought-after clairvoyants of his time.

HOROWITZ: Cayce first became known nationally

through a story on the cover

of The New York Times in fall of 1910.

The headline was, "Illiterate Man

Becomes a Doctor When Hypnotized."

Cayce was not illiterate,

but nor did he have much formal schooling,

uh, beyond his early grade school years.

PICKNETT: He went from being a fairly humble farm boy,

to being a superstar.

And it's astonishing how quickly

Edgar Cayce became famous and influential.

He didn't want it.

NARRATOR: Although he did not aspire to it,

Edgar Cayce found both fame and fortune in the 1920s.

Word quickly spread about his ability to not only diagnose

and treat illnesses, but also to predict the future.

Cayce's eerily accurate readings drew the attention

of thousands of believers,

including high-profile clients like Thomas Edison,

Harry Houdini, and George Gershwin.

PICKNETT: There's even evidence that President Woodrow Wilson

had a reading with him.

And, indeed, other high-ranking members of the U.S. government.

NARRATOR: Cayce also claimed to receive visions

concerning major world events,

and one in particular would forever change public perception

of his supposed talents.

It was a prediction of a pivotal moment

in U.S. history,

the stock market crash of 1929.

VAN AUKEN: In 1925,

Edgar Cayce told his biggest financial supporter

to sell all his stocks.

And he started to unload his stocks,

but the market kept going up, and his friends

were making so much money, he bought back in.

And then, in October of 1929, he lost everything.

NARRATOR: In a matter of weeks,

the world sank into the Great Depression,

just as Edgar Cayce predicted.

But this would not be the only time Edgar Cayce's

visions seemed to accurately predict major events in history.

HOROWITZ: In the mid-1930s, Edgar forecast

a great conflict on the horizon of world events.

This was often seen as presaging

the invasion of Poland,

and the events that led to the Second World War.

NARRATOR: Early on in his career as a psychic,

Edgar Cayce would become disturbed when a reading

predicted something ominous,

whether it had to do with a single individual

or an event that affected the entire world.

As a devout Christian, he worried that his visions

might be coming from a dark place.

CORINNE: It was deeply unsettling and scary for him.

At a certain point, he fully committed to it,

but there was a number of years

where he was picking it up and putting it back down,

wanting to have nothing to do with it.

A constant question that he was working with is, "Is this okay?

"Can I devote myself to this and be the type of Christian

that I know myself to be?"

As more and more time went on, to hear people say to him

how he had literally saved their life

or their child's life or their family member's life,

that was really important to him.

NARRATOR: In 1931, Cayce told his followers

that he now knew the source of his remarkable insights,

and that they came to him

from a vast otherworldly repository of information

called the Akashic record.

The Akashic record, which is a Hindu, uh, terminology,

is this ethereal cloud

that exists throughout the universe,

in which any and all knowledge--

past, present, and future-- is contained.

And some individuals are able to tap into

this timeless resource of knowledge.

SHIMKHADA: In Hindu mythology, there are several instances

where conversation takes place between

some entity up in the sky and here on Earth.

And that conversation,

that voice is called akash vani.

Akash meaning "sky," vani meaning "speech."

So, I think, in the case of Edgar Cayce,

he's hearing some voices from up there

while he's channeling trying to get the source.

NARRATOR: Throughout history, there are numerous famous examples

of people who professed to access knowledge

from another realm.

The great 15th-century artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci

wrote that he would stare at the flickering light

from a candle to enter a meditative state

in which he could access new ideas.

In the early 20th century, genius mathematician

Srinivasa Ramanujan claimed that complex equations

were communicated to him in his dreams.

And one of the pioneers of electricity, Nikola Tesla,

said that his revelation for how to harness alternating current

came to him in a moment when he felt that some outside source

had entered his consciousness.

Nikola Tesla claimed that he would envision

these many inventions that he created.

So, it's possible that Tesla himself was tapping into

the Akashic record, just like Edgar Cayce was talking about.

JONATHAN YOUNG: It is as if our great thinkers

are tapping into something that is there

and beyond our understanding.

And that, perhaps, people of a certain intellect

are able to open to that.

And their genius is to see beyond what we are seeing.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that certain individuals

throughout human history, like Edgar Cayce,

had the unique ability to access

the infinite knowledge of the universe?

And if so, did these mystics come to this gift by chance?

Or could they have been chosen for it?

COLLINS: Because we know that Edgar Cayce had an incredible visitation

from what he described as an angel,

could this connection

be something that was given to him

by higher intelligences?

Perhaps by extraterrestrials or extra-dimensional beings?

Yes, of course. Absolutely.

CHILDRESS: Because of his psychic abilities,

he was able then to communicate

all kinds of esoteric ideas,

but, yet, they were coming from a very normal person.

You have to wonder if Edgar Cayce wasn't chosen,

say, by extraterrestrials, to be a messenger to mankind.

NARRATOR: If there is a reason that Edgar Cayce was chosen

by an otherworldly intelligence

to receive this knowledge, just what was that purpose?

There are some ancient astronaut theorists

who believe that Edgar Cayce was chosen

not only to share visions of the future,

but to convey lost knowledge from our ancient past.

NARRATOR: Edgar Cayce calls a gathering

of his closest supporters for a series of special readings.

Up until this time, Cayce's readings

most often involved future predictions

or remedies to heal the sick,

but on this occasion, he will instead be called upon

to access the ancient past.

One of Edgar Cayce's fascinating readings

was about the Great Pyramid of Egypt.

The Great Pyramid is on the dollar bill.

And so, everybody who has a dollar bill in their pocket

is carrying around a picture of the Great Pyramid.

It's one of the most famous structures in the world.

And yet, there's so much about the Great Pyramid of Egypt

which remains a mystery to this day.

NARRATOR: The 480-foot-tall Great Pyramid of Giza

consists of over two million stone blocks

weighing a total of six million tons.

It stands perfectly level

and is more closely aligned to true north

than any other structure on Earth,

built either in ancient or modern times.

The Great Pyramid of Giza is a marvel of architecture.

It's something that you cannot, you just cannot replicate today.

Which makes you wonder,

how did they have all this knowledge

and what kind of knowledge they had?

NARRATOR: According to most Egyptologists,

the Great Pyramid of Giza

was constructed during a 20-year period

by order of the pharaoh Khufu,

sometime around 2500 BC.

But when Edgar Cayce was asked about the origins

of the Great Pyramid in 1932,

he placed the iconic structure at a much earlier date.

Edgar Cayce said that it was actually built somewhere around

10,490 BC,

8,000 years before traditional Egyptologists

said it was constructed.

Now, in the 1930s, this is an astounding statement to make.

NARRATOR: Cayce also claimed that the Sphinx,

which sits near the Great Pyramid

on the Giza Plateau, dates to this same period,

which geologist Robert Schoch believes is accurate,

based on his own examination of the monument

and water erosion that can be found

around the base of the structure.

After studying the Sphinx in great detail,

looking at the weathering and erosion,

I've come to the conclusion that, in fact,

the Sphinx has its origins going back to before the end

of the last ice age, so around 10,000 or so BCE.

This happens to be the date

that Edgar Cayce was talking about.

NARRATOR: Could it be that Edgar Cayce's reading was correct

and that the extraordinary structures that stand

on the Giza Plateau were built more than 12,000 years ago?

During his reading, Cayce also made the astounding claim

that the builders of the pyramid were somehow

able to make the giant stone blocks float through the air.

VAN AUKEN: Edgar Cayce said the structure was built

using powers that we don't understand.

He said the ancient Egyptians

knew how to float stone in the air

like we know how to float iron on water.

And people still wonder if it's...

levitation, if it's gas balloons.

We don't know for sure.

NARRATOR: Cayce's readings concerning the ancient past

were not limited to just Egypt.

He also commented on another topic that is well known

to ancient astronaut theorists, the Bible's Book of Ezekiel.

In this text, the Hebrew prophet Ezekiel

describes a fiery chariot with wheels within wheels,

descending from the sky in a whirlwind.

Edgar Cayce, uh, talked about

Ezekiel in the Bible and the spinning wheels

being a visitation by an extraterrestrial craft.

Cayce really seems to include

E.T.s in the timeline of human evolution.

He talks about extraterrestrials

showing up in Mayan times as well.

NARRATOR: Cayce said that there were undiscovered pyramids in Mexico,

the home of the Mayan empire.

A number of lost pyramids have been discovered in Mexico

since that time.

And as recently as 2022,

archaeologists uncovered the ruins

of an ancient Maya city filled with pyramids

in the Yucatán Peninsula.

What I find fascinating about Edgar Cayce is the depth

and the breadth of his insights,

his readings, and how it's been corroborated,

uh, by independent researchers.

He not only talked about ancient history and the pyramids,

but one area in particular is his work on the Essenes,

the Jewish mystics out of...

the order out of which Jesus and John the Baptist emerged.

In the 1930s, he was discussing the Essenes

and telling us what the Essenes believed.

Nobody knew anything about this before 1947,

when the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered

and then translated in the 1950s.

NARRATOR: In Cayce's readings,

he provided a number of details about the Essenes,

such as his claim that, in the Essene society,

men and women worked and lived together.

At the time of the reading,

scholars believed that the Essenes

were a monastic society composed exclusively of men.

However, in 1951,

more than six years after Cayce's death,

archaeologists discovered evidence that Cayce was right.

Men and women lived together in the Essene society.

Come to find out, Edgar Cayce and his readings

precisely match what the Dead Sea Scrolls said.

How can that be? Edgar Cayce must have tapped in

to the past somehow, some mysterious way.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that Edgar Cayce was given

a vision of humankind's long-lost past?

And if so, could there have been a reason

this secret knowledge was revealed to him?

Perhaps further clues can be found by examining

another vision Cayce had concerning ancient Egypt

and a secret repository of knowledge

hidden beneath the paw of the Sphinx.

NARRATOR: On July 1, 1932,

while in a trance,

Edgar Cayce made an astonishing claim

that the Great Pyramid of Giza was built

more than 12,000 years ago.

He also voiced another, perhaps even more significant,

revelation when he declared

that a secret chamber lies hidden

under the right paw of the Great Sphinx of Giza.

The chamber is said to contain records

of a highly advanced, lost civilization--

the same one that the Greek philosopher Plato

wrote about in the 4th century BC,

known as Atlantis.

HENRY: The traditional concept of Atlantis

is that it was located

somewhere out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean,

beyond the Straits of Gibraltar.

Edgar Cayce came along

and filled in tremendous gaps in details.

In his trancelike state,

he described Atlantis as this very luxurious

and enormously powerful culture.

It had advanced technology.

The capital city was at the center of circular canals

with magnificent bridges that linked the canals,

that sailing ships could sail under.

In Cayce's vision, Atlantis became real.

Cayce specifically stated that

Atlantis was an actual, historical place.

He said this lost world

was founded by supernatural beings

that were extraterrestrial.

So, he clearly believed or stated that there were other

intelligences in the universe that interfaced with humanity.

ERICH VON DANIKEN: One day, Atlantis sunk,

which in geology makes no sense that Atlantis sunk.

Maybe there was a storm or whatever

that destroyed Atlantis, maybe it was a war.

COLLINS: What Edgar Cayce said

was that the survivors of Atlantis

moved into different parts of the ancient world.

And they had to build

three so-called Halls of Records.

One was to be in what we know today as the Yucatán.

Another was to be somewhere in the vicinity

of the island of Bimini in the Bahamas.

And the third one was to be in the area

that we now know as the Giza Plateau in Egypt.

And these were to be the repositories

of all of the knowledge and wisdom

of the Atlantean people.

NARRATOR: Did Edgar Cayce access information

about an advanced extraterrestrial civilization

that inhabited the Earth thousands of years ago?

And if so, could proof that Atlantis once existed

lie just beneath the feet

of the Great Sphinx of Giza in Egypt?

For geologist Dr. Robert Schoch,

Cayce's predictions eerily echoed his own independent

investigation at this iconic Egyptian monument.

We conducted a number of low-energy seismographic studies

around the base of the Sphinx.

We placed geophones around the perimeter of the Sphinx.

We pounded on the steel plate,

which was laid on the surface of the ground.

This sent energy waves or sound waves into the rock.

And they bounce off of different layers of rock.

And from that, we found areas that indicated

hollows or chambers or voids within the rock.

We found one at the rear of the Sphinx,

and we found what looked like a tunnel-like structure

basically along the body of the Sphinx.

And we found a large, rectangular,

chamber-like structure

under the left paw of the Sphinx.

This was totally unexpected to us.

I was simply looking for mineralogical changes.

NARRATOR: Unfortunately, Dr. Schoch's investigation

would be cut short before he could follow up on his findings.

HENRY: Dr. Robert Schoch comes along,

and it looks like there's a chamber there.

The Egyptian military steps in and stops the whole affair.

That tells me that there seems to be

some awareness that there truly is something there,

and that the Egyptian authorities

wanted to keep a lid on it and have kept a lid on it

till this day.

Based on our seismic analysis,

I have no question that there is a chamber

under the left paw of the Sphinx and that

this is an artificial, human-made chamber.

This is precisely where Edgar Cayce suggested

a Hall of Records might exist.

If we could find this time capsule,

and it was there, I mean, this is something

that would literally change history,

because there's still much to be discovered

about the human story-- who we are, where we've been,

where we're coming from--

and that's what Edgar Cayce was talking about.

NARRATOR: If Edgar Cayce really did receive information

about a so-called Hall of Records beneath the Sphinx,

could this be evidence that he was carrying out

an extraterrestrial agenda to reveal

planet Earth's true past?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes

and suggest that Cayce

was also preparing humankind for an extraordinary future.

NARRATOR: Virginia Beach.

In this rare footage from 1939,

62-year-old Edgar Cayce is captured on film

among a growing number of followers

who now visit him on a daily basis seeking cures

to their ailments and insights about the future.

Four years later, in March of 1943,

Cayce's fame would grow exponentially

with the publication of his first biography,

titled There is a River: The Story of Edgar Cayce.

CORRINE: There is a River by Thomas Sugrue

was getting a lot of acclaim,

and his name was becoming more and more familiar

to more and more people.

Also, World War II was well underway at that point.

And so, the combination of people becoming aware

that there was someone you could ask any question

and you would get a psychic response,

Edgar Cayce started receiving vast numbers of requests

for readings during that time.

He started giving eight to ten readings a day.

VAN AUKEN: His psychic readings took an extreme toll

on his physical body.

His youngest son told me

that he could see that his father's body

was not doing well with so many readings.

CORY: I believe, when you are in a deep trance state

and receiving information,

this information is coming through

from a very, very high frequency.

So, your brain is working

at this very, very high frequency

as if you're pressing on the gas nonstop.

And that gets very exhausting.

If you did that every day,

eventually, that takes a toll on you,

and your body starts to break down.

CORRINE: In September of 1944,

he had a series of small strokes,

and the reading that he gave for himself said that he needed

to rest and calm down and not work as hard as he was working.

NARRATOR: On January 3, 1945,

Edgar Cayce passed away at the age of 67.

In the final year of his life,

Cayce performed an astounding 1,385 readings.

Some say that Cayce worked himself to death.

This was not a means for him to get rich.

It was a means to help humanity,

to be a conduit of records

from a source of universal knowledge

that he could share with humanity.

NARRATOR: Edgar Cayce stated that his purpose in life

was to help his fellow humans.

When he died, he left behind an enormous archive

of psychic readings that are still being studied today,

and which some believe could provide important clues

about the future.

Cayce is also largely credited

with introducing the modern world

to holistic medicine.

He's called the father of holistic medicine

because he was one of the first people

to really start talking in America about

the integration and connection

between our bodies and minds and spirits.

HOROWITZ: He also popularized certain eastern ideas

with which many Americans were unfamiliar,

including karma, reincarnation,

as well as a mind-body connection in medicine.

Meditation as a therapeutic tool.

Everything that you find today

on the alternative spiritual scene was

heightened in public awareness through Edgar Cayce's readings.

VAN AUKEN: Edgar Cayce said that people had to fix their thinking,

and you had to have higher help.

You needed your mind on the right attitude.

It needed to be expectant.

And you needed some of the life force

of the spirit flowing better.

NARRATOR: Cayce believed that a holistic approach to life

was not only beneficial to a person's health,

but might also lead to more people

awakening their own innate psychic abilities

and learning to access a higher realm of knowledge

just as he did.

Einstein said all existence is energy,

and that energy is being interconnected

through the ether.

I think Edgar was correct when he says

that you can tap into

all sorts of information through the ether.

But this is not a science in a lab.

We are talking about the state of consciousness.

VAN AUKEN: Edgar Cayce has spoken about reaching

to a new level of holism.

Higher mental state, higher vibrational state

of the body, and more spirituality.

Even though he was a Christian,

his teachings are way beyond Christianity.

They pick up on Buddhism, Hinduism, Daoism,

and the Kabbalah teachings.

As humans become more enlightened,

they can still get new information from Cayce's files.

NARRATOR: Could it be that, by studying Edgar Cayce's teachings,

anyone can learn how to access a higher realm?

Perhaps further clues can be found by examining

Edgar Cayce's visions of a future

in which humans develop profound new abilities.

NARRATOR: Over the course of his life, Edgar Cayce gave readings

concerning everything from critical illnesses

to the ancient past to major world events.

But perhaps most intriguing among his many prophecies

is one that predicts the emergence

of an advanced group of humans.

In July of 1932, Edgar Cayce predicted

that a new type of human being would walk the Earth.

He referred to them as the fifth root race

and described this new being as having

enhanced psychic powers, telekinesis, psychic ability,

and expanded consciousness capabilities.

Root races are a concept that emerged

from Madame H.P. Blavatsky's two-volume work,

The Secret Doctrine, which was published in 1888.

Blavatsky maintained that, over vast stretches of history,

humanity would be moving into different evolutionary stages,

uh, of expanded psychical abilities, for example.

Edgar's predictions of an emergent generation

in the early 21st century

with heightened psychic abilities

arguably could line up with similar predictions that

can be gleaned from Blavatsky.

COLLINS: The fifth root race,

it's something similar to the idea that a lot of

New Age people started to talk about

from about the 1980s onwards.

The idea that children would be born

much more psychically sensitive.

They were referred to as the so-called indigo children

or the star children.

And that, come the 21st century,

there would be this huge rise in psychic powers

of spirituality and oneness with the cosmos.

Cayce talked about individuals being born

that will have psychic gifts that will be advanced.

And I tend to believe that is what's happening on the Earth.

A lot of people are coming around to these

ancient ideas of metaphysics and spirituality.

And I have encountered a lot of young people

and worked with them who have incredible gifts.

And we will see through time

if there's a changing of the guard in humanity.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that Edgar Cayce's vision

of a fifth root race is coming true?

And if so, could this provide insight

into a greater mission behind Cayce's life's work?

There are some ancient astronaut theorists

who believe that these predictions

of humanity's future may actually be part of a plan

to prepare us for the return of our extraterrestrial ancestors.

SHIMKHADA: Edgar Cayce believed that the Akashic record

can be accessed by anyone.

And I think that is absolutely true.

It's just that we have not awakened ourselves.

But if you are able access the records, like Edgar Cayce,

then the gate to universe opens up.

I think it's very interesting to make a correspondence between

ancient astronaut theory and what Cayce was proposing.

The common denominator is that there was once

a glorious past civilization where humans interacted

with extraterrestrial beings, the gods.

They lived amongst us.

And one day, they will return, and humankind

will have full knowledge of its past,

and we will live in a new golden age.

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lost knowledge of mankind's true ancient origins,

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Is it possible that Edgar Cayce's true purpose

was to demonstrate to mankind the potential

for unlocking the secrets of the universe?

Perhaps the truth will only be found

by accessing the cosmic knowledge

that exists all around us.

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