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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.

NARRATOR: Secrets to healings
bordering on miraculous,

lost knowledge of mankind's
true ancient origins,

visions of a future
in which all humans

can awaken their innate
psychic abilities.

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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