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Astral Projections Press News – July 2010 - Who No. 2

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Edgar Cayce and David E. Kahn

 

Photo clipped from an ARE Newsletter in the 1960’s.   It was blown up to poster size and sent to ARE headquarters at Virginia  Beach ahead of its time.  I was informed that the   policy was not to display photos of Cayce.    That rule later changed and this beautiful photo is now on display  there to be shared by all.   Inset next to David Kahn is the cover of his book: My Life With Edgar Cayce.

 

June 6, 2010

Who Was Who Series –II

 

*ARE Remembrances    

   -  Edgar Cayce

    -  David Kahn

 

*Akashic Records

    - The Man Called Cayce

    - There Is A River

 

*Soul Quest: The Legacy

 

*The Cayce Soul Group      

    - Karmic Connections

 

*Who Was Who

    - Past Lives

ARE Remembrances

Edgar Cayce left the earth plane in 1945.  Although I did not hear of him until 1956, both he and David Kahn, whom I knew briefly, were familiar figures and mentors in my dreams when I lived at the old NY ARE Center on 16th St. in Chelsea.  My remembrances of these rendezvous’ are documented for posterity in my book, ARE Remembrances.   Both, of course, also appear in The Edgar Cayce Soul Group and the Who Was Who.

ARE REMEMBRANCES from My Fifty Years with the Edgar Cayce Work – By Elyse Curtis, Ph. D.  Part I of this ARE journey follows the author’s involvement with the Association for Research and Enlightenment, Cayce family members, those who knew him and ARE members in New York and Virginia Beach from her introduction in 1956 to her graduation from Atlantic University.  ISBN 1-891058-34-7 - $11.95  Go to Order Form   Books/Music

Edgar Cayce

Edgar Cayce was a modern-day “Christian mystic” (to use Harmon Bro’s apt description of him), who read the Bible through once for every year of his life.  The centerpiece of his work was Jesus, the Christ and him crucified.  Through the harmonization of his body, mind, spirit triune while asleep, he was able to read the akashic records (the Biblical book of life: the ark of the testament) where everything that has ever happened is recorded on the “skein of time and space.”   Several biographies have been written about him.  The most popular one, There Is A River, * by Thomas Sugrue, whose title came from Psalm 46, was begun in 1940 and published in 1943.

 

Thirty years later, in 1973, with the support of Gladys Davis Turner, who had been his secretary, I compiled the first chronology of his past lives as a synopsis for a book: The First Sunrise.   All of those lives and his past relationships to friends, family and close supporters through time from the beginning form a mosaic of characters whose lives fill in many of the unanswered questions about the planet’s past history.  They are documented in The Edgar Cayce Soul Group and all appear in the Who Was Who.  

 

*A note on the “philosophy” in the back of There Is A River; some of it is Sugrue’s opinion.  The Cayce sources stated emphatically,” Man was made as man…Man DID NOT descend from the monkey3744-5

David E. Kahn

David Kahn’s memoir, My life with Edgar Cayce, opens with “In the Time Before…,” a familiar phrase used in the Cayce discourses to introduce a past life, a phrase that his wife, Lucille, told me was used at his burial.  I knew David only briefly before he passed, but it was he who taught me at night in the rendezvous dreams with Edgar Cayce. 

 

When I lived in New York at the old ARE center in Chelsea in the 1960s, I had a recurring dream nightly, which is also documented in my book Visions, Dreams and the Revelation (p. 49), in which a black limousine would come to pick me up for a rendezvous with Edgar Cayce. Another man, whom I perceived to be David Kahn, would also be in the car. I would be taught something and the rendezvous would be over until the next dream.

 

I never remembered what I had been taught except once.  As I was being let out of the car I was told, “You are chosen for this job because you are a Scorpio.” 

 

The overriding Scorpio trait of regenerating everything and everyone contacted and ferreting out the “secrets,” finding answers to the mysteries, through research, came to the fore immediately and eventually led to formation in the Commonwealth of Virginia of Astral Projections Press as the parent company of Ethereal Music and Akashic Records.

The Man Called Cayce  

The day after that dream, “The Man Called Cayce,” a song about Edgar Cayce “fell” into my head.  At first I called it “The Ballad of Edgar Cayce” and “The Legacy,” because of the repeating line in the chorus.  It was not just a folk ballad about a man with a special ability, but a song about his legacy, the work that provided answers to the questions about our origins, the universe, the Bible and more.

There Is A River

In the early 1970’s, “The Man Called Cayce” became linked to “There Is A River” (adapted from Psalm 46), another one of my songs connected to Cayce, when I worked at The Marshalls across from the ARE headquarters in Virginia Beach where I sang my original songs in the Serendipity Room for the conferees.  “There Is A River” always received a standing ovation and began to be called the ARE National Anthem. 

 

To fulfill the many requests received for both “The Man Called Cayce,” and “There Is a River,” we created a label, Akashic Records,  and recorded them back to back on a 45 with the young people from the ARE Work Study program as the chorus.  Later, we added voices of Gentle Spirit, a chorus I created, and produced them as single CDs.

 Akashic Records

THE MAN CALLED CAYCE - Lyrics and Music By Elyse Curtis.  Elyse Curtis with Norman Curtis and Gentle Spirit Chorus. #125, ISBN 1-891058-38-x  CD single $5.95  Go to Order Form  

              Gratis:  Click & play:   The Man Called Cayce                 

THERE IS A RIVER (Psalm 46) – Adaptation and Music By Elyse Curtis.  Elyse Curtis with Norman Curtis and Gentle Spirit Chorus. #125, ISBN 1-891058-37-1  CD single $5.95    Go to Order Form              

                     Gratis:  Click and play:   There Is a River   

Soul Quest

Both “There Is a River” and “The Man Called Cayce,” which is extended as a rap: “The Legacy,” are lyrical poems in Soul Quest along with many of my other songs that are also teaching tools and performance pieces.

 

SOUL QUEST (The Legacy) - A search for answers on the spiritual path at the ARE told in lyrical poems. (Can be performed by drama or study group) ISBN 1-891058-12-6, #122- $6.95    Go to Order Form

 

VISIONS, DREAMS, AND THE REVELATION – Personal transpersonal experiences as metaphors and signs along the path in life. ISBN 1-891058-02-9, #112 - $7.95. Go to Order Form

About The Edgar Cayce Soul Group

 

A majority of persons who had Life Readings from Edgar Cayce had incarnations in ancient Egypt around 10,500 -10,400 B.C. during the period when Ra-Ta (an incarnation of Edgar Cayce) was the high priest.  The Readings indicated that those people had been attracted to the work of Edgar Cayce.  Within this wide group, was a smaller group of people, some of whom were physical relatives who were intimately involved with Cayce in the development of the Association of Research and Enlightenment.  Some members incarnated at various other times with Cayce, or incarnated as a group weaving intricate patterns of karma to be met.  They incarnated as a group in Persia when Cayce was Uhjltd, the grandfather of Zoroaster, in the court of the Louises in France and in Ft. Dearborn in early America.  Many also incarnated in Atlantis, during the Biblical exodus and the return from captivity of the Jews, and when the master walked in the earth and during the early Christian era.

All of the Readings were given file numbers, which preserved the identity of the person to whom the Reading was given.  For anonymity all persons are identified by reading numbers, except in those cases where individuals consented to be identified, or have been identified in previous publications.

 

PAST LIVES, The Edgar Cayce Soul Group. By Elyse Curtis, Ph. D. - Incarnations showing karmic ties of the Edgar Cayce Soul group in Atlantis, Egypt, Persia, France and early America. ISBN 1-891058-23-1, #134 - $9.95 Books/Music

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About the Who Was Who

            In the early 1970's while I was living in Virginia Beach, I conceived the idea to write a book about the incarnations of Edgar Cayce.   I told Gladys Davis about this.  She thought it was an excellent idea and gave the project her blessings.   In the process of researching the lives of Edgar Cayce, it was a major effort to stay focused not to get caught up in a maze of characters from Atlantis to Early America and not stray into those others side lives, because the material was so fascinating.   After months of research in the library, I came up with a synopsis and outline of the chapters, which I submitted to Hugh Lynn and Gladys.   Being a playwright, I used some of the dramatic vernacular, like "setting the stage," the "cast of characters," etc.  Hugh Lynn thought the book was a good idea, but felt that the time was not right, because they hoped to have a film of Edgar Cayce coming out soon.  He thought it would conflict with the movie (which, unfortunately, never got made). 

More than twenty years later, the original research that I painstakingly did in 1973, before the readings were available on CD Rom, became the basis for the Who Was Who.  Published in 1996, it not only documented the incarnations of the Edgar Cayce soul group, but listed the complete 7,499 entries gleaned from the 1,919 Life Readings and incarnations of others given through association. Relatives and acquaintances often incarnated in the same eras and were advised to parallel their Readings for past relationships, which was done in the Who Was Who.  With the exception of 150 universally recognized prominent personages, most of the incarnations were of ordinary people. A few noted persons, like Nicodemus and Bartholomew were mentioned in other types of readings for those individuals or in Life Readings for other people. Judas was confirmed as being a present acquaintance of one of the soul group.  Past lives of some prominent persons like Henry Ford (See [464]) and the Duke of Windsor (See [3031]) (who were in the earth plane at the time of the individual Readings) also came through. Most significantly, the past incarnations of Jesus and many more of the characters that interacted with Him, were identified by name.  (Continued on pp (v-ix) of the Who Was Who)

WHO WAS WHO - A Past-Life Directory Based on the Edgar Cayce Discourses. By Elyse Curtis, Ph. D. 7,498 entries, Paperback, 8/12 x 11, 468 pp. Spiral bound to lie flat. ISBN 0-9657282-1-8, #101 $49.95  (More about Who Was Who )  Books/Music

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First To the Classes… (254 series)

The early books printed by the ARE Press were booklets stapled in the middle and displayed face front for sale.  They were treasure troves of information on specific subjects gleaned from the akashic level by the sleeping Edgar Cayce.   Those booklets, that are now collector’s items, became the publishing model for Astral Projections Press books that focused on independently verifying that information.

*Astral Projections: An Honorable Mission

Based on the quote that one should share knowledge, the Astral Projections books, that based on purchase order invoices have consistently been best sellers in the ARE of New York Book store, are still available on line moderately priced and at member discount through study groups.  Books will also be highlighted in coming issues of Astral Projections open for discussion and Q&A as a way of sharing knowledge.  Books/Music

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