Edgar Cayce
A SEER out of SEASON
Edgar Cayce
A SEER out of SEASON
The Life of History’s Greatest Psychic
HARMON HARTZELL BRO, PH.D.
Copyright © 1989
by Harmon Hartzell Bro
A.R.E. Press Edition
1st Printing, April 2011
Printed in the U.S.A.
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A.R.E. Press
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ISBN 978-0-87604-604-3
New American Library edition published 1989
Edgar Cayce Readings © 1971, 1993-2007
by the Edgar Cayce Foundation.
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Cover design by Christine Fulcher
To my graduate students, who for nearly half a century have taught me so much with their questions and creations, and to those bold graduate students of the next half century who will try to figure out where seers and open vision belong in our culture.
And to my wife, June.
“The best (including most absorbing) account that has been written about history’s best-documented psychic. William James would have liked this book.”
Huston Smith,
author of The World’s Religions and Forgotten Truth
Contents
Part I The Gift: Love Surprised by Wisdom
1. I Don’t Do Anything You Can’t Do
3. When I Am Absent from the Body
5. In Those Days There Was No Open Vision
6. Friends, I Have Nothing to Sell
8. If This Is True, Why Haven’t I Heard of It?
Part II The Roots: Cayce Before Cayce
9. We Are Living Several Lives at Once
10. High Priest and Scoundrel, Warrior and Shepherd of Souls
Part III The Life: Wrestling through the Dawn
12. It Should Be Thoroughly Tested
13. Why Shouldn’t I Dread Publicity?
14. Untouched Oil Pools in Texas
15. The Great Influential Institution
17. Ask That the Life of Cayce Be Spared
Chronology of the Life of Edgar Cayce
PREFACE
Harmon Hartzell Bro, Ph.D. (1919-1997) was a psychotherapist, an educator, a writer, an ordained minister, and an inspirational lecturer. As a young man, he lived and worked in the Cayce home and witnessed several hundred readings. That experience enabled him to come to know Edgar Cayce better than most individuals who have written about the Cayce legacy. Eventually, Harmon wrote his doctoral dissertation on Cayce’s life and work, as well as several books about the Cayce information, including this one, Edgar Cayce—A Seer Out of Season.
Harmon first came to Virginia Beach in 1943 as a young minister, just graduated from Divinity School at the University of Chicago. He came to meet Cayce first-hand, as he was both curious and troubled that his mother, Margueritte Harmon Bro, had become involved with Cayce’s work. However, what Harmon witnessed in Virginia Beach was very different than anything he might have imagined. An October 1943 letter to his wife, June Avis Bro, expressed his enthusiasm for a work that would transform his own life. That letter stated, in
