The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-10-10
's Peculiar GifHas Been Mine Since Youth "SaysMr. Cayce
Mysticism, Psychism, or What You Will, EnveIops Man Whose Power in Heal- ing Has Created Tremendous Interest Among All Condi- tions of Men
By DOLLY pALRYMPLE

During the twenty-five years in i which l have given whatever gifts possess for the benefit of suffering humanity, have diagnosed eight thousand and fifty-six cases and pre- scribed cures for them, all of whom have been told were satisfactory" The statement by MT. Edgar Cayce, native Kentuckian and for ! many years resident of Alabama, was as unboastfully made as possible, when he was talking to me yester- day.
 Quiet in his demeanor, modest in his speech, with none of the flare and glare of the professional mystic, psychic. clairvoyant, or fortune tellef MT. Cayce, who now makes his home in Selma, is visitor to Blr mingham Tor few days, having come here to meet group of people from Chicago who desired his service.
 How dc I do it?" MT. Cayce re- peated the question after me. "I can't any more tell than you can; one thing I know and that is since I was a child I have had the peculiar gift; my parents used to thrash me sound ly for my ideas and practice of my powers, and yet that did not deter me from going straight ahead and revealing them to all with whom l came in contact"
 Testimonials
 From Maine to California, from Florida to Canada, Mir. Cayce has letters. all of which he has preserved most carefully in a valuable book, from some of the most prominent physicians and scientists of this age among them Dr. McDougal of liar yard, before whom MT. Cayce appear 5 I I1l f.gr frff Dr. Munsterberg also granted Nh Cayce an. audience, declaring that h expected to expose him to the world Mir Cayce repeats the incident as follows:
 "Dr. Munsterberg accosted me with the questions:
 where are your patients? Can you call them in?''
 Certainly I said and did so, after which Dr. Munsterberg declared that he could not call my work fake for my patients were there to testify to my ability"
 Christianity the Foundation
 My work Is not for pecuniary pur- poses; my patients pay me what they will By profession am pho tographer, I have never been on the stage although I have had the most
 
 fifteen thousand dollars to appear for three times on the stage and demon strate my work, in 8 nearby city, short time ago. but l shun such pub iicity and notoriety."
 "Then how do you do it if it is 1, not like the professional psychic medium or clairvoyant?" Tn the privacy of my own rooms,
 said MT. Cayce "Yes, go into a trance or sub-conscious state; what it is I don't know:S I am really n6 aware that I am doing any thing marvellous; in fact I am not conscious of what I am saying or prescribing; I just don't know what is is. "This I do know; that it is mans humanity to man to be able to diag-
 nose suffering and disease and pre-
 scribe remedy for it that curesl"
 May the words of my mouth and tho meditations of my heart be ac- ceptable in Thy sight, o Lord. my
 strength and my redeemer,' is the foundation of my work. Belief in the fatherhood of God and the brother
 hood of man is my motto and for this reason I hope to be able
 to establish a hospital or sani:-
 tarium so that suffering humanity
 can have the benefit of my gifts. l Not Spiritualism. But Spirituality | No; I do not believe in spiritual
 ism but I do believe in spirituality l declared Mir. Cayce. What those who say they communicate with the
 dead must mean is, that they com-
 municate with impressions left by
 the dead here. They talk to the personality of the dead; in other words the personality which is left to Jus here just as the individuality goes I into the other world.
 ''Ectoplasm, of which we hear so much, is nothing more or less than l personality reduced to this form. | Thoughts are deeds we are told and
 they may become miracles or they may. become crimes.
 Japan once proposed a law pre- venting people from thinking wrong, I if you recall; in other words, right