Edgar Cayce

[[File:Cayce.jpg|thumb|right|165px|Can't wait to sit next to him on the bus!]]{{newage}}
'''Edgar Cayce''' (1877–1945) was a famous [[channelling|channeller]] responsible for a lot of [[woo]] popular in today's [[New Age]].  His channeled writings include [[prophecy|prophecies]] of catastrophic [[earth changes]], involving the [[Pole shift|Earth's axis shifting]], [[California]] falling into the ocean, and earthquakes.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100313183528/http://www.edgarcayce.org/are/ancient_mysteries.aspx?id=2829 As seen on a popular Cayce-promoting site]</ref> 

California just called, says it's still here, thank you.

==A woo-meister of note==
Cayce begun to dabble in [[bullshit]] at an early age, as when he was six years old, he allegedly started seeing and talking to visions, some resembling deceased family members and others being straight up [[angel]]s, which he, coincidentally, "saw" after he became a [[Christian]]. He also believed that by sleeping with his schoolbooks under his pillow, he could absorb the information from the books and remember all the details instead of doing the sensible thing and actually read the books.<ref>[https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/profecias/esp_profecia01h4.htm American prophecy-4]</ref> 

He was known as the "sleeping prophet" because he would allegedly slip into a deep [[meditation| meditative sleep]] in order to give his predictions and medical diagnoses, despite not having any formal education whatsoever in the field of [[medicine]]. He also founded {{wpl|Atlantic University||,}} a Virginia-based [[diploma mill]] for all sorts of wonderful degrees in [[bullshit]].<ref>[http://www.atlanticuniv.edu/ Atlantic University]</ref>

Cayce popularised the [[myth]] about a buried "Hall of Records" lying between the paws of the [[Sphinx]], which allowed [[Egypt]]-woo-ologists like [[Graham Hancock]] and Robert Bauval to publish wildly popular books of gibberish. He also apparently had something to do with [[Lemuria]]<ref>[http://www.crystalinks.com/lemuria.html Crystalinks on Lemuria]</ref> and was largely responsible for perpetuating many of the myths surrounding [[Atlantis]] in modern popular culture, including the myth that Atlantis held some sort of [[crystal woo| "Great Crystal"]] that was destroyed by a death ray.<ref>
[http://www.skepdic.com/cayce.html The Skeptic's Dictionary] article on Cayce.
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His laundry list of [[woo]] also included the recommendation of many [[quack]] medical remedies (along with promoting [[osteopathy]]), such as poultices of castor oil, and "atomidine" - a [[patent medicine]] consisting of an iodine trichloride (I<sub>2</sub>Cl<sub>6</sub>) solution prepared by running electricity through it. Adherents claim that this process makes the ordinarily highly toxic iodine trichloride safe for human use while giving it benefits to the immune system by cleansing the glands and lymphatic system, but this is just [[bullshit |silly]].  In reality it is "mostly harmless" only because atomidine contains only 1% iodine trichloride in solution.  You can find products based on Cayce's readings, where else, in your local health-food store, along with gallons of other woo.

===Electrified atomic iodine===
Electrified atomic iodine, also known as '''atomidine''', is an iodine-based substance alleged by Cayce to have "special" powers. It is allegedly manufactured by running electricity through iodine, a process which Cayce supporters call "modified [[cleanse|detoxification]] processing". Supporters of Cayce claim electrified atomic iodine can influence the immune system of our body and can cure related diseases, a claim which has no scientific basis. If you actually pass electricity through a water solution of iodine, it is conductive, but nothing special happens. The iodine won't "remember" this, won't convert to atomic iodine (which is extremely reactive and can't be stored) and isn't "electrified" or "detoxified".

Products containing 1% iodine trichloride solution labeled as "atomidine" are often sold in health food stores to cater to the Edgar Cayce [[woo]] set.

==See also==
*[[Alex Jones]], who actually sells a Cayce-inspired iodine supplement whose serving size is twice the maximum recommended upper limit
*[[Baba Vanga]]
*[[Nostradamus]]
*[[Vitamin supplement]]

==External links==
*[http://skepdic.com/cayce.html Edgar Cayce], entry at [[The Skeptic's Dictionary]]

==References==
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