“We all can do it – we can learn to develop our physic abilities. According to Edgar Cayce, everyone has innate psychic abilities which can be awakened through prayer, meditation, and practice. He emphasized that psychic development should be grounded in spiritual growth and service to others. Ultimately, Cayce saw psychic ability as a natural byproduct of our soul’s evolution and alignment with divine purpose.
The true source of psychic powers is God. Not many parapsychologists – who make scientific studies of ESP – would be bold enough to make a claim like that. But it’s exactly what the Cayce readings propose. Furthermore, that true source can be found within ourselves. If we’re interested in psychic guidance, we don’t have to look very far. Cayce was especially fond of quoting the Bible on this very point. The highest possible psychic realization, according to Cayce, is to know that God will communicate directly with us.
Put another way by Cayce: Spiritual ‘awakening’ means becoming conscious of the relationship between the finite and the infinite. The focus should be on the abiding presence of the Spirit – within ourselves and immediately surrounding us.
Clearly, the spiritual discipline of meditation is one key to Cayce’s psychic development program. It’s mentioned many times in these excerpts. By the daily practice of meditation, we attune ourselves to the highest levels of mind within ourselves. We can even use the few minutes at the end of our meditation period as a time to be open and receptive for specific psychic guidance. Closely related to the subject of meditation is the process of balancing and attuning the physical body.
Another important principle about psychic development and the physical body is the vital necessity to get the body into optimal fitness. First, we should recognize that physical health and vitality are a part of the attunement of body, mind, and spirit. Furthermore — and a special insight by Cayce in regard to disturbing psychic experiences — when there are imbalances in the body, it can open the subconscious mind in such a way that very disorienting paranormal occurrences take place. When people reported to Cayce their accounts of upsetting voices, troubling dreams, or other forms of frightening psychic events, more often than not, the problem was identified as some sort of physical imbalance. Therefore, any sound approach to psychic development cannot ignore the need to get the body fit.
In summary, how would Cayce have answered those skeptics who state that it’s far better not to explore the psychic realm? The readings clearly agree that we shouldn’t get distracted or obsessed with psychic phenomena. Instead, these experiences are a natural part of human life and are offered to us as assurances that we are connected to one another and to a God who cares about us. It’s an aspect of life worth paying attention to and worth understanding — what Cayce calls ‘the great study for the human family.’ (3744-4)”
edgarcayce.org, Mark Thurston, Ph.D. Education Department