"Give Me Oh Lord Grace to Hear" Edgar Cayce wrote in book #94 of the specially printed, bound and autographed limited edition of "There is a River: The Story of Edgar Cayce".
In a letter to Mr. Cayce, the author Thomas Sugrue said, "THERE IS A RIVER is not only an account of the most completely documented series of experiments in clairvoyance ever undertaken; it is a history of our times in terms of the spirit of man--crystallized and personified in the struggle that constantly went on in the hidden places of your heart. I don't wish to be immodest, for my part in the tale is inconsequential, but if any reader can honestly say that he is not thrilled by this book, as I was in the writing of it, I will pay him the purchase price and eat his copy. The publisher says the cover of the limited edition will easily outlast its first owners."
And so it has, as I now begin to reread this life-changing book in January 2015.
This first edition was printed on quality paper, bound in cloth, with portrait frontispiece. Each copy was numbered and signed by Edgar Cayce with a personal message for each purchaser, since he knew to which of his many friends each copy went after being published on November 12, 1942.
Back in history, it was recognized that certain people could be hypnotized while being able to be mentally alert and in a state that showed remarkable intelligence and apparent powers of clairvoyance.
In one full-page article in the Sunday magazine section of The New York Times of October 9, 1910, the headline read, "Illiterate Man Becomes a Doctor When Hypnotized--Strange Power Shown By Edgar Cayce Puzzles Physicians". The first paragraph read: "The medical fraternity of the country is taking a lively interest in the strange power said to be possessed by Edgar Cayce of Hopkinsville, KY, to diagnose difficult diseases while in a semi-conscious state, though he has not the slightest knowledge of medicine when not in this condition."
When asked to explain this, The New York Times reported: "Edgar Cayce's mind is amenable to suggestion, the same as all other subconscious minds, but in addition thereto it has the power to interpret to the objective mind of others what it acquired from the subconscious state of other individuals of the same kind. The subconscious mind forgets nothing. The conscious mind receives the impression from without and transfers all thought to the subconscious, where it remains even though the conscious be destroyed."
Since that 1910 The New York Times article, we have learned much about the superconscious part of the mind or psychic activity:
Source: Thomas Sugrue: Story of Edgar Cayce: There Is a River
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