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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mindada heesara" data-source="post: 11843385" data-attributes="member: 387293">එහෙමද? එහෙනම් අහගන්න Edgar Cayce කියන්නේ කවුද කියල <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/D.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D" data-shortname=":D" /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Cayce" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Cayce</a>Controversy and criticism "Cayce had advocated some controversial and eccentric ideas from his  trance readings. In many of Cayce's trance sessions he had reinterpreted  the history of life on earth. One of Cayce's controversial claims was  that of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygenism" target="_blank">polygenism</a>.  According to Cayce five human races (white, black, red, brown and  yellow) had been created separately but simultaneously on different  parts of the earth. Cayce also accepted the existence of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis" target="_blank">Atlantis</a>  and had claimed that "the red race developed in Atlantis and its  development was rapid". Another claim by Cayce was that "soul-entities"  on earth had intercourse with animals to produce giants which were as  much as twelve feet tall.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Cayce#cite_note-25" target="_blank">[26]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olav_Hammer" target="_blank">Olav Hammer</a>    wrote that many of Cayce's readings discussed race and skin colour and  that the explanation for this is that Cayce was not a racist but was  influenced by the occult ideas of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Blavatsky" target="_blank">Madame Blavatsky</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Cayce#cite_note-26" target="_blank">[27]</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Todd_Carroll" target="_blank">Robert Todd Carroll</a> in his book The skeptic's dictionary  (2003) wrote that "Cayce is one of the main people responsible for some  of the sillier notions about Atlantis." Carroll mentioned some of  Cayce's notions which included his belief in a giant crystal ball used  to power energy on Atlantis and his prediction that in 1958 the United  states would discover a death ray which had been used on Atlantis".Criticism<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_skepticism" target="_blank">"Skeptics</a>     of Cayce say that the evidence for his powers comes from  contemporaneous newspaper articles, affidavits, anecdotes, testimonials,  and books. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Gardner" target="_blank">Martin Gardner</a> for example wrote that the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trances" target="_blank">trances</a>  of Cayce did happen, but the information from his trances occured  becuase Cayce had been reading other books from authors such as Carl  Jung, Ouspensky and Blavatsky. Gardner's hypothesis was that the trance  readings of Cayce contain "little bits of information gleaned from here  and there in the occult literature, spiced with occasional novelties  from Cayce's unconscious."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Cayce#cite_note-28" target="_blank">[29]</a> They are also critical of Cayce's support for various forms of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_medicine" target="_blank">alternative medicine</a>, which they regard as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quackery" target="_blank">quackery</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Cayce#cite_note-29" target="_blank">[30]</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Shermer" target="_blank">Michael Shermer</a> writes in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_People_Believe_Weird_Things:_Pseudoscience,_Superstition,_and_Other_Confusions_of_Our_Time" target="_blank">Why People Believe Weird Things</a>,  "Uneducated beyond the ninth grade, Cayce acquired his broad knowledge  through voracious reading and from this he wove elaborate tales."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Cayce#cite_note-shermer-30" target="_blank">[31]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Randi" target="_blank">James Randi</a>  as saying "Cayce was fond of expressions like 'I feel that' and  'perhaps' -- qualifying words used to avoid positive declarations." When asked in a reading about the age of the Great Pyramid, Cayce  stated it was built approximately 10,500 B.C. Later carbon dating puts  the age from 3800–2850 B.C., about 7,000 years later than Cayce's claim.  Shermer wrote that, "Cayce was fantasy-prone from his youth, often  talking with angels and receiving visions of his dead grandfather."  Shermer further cites" </blockquote>

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