Faith healers have been a part of many cultures for millennia. Witch doctors, shamans, and medicine men, among others, played important roles in the societies they lived in. Jesus Christ was hailed as a great healer.

As late as the nineteenth century, magnetism and other methods of alternative healing enjoyed popularity, but many of the ancient healing arts eventually gave way to modern medicine. In fact, with the rise of modern medicine, the popularity of the old way of healing almost disappeared.

Edgar Cayce and the Healing Arts Revival

It was Edgar Cayce who unwittingly became the focal point of the New Age movement, which swept the country during the latter part of the twentieth century. Cayce's uncanny psychic ability to retrieve old healing remedies from the Akashic Records stored deep in the Universe changed the views of alternative medicine for many doubters.

While in a deep self-hypnotic trance, Cayce was able to scan a body with his mind and give a diagnosis based on what he saw. The subject did not even have to be in the same room for Cayce to be able to scan her body and give a diagnosis and recommend treatment for the affliction. The language that Cayce used in a trance was not the lingo or jargon of modern medicine. The treatments were given in terms that employed remedies long since forgotten. The diagnosis and treatments often focused on the body's energy system.

Many of you have Edgar Cayce's potential to psychically read the health of others and help facilitate their healing. Each one of you will do it a little differently. You will have the opportunity to consider several concepts of psychic healing in this chapter.