Ebook: A Seer Out of Season: The Life of Edgar Cayce

Harmon Bro's years of study with master psychic Edgar Cayce bring a fresh viewpoint to his life. The author is the only living scholar to have directly worked with Cayce, and his biography is the first complete portrait of the man whose works have stood the test of time, more than 50 years.
"I don’t do anything you can't do."
These are the humble words of Edgar Cayce one of the most remarkable and complex figures in modern history. Gifted since childhood with the ability to enter into a trance like state of consciousness, Cayce could diagnose illnesses he had never studied, cure ailing people he had never met, and prescribe treatment without any formal medical training. His powers of prophecy and his ground breaking psychic perceptions stunned a skeptical nation four decades before the New Age Movement.
This fascinating biographical memoir, written by a leading scholar and longtime disciple of Edgar Cayce, sheds new light on the most gifted psychic of our time. Tracing Cayce's extraordinary life, it examines his somewhat conflicting roles of pious Sunday school teacher and self-styled country doctor; his amazing talents as a clairvoyant and his powerful, sexually charismatic presence; and of course, Cayce, the deeply religious, godly man with a lifelong dedication to the sick, the poor, and the lonely. Ironically, his remarkable prophecies, coveted by such prominent figures as Lionel Barrymore and loan Crawford, as well as by stockbrokers, oildrilling companies, and men of power seeking to profit from Cayce's foretellings, were also used to reap material rewards.

Drawing on hundreds of interviews with relatives, associates, disciples, even skeptics, this definitive work is the first to view the whole of Cayce's life, taking into account materials from his journals, dreams, lectures... case studies of those whose lives were miraculously altered by his ministrations...his riveting descriptions of what he called his reincarnated lives...and the four areas of his contribution to contemporary life and thought: ESP and supernatural guidance, holistic health, reincarnations and Karma, and disciplined spiritual growth.

In this landmark book, Edgar Cayce, now called "the Father of the New Age," emerges not merely as a medium or a mystic, but as a modern-day seer, albeit a lonely one, isolated by his burdensome gifts and by the awe he inspired in others. Yet in a world that now possesses the terrifying ability to destroy itself, Cayce's timeless ideals of faith, healing, and peace may have finally found their season.

HARMON HARTZELL BRO, Ph.D., is an ordained minister, a specialist in the psychology of religions, and the director of the Pilgrim Institute. He is the leading scholar on the life of Edgar Cayce and the only living professional who worked closely with Cayce on hundreds of his readings. His six books on Cayce's thought have sold over a million copies.

"Harmon Bro worked with Edgar Cayce for almost a year in 1944. For the last 45 years he has struggled with the implications of the experiences of that year, for himself and his family, his professions of theology and psychotherapy, and really for all of us looking for help with life’s issues and questions. Dr. Bro, a trained social scientist, takes an important fresh look at the life of the man and the implications of some of the central concepts in his psychic readings.”
Charles Thomas Cayce
President of the Association for Research and Enlightenment
"Ahead of his times in his own generation, Edgar Cayce and his spiritual philosophy are now embraced by millions. Dr. Harmon Bro eloquently captures the paradoxes of this complex man and the subtleties to his approach to health and spirituality."
Mark Thurston. Ph.D.
Director of Education,
Association for Research and Enlightenment