Edgar Cayce’s Association for Research and Enlightenment

Record summary

Edgar Cayce gave thousands of trance readings that addressed illness, reincarnation, dreams, spiritual development and alleged records of past civilizations. In 1931, supporters established the Association for Research and Enlightenment in Virginia Beach, creating an institutional setting for preserving and promoting the readings. The material matters for comparing clairvoyant healing, New Thought, Christian esotericism and modern occult authority. Questions include editorial transmission, retrospective interpretation, medical reliability and how the readings changed as an organized tradition.