[cyncooper]

When I was younger I read a lot of Edgar Cayce. He was a devout Christian and it is not true that with this "theory" there is "no God to answer to".

(Not that I'm saying I believe in it, just clarifying a misconception)

[Aliska]

Somewhere long ago I read that Edgar Cayce's grandfather had been involved in spiritualism or the occult or something like that.

From a review of the book, "Edgar Cayce: An American Prophet", "As a young boy, Cayce would converse with his dead grandfather"

I don't know about you, but that raises red flags with me. He was a Methodist and they went lax on the first commandment a long time ago. That's where I got influenced by an intelligent Methodist woman (who perhaps ought to have known better) to read a book on reincarnation, "Gretchen, I Am", a story about a German girl, Gretchen Gottleib, who was murdered in the woods. The wife of a Reverend Carroll Jay, hypnotherapist, conjured up that one. As far as I can remember, few things checked out after some digging.