Edgar Cayce on the Akashic Records. Kevin J. Todeschi

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      Regardless of which cycle has surfaced in one’s life, the soul constantly experiences the consequences of its previous choices. This concept is expressed in biblical terminology as “What you sow you must reap” and is generally labeled as “Like attracts like” by students of reincarnation. This essentially means that individuals get to experience for themselves the effects that their previous choices have had upon others. Rather than being predestined, individuals continue to be in control of their lives (and their perceptions) through how they choose to respond to the situations they’ve drawn to themselves. Ultimately all experiences are for one’s personal growth.

      It is worth noting that soul growth can occur even when an individual has made the “wrong” choice. For example, in one case which will be explored in greater depth in the next chapter, one woman (1523) had obviously made the wrong choice when she married her first husband. However, that choice enabled her and her husband both to overcome certain patterns that had originated two hundred years earlier. Although the memory (or the karma) from the past had to be dealt with, it might have been overcome in an easier fashion. It is interesting to note that the readings often suggested it was better to make an erroneous choice than it was to be idle and to do nothing, because soul development was only possible through movement, growth, and activity.

      In Cayce’s cosmology, each soul’s wealth of experiences from the past acts as subconscious memory in the present. By coming to terms with that memory—which manifests through such things as one’s desires, feelings, attributes, even fears—faults and shortcomings can be overcome and talents and abilities expressed.

      In terms of personal relationships, Edgar Cayce stated that we never meet anyone by chance, nor do we ever have an emotional connection (positive or negative) to another individual for the very first time. Relationships are an ongoing learning and experiential process. In other words, we pick up our relationship with another person exactly where it was left the last time around. As one example, two individuals from the Cayce files (cases 288 and 294) were told that “These two have ever been together,” (294-9) and have experienced every imaginable relationship from father and daughter, employee and employer, mother and son, to husband and wife. In another instance (1222-1), a woman was told that part of the reason her husband was so controlling and demanding was because he had purchased her in a previous life. Cayce stated, “He bought you! Doesn’t he act like it at times?” to which the woman responded, “He sure does!” The nature and ongoing development of all relationships are a portion of that which is recorded by the Akashic Records.

      An interesting twist on the idea that individuals are constantly meeting the memory they have previously built in relationships with one another is that there really isn’t karma between people; instead, there is only karma with one’s own self. These patterns of behavior and memory are stored within one’s own records. The conceptual challenge, however, is that individuals seem to most effectively come to terms with their own karmic memory, or “meet themselves,” through their interactions with others. It is this interesting dynamic of meeting oneself through relationships with others that often causes individuals to perceive “them” as the basis of one’s frustrations and challenges rather than accepting personal responsibility.

      And yet, in spite of the fact that karma belongs to oneself, each soul is constantly drawn toward certain individuals and groups that will enable them to meet themselves in circumstances and relationships. Those individuals and groups, in turn, are drawn toward specific people in an effort to come to terms with their own karmic memory.

      This concept of cyclic patterns with groups of individuals is evidenced among Cayce’s contemporaries. A number of people who had readings were frequently given lifetimes in history that progressed along the following lines: Atlantis, ancient Egypt, Persia, Palestine, Europe, Colonial America, and then as a contemporary of Cayce’s in the first half of the twentieth century. Because of this pattern, and the number of individuals who requested past-life readings for themselves and their families, some individual relationships can be traced for thousands of years.

      In an effort to understand the dynamics of group karma that may be at play in our own lives, it’s possible to gather insights from the experiences of others. The experiences of these people and the development of their relationships through time can provide us with some interesting insights into how this process of coming to terms with the Akashic Records of the past works, as well as the interconnected dynamic between free choice and karmic memory. By exploring the biographical stories of others against their soul histories, we might discover karma-in-action. The process of life and death, rebirth, and the movement toward individuality is similar for each of us. Looking at the records and the soul histories of others might enable us to make more educated choices for ourselves as we come to terms with our own karmic memory and the meeting of patterns from the past.

      With that in mind, one of the most fascinating case histories in the Cayce files is that of a twenty-nine-year-old woman who received her first reading in January 1938. What distinguishes this case from hundreds of others is that over the next six and a half years (before Cayce’s death in 1945) this woman procured an astonishing eighty-three readings for seventeen family members. These readings enabled her to understand how some of her current problems related not only to the present, but to a period that had occurred more than one hundred years previously—before she had even been born! More than that, she discovered how a majority of her family grouping had been “entangled” for thousands of years. These events and experiences continued to be written on the Akashic Records, giving impulse and reason to many of the woman’s current experiences.

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      Case History—The Family of Anna Campbell

       (Note: The names of case 1523 and her family members have been changed in order to maintain confidentiality.)

      In 1938 a twenty-nine-year-old woman came to Edgar Cayce for a psychic reading (case 1523). She was desperate and felt he was her last hope. She was near an end, both physically and mentally. Her marriage was not a happy one, but she was lost as to what to do. She was torn between divorcing her second husband or staying with him. Although unhappy in the situation, part of her hoped to make the marriage work in order to fulfill her dream of having a family.

      Her reason for coming to see Mr. Cayce, however, was not for marital advice but because of a physical condition. She was fearful that her situation might require surgery and render her incapable of conception. A tubal pregnancy during her disastrous first marriage had resulted in the removal of one set of fallopian tubes. She had begun to experience similar physical symptoms and feared that a second tubal pregnancy would end her chances of having a baby. More than anything else, she wanted to be a mother. Other family members had pursued college and careers; her sister was working on a master’s degree. But not Anna; for as long as she could remember, she had one dream: “to have six children and to grow old with them.” She hoped by having a physical reading that she would avoid another operation.

      Anna’s life history was unknown to Edgar Cayce at the time of her reading. However, an overview of her story will enable us to better understand her situation as well as its connection to the past.

      She was born in a very small town at the turn of the twentieth century. So small, in fact, that half a century later the town would have been annexed by surrounding communities and literally disappeared. Her parents were farmers, though her mother had come from a Kentucky background much more refined and dignified than her father’s. This fact seemed to bother her father for much of his life. Her father was one of the last frontiersmen, deeply rooted in the land and the knowledge of what it could provide for his family.

      She was one of six children who СКАЧАТЬ