Edgar Cayce on the Akashic Records. Kevin J. Todeschi

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СКАЧАТЬ included a change of diet, internal medications, and massage; within two weeks there was vast improvement and within two months she felt physically normal. No operation was necessary.

      In April of that year she had her first life reading, and its information transformed the way she thought about herself, her hardships, and her family. Cayce began the reading by stating, “Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called [Anna Campbell].” (1523-4) Although Anna had never even considered something as foreign to her as reincarnation, the insights she gained from the reading changed her life forever and became as real to her as the present. Anna would later tell Mr. Cayce that having come in contact with him and his family meant “more to me than anything that has ever come into my existence . . .” for the past seemed connected to the present in the most remarkable way. The story which emerged from the Akashic Records contained striking connections to her present-day problems.

      A hundred years previously, she had been born as a daughter into the household of a frontier family. Her parents were settlers who tried hard to eke a living from the land. Apparently, at the time, Anna was interested most in herself, not caring for the lifestyle advocated by her nineteenth-century parents. Her reading summed up Anna’s motivation during that period as “What she desired she took; what she wanted she got!”

      In an interesting preview of her present, when she was seventeen, an unsuitable drifter convinced her to run away from home as his “companion.” She agreed without hesitation, and the two journeyed westward to an area then known as Fort Dearborn, near present-day Chicago.

      Before long, she was befriended by a saloon madam who owned one of the taverns. The woman was a great source of help and inspiration to many of the girls who worked for her. In fact, the elder woman helped many of them get back on the right track when their life seemed darkest. The madam saw their work as a way of giving companionship to lonely men and a means of giving women time to reconsider their lives. On the other hand, Anna saw it as a way of obtaining whatever she wanted. In spite of their different approaches, the madam would become her dearest friend and closest advisor—and her own mother one hundred years in the future. By choice, Anna became an entertainer in the tavern and didn’t hesitate to provide private amusement to the saloon’s clients. In time, she had a child fathered by her drifter-companion, though she insisted on retaining her position as entertainer, waitress, and bar moll.

      Except for one of the fort’s guides, few problems seemed to impinge upon her life. The guide, a self-styled minister, was abhorred by the “abominations” that occurred within the tavern. In contrast, he found his life to be rather exemplary. Because of his judgments about the inappropriateness of what was occurring, he found frequent occasion to condemn the tavern’s activities, its entertainers, and even its patrons. This led to frequent confrontations (and fistfights!) between Anna’s drifter-companion and the guide. A number of times the guide had the tar whipped out of him, and the conflict between the two was never really settled: it was no surprise to Anna to find that her drifter-companion would return as her brother, Warren, and the fort’s guide was none other than her pa.

      Eventually, Anna’s nineteenth-century counterpart grew tired of her relationship with the drifter and took up with a frontiersman named John Bainbridge. Life remained pretty much the same until Indian attacks on the fort caused Bainbridge and Anna and a group of others to escape. During one attack and the ensuing escape, Anna was forced to abandon her child. Although having no choice in the matter, Anna apparently never gave the child a second thought—it would provide for an interesting turnabout in the next century when all she could think about was children and wonder why she was barren.

      Indians pursued the group, at one point surrounding them as they drifted through the slow-moving waters of a river. Becoming very afraid, Anna had a reoccurring thought throughout the episode: “I’ve got to get out of this place. I’ve got to get out of this place!” That same thought would be repeated in her aunt’s house when a scene would call the memory to mind after the fort, the Indians, and the danger had long ceased to exist.

      Finally, Anna managed to escape from the Indians; Bainbridge would lose his life saving hers. Eventually, she would end up in Virginia, the place of her “current nativity.” With her arrival in Virginia, she became a new person. Perhaps it was the events of her early life or perhaps it was her desire to start over, but whatever the cause, Anna became known as an “angel” to those in need. She comforted the sick, counseled the wayward, and assisted the poor. Her life touched many and she was held in great esteem for her kindness—no one would know of her bar-moll adventures.

      At one point, she nursed back to health a settler who seemed emotionally neglected by his wife. The end result was that he fell in love with her and abandoned his own wife. Anna took to him not so much because she loved him, but because he loved her and no longer would she look out only for herself. Interestingly, though the man’s wife wasn’t interested in him, she didn’t want anyone else to be interested either. She became extremely bitter, mostly toward Anna for stealing something that was “hers.” One hundred years later the bitter wife would become Anna’s sister, Vera, and the man she didn’t really love would return as her second husband, Alan.

      Though her nineteenth-century life was not long in duration—she died at forty-eight—it entailed a great many adventures, experiences, and lessons, all of which would have a direct bearing on her next life when she would be born into a frontier family in a very small town in the twentieth century.

      The Dearborn experience was not the only lifetime given to Anna by Cayce; however, it was reported as the greatest influence on her current sojourn. She was told of two additional lifetimes recorded upon the records that were having a tremendous influence on her present: one in France and one in Laodicea (part of the Roman Empire). All told, Anna was given six lifetimes that were greatly affecting her present experience: Fort Dearborn, France, Laodicea, Israel, Egypt, and Atlantis. It was France that had set up the situation with her first husband, Robert.

      In France they had been lovers, where it was a well-kept secret. Robert had been one of the nobility and Catholic and unable to obtain a divorce. Out of necessity and on infrequent occasions, she had become his mistress. She would spend a lifetime desiring to be with him.

      Unfortunately, although being with him was her sole desire, it was not his. Being of the nobility, he had grown to love the pomp and the elegance and the respect that his position provided. He loved walking into a room and watching heads turn to meet his gaze; he loved having an entourage follow after him, waiting on his every word; he loved possessing women who would throw themselves at him, wishing to be a part of his world. All these things would follow him for two hundred years—affording him situations that would seem rather unusual when measured against his twentieth-century status and lack of education.

      The reading made it clear that much of Anna’s infatuation with Robert was because she had desired and continued to desire a perfect relationship with him. It also hinted at the fact that this was only a desire and not a real likelihood; yet it was a desire not to be easily overcome.

      Her reading stated that she would experience “greater harmony” in her life lasting “until ’40 and ’41, when AGAIN there will be a period of disturbance.” The reading urged her to continue working on her relationship with her current husband, Alan, even stating that it would be possible to conceive a child if they could only work things out. Regardless of the possibility of children, however, there were definite reasons the two of them were together. The reading provided Anna with insights she could work with, though she rarely discussed any of the information with anyone, including members of her own family.

      During the 1930s and 1940s, the topic of past lives and reincarnation was not one which often occurred across the breakfast table. On a number of occasions, her family members would go to Mr. Cayce for a physical reading, and they got help. In fact, Vera would eventually be cured of tuberculosis (but she refused to get a life reading), and Mitchell’s СКАЧАТЬ