Edgar Cayce

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Edgar Cayce (1877-1945) was a famous channeller responsible for a lot of woo popular in today's New Age. His channeled writings are called "readings" by his followers. They include prophecies of catastrophic earth changes, involving the earth's axis shifting, California falling into the ocean, and earthquakes.

He also popularised the myth about a buried "Hall of Records" lying between the paws of the Sphinx, which allowed Egypt-woo-ologists like Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval to publish wildly popular books of gibberish.

They also include the recommendation of many quack medical remedies, such as poultices of castor oil, and "atomidine", which is a patent medicine consisting of an iodine trichloride solution prepared by running electricity through it. The claim is that this process makes the ordinarily highly toxic iodine trichloride safe for human use while giving it benefits to the immune system by cleansing the glands and lymphatic system, but this is just silly. In reality it is "mostly harmless" only because atomidine contains only 1% iodine trichloride in solution. You can find products based on Cayce's readings, where else, in your local health food store, along with gallons of other woo.