Edgar Cayce - Edgar Cayce Edgar Cayce (March 18, 1877 - 1945) was born near Hopkinsville, Kentucky, raised on a farm, and as a young man became a photographer in Selma, Alabama. He is best known for his claimed psychic abilities. He would tell people that, as a young boy, he stunned his parents by being able to sleep on any book and then know the complete contents. This story has no evidence. Cayce was called "the sleeping prophet" as he closed his eyes, seemingly in a trance as he did his "readings." Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Illiterate? 2 His presumed abilities 3 His readings 4 Skeptics respond 5 Final words 6 External Links 7 References Illiterate? In 1910 Dr. Wesley Ketchum submitted an article to the American.
January 3 - philologist (†1973) 1897 - Pola Negri, actress (†1987) 1897 - Marion Davies, actress (†1961) 1901 - Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam (†1963) 1905 - Anna May Wong, actress (†1961) 1907 - Ray Milland, actor (†1986) 1909 - Victor Borge, entertainer and humorist (†2000) 1911 - John Sturges, director 1916 - Betty Furness, actress, consumer activist 1924 - Hank Stram, American football coach, broadcaster 1926 - George Martin, "5th Beatle": producer of The Beatles' records 1929 - Sergio Leone, director (†1989) 1930 - Robert Loggia, actor 1932 - Dabney Coleman, actor 1936 - Georgina Spelvin, pornographic film actress 1939 - Bobby Hull, ice hockey player 1941 - Van Dyke Parks, musician, composer 1942 - John Thaw, actor (†2002) 1945 - Stephen.
History of Parapsychology - the existence or activity of deities or supernatural agents was discounted, and so the beginnings of antagonism towards the existence of psi phenomena along with all forms of magical thinking. Franz Anton Mesmer (b 1734 - d 1815), a Viennese physycian, wanted to be considered a man of the Enlightenment. At the time, electricity and magnetism were thought of as invisible "fluids". Mesmer believed that he had discovered another type of natural fluidwhich he called "animal magnetism", and which he could harness to heal various ailments without resorting to the supernatural. He developed a technique, today called mesmerism, for inducing an altered state of mind which today most people equate with hypnosis. Of import here is that it was discovered that some individuals exhibited "higher phenomena" such as apparent clairvoyance while.
Great Pyramid of Giza - they have moved 4 kilometers south, due to the movement of the Earth's crust. Construction From surviving drawings etched in stone, including some attributed to workers on break, certain ideas about the construction of the Great Pyramid have emerged. A comparatively small number of permanently employed, highly qualified and well-paid workers was augmented by large numbers of peasants from all over the empire who were conscripted during the flood period, when no agriculture was possible anyway. Construction took some 20 years. The stone blocks were cut in a quarry nearby. They were moved with human power, drawn and pushed on sleds sliding on stone ramps which were made slippery with water. A stone ramp rose along the side of the growing pyramid; later this ramp would spiral around to the top..
Dream interpretation - by Sigmund Freud. Joseph in the Old Testament interpreted the dreams of a Pharaoh of Egypt. Interpretation of dreams is also a part of contemporary pop or new age culture. See new age dream interpretation; Edgar Cayce on Dreams by Harmon H. Bro, 1968; and Edgar Cayce... Further Reading Elsie Sechrist with foreword by Hugh Lynn Cayce, Dreams, Your Magic Mirror, Warner Books, 1974, mass market paperback, ISBN 0-446-31384-X.
1877 - first person killed by the Kid. September 5 - Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska. October 10 - Following the recovery of Lieutenant-Colonel George Armstrong Custer's body from where he fell during the Battle of Little Big Horn the previous year, Custer is given a funeral with full military honors and is laid to rest at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound (this is considered to be Edison's first great invention) (Edison demonstrated the device for the first time on November 29). Year in topic 1877 in literature Births (unknown) -.
1945 - nations sign an agreement creating the World Bank. December 27 - Terror strikes against British military bases in Palestine. Foundation of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Poland has two rival governments Discovery of Nag Hammadi scriptures Dutch painter Han van Meegeren is arrested for collaboration with Nazis but the paintings he had sold to Hermann Göring are found to be fakes. Female suffrage in Guatemala and Japan Denmark recognizes independent Iceland Ongoing events Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) Year in topic 1945 in film The Lost Weekend. Winner of Academy Awards for Best Picture; Ray Milland, Best Actor; Billy Wilder, Best Director, Best Screenplay Mildred Pierce Winner of Academy Award for Joan Crawford, Best Actress. Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound, starring Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck With Rossellini's Roma Citt`a aperta,.
Akashic Records - to be held at some universal level and/or on some other plane of reality. They resemble a library. The Akashic Records are referred to e.g. by Edgar Cayce who opined that each person was held to account after life by being confronted by the record (from the Akashic records) of what they had done in life. This experience is intended as a learning opportunity, not as punishment. Jane Roberts in the Seth books describes a different version of a similar idea when Seth asserts that the fundamental stuff of the universe is ideas and consciousness, and that an idea once conceived exists for ever. Seth argued that all ideas and knowledge are in principle accessible by "direct cognition". Direct cognition is similar to or perhaps identical to intuition and is said.
Astral projection - occur - this behavior could be some form of lucid dreaming, however some astral projectors are said to have described details of the outside world whilst in projection which they could not have known beforehand. For example, Edgar Cayce projected his consciousness to remote locations in order to conduct medical diagnoses (that are well documented). Pets have been known to react in a frightened manner during the astral projector's experience. There have been recorded instances in which the behavior of the animals coincides with the time the projector claims to have entered the room in astral form. Humans have not always seen a visual representation of a person's spirit during the time she or he claims to be astrally projecting, but those who have describe it as a colored beam or.
Atlantis - Cadiz, and Uba, a Numidian king intended to establish a stock farm of purple Murex there. Diodorus declares that the ancient Phoenicians and Etruscans knew America, the enormous island outside the Pillars of Heracles. He describes it as the climate is very mild, fruits and vegetables grow ripe throughout the year. There are huge mountains covered with large forests, and wide, irrigable plains with navigable rivers. Scylax of Caryanda gives similar account. Marcellus claims that the survivors of the sinking Atlantis migrated to Western Europe. Timagenes tells almost the same, citing the Druids of Gaul as his sources. He tries to classify the Gallic tribes according to their origins, and tells about one of them that they were colonists who came there from a remote island. Theopompus of Chios, a Greek.
Clairvoyance - continue to motivate research into such phenomena. Clairvoyance was one of the phenomena reported to have been observed in the behavior of somnambulists, people who were mesmerized and in a trance state (nowadays equated with hypnosis by most people) in the time of Franz Anton Mesmer. The earliest recorded report of somnambulistic clairvoyance is credited to the Marquis de Puysegur, a follower of Mesmer, who in 1784 was treating a local dull-witted peasant named Victor Race. During treatment, Victor reportedly would go into trance and undergo a personality change, becoming fluent and articulate, and giving diagnosis and prescription for his own disease as well as those of other patients, and forgetting everything when he came out of the trance state. All this is in a manner reminiscent of the reported behaviors.
Seth Jane Roberts - ways Seth's arguments are radical. For example he argued that time and space are basically illusions and that both the past and future are to some extent accessible from the present. He believed that each person lives several lives simultaneously (rather than several re-incarnated lives consecutively). He argued that each person literally creates their own experience within the reality that we all share. In an argument that is reminiscent of the "many worlds hypothesis" Seth said that there are multiple realities, each as valid as any of the others. Whereas Edgar Cayce, another psychic who also spoke about the nature of reality, re-incarnation etc, founded a school (now known as the Association for Research and Enlightenment), Seth argued that he did not wish to do so since reality is an individual.
Parapsychology - who claim to be psychics", so the feats of such claimants are largely irrelevant to their research. The James Randi Educational Foundation offers a one million U.S. dollars prize to anyone who can demonstrate any psychic or paranormal phenomenon. The foundation has set up a program wherein it approves the test proposed by the parapsychologist, but does not itself judge the results. No one has ever collected the prize. While skeptics make much of Randi's Challenge, many parapsychologists question the sincerity of Randi's offer, and in any case they generally pay little attention to it. The offering of prizes for demonstrations is not new to the field. Circa 1924, Scientific American magazine offered a $5000 prize to anyone who could produce any "visible psychic manifestation". Medium Mina Crandon, known in the.
March 18 - oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan. 1980 - In Russia, a Vostok rocket explodes on its launch pad during a fueling operation killing 50. 1989 - In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found in the Pyramid of Cheops. 1990 - 12 paintings, collectively worth $100 million, are stolen by two thieves posing as police officers from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts. This is the largest art theft in US history and the paintings (as of 2003) have not been recovered. 1992 - Microsoft ships Windows 3.1. 1997 - The tail of a Russian An-24 charter plane breaks off while en-route to Turkey causing the plane to crash killing all 50 on board and later the grounding of all An-24s. 2000 - Chen Shui-bian is elected.
List of occultists - Balsamo, "Count Alessandro di Cagliostro," occult charlatan Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, mistress of Louis XIV, practiced magic for youth and beauty Françoise Athenaïs Rochechouart, marquise de Montespan, another royal mistress "La Voisin, french sorceress Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Illuminati Margaret Matson, New Sweden (colony) witch Etteila, fortune-teller Antoine Court de Gebelin, connected tarot and esotericism Count of St Germain, alchemist Nineteenth century: Evangeline Adams, astrologer to the famous Francis Barrett, wrote a book on magic William Blake, poet of the occult John George Hohman, American wizard Eliphas Lévi, occult author Papus, occult author Marie Laveau, American voodoo practitioner Stanislas de Guaita, occult author Allan Kardec, founder of spiritualism Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, founder of theosophy Arthur Edward Waite, occult author and Golden Dawn member Samuel L. MacGregor Mathers, Golden Dawn.
List of people by name: Ca - (1960-1986), fashion model Carausius, Roman Emperor Caravaggio, (1573-1610), Italian Renaissance painter Carawan, Guy, musician Carazo, Juan, (born 1966), boxer Carbajal, Michael, (born 1967), world champion boxer Carbonneau, Marc, FLQ Terrorist Carcassi, Matteo, (1792-1853), composer Card, Orson Scott, (born 1951), American author, novelist Cardano, Gerolamo, (1501-1576), Renaissance polymath Cardenal, Ernesto, (born 1925), poet Cardenas del Rio, Lazaro, (1895-1970), Mexican president Cardenas, Cuauhtemoc, (born 1934), Mexican politician Cardenas, Steve, musician Cardi, Ludovico, (also known as Cigoli) Cardinale, Claudia, (born 1938), Italian actor Cardin, Pierre, (born 1922), French fashion designer Cardoso, Edgar, expert in bridge engineering Cardoso, Fernando Henrique, sociologist, president of Brazil Carducci, Giosue, (1835-1907), Italian poet Careca, athlete Asia Carerra, Porn Star Carew, Thomas, (1595-1639), poet Carey, Drew, (born 1958), US comedian, actor Carey, Duane, astronaut Carey, George Leonard, Archbishop of Canterbury.
J. Edgar Hoover - J. Edgar Hoover John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 - May 2, 1972) was appointed Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on May 10, 1924 and remained so until his death in 1972. He was born in Washington, DC, but the details of his early life are almost unknown, a birth certificate for him was not filed until 1938. All known information can be usually traced back to a single 1937 profile by the journalist Jack Alexander. He was educated at George Washington University, graduating in 1917 with a degree in law. Rather than enlisting for the war he found work with the Justice Department. He soon proved himself capable and was promoted to head the Enemy Aliens Registration Section. In 1919 he became.
Edgar Allan Poe - Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) was a 19th century poet, novelist and short story writer. He also worked as a literary critic and editor but was more successful as an author. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Biography 1.1 Poe's death 2 Legacy 3 Notable works 3.2 Poems 3.3 Stories 3.4 Novels 4 Adaptations 5.
Edgar Rice Burroughs - Edgar Rice Burroughs Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 - March 19, 1950) was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan, but produced works in many genres. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Biography 2 Selected Bibliography 2.1 John Carter of Mars Series 2.2 Tarzan Series 2.3 Other Novels 3.
Edgar Varèse - Edgar Varèse Edgar (or Edgard) Varèse (December 22, 1883 - November 6, 1965) was a French-born composer, who moved to the United States in 1915, and took American citizenship in 1926. He spent the first few years in the United States meeting important contributors to American music, promoting his vision of new electronic music instruments, conducting orchestras, and founding the New Symphony Orchestra. It was also around this time that Varèse began work on his first composition in the United States, Amériques, which was finished in 1921. It was at the completion of this work that Varèse founded the International Composers' Guild, dedicated to the performances of new compositions of both American and European composers, for which he composed many of his pieces for orchestral instruments.
