OCCULTIST

Edgar Cayce

1877 - 1945

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Edgar Cayce (; March 18, 1877 – January 3, 1945) was an American clairvoyant who claimed to diagnose diseases and recommend treatments for ailments while asleep. During thousands of transcribed sessions, Cayce would answer questions on a variety of subjects such as healing, reincarnation, dreams, the afterlife, past lives, nutrition, Atlantis, and future events. Cayce described himself as a devout Christian and denied being a Spiritualist or communicating with spirits. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edgar Cayce has received more than 3,580,216 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia. Edgar Cayce is the 13th most popular occultist (up from 14th in 2019), the 939th most popular biography from United States (down from 637th in 2019) and the most popular American Occultist.

Edgar Cayce was a psychic who, in the 1920s and 1930s, claimed to be able to diagnose illnesses and predict future events.

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Among OCCULTISTS

Among occultists, Edgar Cayce ranks 13 out of 41. Before him are Count of St. Germain, Alessandro Cagliostro, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Allan Kardec, Éliphas Lévi, and Joachim of Fiore. After him are Anton LaVey, Gérard Encausse, Edward Kelley, Guido von List, Erik Jan Hanussen, and Louis Claude de Saint-Martin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Edgar Cayce ranks 20. Before him are Kees van Dongen, Said Nursî, Gabriele Münter, Kārlis Ulmanis, Maurice Halbwachs, and Alfred Cortot. After him are Arthur Cecil Pigou, Enrico De Nicola, Oswald Avery, Karl Abraham, Mykola Leontovych, and Niceto Alcalá-Zamora. Among people deceased in 1945, Edgar Cayce ranks 71. Before him are Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, Juana Bormann, Heinrich Wölfflin, Odilo Globočnik, Maurice Halbwachs, and Otto Neurath. After him are Konrad Henlein, Eduard Bloch, Hans-Georg von Friedeburg, Yun Chi-ho, Edith Frank, and Margot Frank.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edgar Cayce ranks 939 out of 20,380. Before him are Keith Jarrett (1945), Edward Norton (1969), Dickinson W. Richards (1895), Jody Williams (1950), Harry Dean Stanton (1926), and Kenneth Arrow (1921). After him are Estée Lauder (1906), Kobe Bryant (1978), Leon M. Lederman (1922), James Earl Jones (1931), Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933), and Billy Bob Thornton (1955).

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Among OCCULTISTS In United States

Among occultists born in United States, Edgar Cayce ranks 1. After him are Anton LaVey (1930), and A. E. Waite (1857).

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