*The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce?

Wynn Free with David Wilcock

Frog Ltd, Berkeley, California. ISBN 1-58394-083-9

Reviewed by Ronald Russell

Do we have to Come Back so Often?

The question mark that found its way into the title of this substantial volume seems to indicate that a measure of doubt exists – a doubt not shared by David Wilcock who firmly asserts on his website that he is Edgar Cayce’s reincarnation, thus fulfilling Cayce’s prophecy of returning for yet another physical existence. Edgar Cayce, known as the Sleeping Prophet, died in 1945. Described as ‘perhaps the best known twentieth century practitioner of psychic diagnosis and prescription healer’, Cayce was the subject of over 600 published works. He was also a profound believer in reincarnation, numbering among his previous incarnations John Bainbridge, an English adventurer, gambler and wastrel, and, going back a bit, Ra-Ta, an Egyptian high priest circa 10,500 BC who prophesied the disappearance of Atlantis, built the pyramids (levitating the stones by ‘some esoteric means’), and ignored his own decrees of monogamy by enjoying many sexual partners in later life. By so doing he was karmically bonded to reincarnate on Earth over and over until the end of the 25,000 years cycle.

Wilcock graduated from the State University of New York in 1995 with a BA in psychology and an interest in jazz and New Age music. He was rejected by the Naropa Institute, despite furnishing the admissions staff with a list of 300 metaphysical/spiritual books he had read in his spare time, and embarked on a series of poorly-paid jobs. His ambition at the time was to work in the mental health area and he managed to obtain an internship in a psychiatric ward, but very soon he was fired for being too friendly with the patients. Unemployed, he was driving to his parents’ home when he stopped at a bookstore and, as he says, was guided to buy a book entitled From Elsewhere, by Dr Scott Mandelker. Here he discovered that the souls of people on earth come from a number of different origins, some of them, known as Wanderers, being angelic or extra terrestrial in nature. These Wanderers, numbering some hundred million, volunteered to come to Earth and have gone though very many human lives. Their purpose is to help humanity at times of crisis.

Believing himself to be a Wanderer, Wilcock was inspired to study the Law of One series of books that emanated from the entity known as Ra, channelled by an organisation called L/L Research. Ra appears to have been the source for Cayce’s own channelled information. From then on Wilcock found himself communicating with a source of guidance he called his ‘Dream Voice’, from whom he received ‘many startling prophecies of personal and global events, as well as gorgeous streams of poetic, intuitive information’. He embarked on a reading programme covering UFOs, metaphysics, ancient civilisations and the Law of One. Then in 1997 he decided to visit the Association for Research and Enlightenment at Virginia Beach, founded by Cayce’s children to perpetuate his readings. There certain Association members declared that he was ‘the spitting image’ of Edgar Cayce when he was young (although it’s most unlikely that they ever saw Cayce in his younger days). Wilcock consulted his Dream Voice who told him that indeed he was Cayce’s reincarnation and had a mission to deliver an urgent message to mankind. ‘As our story unfolds,’ says Wynn Free, ‘we will make the case that Wilcock himself, in a previous lifetime as Ra-Ta, actually helped to create the Great Pyramid in Egypt, and now in this life as David Wilcock he’s revealing the science behind the pyramid’s power.’

Before long, Wilcock’s Dream Voice identified itself as being Ra (described by Wynn Free as ‘a group soul or social memory complex who evolved from a group of 17% of the third-density inhabitants of Venus, who ascended into fourth density and higher densities thereafter.’) Guided by Ra, Wilcock began to give readings to clients and to create an extensive website (www.ascension2000.com) on which several of these readings may be consulted.

While advising his readers to come to their own conclusion, Wayne Free lays out the reasons why he is certain that Wilcock is the reincarnation of Edgar Cayce. These include astrological congruities, comparable missions and conflicts-of-life issues, prophetic abilities and physical resemblance. On this last point, those interested may consider the photographs of Wilcock and Cayce on Wilcock’s website. Wayne Free also refers to Cayce’s prophecy that Ra-Ta would return in 1998, that he may become ‘a liberator of the world’, and would live in Virginia Beach among Cayce’s old associates in this new lifetime.

The remaining chapters deal with Wilcock’s channelled information from Ra, including personal advice for Wilcock himself, readings for clients, Ra’s view on television and the media, on the importance of attitude, reconnecting with God, and ‘Ascension and the Birth of the Christ within us all’. A final chapter from Wilcock’s own published writings includes forays into science, including a thorough rubbishing of the Darwinian theory of evolution in favour of the theory of Intelligent Design, cosmic influences on matter, energy and consciousness, ideas about DNA, and the transformation of the solar system. He asserts that an Ascension, defined as a movement from one dimension to another, is taking place on Earth, and identifies a great source of energy that is transforming the solar system, raising the average IQ and producing a ‘global awakening of consciousness’. The defining characteristic of this source of energy, he says, is Love.

Well, that’s all right then. But – come on Wilcock – tell us exactly how those stones were levitated by esoteric means. That’s what I’d really like to know.

Ronald Russell is author of 'The Vast Enquiring Soul'