This is the most definitive, authoritative, and comprehensive biography of psychic Edgar Cayce, who is known throughout the world as "the sleeping prophet." This book not only tells the fascinating story of the world famous psychic's life, but it reveals, for the first time ever, the identities of the very real people who received trance readings from Edgar Cayce—people like George Gershwin, Thomas Edison, Gloria Swanson, Woodrow Wilson, and Harry Houdini, just to name a few. As it now can be told, Pastor Dwight Moody was his mentor, Nicola Tesla would credit Edgar Cayce for several of his patents, Elvis Presley studied Cayce's spiritual advice, and Marilyn Monroe availed herself of his trance inspired beauty aids.

Written by award-winning and best-selling New York Times author Sidney Kirkpatrick, in association with his wife, writer and Cayce scholar Nancy Webster-Kirkpatrick, this acclaimed book lends a personal touch to Cayce's readings that have thus far been missing. Kirkpatrick paints the story of a man born to a family of humble Kentucky farmers, whose education didn't extend beyond the eighth grade, but who would one day provide trance council to some of the world's most preeminent engineers, business leaders, physicians, scientists, and government officials. Who would provide health treatments that would miraculously cure patients considered beyond any hope of recovery. Who would be consulted by a dean of Harvard Medical School and would become the undisputed father of the holistic health movement. Who would be instrumental in developing FM radio, vending machines, landing lights at airports, and medical technologies that are used today in most every major hospital. And whose mind was a wellspring of uncanny predictions and insights into astrology, world affairs, Atlantis, the secret of the Sphinx, the missing years Jesus, and the nature of the universe. To psychics who would come later, such as John Edwards, Sylvia Browne, and James Van Praagh, he would be their hero—the pioneer in whose footsteps they travel.

More than five years of dedicated research went into the writing of this book in which the author and his wife traveled more than 30,000 miles, interviewed hundreds of people, and poured over correspondence and government files that had never before been made public.

If you enjoyed There Is A River, Many Mansions, or Conversations With God, you must read Edgar Cayce, An American Prophet, which has been acclaimed by Edgar Evans Cayce as the best book that has ever been written about his father, and described by The New Yorker magazine as "a codex for the New Age." This book provides the first complete picture of this extraordinary man and his life-affirming message of the continuity of life, tolerance for all people, and compassion and understanding for every major religion.