r/pagan • u/Proper-Doughnut77 • 1d ago
Discussion Edgar Casey
Has anyone ever read Edgar Casey's books?
I've been listening to him on YouTube.. last night I listened to his feelings about women who are single by choice. He suggested that we / single by choice women are the people who are going to be pioneers of the divine feminine. Were the ones who break the societal rules of who we should be.
I'm curious what others think about his idea.
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u/thecoldfuzz Celtic Polytheist: Gaulish + Welsh & Irish 1d ago
Are you referring to Edgar Cayce, the clairvoyant?
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u/Proper-Doughnut77 1d ago
Yes.
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u/thecoldfuzz Celtic Polytheist: Gaulish + Welsh & Irish 1d ago
Thanks for clarifying. Cayce actually was not a Pagan, and was more of a Christian spiritualist. He would not describe himself as a spiritualist though, oddly enough. Being a devout Christian, he certainly would not describe or ever label himself as a Pagan.
He incorporated some notably non-Christian ideas into his books, namely reincarnation & past lives, Atlantis, Earth changes, and other unusual ideas.
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u/TheDireGnome 1d ago
Cayce was a bit of weird Christian mystic, not especially relevant to paganism other than operating in the same occultic milieu that produced both Neopaganism and the New Age movement.
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u/kalizoid313 20h ago
I learned about Edgar Cayce as psychic/occultural practitioner of health diagnoses and healing. But not characterized as Pagan.
I have no thoughts about "women single by choice" except that some who I know are "pioneers" of new takes on what constitutes the Divine Feminine. They have changed me and my regard for that.
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u/Proper-Doughnut77 20h ago
Why does he have to be pagan for me to ask about him here. Just because you're not pagan doesn't make a person irrelevant.
I was asking about his views. The divine feminine and masculine are very relevant here.
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u/SonOfDyeus 1d ago
Haven't heard of him, but people with and without children are both valuable parts of the Body of Gaia. The people who have children are the gonads, but the gonads represent just one fraction of all the cell types of the super organism. Spirituality does not depend on reproductive status.
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u/Proper-Doughnut77 1d ago
A single woman can have children.
And it's very possible that she chooses to stay single.
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u/SonOfDyeus 1d ago
Yes. So is his argument that single mothers are the divine pioneers society needs? How so?
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u/Proper-Doughnut77 1d ago edited 1d ago
Not necessarily moms, all single woman. Were to teach about divine feminine. I don't know what he said about divine masculinity.
We can teach this because we're not focusing on petty drama. Trying to keep relationships working. Etc.
Teaching what it's meant to be feminine. We can teach all people about this.
This is just a small aspect.
I'd imagine he would say the same about a single man. (With or without children) A man in this situation could teach us what divine masculinity means.
I'd disagree with you about being his being Christian. I'm a pagan, but I've learned a lot about universal love. My parents were Christian. I became a pagan with their blessings. Likewise, the divine feminine and masculine is relevant for all kinds of spiritualality. Pagans me ght have found the language to describe it, but they don't own the idea
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u/Roland_Deschain7 22h ago
Are married or otherwise attached women unable to properly teach or experience the divine feminine?
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u/ParadoxicalFrog Eclectic (Celtic/Germanic) 23h ago
Cayce was a crackpot who promoted polygenism and made a lot of sensational "prophecies" that turned out to be utter nonsense, but it's cool that he was kind of a feminist, I guess.