This is one of those supernatural powers that I would really like to have. When you think about it… reading today can no longer be taken for granted, as literacy is declining in the United States, and in many other parts of the world. Youths graduate from inner-city high schools, and in some cases, from colleges, who can just barely read and write.
Increasingly, the new generation is dependent upon digital media on a computer, laptop or tablet for their information, and must bring in voice and video to explain the text. In colleges, professors increasingly compel students to check out books from the library, rather than to simply go to Google or Wikipedia for all their answers.
Success in education still requires a basic level of reading and writing skills, the lack of which can severely limit the future of a young adult. Our public education system has repeatedly been criticized as obsolete, based on the old industrial model that has faded away with the information economy. Students are typically bored stiff, turned off and shut down.
What if we all have inner powers of communication that could bridge this gap?
We often have experiences of knowing something without knowing how or why. Traditionally, we have been conditioned to distrust our intuition and look to the external world for validation for anything and everything.
Many types of intuition have been identified and correlated with our right brain, from which we gain our spatial and artistic abilities. Yet there have been students with their right brain removed who have been able to graduate from a university.
We have had among us a few gifted people who have defied this analysis, people such as Edgar Cayce, who lived from 1879 to 1945. Cayce is considered one of the pioneers of New Age thought and the foremost American psychic, even though he started his life as a farm boy in Kentucky. His clients included people like President Woodrow Wilson and Thomas Edison, the greatest inventor of all time.
Cayce was able to go into a trance state as the “Sleeping Prophet,” connecting with an entity which could perfectly diagnose illnesses, many severe, with great meticulousness and devise ingenious folk remedies that worked nearly every time. People came to him in the most extreme conditions, on the verge of death and often survived and subsequently flourished.
Newspaper articles and books were written about Cayce, and physicians and professors came from all over the country to figure out how he did it. What they found was a simple Bible-believing Christian who worked as a small town photographer and asked no money for his readings.
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