| What is a myth? Perhaps it's a story that isn't true | | | | Records: Edgar Cayce's Forgotten Record in the |
| on the outside, but is true on the inside. The tension | | | | Ancient Yucatan (Eagle Wing Books). The authors, |
| between what our heart's intuition tells us and what | | | | John Van Auken, a past executive director at A.R.E., |
| we can actually experience on the outside is a source | | | | and Lora Little, Ed.D., a psychologist, have spent |
| of great creativity and development, both personal | | | | years correlating information in the Edgar Cayce |
| and for the human race. Cayce's story of the history | | | | material with archaeological findings. In their |
| and destiny of humanity is a lesson here. Not only | | | | meticulously researched book they have integrated a |
| does his story include our spiritual creation and its | | | | panoramic view of Cayce's spiritual story with |
| purpose, but also the external history of life on | | | | scientific findings that take the story out of the |
| planet earth, including predictions about major | | | | realm of pure myth and into the realm of history. |
| changes ahead. Is this story a myth? For many of | | | | Archaeological research, including advances in the |
| those who contemplate it, his story is stimulating and | | | | interpretation of Mayan hieroglyphs and what they |
| spiritually fulfilling, which is what a good myth should | | | | reveal about the Mayans' astonishing astronomical |
| be. But Cayce presents his story as being literally | | | | observations, has made it possible as never before |
| true. Did things really happen the way he tells it? | | | | to suggest that Cayce's story just might be true on |
| One of the fascinating aspects of his story concerns | | | | the outside. Moreover, Van Auken and Little's |
| the existence of "Halls of Records," where this | | | | research has made a significant breakthrough that |
| history is recorded. He said that one such Hall of | | | | makes their book as newsworthy as it is inspiring. |
| Records was in Yucatan, Mexico. Furthermore, he | | | | A key point in Cayce's remote viewing of the Mayan |
| said that at this site, there was also evidence of | | | | archaeological findings concerned some artifacts, |
| another key element in Cayce's story - the | | | | emblems of the Firestone, that were stored in the |
| (in)famous "Firestone Crystal" of Atlantis, which was | | | | University of Pennsylvania museum. Previous |
| their source of power, but which had been misused | | | | investigations had failed to locate these artifacts in |
| and helped bring down that civilization. | | | | the museum's collection. The authors make a strong |
| I vividly remember discovering the Edgar Cayce | | | | case, however, that the artifacts in question were |
| material and having my imagination sparked as never | | | | those found in the ruins known as Piedras Negras, a |
| before by the story of the Firestone and its | | | | Mayan site in Guatemala. |
| connection with Mayan imagery. Soon I was making | | | | Though not in the state of Yucatan, Mexico, but part |
| pilgrimages to Yucatan to search for the Hall of | | | | of the Mayan civilization in the general area of the |
| Records. Whereas the external search was | | | | Yucatan peninsula, nevertheless Piedras Negras could |
| expensive and proved beyond my skill range, an inner | | | | easily be described by Cayce's psychic perception as |
| search was also in progress and was more rewarding. | | | | "Yucatan." Making this slight shift in focal point has |
| I developed a symbolic meaning for the Firestone | | | | unleashed a provocative set of new findings. |
| crystal; namely, that there is a dormant power of | | | | Although there isn't space here to detail all the nitty |
| consciousness that can be awakened in spiritual | | | | gritty that the authors combine to paint a credible |
| community. Through group dream work (such as | | | | hypothesis about the external validation of Cayce's |
| Atlantic University's Sundance: The Community Dream | | | | story, suffice it to say that they've excited me again |
| Journal) and interpersonal intuition of the heart, I was | | | | to the possibility that there just might be a Hall of |
| able to verify the tremendous creative power and | | | | Records in that tropical jungle, as well as a model of |
| wisdom that may be unleashed through cooperation | | | | the Firestone crystal. |
| when individuality is given equal footing with the | | | | I am reminded of Cayce's statement that the |
| unitive effort. As I became more involved with | | | | records would Ibe found and could be read only |
| researching the inner meaning of the Firestone, my | | | | when the consciousness of the seeker matched the |
| fascination with Yucatan and prehistory faded. | | | | contents of those records. The lesson for me is that |
| But today I am inspired to turn about, to look again | | | | while an inner search is important, not to be |
| with interest toward the outer side of the story. | | | | forgotten is that it is equally important to look to the |
| What motivates this revival comes through the | | | | outer reality. Maybe it is time for me to make a |
| publication of a significant book, The Lost Hall of | | | | return trip to the Mayan ruins to see what I shall see. |