THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, October 6, 1995 TAG: 9510050170
SECTION: VIRGINIA BEACH BEACON PAGE: 07 EDITION: FINAL
COLUMN: In Passing
SOURCE: BY ELAINE MINOR
LENGTH: Medium: 63 lines
Have you noticed lately there is a considerably large migration of people coming to Virginia Beach from California, as well as other parts of the country and abroad? Surely we Californians could have escaped to a closer location, such as Las Vegas or Phoenix, in order to avoid ``The Big Earthquake,'' rather than to a relatively unobtrusive city 3,000 miles away.
I am very much aware that the underlying, motivating force that prompted me to make Virginia Beach my home, lies beyond the obvious beauty of its trees, lakes and ocean. I am also aware that this intriguing magnetism is not always visible to those residing here.
It's as if streets and roads were built over a secret gold mine, concealing its real identity from those living their daily lives above.
Or, rather than buried beneath the earth, that gold mine may actually dwell in a certain building on Atlantic Avenue. That building being the Association for Research and Enlightenment (also known as the Edgar Cayce Foundation.) I believe this to be the main reason for this migration.
I learned about Edgar Cayce by accidentally discovering two books, ``The Sleeping Prophet'' and ``There is a River.'' After that, my life radically changed to a more positive direction.
Recently, I decided to do a survey to determine how many people here knew about the A.R.E. and Edgar Cayce. I asked people in stores, restaurants and other places (so-called natives). About 80 percent claimed they knew nothing about Cayce or the A.R.E. I asked several military personnel. Very few had heard of the A.R.E. This is understandable. They live a very specialized life style. Amongst the tourists on the beach, about 30 percent had heard of the A.R.E. Strangely enough, while performing on the road in Europe, Canada and Hawaii some time ago more than 50 percent of those I met knew about Cayce. Cayce is known all over the world, except in the place where he lived and worked for so long.
Yet, Edgar Cayce is considered by millions of people throughout the world to be the greatest psychic of our century, ranking with Nostradamus, the physician, mathematician and astrologer, who was considered to be the greatest psychic of the 16th century. Cayce was a simple, ``down to earth,'' Sunday school teacher and an astute student of the Bible. His deepest desire was to help his fellow man.
Housed in the library of that beautiful building on Atlantic Avenue are his 14,600 readings, given between 1902 and 1945, with diagnoses and cures for physical, mental and emotional illnesses. There have been 350 books written based on the excerpts from the readings and there are approximately 900 study groups throughout the world. The readings cover every facet of optimum living conditions, physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.
The A.R.E. is an asset to this community.
According to the readings, we can expect major earth changes in the last decade of the century. Edgar Cayce also claimed that Virginia Beach is a safety zone, protected in some way. MEMO: Elaine Minor is a musician, singer, psychologist, counselor and author.
She was on various talk shows when she lived in Hollywood, Calif., for
almost 20 years.
by CNB