Edgar Cayce Featured in Best-Selling Book Occult America:
The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation

Virginia Beach, Va. – The best-seller Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation  by Mitch Horowitz explores how the mystical and esoteric movement broadly known as the occult shaped the spiritual life of the still-young American nation. From the meaning of the symbols on the one-dollar bill to the origins of the Ouija board, Occult America briskly sweeps from the nation’s earliest days to the birth of the New Age era and traces many people and episodes. Tucked amid the stories of other famous Americans including Frederick Douglass, Franklin Roosevelt, and Mary Todd Lincoln is the wonderful account of Edgar Cayce, a rural Sunday-school teacher whose clairvoyant visions instigated the dawn of the New Age.

According to Mark Thurston, author of The Essential Edgar Cayce and 18 other books about personal spirituality, Occult America is an “invaluable addition to anyone’s library.” The review, published in the September/October issue of Venture Inward magazine, states that “Horowitz’s careful scholarship and knack for intriguing details makes this survey of pioneering figures constantly engaging… One of the final chapters, ‘The Greatest Mystic Who Ever Lived in America,’ is an especially cogent and even-handed assessment of the life of Edgar Cayce, with a particularly insightful closing section on the little-appreciated ethical dimension of the man’s work.” To read the entire review, visit EdgarCayce.org/News. The book is available for purchase at ARECatalog.com .

Edgar Cayce founded the non-profit Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.) in 1931, to explore spirituality, holistic health, intuition, dream interpretation, psychic development, reincarnation, and ancient mysteries—all subjects that frequently came up in the more than 14,000 documented psychic readings given by Cayce, who died in 1945. Through its many programs, services, publications, and membership outreach, Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E. provides individuals from all walks of life and a variety of religious backgrounds with tools for personal transformation and healing at all levels—body, mind, and spirit. A.R.E. Press has been publishing books since 1931 as well, with the mission of furthering the work of the A.R.E. by publishing books, DVDs, and CDs to support the organization's goal of helping people change their lives for the better. In 2009, A.R.E. Press launched its second imprint, 4th Dimension Press. While A.R.E. Press features topics related to the work of Edgar Cayce in the fields of spirituality, intuition, psychic abilities, ancient mysteries, philosophy, comparative religious studies, personal and spiritual development, and holistic health, 4th Dimension Press allows us to take our publishing efforts further with like-minded and expansive explorations into the mysteries and spirituality of our existence. For more information about Edgar Cayce's A.R.E., please visit EdgarCayce.org and ARECatalog.com.

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