Study Questions
Edgar Cayce on Religion and Psychic Experience
The following pages contain excerpts from chapters one and two of Edgar Cayce
on Religion and Psychic Experience by Harmon Bro. In these pages he discusses
Edgar Cayces psychic gifts and what makes it unique. As you read these
pages, the study questions below are designed to help you extract the ideas
that are relevant to this course -- the relationship between spiritual development
and the development and use of intuitive abilities as emphasized in the Edgar
Cayce psychic readings.
The answers to these questions will hopefully help you focus your thinking
as you select your spiritual discipline which is Part II of this course. You
may also want to refer to some of these thoughts during your final phone conversation
with an institute faculty member after you have completed all the other work
for the course.
The number in parentheses after each question tells you on which page the
answer to the question can be found.
1. What does Harmon say is significant about how the term "channel"
is used in the Cayce readings? (
p. 3)
2. Why do humans have so much potential psychic ability? (
p. 9 and 11)
3. Why is it so difficult to tap into those abilities now? (
p. 9)
4. What factors contribute to enduring growth of psychic ability? (
p. 11)
5. What are some effects of the misuse of psychic gifts? (
p. 11)
6. According to Bro, what is ultimately the one category which has affected
the development and use of psychic ability? What does he mean? (
p. 15-16)