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Ca-Mu
Literally “He from Mu,” a flood hero of the Arovac Indians described as a tall,
white-skinned, fair-haired and bearded “magician” who arrived on the shores of
Panama after having been driven from his kingdom far across the sea by a terrible
cataclysm. Ca-Mu is regarded as the man from whom all Arovac have since descended.
(See Mu)Cayce, Edgar
Born in 1877, in Kentucky, he was known as “the Sleeping Prophet,” because
he uttered predictions and medical cures while in a deep trance. Until his death in
Virginia, 68 years later, Cayce dictated thousands of “life-readings” he allegedly
obtained from a kind of spiritual record he claimed to be able to read while
experiencing an altered state of consciousness. Until his 47th year, he never
uttered a word about Atlantis. But in 1922, he suddenly began recalling life in a
place with which he was otherwise allegedly unfamiliar. Cayce’s descriptions of
the doomed civilization are sometimes remarkable for their uncanny credibility.
For example, his portrayal of the migration of Atlanteans into the Nile Valley
following the destruction of their Empire is entirely convincing. Many otherwise
obscure names of persons and places he associates with the Atlantis experience
likewise seem to reflect real events.
His son, Hugh Lynn Cayce, knew his father “did not read material on Atlantis,
and that he, so far as we know, had absolutely no knowledge of the subject.” The
evocative, often verifiable detail of his readings in which Atlantis was described is
all the more astounding when we realize he knew little about the vanished culture
in his waking hours. As his son wrote:
They are the most fantastic, the most bizarre, the most impossible
information in the Edgar Cayce files. If his unconscious fabricated
this material or wove it together from existing legends and writings,
we believe that it is the most amazing example of a telepathic-
clairvoyant scanning of existing legends and stories in print or of
the minds of persons dealing with the Atlantis theory.
Edgar Cayce’s conscious ignorance of the sunken civilization is not surprising.
His formal education was meager, and his points of reference were more spiritual
than historical or academic. His grasp of the past was often biblical, rather than
scholastic. It seems clear then, that the subject was outside the purview of both his
background and essentially Christian view of the world. But his readings are self-
evidently plausible, because they often contain information that made little or no
sense at the time they were uttered, but have been since confirmed by subsequent
verification.
Perhaps most impressive of all is that obscure, even fleeting, references he
made to Atlantis during the early 1920s were occasionally repeated only once, but
within an exact same frame of reference, after more than two decades. Persuasive