Recently I was thinking about some excerpts of a book on Edgar Cayce.
Edgar Cayce - The Sleeping Prophet, by Jess Stearn
A funny part of this Cayce book was he was guided to set specific prices.
And told exactly the number of sessions he could do without dying.
Yet, he ignored the guidance and tried to do many times more sessions than that.
Because it was the Great Depression and people needed his help.
I could relate to this part of his story.
Wanting to save people.
Feeling compelled to martyr myself to save them.
Or crucify myself.
Even often at the expense of my physical body.
I too, asked for specific numbers for my prices. I asked for the specific number of sessions I could do without risking my own health or well-being. And I too, regularly ignore both answers and work many times in excess of that anyway.
Despite working literally around the clock, he was also somehow always running out of money.
His wife was denied at the grocery store for using up all their credit.
He somehow didn’t have money for basic things despite working literally all the time.
And despite diagnosing hundreds of mystery illnesses that even the world’s best doctors could not solve.
And saving thousands of lives.
At times. In certain areas. He was still a mess.
Overall I found his personality to be highly relatable.
Does that mean he was a failure or a fraud because he didn’t have every single area of his life sorted?
Does it mean his work made less of an impact that he had flaws?
Personally, I think he was a work of art.
Reading about his character and messiness, I found him even more attractive.
Than before I knew that.
I laughed out loud when I read that part.
“How are you always out of money Casey when you are literally *always* working?”
Can you relate to this?
Am I the only one?