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What specific predictions did Edgar Cayce make for 2025 and 2026, and how are they being interpreted today?
Executive summary
Edgar Cayce’s corpus contains broad, sometimes-dated readings that enthusiasts and organizations tie to events around 2025–2026 (for example, references to geopolitical shifts, geophysical changes, and a “2026 awakening” connected to the Great Pyramid) but the primary Cayce archive does not contain short, literal “2025” or “2026” one‑liner predictions the way modern headlines portray them; contemporary Cayce groups and commentators interpret older readings as applying to those years [1] [2]. Media pieces and books published in 2025–2026 repackaged Cayce‑era material into timely narratives [3] [4].
1. What Cayce actually wrote vs. what modern writers claim
Edgar Cayce’s original readings are a mix of medical, spiritual and geophysical statements made in trance sessions during the early‑mid 20th century; the Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.), which curates Cayce material, republishes many of these readings and highlights themes such as global shifts, changes in consciousness, and references to areas like the Sphinx/Great Pyramid that Cayce linked to future change — material A.R.E. frames as prophetic but not always pinned to precise modern calendar years [1] [5]. Contemporary outlets and authors (including a 2025 Medium retrospective and a 2025 book marketed as “Prophecies for 2025 and Beyond”) often select or rephrase Cayce readings to suggest explicit predictions for 2025–2026; those reinterpretations are the basis for much of the recent coverage rather than newly discovered Cayce statements dated to those years [3] [4] [6].
2. Claims frequently attributed to Cayce for 2025 and 2026
Recent reporting and commentary associate several recurring themes with the years 2025–2026: New geopolitical prominence for China, dramatic geophysical events (sea‑level changes, earthquakes, tsunamis), a “depopulation” or drastic change for major cities such as New York, and an epochal event tied to the Great Pyramid/Sphinx often labeled a “2026 awakening.” These themes appear across popular summaries and fringe videos or articles repurposing Cayce readings [1] [7] [2] [8]. Note: the A.R.E. blog and program pages discuss a 2026 motif connected to pyramid timelines and an awakening without asserting single specific day‑for‑day forecasts [2].
3. How Cayce interpreters map old readings onto modern years
Cayce readers and the A.R.E. typically interpret symbolic or geographically anchored readings (e.g., “changes” near the Sphinx, Davis Strait, or in areas like Libya and Egypt) as markers for future epochs; when modern authors want a hook they assign those markers to imminent years — hence the jump from ambiguous original wording to claims about 2025/2026. A.R.E. programming has explicitly framed 2026 as a year for reflection on Cayce themes (an event page and blog post references a “2026 Awakening”), showing institutional interest in connecting Cayce’s material to that year [5] [2].
4. Who is amplifying these year‑specific narratives and why
Amplification comes from a mix: Cayce‑affiliated organizations repackaging content for events and conferences [5], new books and retrospectives aiming to make the material timely [4] [6], and a wide set of commercial or social‑media creators who dramatize Cayce readings into apocalyptic or politically salient predictions (e.g., videos claiming earthquakes, famine, or political upheaval in 2026) to attract views [3] [8]. This mix creates incentives — editorial, commercial, and organizational — to make older readings feel directly relevant to current years.
5. Areas of agreement and disagreement in available reporting
There is agreement that Cayce’s readings contain references to global change, evolving human consciousness, and sites like the Great Pyramid; A.R.E. and many writers point to those persistent themes [1] [5]. Disagreement appears about specificity: popular media and social clips present precise, imminent disasters or political outcomes tied to 2025–2026, while A.R.E. material and archival readings show symbolism and longer‑range framing rather than crisp, date‑certain forecasts [1] [2]. Available reporting does not show an original Cayce reading that uses the modern calendar years “2025” or “2026” as a direct timestamp for those catastrophic outcomes (not found in current reporting).
6. How to evaluate these claims going forward
Treat modern, year‑specific claims as interpretations, not verbatim citations from Cayce’s trance transcripts; when a source is a Cayce organization (A.R.E.) note that they frame the material as evolving spiritual guidance rather than tabloid predictions [1] [5]. When claims come from viral videos or commercial blogs, scrutinize whether they quote a precise reading or are synthesizing themes to make a dramatic case [8] [7]. For authoritative context, consult A.R.E.’s readings database and primary‑source compilations rather than second‑hand retellings [1].
If you want, I can extract a few specific Cayce reading numbers that commentators cite (for example those referencing the Sphinx, Davis Strait, Libya/Egypt) and show the exact wording used by A.R.E. so you can compare original text to modern rewrites [1] [2].