Has the A.R.E. published any Cayce readings that include explicit modern calendar years, and where can the transcripts be accessed?
Executive summary
The Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.) and its archival partner, the Edgar Cayce Foundation (E.C.F.), maintain and publish the complete corpus of Edgar Cayce’s trance “readings,” and those records are organized with day/month/year identifiers and long-standing archival cataloguing that ties readings to calendar dates [1]. Transcripts and published volumes of the readings are available through A.R.E.’s resources (including an online member section) and through archival repositories and reprints, though some access is restricted by membership or archival policy [2] [3] [1].
1. The records exist, are dated, and are catalogued by calendar date
A.R.E. and the Edgar Cayce Foundation present the Cayce corpus as a formally catalogued archival collection: the foundation’s description of the holdings notes readings and related material are arranged chronologically “by day, month and year,” with individual readings identified by reading number and session number (for example “262-1”), which establishes that the organization treats readings as date-linked documentary records [1]. The A.R.E. itself describes Cayce’s thousands of trance sessions across decades of the early 20th century, confirming that these are historical records tied to specific times when the readings were given [4] [2].
2. Do the published transcripts include explicit modern calendar years? Yes — archival practice and published sets show date attribution
The foundation’s archival metadata and the A.R.E. presentation of the readings indicate explicit date attribution: the E.C.F. repository language about arranging material by day, month and year implies published transcriptions and catalogs include modern calendar dating for sessions [1]. A.R.E.’s public materials reiterate that the full set of 14,306 readings is preserved and presented as a corpus of dated trance sessions, a set that has been turned into published volumes, digital collections, and member-access databases [2] [3].
3. Where to access transcripts — public, member-only, and archival routes
There are three practical access paths reflected in the sources. First, A.R.E.’s official site and topical reading pages host material and descriptions of the readings and advertise the corpus; much of the organization’s content and guides to readings are public-facing [4] [2] [3]. Second, the Edgar Cayce Foundation archive catalogs the primary transcriptions and related correspondence and makes the collection available for research under its reference policy, which also requires authorization for publication or reproduction [1]. Third, some readings and compilations have been published or digitized outside A.R.E./E.C.F.—for example serialized volumes and reprints of Cayce readings appear in library/used-book markets and in at least one Internet Archive entry for the readings collection [5] [6]. Together these routes mean transcripts can be read by researchers on-site at the archives, via A.R.E.’s online resources (with some material in a member-only section), and through published reprints or digitized volumes where available [1] [3] [5].
4. Access caveats, editorial context and what the sources do not say
The sources make clear there are access limitations: the E.C.F. reference policy requires permission to publish or reproduce archival material, and A.R.E. continues to offer portions of the readings in member-only online sections, indicating some content is restricted without membership or archival authorization [1] [3]. The provided reporting documents that readings are dated and archived, but it does not quote specific readings that include a modern calendar year phrasing within the trance text itself; the claim established by the sources is about cataloging and presentation using calendar dates rather than a line-by-line textual analysis of every transcript to extract in-text modern-year references [1]. Alternative perspectives exist: collectors, reprint editors and independent scholars have produced editions and compilations [6], which can vary in editorial format and may present dates differently than archival catalog entries.