Editing Edgar Cayce (section)

===1931 non-profit (A.R.E) formed ===
On June 6, 1931, 61 people attended a meeting to carry on Cayce's work and form the [[Association for Research and Enlightenment]] (A.R.E.) In July, the new association was incorporated; Cayce returned his house to Blumenthal, and bought another.{{sfn|Sugrue|2003|pages=317–320}}  In 1931, Cayce promoted a quack medicine formulation called Atomidine or [[Nascent iodine (dietary supplement)|nascent iodine]].

People seeking a reading from Cayce were asked to join the A.R.E. This helped insulate Cayce from charges of fortune-telling, which was illegal in some U.S. states, as he was not directly charging a fee for his services but receiving a salary from the member-supported A.R.E. Apart from supporting Cayce and his staff, a major emphasis of the early A.R.E. was the encouragement of small groups devoted to spiritual study, prayer, and meditation.{{Citation needed|date=July 2022}}

In November 1931, Cayce, wife Gertrude and secretary Gladys Davis were arrested for "pretending to tell fortunes."<ref>{{Cite web |date=1931-11-09 |title='PSYCHIC' LECTURER AND WIFE ARRESTED; Virginia Man, Known There for 'Diagnoses' While in Trance, Held as Fortune Teller. COURT RECORDS SEALED Edgar Cayce Once Headed Hospital at Virginia Beach and Was on Board of Atlantic University There. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1931/11/09/archives/psychic-lecturer-and-wife-arrested-virginia-man-known-there-for.html |website=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> When charges were dismissed, papers noted that Cayce's readings included tales of ancient civilizations, including Ancient Egypt, El Dorado, and Atlantis;  Cayces' readings described Bimini island as a mountaintop of Atlantis.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-baltimore-sun-cayce-acquitted-in-new/156031335/ | title=Cayce Acquitted in New York Court | newspaper=The Baltimore Sun | date=17 November 1931 | page=9 }}</ref> In February 1932, Cayce gave a public lecture on the "Lost Continent of Atlantis".<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/ledger-star-cayc-lectures-tonight-at-the/156031429/ | title=Cayc Lectures Tonight at the Monticello Hotel | newspaper=Ledger-Star | date=19 February 1932 | page=21 }}</ref>

The association's first annual congress was held in June 1932. Speakers discussed metaphysical and psychic subjects, and Cayce performed public readings.{{sfn|Sugrue|2003|pages=330–333}}

====Earth changes====
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From 1932 to 1936, Cayce predicted that the year 1936 would be a year of cataclysmic changes.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o3gLAAAAIAAJ | title=Journal of American Folklore | date=1978 }}</ref><ref>Millennium Prohecies, p.104-5</ref>  In February 1933, Cayce predicted that San Francisco would be destroyed by earthquake in 1936.<ref>Thurston, Millennium Prophecies p.31</ref>{{better source needed|date=October 2024}} In April 1935, he lectured in the District of Columbia.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-star-edgar-cayce-event-ad/92754634/ | title=Edgar Cayce event ad | newspaper=Evening Star | date=6 April 1935 | page=6 }}</ref>

In 1935, they were again arrested, this time in Detroit for practicing medicine without a license; Cayce was given probation.  
<ref name="auto"/> In January 1936, Cayce gave a reading predicting the destruction of Los Angeles and San Francisco, followed by New York City.<ref>272-35; January 21, 1936</ref>  In March 1936, Cayce reported a dream:<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/profecias/esp_profecia01h4.htm | title=American Prophecy - 4 }}</ref>  
<blockquote>I had been born again in 2100 A.D. in Nebraska. The sea apparently covered all of the western part of the country, as the city where I lived was on the coast. The family name was a strange one. At an early age as a child I declared myself to be Edgar Cayce who had lived 200 years before. Scientists, men with long beads, little hair, and thick glasses, were called in to observe me. They decided to visit the places where I said I had been born, lived, and worked in Kentucky, Alabama, New York, Michigan, and Virginia. Taking me with them the group of scientists visited these places in a long, cigar-shaped metal flying ship which moved at a high speed. Water covered part of Alabama. Norfolk, Virginia, had become an immense seaport. New York had been destroyed either by war or an immense earthquake and was being rebuilt. Industries were scattered over the countryside. Most of the houses were built of glass. Many records of my work as Edgar Cayce were discovered and collected. The group returned to Nebraska, taking the records with them to study... These changes in the earth will come to pass, for the time and times and half times are at an end, and there begins those periods for the readjustments.</blockquote>

====Research library====
Cayce's son Hugh Lynn proposed that they develop a library of research into the phenomena exhibited by his father and sponsor study groups, with Cayce doing two readings a day. The association accepted this, and Hugh Lynn began publishing a monthly bulletin for association members. The bulletin contained readings on general-interest subjects, interesting cases, book reviews on psychic subjects, health hints from readings, and news about psychic phenomena in other fields.{{sfn|Sugrue|2003|pages=324–328}}

Hugh Lynn continued to build files of case histories, parallel studies in psychic phenomena, and research readings for the study groups.{{sfn|Sugrue|2003|page=343}}

Association activities remained simple. Members raised funds for an office, library and vault, which they added to the Cayce residence in 1940–41.{{sfn|Sugrue|2003|pages=46–347}}  Association membership averaged 500 to 600, with the annual turnover about 50 percent. The other half was a solid basis for research, an audience for case studies, pamphlets, and bulletins, including the congress bulletin, which was a yearbook and record of congress events. A mailing list of several thousand served people who remained interested in Cayce's activities.{{sfn|Sugrue|2003|pages=346–347}}
  
Members were drawn from a wide variety of Christian denominations, theosophy, Christian Science, and [[Spiritualism (movement)|Spiritualism]]. A.R.E. did not oppose any religious organization.{{sfn|Sugrue|2003|pages=348–350}}
  
Both sons served in the military during [[World War II]], and both married: Hugh Lynn in 1941, and Edgar Evans in 1942.{{sfn|Sugrue|2003|page=350}}