That's the internet. You and I can Google or Bing answers to just about anything in seconds. How would someone with an 8th grade education learn about scientific theories in the 1920's and 30's? Listen to radio? Attend lectures and seminars? Check books out of the library? Cayce could have been fed info, but it just seems more like he was just like other so called prophets through the generations: tuned into something we don't understand.

He is reported to have read a lot. My point was that the information was there, it isn't like he came up with it before other people who were further educated, and who were already studying it.

Only having an 8th grade education wasn't that unusual in his day.

So because a small number of the 20,000 things that had already been proposed by others but which he talked about when hypnotized came true in subsequent decades, he was a prophet? If he was a prophet, then all of the things should have come true, shouldn't they? Even batting .500 (ie equal chance of it happening or not) then half the things he talked about should have come true, and he wouldn't need any gift for that. A prophet should have a better than 500 average IMO.

I'm a bit confused though. You posted above that "I would never say I believe that he was a prophet", and then later you posted "but it just seems more like he was just like other so called prophets through the generations". So do you believe he was a prophet?

The key words are 'so called' prophets. I do not think he could accurately predict the future, but he was tuned into something we don't understand. Do you believe in ghosts? I don't, but a lot of people claim to see/speak to spirits who roam the Earth due to unfinished business or tragic circumstances. Just because I don't understand it doesn't make it true or untrue. Cayce seemed to mirror a lot of Biblical predictions (and Mayan, Hopi Indian, etc.) so it could have been a lot of his personal beliefs, but then there is that contradiction he himself has between his 'gift' and his Christianity. That's what stumps me the most.

Did he profit from being a prophet? (English is such a neat language!) He sure could have with the reputation he had in that time period.