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Speaker 2: And welcome back George Norri with Sydney Kirkpatrick. Award winning
Speaker 2: documentary filmmaker and best selling author. Sidney Kirkpatrick is a
Speaker 2: graduate of Kent's School in Kent, Connecticut, Hampshire College at Amherst, Massachusetts,
Speaker 2: and NYU Film School. His latest book, Edgar Casey an
Speaker 2: American Prophet, is the definitive biography of Edgar Casey, who
Speaker 2: was best known as the Sleeping Profit in Sydney. First
Speaker 2: of all, thank you for keeping the memory of Edgar
Speaker 2: Casey alive.
Speaker 3: Now it's all students of the Casey readings, all researchers
Speaker 3: had you to thank for informing keeping your listeners so
Speaker 3: informed about this Edgar Casey.
Speaker 2: It's exciting. I mean, he's one he was. He was
Speaker 2: one of a kind.
Speaker 3: Wasn't he one of a kind? And you on your
Speaker 3: show in years past, you know you've had both of
Speaker 3: his sons, Edgar Evans Casey and Hugh Lynn Casey, and
Speaker 3: his grandson you've interviewed. I mean, that's really remarkable and
Speaker 3: it's helped so much to carry the greater message forward.
Speaker 2: How did he get his incredible ability Sydney, Well.
Speaker 3: You know, you could trace it right back to a
Speaker 3: childhood incident when he was playing baseball, you know, in
Speaker 3: elementary school. He got hit in the back with a
Speaker 3: baseball and it seemed to knock him unconscious. But the
Speaker 3: strange thing about it was he could carry on a conversation.
Speaker 3: He foretold who would win the next presidency. He revealed
Speaker 3: things about his teacher, his elementary school teacher, that a
Speaker 3: student his age would have no right to know. But
Speaker 3: you know that was not explored. He seemed to get better.
Speaker 3: The next morning. He actually diagnosed himself, told a position
Speaker 3: how he should be treated. And it wasn't for many
Speaker 3: years in his twenties when he was hypnotized that this
Speaker 3: strange third other you know, came back. So he was
Speaker 3: hypnotized and again could carry on conversations, and yet at
Speaker 3: the same time he couldn't be He was impervious to
Speaker 3: sort of being shaken out of it. At one point,
Speaker 3: physicians testing him with stick needles in his skin. In
Speaker 3: one egregious case, they pulled one of his fingernails out
Speaker 3: and he didn't as much as flinch. He was like
Speaker 3: he was in a deep, deep coma, and yet he
Speaker 3: could answer questions.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he explained to us, Sidney, the method he used
Speaker 2: to come up with these incredible things that he talked about, Atlantis,
Speaker 2: the Pyramids, health issues, all kinds of things. What was
Speaker 2: his methodology?
Speaker 3: Well, it evolved over the years. At first, you know,
Speaker 3: he was getting hit by a baseball, knocked out, and
Speaker 3: then he was hypnotized. What made all of this so
Speaker 3: remarkable was that he internalized the process and it evolved.
Speaker 3: He learned to put himself into this deep trans state.
Speaker 3: And once he was in this trans state, I mean,
Speaker 3: it really was incredible. Hard to believe. You know, he
Speaker 3: wasn't your eight hundred psychic phone line in speaking vague,
Speaker 3: ambiguous terms, but specifics name states, locations, and in terms
Speaker 3: of the medical readings, which is perhaps even the most remarkable.
Speaker 3: He talked about specific body parts, blood type, and temperature.
Speaker 3: You know, he would be given the name of George
Speaker 3: Nori and he would essentially go organ by organ through
Speaker 3: your body, diagnosing the illness. And again it's the specifics
Speaker 3: that made such a big difference. Blood type, body temperature.
Speaker 2: Well, they called him the Sleeping Profit. Was he alert?
Speaker 2: Did he know what he was saying?
Speaker 3: No, and he had to be told afterwards what happened.
Speaker 3: And it became easier once the system got more defined
Speaker 3: and they could hire a stenographer. But for the first
Speaker 3: you know, several hundred readings, it was a crapshoot, and
Speaker 3: it was a sort of trial and error process. Say,
Speaker 3: to see what worked like, you had to learn to
Speaker 3: ask specific questions to him. You couldn't ask these generalizations.
Speaker 2: He died in nineteen forty five Sydney. It was way
Speaker 2: before we had social media, way before television made it
Speaker 2: as big as it is. We had radio at the time.
Speaker 2: But how did the media handle him? Was he well known?
Speaker 3: At various points in his career. He was well known,
Speaker 3: and the New York Times did the massive front page
Speaker 3: spread which made him a sensation at that time. And
Speaker 3: he grew up in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, which was a relative
Speaker 3: relatively small area remote, but hundreds and then thousands of
Speaker 3: people would eventually visit Hopkinsville and try to get these
Speaker 3: trance readings from him. In charge for what he did,
Speaker 3: he believed it was a gift from God and then
Speaker 3: it was to be shared.
Speaker 2: I still use his remedies for so many different things.
Speaker 2: I mean, I just every time I want to be
Speaker 2: able to just prevent something, I read information on Edgar Casey,
Speaker 2: like almonds to fight cancer and stuff like that, and
Speaker 2: I do it.
Speaker 3: Yeah. This was recently brought home to me because I
Speaker 3: had a gallbladder operation which went south.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, when did that happen?
Speaker 3: Oh? Just in the last year and a half?
Speaker 2: My god?
Speaker 3: And I was actually in a hospital bed for a
Speaker 3: year and a half.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, said, I didn't know that, But you know.
Speaker 3: What told me through not only my devoted wife Nancy,
Speaker 3: with whom we collaborated on education American prophet, but we
Speaker 3: used Casey remedies. And you know, before that time, I was,
Speaker 3: you know, obviously more than familiar with his life story,
Speaker 3: the compelling elements of the life story, but I never
Speaker 3: had to rely on the medical readings themselves as we
Speaker 3: did this time. And and boy, I swear it saved
Speaker 3: my life.
Speaker 2: That's fantastic. How soon did things kick in when you
Speaker 2: started doing his uh remedy recommendations?
Speaker 3: Uh It's it's difficult to actually pinpoint times because uh
Speaker 3: so many of the recommendations were building up your immune system,
Speaker 3: yes where you know, uh so so with the were
Speaker 3: secondary and sometimes it took months. I mean, now I'm
Speaker 3: over it, I'm out of the hospital, but I've got
Speaker 3: to build up my muscle because you know, I've been
Speaker 3: on my back for so long.
Speaker 2: My previous guest is an expert on Egyptology, and his
Speaker 2: name is Robert Schock, and you know, he's been to
Speaker 2: the Pyramids, he's been to the Sphinx, and he brought
Speaker 2: up you and Edgar Casey. Casey talked about the hall
Speaker 2: of Records at the base of the Sphinx, and they
Speaker 2: have indeed found an enclosure down there. They haven't gone
Speaker 2: in there, but they have found some kind of structure
Speaker 2: where Edgar Casey said it was.
Speaker 3: Yes, amazing, And I mean, well, that's what's so spectacular
Speaker 3: why Casey is so important to study, because things, especially
Speaker 3: medical things he said, and what he said about reincarnation,
Speaker 3: which was dismissed as science fiction in his time, you know,
Speaker 3: has since proven out. Obviously you can't prove reincarnation, but
Speaker 3: there's enough scintillating details, you know, like the study has
Speaker 3: done at UVA to suggest that indeed, you know, there's
Speaker 3: truth to it. So in many respects, this is a
Speaker 3: spectacular time to study Casey because science and medical science
Speaker 3: especially is catching technologies catching up to these readings, and
Speaker 3: we have so many to go on. I mean, because
Speaker 3: he was surrounded by physicians so early in his life,
Speaker 3: there were witnesses to these readings and then eventually full
Speaker 3: time stenographer. So today we have you know, some fourteen
Speaker 3: thousand of these readings that are anywhere from two pages
Speaker 3: to ten twenty pages in some instances. So we have
Speaker 3: this incredible record with which to study. Nancy and I
Speaker 3: often bemoan the fact that we were we came in
Speaker 3: late to the Casey work that Casey had already passed,
Speaker 3: and we would never get our own reading.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: However, as we continue to study this, we realize it
Speaker 3: now is the time to start seriously. You can accomplish
Speaker 3: research in ways that were impossible to do in Casey's lifetime. Absolutely,
Speaker 3: Plus Casey had his firewall built up, and they didn't
Speaker 3: attach names to the readings in the Casey vault.
Speaker 2: How accurate? Yeah, how accurate, Sidney? Do you think he was?
Speaker 2: Percentage wise?
Speaker 3: Most of the time They easily in the ninety percentile.
Speaker 2: That's remarkable.
Speaker 3: But you know what's you know, things that again were
Speaker 3: considered science fiction. Uh, now in many places a state
Speaker 3: of the art medicine. Like what he was saying about psyriasis,
Speaker 3: you know, the skin condition. Casey very early on said
Speaker 3: that it was not a skin condition, but that was
Speaker 3: a symptom of a deeper, greater problem, that the colon
Speaker 3: was leeching toxins into the system. And to cure yourself
Speaker 3: or treat yourself for zariasis, you had to go on
Speaker 3: a strict diet.
Speaker 2: He was right.
Speaker 3: Another I mean the most recently is light therapy. Casey
Speaker 3: recommended all manner of different light therapies because was non
Speaker 3: invasive and could easily be treated using different kinds of lights,
Speaker 3: infrared lights, there's something called a violet ray. But again,
Speaker 3: all kinds of new evidence suggesting that indeed Casey was
Speaker 3: right on the money.
Speaker 2: Sydney, How did Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe come into
Speaker 2: the Casey story?
Speaker 3: You know, there's so many famous people, are important people,
Speaker 3: influencers associated with Casey, but they all come from different backgrounds.
Speaker 3: Certainly Elvis Presley, uh was a big student of Edgar
Speaker 3: cases And actually, on the night he died on his
Speaker 3: bedstand was a book on.
Speaker 2: Edgar Casey was it your book.
Speaker 3: No, Oh, look, gosh, I wish it was. There's speculation
Speaker 3: that it has been, but I couldn't say for sure.
Speaker 3: How about Marilyn Monroe, Yeah, well Marilyn Monroe started using
Speaker 3: beauty aids recommended by Casey. You know, the case He
Speaker 3: covers such a wide variety of subject matter. I mean
Speaker 3: almost anything you can think of Casey commented on, including
Speaker 3: like the Bible. You know where Casey would say, well,
Speaker 3: that's not really how it happened. How it happened was
Speaker 3: or Jesus didn't say this, he said that. And but anyway,
Speaker 3: so you know, you have beauty aids as well as
Speaker 3: the Bible, as well as reincarnation, astrology. Glorias Swanson, the
Speaker 3: great film star, remember Sunset Boulevard. Glorias Swanson turned Marylyn
Speaker 3: onto the Casey work. And you know you could look
Speaker 3: at photographs even late in life. I mean, I think
Speaker 3: Glorias Swanson lived to be over one hundred.
Speaker 2: Confirm this story I heard said they a long time
Speaker 2: ago that Edgar Casey was once getting on an elevator.
Speaker 2: The door opened and he saw a group of people
Speaker 2: in there, and he used to be able to read
Speaker 2: auras he could not see any auras of any of
Speaker 2: the individuals, and backed out of the elevator. He got
Speaker 2: scared the elevator door closed.
Speaker 3: That's fascinating. Yes, Hugh Lynn, who was with him that day,
Speaker 3: Edgar Casey's son, often shared that story.
Speaker 2: And apparently the elevator door shut in the cable snapped
Speaker 2: or something like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and elevator crashed to the bottom and they all died.
Speaker 3: You know, that was that was It was not entirely
Speaker 3: unique in the Casey worked. There was during that same
Speaker 3: trip to New York where the elevator had the problem,
Speaker 3: Casey was at a diner and waitress serving him put
Speaker 3: the food down and Casey looked up at her and said,
Speaker 3: don't go. And you know, she's like, what are you
Speaker 3: talking about? Don't go? And he said, you're thinking of
Speaker 3: taking a drive out out to Long Island or you know,
Speaker 3: out of the city.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And.
Speaker 3: She was confused and like, who is this guy? And
Speaker 3: you know, how would you know that that's what I
Speaker 3: intended to do?
Speaker 2: And why is he telling me not to go?
Speaker 3: You know, right? And she didn't go, and her boyfriend
Speaker 3: who did go.
Speaker 2: Got in a terrible car accident, Oh my god, and
Speaker 2: she would if she could have died right, unbelievable. Lots
Speaker 2: to talk with you about Sydney as we talk about
Speaker 2: the life of Edgar Casey and the latest book I
Speaker 2: have from you was written and published in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2: Edgar Casey an American prophet. But I remember having you
Speaker 2: on coast to coast like almost twenty year.
Speaker 3: There's a go yes, uh you on the debut of
Speaker 3: that book. Uh. We We've also written true tales from
Speaker 3: the Casey Archive, which is a compendium of the people
Speaker 3: who had readings and and and that provides all kinds
Speaker 3: of really interesting insights because sometimes you you well, it
Speaker 3: puts the readings that were given in context. Uh. For example,
Speaker 3: the one I like to use is Lamar Jones. And
Speaker 3: this is a reading which you you might just breeze through,
Speaker 3: flip right through, because it doesn't seem to there's nothing
Speaker 3: super dramatic or obviously insightful. But then if you realize that, uh,
Speaker 3: this is for an artist in Casey's talking about art
Speaker 3: and the power of art to affect people's lives and
Speaker 3: affect family's lives. But then if you dig down to
Speaker 3: find out who received that reading, you discover that Lamar
Speaker 3: Jones is a tombstone cutter in Selma, Alabama, and he's
Speaker 3: the most sought after tombstone cutter because he uh capped
Speaker 3: somehow uh in what's written on the tombstone as well
Speaker 3: as the artwork. The angel. Uh. One of his most
Speaker 3: famous ones is a you know, is a marble angel
Speaker 3: with wings. That's what Casey is talking about the power
Speaker 3: of art. And you don't have to have a you know,
Speaker 3: a paintbrush, uh to touch people's lives in that way.
Speaker 3: And that's what you know Casey is talking about in
Speaker 3: that reading. And so it comes into context.
Speaker 2: And Casey always didn't listen to his own advice, did he.
Speaker 3: Well, he was obvious, now you know, he was all
Speaker 3: too human. Uh. And you know at times he was
Speaker 3: lazy and you know uh uh he had a fondness
Speaker 3: for cigarettes. I mean he was chain smoking. And actually
Speaker 3: there you know, uh, cigarette readings are are really interesting. Uh.
Speaker 3: There's there's one reading it says it's the toxin's you know,
Speaker 3: it's the additives put into cigarettes. Uh, you know that
Speaker 3: are the most harmful. I'm certainly not going to advocate
Speaker 3: you know, smoking, but it's just an interesting little insight
Speaker 3: but he's you know, it's for a man. He struggled.
Speaker 3: He struggled his entire career. I mean, and and you
Speaker 3: can understand why, you know, on a personal level, when
Speaker 3: you you know, when he entered into trash trans he
Speaker 3: had no idea what he was going to say, and
Speaker 3: he only had to be told afterwards what he'd said.
Speaker 3: So you know, he was always fearful of harming, uh,
Speaker 3: someone he loved or someone who wanted help by by
Speaker 3: something he said.
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