Edgar Cayce's Sacred Stones: The A-Z Guide to Working with Gems to Enhance Your Life and Health - Shelley Kaehr 2015

Introduction

Acknowledgments

This book is the culmination of years of research and study, and I am very happy to be working again with Edgar Cayce’s Association for Research and Enlightenment, the A.R.E. I appreciate their help in bringing this project to fruition.

To Edgar Cayce, whose work has inspired my life.

To Dr. Raymond Moody and Auda Marie, who first introduced me to my friends at the A.R.E.

To Cassie McQuagge, Kevin Todeschi, and John Van Auken, I greatly appreciate your vision and support of this project.

To editor extraordinaire, Mary Warren Pinnell, I owe a debt of gratitude for your insight and expertise.

Special thanks to James and Linda Joy and Priscilla Thompson for letting me work with your stones.

Also to my great friends Sandi, Pat, Paula, Sheniqua, Linnea, Brenda, Cindy, and Tammy. And of course, to my family, Mickey, Gail, and Mark.

I thank you all.

Introduction

It’s hard to believe that the first book I wrote for the A.R.E. Press was published ten years ago in 2005. Time flies, as they say.

For the past several years, I had an inner knowing that someday I would write one more book for the A.R.E. The trouble was that I had no idea what it would be.

The moment that my first book about gemstones, minerals, metals, and more was published, I continued with my research and discovered there were many more aspects of this material to explore. After various visions and dreams concerning the fact that I needed to finish something else regarding the Edgar Cayce material, I still had no specific answers about what to write.

For years, I have had an idea floating around me to write a book called Stones of the Bible. Initially, I wanted to write that book as an answer to critics who believe that the power of gemstones is evil. The reality is that nothing could be further from the truth. Gemstones have played an important part not only in the Bible but also in many other civilizations.

Little did I know for all these years that these two ideas were similar. Back in 2013, I began a lengthy process of revisiting all of my previously published work. I reread every word, contemplating what I had written and asking myself what I might like to expand upon in the future.

When I read the Cayce material again, I realized that this book more than any of the others had profoundly influenced my thinking and inspired me in many other projects through the years. I soon realized that I was not finished exploring this topic. Although my first book has what I consider to be an abundance of information, I knew that there was much more to explore.

So I find myself once again immersed in the work of the world’s greatest psychic. As always, it is my honor to work with the Association for Research and Enlightenment in order to revisit and expand my thoughts from the prior work into this latest compilation. I hope you will enjoy the material.

Life is mysterious. Some circumstances feel like they are “meant to be,” and while we may have a knowing of when we would prefer for certain things to happen, sometimes our situations unfold in longer periods of time than what we initially imagine. I believe the time is now for this book!