Edgar Cayce · 2026
Edgar Cayce Readings Index, free PDF
This is a free PDF index to the 14,301 sessions Edgar Cayce gave in a trance, sorted into 56 subjects from castor oil packs to Atlantis. Each subject gets a summary in our own words, a count, first and last dates and reading numbers to look up, and the book holds none of the readings' text.
Tap the dark field to send a ripple out from the book. Of our 56 subjects only diet turns up in more readings than vibration, which is in 3,496.
What is inside
Fifty six subjects, counted
Six parts, from the home remedies to the old lands to money and the earth, then one table of every subject. Each entry says what the readings said, how many use the words, and which numbers to look up at the A.R.E.
- Pages50, at 6 × 9 inches
- InsideOur summaries, counts, dates and reading numbers, clickable contents, bookmarks
- TextNone of the readings, so nothing to quote
- FilePDF, 1149 KB
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The subjects, sized by readings
What the readings kept returning to
Each tile is one subject, drawn as large as the count of sessions that use its words. Food, vibration and the spine take most of the space, and the old lands and the soul take much of the rest. Tap a tile, or a name below it, to see its years and the three readings that use it most.
Tile area follows the count of readings, so the smallest subjects shrink to a speck. Colors mark the six parts of the book.
The largest twelve
Twelve subjects, counted
Share means the fraction of the whole 14,301 that use the subject's words at least once. The years are the first and last dated readings that do. The other forty four subjects, and every number to look up, are in the PDF.
| Subject | Readings | Share | First | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diet | 5,496 | 38% | 1903 | 1944 |
| Vibration | 3,496 | 24% | 1909 | 1944 |
| Osteopathy | 3,391 | 24% | 1903 | 1944 |
| Ideals | 1,979 | 14% | 1923 | 1944 |
| Reincarnation and past lives | 1,648 | 12% | 1922 | 1944 |
| Egypt | 1,561 | 11% | 1923 | 1944 |
| Astrology | 1,474 | 10% | 1919 | 1944 |
| The violet ray | 1,069 | 7% | 1921 | 1944 |
| Dreams | 1,035 | 7% | 1923 | 1944 |
| Prayer | 985 | 7% | 1922 | 1944 |
| Colonics | 977 | 7% | 1929 | 1944 |
| Atomidine | 959 | 7% | 1931 | 1944 |
Questions
Before you download
What is in the Edgar Cayce Readings Index?
Fifty six subjects in six parts, from home remedies to the old lands to money and the earth. Each has a summary in our own words, a count, the first and last dates, and three or four numbers with dates to look up. A table of every subject closes the 50 pages.
Does the index quote the readings?
No. The Edgar Cayce Foundation holds the copyright in the readings, so the PDF carries counts, dates, reading numbers and our own summaries and no line of the text. To read one, take its number to the A.R.E. site.
How do you decide which readings belong to a subject?
For each subject we search a list of words and phrases through what was spoken, setting aside the later notes and any bracketed editorial passage. Then we read samples of the hits and rewrote every rule that caught the wrong thing. Earth changes ended up a narrow rule that finds only four readings.
Which subject is in the most readings?
Diet, in 5,496 of the 14,301 we counted. Vibration follows in 3,496 and osteopathy in 3,391. Each counts once per session, however often the words recur.
Where do I find the trances in full?
At edgarcayce.org, the A.R.E. site, where members can open all of them. The Reading Finder on this site lists each one by date, place and subject and sends you there.
Sources
- Counts and dates: our own word rules, applied to the whole text as the A.R.E. posted it in 2001. Its own tally is 14,306, and members can open every one at edgarcayce.org.
- His birth in 1877 and his death in 1945 are from Wikipedia.
- The same counts as a dot field, with a jump box for any reading number: the Reading Finder.
The free edition
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Rather see every reading as a dot? The Reading Finder filters all 14,301 by subject, year and place. The whole section starts at Edgar Cayce.