the tracks of my tears

A Place for Saying Things

  • It Was Never Supposed to be This Way

    I had plans for this blog. I had a concept. The world, it turns out, had other plans. But let’s be honest, I was never going to figure out how to do all this formatting or whatever the fuck. I just wanted to document the things that made me cry over the course of a year.

    Well, I have cried a lot, but for right now that’s neither here nor there.

    Now I just want to track what I read. Mostly books, I guess. Mostly I read Bluesky, and most of that makes me cry on the daily.

    So today, we are documenting True Tales from the Edgar Cayce Archives: Lives Touched and Lessons Learned from the Sleeping Prophet by Sidney Kirkpatrick and Nancy Kirkpatrick. Published (I think) in 2015 by A.R.E. Press, which I think is the Cayce vanity publisher. So does that make this sort of self-published? Readers, help my ignorant ass out. It’s available in Libby for the LA Public Library.

    Don’t worry, I didn’t read the whole thing. I was very interested in Cayce as a tween, and wanted to return and learn more. The whole book is very fawning over the man’s gifts. While I want to believe (I think) that Cayce was manifesting the unexplainable, red flags are up when I read something that is all upside. Like, medical doctors have extremely mixed outcomes in diagnosing and treating patients, but Cayce was just always right, even when he prescribed poison? Sure, Jan. Also, it sounds like he had a lot of problematic beliefs.

    I guess what I am really looking for is some more academic writing on the man and his work. I crave rigorous analysis. I don’t believe he was a complete fraud, but I want better information on what really happened so I feel like I can form an opinion on how much there is there. Most of the writing I find on him is from his own press. Which, why are public libraries buying so much of it? So I put the book down 25% of the way through, but my appetite has been whetted for something more substantial on this topic.

    If you find me, feel free to give me idiot proof tips for fixing the format of this fucking blog.

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    Why can’t I get rid of this “, , ” text? I just want to add tags! God, this site is NOT intuitive. #2025 #books #paranormal Is this anything?

  • The Art of Connection

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  • Beyond the Obstacle

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  • Growth Unlocked

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  • Collaboration Magic

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  • Teamwork Triumphs

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  • Adaptive Advantage

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