The year 1910 marked a turning point in Western spirituality. It saw the deaths of some of the most luminous religious thinkers of the nineteenth century, including psychologist-seeker William James; popular medium Andrew Jackson Davis; and Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy. These three figures deeply impacted the movements in positive thinking, prayer healing, and psychical research.
Their death that year was accompanied by the rise to prominence of a new religious innovator – a figure who built upon the spiritual experiments of the nineteenth century to shape the New Age*culture of the dawning era.
In autumn of 1910 The New York Times brought the first major national attention to the name ofEdgar Cayce, a young man who later became known as the “father of holistic medicine” and the founding voice of alternative spirituality.
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