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Another Inspirational Quote from Edgar Cayce

	Here’s the gorgeous photograph that illustrates the March 2009 Edgar Cayce Calendar.

The accompanying inspirational quotation from Edgar Cayce says:

“. . . keep close to all of those things that have to do with outdoor

activities, for it is the best way to keep yourself young – to stay

close to nature . . .” (Edgar Cayce Reading 3374-1)

Carol Chapman —

Edgar Cayce Calendar Web Site Almost Up and Running

The last couple of days, I’ve been busily working on getting the Edgar Cayce Calendar up and running. That’s the 2009 Divine in Nature with Inspirational Quotes from Edgar Cayce. It’s a lovely calendar full of inspiring and uplifting quotations from the “sleeping prophet” Edgar Cayce, one of the world’s greatest psychics.

Here’s a link if you want to take a look at the calendar pages. Remember, it’s not quite up and running yet but I invite you to take a peek and tell me how I’m doing.

Here’s the link: http://www.edgarcaycecalendar.com.

Carol Chapman —

Inspirational Quote from Edgar Cayce

It’s time for another inspirational quote from Edgar Cayce. There’s so much going on right now, every time I look at the news I want to turn it off. You probably need a bit of inspiration and upliftment now as well. Edgar Cayce’s psychic readings contain so many words of wisdom. I especially like this inspirational message because it reminds me to take it easy and lay back a bit.

” . . . budget the time so that there may be a regular period for sustaining the physical being and also for sustaining the mental and spiritual being. As is necessary for recreation and rest for the physical, so it is necessary that there be recreation and rest for the mental.” Edgar Cayce Reading 3691-1

Take a look at the lovely photograph illustrating the inspirational quotation. It’s the photograph for the month of February in the 2009 Edgar Cayce Calendar. I took this photograph while on a glacier-watching boat tour in Alaska. These sealions sure know how to budget a regular period for rest!

Carol Chapman —

Your Photographs Don’t Have to Be Perfect to Be Wonderful

Sometimes, a photograph is improved through parts of it being out of focus.

For example, take a look at the Edgar Cayce 2009 Calendar again. For the month of May, you’ll see one of the cutest photographs in this calendar. I love it. The image shows a lightning bug (firefly) peaking over the edge of a magnolia flower petal.

The lightning bug and the leaf on which it sits are both beautifully in focus. However, all the petals behind the bug are out of focus. If they were in focus, the crisp lines and detail in the petal surfaces would detract from the lightning bug.

I love this picture. Paradoxically, it is made better by being less than perfect.

Here’s the inspirational quote from Edgar Cayce that goes with that month:

“For he that would be the greatest is the servant of the meekest, the lowliest of His children. Then the Knowledge of God constrain thee in that that the DOING, the being of a channel, is thy opportunity for the SHOWING of thy appreciation, of that love, for His blessings to thee.” Edgar Cayce Reading 262-98

Carol Chapman —

Dynamic Photography for Inspirational Quotes

To create the photographs in the Edgar Cayce 2009 Calendar, I needed to use many photography techniques because I wanted to, as beautifully as possible, illustrate the inspirational quotes from America’s great psychic Edgar Cayce.

When I went to photography school, we were taught to “bracket the exposure,” meaning that we should vary the light intensity of the photograph from darker to lighter.

Carol Chapman —

Bracketing the exposure is relatively easy with a film camera. You only have to change the exposure or the f-stop. With digital photography, it requires fooling the automatic exposure meter.

To do that, just center the screen of your digital camera on a dark area of the scene you are photographing to make a light photograph. For a dark photograph, center the screen of your digital camera on a light part of the scene you are photographing.

For example, to create the dynamic intense colors in the sunrise photograph used to illustrate the month of January in the 2009 Edgar Cayce Calendar, I centered the camera viewing screen on the rising sun. This made the photograph darker. Many other photographs I took that morning looked lighter because I centered the camera viewing screen on the dark trees.

Here’s the lovely inspirational quotation from Edgar Cayce that goes with that lovely photograph:

“For you may breathe it [nature] into thine own soul, as you would a sunset or a morning sun rising. And see that sometimes – it’s as pretty as the sunset!” Edgar Cayce Reading 3374-1*

How I Really Take My Photographs

To tell you the truth, when I’m taking my photographs, I’m not the analytical type. It’s only after I look at the images I’ve photographed that I can analyze them.

On the other hand, at the time of taking the photographs, it’s all about feeling for me – whether it feels right.

Actually, the way I really take my photographs, feels more of an intuitive experience. Sometimes, it almost feels like I’m receiving spiritual guidance or having a psychic experience.

Carol Chapman —

For example, when I took the photograph for the month of February in the 2008 Edgar Cayce Divine in Nature Calendar, I did not analyze the type of photograph I wanted by saying, “I need something in the foreground so the mountain does not look so flat.”

Au contraire, I had a feeling of what I wanted. I knew that in many photographs of mountains the mountains looked tiny and flat. It mystified me that a mountain can be huge but in many photographs it looks and feels tiny. Because of this, I knew what I did not want. However, I did not know how or where I was going to get what I wanted – a photograph of Mount Reiner that conveyed a powerful intense feeling.

Therefore, I drove around Mount Reiner National Park. As I drove, I kept looking for a place where the mountain had a looming feel to it. When I came to the place, I knew it was right. I felt it. That’s why it feels like a psychic or spiritual experience to me. The knowingness defies logic.

Apply Edgar Cayce’s Yes No Meditation in Many Areas of Your Life

Although I specifically talked about using a variation of Edgar Cayce’s Yes or No Meditation when going through photographs to choose which ones to use, this is an intuitive system that can be used in many areas of your life.

You might want to try it for your own psychic development. See if you hear, feel, see or in some way receive an inner response when you have a decision to make.

Carol Chapman —

Whenever you have a decision to make, whenever you feel stumped about the next step to take, first consciously make your choice, then, use the Yes or Not Meditation and see if your answers coincide.

If not, you’d better delay going ahead or find some more information to understand the discrepancy. I have found that usually the decision made by my un- or subconscious mind turns out to be right.

Edgar Cayce’s "Yes or No" Meditation

In a previous post, I said that I often use my intuition to choose which photographs to select for a given project such as the Edgar Cayce Calendar.

Ask yourself, “Yes or No.” You might even hear “yes” or “no.”

Carol Chapman —

The “Yes or No” method of selection photographs is a version of a meditation I learned from the psychic readings of Edgar Cayce. Here’s the quote from Edgar Cayce Reading 5019-2:

“As the body recognizes, there is the body-mind, the body-consciousness, there is also the inner consciousness or the soul mind. Ask the question in self in the physical mind so it may be answered yes or no, and in mediation get the answer. Then closing self to physical consciousness, through the meditation, ask the same question. If these agree, go ahead. If these disagree, analyze own self and see the problem that lies in the way.”

(5019-2)

I find this meditation, in various forms, very helpful in my life. I believe it connects me with my psychic or soul abilities.

You might want to try it for your own psychic development. See if you hear, feel, see or in some way receive an inner response when you have a decision to make.

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Photography: Analyze Your Photographs

Look at your photographs of mountains. Do you have trees, branches, flowers, a totem pole, a flying bird, a couple arm-in-arm surveying the scene . . . something in the foreground . . . to create depth and make the photograph interesting?

Take a look at the photograph of Mount Rainier which I used for the month of February in the 2008 Edgar Cayce Calendar. The many people who “oo” and “ah” when they see this Mount Rainier photograph, likely do not analyze that one of the reasons the photograph is so special is because of the silhouetted dark trees in the foreground.

Does your image look flat? Next time find a place to take the photograph where you can get something interesting and complementary in the foreground. It could even be a lake or road curving around on one side of the image or even a couple of boulders at one edge of the image. Play with this. It’s fun.

Carol Chapman —

Are You from Lemuria?

Lemuria is a legendary lost continent that was supposed to have been in what is now the Pacific Ocean. It existed during the time of Atlantis but sank into the sea, as did Atlantis. However, Lemuria was supposed to have gone down before Atlantis.

Many more of Edgar Cayce’s past life psychic readings were for people who had lived in Atlantis than for people who had lived in Lemuria.

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Look at your photographs of mountains. Do you have trees, branches, flowers, a totem pole, a flying bird, a couple arm-in-arm surveying the scene . . . something in the foreground . . . to create depth and make the photograph interesting?