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 E D G A R C AY C E O N

Overcoming Fear
and Anxiety

An Updated Edition of
Hugh Lynn Cayce’s
Faces of Fear

HUGH LYNN CAYCE

WITH KEVIN J. TODESCHI

A.R.E. Press • Virginia Beach • Virginia

 Copyright © 2004
by Kevin J. Todeschi

Faces of Fear © 1980 by Hugh Lynn Cayce

4th Printing, April 2012

Printed in the U.S.A.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or trans-

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Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

Cayce, Hugh Lynn.
Edgar Cayce on overcoming fear and anxiety : an updated edition of
Hugh Lynn Cayce’s Faces of fear / by Hugh Lynn Cayce with Kevin J.
Todeschi.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ).
ISBN 0-87604-494-1 (trade pbk.)
ISBN 13: 978-0-87-04-494-0
1. Parapsychology and medicine. 2. Fear—Alternative treatment. 3.
Anxiety—Alternative treatment. 4. Cayce, Edgar, 1877-1945. 5. Fear. 6.
Anxiety. I. Todeschi, Kevin J. II. Cayce, Hugh Lynn. Faces of fear. III.
Title.
BF1045.M44C39 2004
131—dc22
2004020201
Edgar Cayce Readings © 1971, 1993-2007
by the Edgar Cayce Foundation.
All rights reserved.

Cover design by Richard Boyle

 Contents

Foreword ............................................................................................................ ix

ONE: The Nature of Fear ...........................................................................................1

TWO: Are Our Bodies Afraid? .............................................................................. 11

THREE: Repressed Fear Memories ......................................................................... 29

FOUR: Fears from Past-Life Memories .............................................................. 43

FIVE: The Fear of Death .......................................................................................... 55

SIX: Reexamining Your Fears and Anxieties ............................................ 67

SEVEN: Bringing Your Life into Alignment—Spiritually ........................... 73

EIGHT: Bringing Your Life into Alignment—Mentally .............................. 97

NINE: Bringing Your Life into Alignment—Physically .........................121

TEN: The Oneness of All Force ....................................................................... 127

Conclusion ...................................................................................................... 135

Appendix A: Fear Questionnaire: Getting in Touch with Possible Causes

for Personal Fears .................................................................................... 139

Appendix B: Bringing All Things to Your Remembrance ................................... 145

Appendix C: References and Recommended Reading ............................................ 151

 The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Psalm 27:1
 Foreword

T
HERE WAS a time when I was so terrified of speaking in front of
individuals that I rarely—if ever—forced myself to even ask a
question while in a group of three or more people. Except on a
few occasions when I felt extremely comfortable around friends or fam-
ily, I never spoke in a group and I never raised my hand in a class.
When I was called on or I was forced to speak, the fear became so
intense that I felt my throat constrict and grip with fear. While this
occurred, breathing was next to impossible and my face would become
tight and hot. Any words that did manage to escape my mouth were
forced out between uneven breaths. If individuals turned to look at me
as I struggled to speak, it felt as if I was strangling, choking on the
words that became stuck in my throat and I would turn red-faced with
embarrassment. Over the years, I became angry with myself for being
so afraid and I became even more afraid of situations in which I might
be called on to speak in front of people.
Today, it is almost hard to imagine being crippled by such intense
fear. As a spokesperson for the work of Edgar Cayce, I have lectured in

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front of literally tens of thousands of individuals on five continents
regarding dozens of topics. I have given dream interpretation classes in
Ecuador, spoken about ancient Egypt in Japan, held intuition work-
shops in France, escorted numerous tour groups along the Nile, led
hypnotic reveries in Canada and given hundreds of lectures through-
out the United States—from California in the West and Washington D.C.
in the East, and from Texas in the South and Montana in the North. The
fearful student who would not even raise a hand in class could never
have conceived of such a possibility.
I still remember what year I began to overcome the fear, and I clearly
remember the occasion that caused me to think beyond any doubt, “I
have got to do something about this.” It was 1982 and I was an attendee
at a retreat program in the mountains of Colorado. The speaker was Dr.
Gladys McGarey, M.D., author of Born to Live and one of the foremost
authorities of the Cayce principles of health, healing, medicine, and child
rearing. Dr. Gladys, as she is affectionately known, was speaking about
her many experiences during thirty-plus years as an obstetrician. I re-
member it was a wonderful program with about eighty of us in atten-
dance.
As she spoke, there was a question I wanted answered that I hoped
she would simply discuss. Unfortunately, she did not. As the lecture
came to an end and Dr. Gladys opened the conference up for questions,
I hoped that someone else would ask the question that I wanted to
know. One question followed after another, each being answered in
turn, but no one voiced the query that I had hoped to hear. My ques-
tion was as follows: I had heard that the Edgar Cayce readings sug-
gested whenever a child was born into the earth, the angels
sang—joyously proclaiming the opportunity for spirit to enter into the
earth. I wanted to know if during her many years as an obstetrician, Dr.
Gladys had ever heard the music of angelic voices. That was my ques-
tion, however it was a question that no one else asked.
As it became clear to me that the conference session was coming to a
close, my desire to know the answer to this question became stronger
than the fear of raising my hand. Feeling I had absolutely no other
choice than to ask the question myself, I repeated the question in my
head four or five times to reassure myself. When I had finally worked

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up the nerve, I raised my hand.
Immediately, Dr. Gladys called on me. I can remember sitting there
ready to ask the question that I had repeatedly verbalized in my head
without any problem. Suddenly, I saw three or four other conferees
turn to look at me as I began to speak. Immediately, I felt my throat
constrict, my face turned red, and without breathing I somehow man-
aged to choke out a dozen words that barely provided Dr. Gladys with
just enough information to know what I was really trying to ask. Even
now, I can remember feeling ashamed as Dr. Gladys responded to my
question, wondering how many other people had seen my public dis-
play of fear.
Synchronistically, a few weeks after the conference I had the oppor-
tunity to obtain a psychic reading from an intuitive named William
Schaeffer, who was living in Denver at the time. Without thinking about
my fears or worries, I went to William for a past-life reading. William
and I had never met before; he knew nothing about my personal life,
my hopes, my dreams, or my fears. The experience proved to be a turn-
ing point for me.
During the session, William said that one of the challenges I had to
overcome in the present was a deep-seated “intolerance of intolerance.”
He went on to say that oftentimes in my soul’s history I had gotten “up
on a soapbox” to tell people about how mistaken they were in their
shortsighted beliefs, their biases, and their prejudices. According to Wil-
liam, rather than enabling individuals to broaden their perspectives,
more often than not my approach had simply gotten me “arrested,
shunned, or even hanged.” He added: “You know every time you get up
to speak to people, your subconscious mind thinks, ‘Oh no, here he
goes again . . . shut him up.’” To emphasize his point, William made a
hangman’s noose with his fingertips and constricted the circle with his
hands. At that moment, I believed I had found the cause of my fear.
To be sure, the fear did not immediately come to an end. Instead,
what happened was that each time I found myself in a situation were I
needed to speak before a group, I would reassure myself with positive
affirmations, such as: “I have nothing to fear, I am just asking a ques-
tion”; “these people want to hear what you have to say”; “there is no
reason to worry, I am in a safe place,” and so forth. At first, the fear was

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no longer crippling. Eventually, it became manageable. In time, I worked
through it. William’s brief statement became the catalyst that enabled
me to overcome the fear that had impacted my life for as long as I could
remember. Speaking in public was not my only fear, but it was certainly
one of the most overwhelming.
Edgar Cayce (1877-1945), who has been called one of greatest psychics
of all time, suggested that fear is one of the biggest stumblingblocks
individuals face throughout their lives. Fear can be crippling; it can
cause individuals to refrain from doing what they know to do and from
becoming what they were meant to be. Fear comes in a variety of inten-
sities and it seems to have a number of causes. Every individual has had
to face fear at one time or another. It is the cause of fear and how we
respond to that fear that sets us apart as individuals.
Throughout his life, Edgar Cayce helped countless individuals over-
come every imaginable fear: fear of water, fear of ghosts, fear of the
unknown, fear of failure, fear of childbirth, fear of closed-in places, fear
of sex, fear of relationships, fear of weapons—every imaginable per-
sonal fear. Somehow, in his trance state, Cayce was able to get to the
root cause of an individual’s fear and consistently provide each person
with a practical approach for overcoming fear, anxiety, and worry. In a
very real sense, this information has touched the lives of thousands—
not only those individuals who had readings from Edgar Cayce but also
those who came after Cayce was gone and were simply able to explore
the material for themselves.
Because fear is universal, Edgar Cayce’s eldest son, Hugh Lynn Cayce
(1907-1982), decided to publish a book in 1980 entitled Faces of Fear that
detailed his many years of working with his father’s information, assist-
ing individuals in overcoming their personal anxieties and fears. The
book contained many of Hugh Lynn’s experiences overcoming his own
fears. I first read Faces of Fear in 1982, shortly after my encounter with
William Schaeffer. Hugh Lynn’s volume proved to be extremely helpful
in my own life. So helpful, in fact, that I never forgot it—I remembered
much of the information even years after the volume had gone out of
print.
Based upon on his years of experience, Hugh Lynn believed that all
fears could essentially be traced to five different sources. Although some

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fears might have more than one cause, Hugh Lynn believed that the
five major sources of fear were as follows:
• Fears due to a physical situation or problem
• Repressed fears from childhood
• Fears of religion or God
• Fears of death or the unknown
• Fears due to a past-life experience
Hugh Lynn’s Faces of Fear would become for him one culmination of
his decades of working with his father’s psychic information. He de-
lighted in talking about the book, in leading lectures and workshops
about the information, and in providing individuals with tools they
could utilize to overcome their own fears and anxieties. Unfortunately,
the volume would be Hugh Lynn’s last publication; he died from com-
plication of cancer at the age of seventy-five on July 4, 1982.
Hugh Lynn’s book was not my first experience with him. In fact,
years before even graduating from college I had received a letter from
him. At the time, I had written him, describing my deep interest in the
Edgar Cayce information. I had long heard his name, first as his father’s
son, then as the general editor of a series of Warner paperbacks (the
“Edgar Cayce on . . . ” series) written in the late 1960s, and finally as head
of the Association for Research and Enlightenment, Inc.—A.R.E., the or-
ganization founded by Edgar Cayce in 1931 to preserve, research, and
disseminate his psychic information.
Imagine my surprise when, as a young man, I received a personal
letter with the return address of Hugh Lynn Cayce, “A.R.E. Chairman of
the Board.” Hugh Lynn encouraged me to look him up when I came to
Virginia Beach—something I eventually did. Years later, I discovered that
Hugh Lynn’s reaching out to me was not an isolated event. He often
went out of his way to encourage young people to become more in-
volved with his father’s work and information.
It is important to point out that any book or publication written
about Edgar Cayce and the Cayce information before the widespread
use of computers was not an easy undertaking. When Hugh Lynn was
alive, researching the Cayce readings could be a painstaking experi-
ence, sifting through literally hundreds or even thousands of pages
looking for a certain quote or a particular case history. It was a process

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that could take days, weeks, or even months. The advent of the Cayce
readings on CD-ROM in the 1990s made a manual search of the Cayce
files a thing of the past. Individual words and phrases contained within
the more than 14,000 readings could be discovered in an instant. In a
very real sense, Hugh Lynn Cayce and those who knew Edgar Cayce
personally did not have access to the Cayce information in ways that
we do today.
As the years passed and I began to see how many others were af-
fected by a variety of fears, I remembered how very helpful Hugh Lynn’s
book had been in my own life. On several occasions I mentioned that it
was too bad the book had gone out of print. I hoped that, in time,
something could be done to make Hugh Lynn’s volume and the Cayce
information on fear more readily available to others. Finally, because of
my own background in writing and the Cayce information, I was asked
to help make the material available once again.
This publication gives access to Hugh Lynn’s information to new gen-
erations. With the exception of more references from the Cayce read-
ings, some additional material drawn from Hugh Lynn’s public talks,
the discarding of dated references, and a brief foreword, this volume is
very much Hugh Lynn Cayce’s original Faces of Fear. Although the book
has been reissued and updated, it remains the culmination of Hugh
Lynn’s life and work. The material is still timely, helpful, insightful, and
a source of inspiration for overcoming life’s fears and anxieties from the
perspective of the Edgar Cayce information.
I hope you will find, as I have, that fear is not a state of mind with
which an individual is forever burdened but can instead be a learning
experience and a process that most individuals—given the proper tools
and insight—can work through.
By the way, in 1982 when I asked Dr. Gladys about whether or not
she had ever heard the angel’s sing during a child’s birth, she paused,
seemed to ponder the question for a moment, looked around the room
and finally replied: “Yes . . . many times.”
Perhaps there is much more to us than we have ever dared to imagine.

Kevin J. Todeschi

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The Nature of Fear 1

The Nature of Fear

Keep thine face toward the light, and the shadows will not bring
fright—for fear is the beginning of all undoing. 2056-2

T
HE PIECES of paper on the table in front of me blurred through
my tears. Thoughts flashed through my consciousness like streaks
of lightning. Why should I cry? It was World War II and millions
of men were separated from their loved ones. Thousands were dying
here in France and to the north and east. The faces of the bloated bodies
we had seen along the roads, after the breakthrough at Saint-Lô, came
back to me. Yes, my father, Edgar Cayce, was dead and my mother was
dying. A V-Mail from my brother on an island in the Caribbean had
been the first word of my father’s death (the Battle of the Bulge was on),
with news that Dad had been buried in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Now a
Red Cross message stated that my wife, the mother of our son—less
than two years old—was in the hospital. According to the doctor, I

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 2 Overcoming Fear and Anxiety

should expect and prepare for the worst.

Maybe if I could pray I could stand the depression that was sweeping
over me. I got up and went out into the hall of the old, French chateau
where our company of 125 men was quartered. A short distance away,
heavy canvases were stretched across the hall. Beyond was open space,
where part of the building had been bombed away. I pushed the canvas
aside and slipped through. Here I could be alone. Already it was getting
dark and it was raining, a cold drizzle. I stopped well back from the
edge of the crumbling floor and stood there trying to pray.
Where was God? How could a loving Father let this happen? The
depression deepened. If there was ever a God, maybe He had gone
away to another part of the universe, leaving the earth and everything,
including humanity, to fend for itself. Maybe there wasn’t anything out
there. Was it all a coincidence, a fluke of nature, meaningless, all ending
in nothingness? This madness in which we were involved made no
sense. Suddenly everything that I believed in was washed out of me—
God, love, Jesus, service. Empty, alone, and cut off from my family, I
could find no meaning in life. I was desolate, and I was afraid.
I do not know how long I stayed in that place or in that state of mind.
Finally, I forced myself to pray, “God, if You are there, hear me. Let me
keep my wife; our son needs her. I need her. If in my weakness I cannot
serve You, use our son.” Over and over again, I thought and muttered
these and similar words. Later, I talked with a friend about how I felt,
and he prayed for me. After a sleepless night that resembled the feeling
one gets from a nightmare, I forced myself to relax by suggestion and
finally to begin to meditate. Even that didn’t seem to help. It was one of
the most difficult episodes in my life; it would be two weeks before I
learned that my wife’s operation had disclosed a benign tumor and not
a malignancy, as had been feared.
Over the years there has been plenty of time for me to consider this
experience again and again. Repeatedly, I have gone back to it in my
mind. How could a person like me suddenly be afraid and doubt the
existence of God? My family background had provided religious train-
ing, Bible study, and church activity. The constant example of a mother
and father who not only worshiped but also believed in a loving Cre-
ator was always before me. For ten years our family had studied and