Topic: Psychic Trance

After losing his voice and being unable to speak above a whisper for a year, Edgar Cayce sought help from a traveling hypnotist and later a local osteopath named Al Lane. Under hypnosis, Cayce's "entity" directed the increase of blood flow to his throat, which physically turned his neck red and restored his speech. This event marked Cayce's first successful psychic self-diagnosis and the beginning of his career in clairvoyance.