Contemporary Cayce

I’ll admit: I approached *Contemporary Cayce* with a healthy dose of side-eye. The world doesn’t need another woolly-eyed treatise on Atlantis or crystal healing—but Todeschi surprised me by treating Cayce’s readings like a *text to interrogate*, not a gospel to swallow. The book’s structure is its secret weapon: each chapter tackles a modern dilemma (e.g., "Can Cayce’s ‘dream telepathy’ explain our algorithmic echo chambers?") and pressures the original readings for answers. Some connections sing—like linking Cayce’s ‘body-mind-spirit’ holism to today’s mental health crisis—while others (a stretchy comparison to quantum computing) feel like a reach. Still, the audacity to *argue with* Cayce, not just praise him, makes this stand out in a genre often mired in uncritical devotion. Pollak’s narration is the audiobook’s spine. His voice—deep, unhurried, with a hint of gravel—avoids the pitfall of many spiritual narrators who default to a soothing, disembodied tone. Instead, he sounds like a college lecturer who’s *thought* about this stuff, not just memorized it. The production is clean, though I docked half a star for occasional awkward pauses between sections, as if the editor feared interrupting the ‘vibe.’ My bigger critique? Todeschi’s insistence on framing Cayce as a ‘proto-scientist’ sometimes feels like overcompensating for the material’s inherent weirdness. But that tension—between rigor and wonder—is what makes this audiobook electric. It’s not for true believers or cynics, but for the curious: those who want their mysticism *tested*, not just consumed.