Van Auken, John

John Van Auken is a well-known lecturer on the ‘readings’ of Edgar Cayce. He is a Director at the Edgar Cayce organization, the Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E) having been associated with the A.R.E. since the late 1960s. He is the author of many books dealing with mysticism and ancient mysteries. He co-authored with Greg and Lora Little, Edgar Cayce’s Atlantis and Ancient South America^[0889]. The latter mentions Plato just once, while an article on Van Auken’s own website^(a) entitled Atlantis & Mu (Lemuria) has Plato completely ignored, which in my opinion leaves him unfit to discuss Atlantis. The article has been removed since.

Even more disturbing is his association with the rather dubious ‘diploma mill’, The International Metaphysical University^(b), considered by some^(c)(d) to be fraudulent.

Some years ago Van Auken was challenged by William Hutton to give the references of the six Cayce ‘readings’ that he had referred to in a lecture. The readings did not exist and the best that Van Auken could do was claim to have “misspoken”^(e)!

^(a) https://www.johnvanauken.com/

^(b) https://intermetu.com/

*^(c) See: https://web.archive.org/web/20150331214727/https://www.examiner.com:80/article/fraud-the-paranormal-field-goes-up-a-few-degrees

^(d) https://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=2697.0*

^(e) https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/atlantida_mu/esp_atlantida_11.htm