Written by Christine Bartlett PT, CHT,  as told by Joseph Costa, Ph.D.

The first time I met Edgar Cayce, I didn't know who he was.  It was in the mid 1940’s.  I was a teenager growing up in Taunton, Massachusetts. He appeared to me in a teaching session I was having with my teachers from the "other side" who had been teaching me since I was four years old. As a boy, masters would appear in my bedroom at night to play games with  me on the ceiling and teach me about energy and thinking.  

On this day, they were teaching me when a man  appeared and started talking to them about my progress.  I never found out what was said, but it was the first of many times I would see him. He would talk to them, then he'd leave.  It wasn't until later that I discovered I was being visited by Edgar Cayce, the "Miracle Man of Virginia Beach."
    
In my twenties while studying different healers, I came across a picture of  Edgar Cayce and read about his readings and his work.  I recognized him immediately as the man of my visits who had  talked with my teachers. I  discovered he had died, but to me it didn't make a difference whether he was on "this side" or the "other side."  Since my childhood I have had the ability to communicate on both sides and I knew I would get the opportunity to see him again.

I have had the opportunity to speak with Edgar Cayce many times throughout my life and in my career of teaching others about the Inner World and how to talk to their guides and angels.  For me his teachings of "Mysticism and Medicine" as discussed by Mark Thurston, PhD in the July/August 2003 issue of Venture Inward Magazine, are parallel to the principles and teachings I  grew  up with since I was a child.  Today I have the opportunity to continue teaching the legacy Edgar Cayce began many years ago; the legacy of bridging the material and  non-material  worlds to awaken spiritually and heal physically for soul growth.

Edgar Cayce threw open the door to this teaching and today the bridge is a reality and available  for all who wish to balance their lives and access the Inner World. The bridge being referred to is called the 15th Step.

The 15th Step is a process that was given to me by my masters to share with the human experience. It is a process that teaches one to speed up the body’s vibration to allow access to the place of learning in the non-material World where one can  receive physical healing and divine wisdom and teaching.

As pointed out by Mark Thurston in Venture Inward magazine, the "deepest teachings of Cayce about the human body - is a bridge,"  where "The body can serve as a connector between the material world and the spiritual world."  This statement is the essence of what the 15th Step is about.  It is a simple, step-by-step process that teaches one to vibrate the body to access the spiritual world and come back - healthier and wiser. The 15th Step is practical spirituality at its very best.  It is the next step in the raising of consciousness of the human  being on the planet today.

Why is the 15th Step here today?
It was at the Association for Research & Enlightenment Inc. in Virginia Beach , VA. in April of 2000, when I first got the message from my guides that it was time to begin teaching the 15th Step. I was speaking there at a joint conference given by A.R.E. and the International Association of Regression Research & Therapies Inc. when  I was feeling  that my work here on this planet had been completed.

I was talking to the masters about it being my time to transition, that the human
experience had progressed as far as it could in my lifetime and my work of spreading the teaching about Thought & Thinking had been done, when they notified me that there was a shift in the energy on the planet. They said it would be my choice if I decided to stay or leave, but that if I stayed I would be part of the new way for the human  experience.

Given that choice, I decided to stay and find out what was in store. Shortly there after I was told it was time to bring the 15th Step forward. The steps were given to me and I have been teaching the 15th Step around the country ever since.  I have visited Virginia Beach many times since 2000 and taught the  first 15th Step workshop at the A.R.E. in February of this year. I will be teaching the 15th Step Weekend at A.R.E. again this fall in September of 2003, and I hope more people from the Association will join us to find out for themselves what this "bridge" is about and how it parallels Edgar Cayce's teachings.

Can anyone visit the 15th Step or do you need to have special abilities?
The 15th Step is a process that was designed for everyone to be able to do.  No special abilities are needed, as we have now entered a time on the planet where all  human beings can access the higher vibrations and their inner  truths.  As the planet speeds up and consciousness continues to expand, it will soon be very necessary for the human body to be vibrating faster to match the speed of changes on the planet.

Effects of thought and thinking  on the body have become more immediate, making the body more susceptible to sensitive illnesses and  making  it more necessary to keep the body and thinking in balance.  The 15th Step is an easy way to learn  how to speed the body's vibration to keep the cells balanced and healthy. By keeping the body "temple" healthy, one can then connect to the divine within and access spiritual truths - to improve one's daily life.

How is the 15th Step different from prayer and meditation?
Meditation and prayer are ways to quiet the inner being. In meditation and prayer the physical body is slowed down and the connection to spirit is made only  through the mental mind.  The 15th Step is different in that it is designed to accelerate the body's vibration to equal the vibration used by inner guides and beings of light and wisdom.  

When the body and  mind are at a heightened speed, an amazing communication occurs. A communication similar to the level achieved by Edgar Cayce in his readings. This heightened communication cannot be accomplished while the body is generating at the denser, slower speed used in everyday living and in prayer and mediation.  Answers can be attained through the practice of prayer and meditation, but the physical body in these processes is left behind.

How can the 15th Step change my life?
There are countless stories that  can be told about healings and spiritual connections that have been made on the 15th Step - so many in fact that they can't even begin to be covered  with you in this short period of time. Experiences range from feeling color, heat, sound and vibration on the body, to having psychic surgery on the body.  Many people have had eyesight and hearing changed, leg length changes, birthmarks removed and countless other types of physical balancing and healing.

On the 15th Step almost everyone reports an overwhelming feeling of divine love and oneness as they feel the connection to their divine masters and teachers for the very first time. Spiritual masters and guides have visited many, including Jesus, Buddha, Edgar Cayce and other more personal guides the person is connected to. Some have had the opportunity to visit loved ones who have passed over and heal old wounds and past relationships.

The experience you have visiting the 15th Step will change your life. You will discover the "bridge" between yourself in your material existence and the spiritual, non-material inner world of healers and teachers.  More importantly you will discover a way to maintain this communication, on your own without having to go to any other person to connect you to your truth.

See you on the 15th Step!

Dr. Joe