The present book represents the latest iteration of a broader Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology (APP) project that has evolved over more than three decades.
Its development reflects a progressive effort to organize and interpret the health information contained in the Edgar Cayce physical readings in a systematic and educational format.
The project began in 1995 with the creation of the Cayce Health Database, an early attempt to assemble the health information from the physical readings into a comprehensive and searchable resource. In 2000, while conducting research with Meridian Institute, this work expanded into the Cayce Comprehensive Symptom Inventory (CCSI), which included an educational workbook module that established much of the structural framework adopted in the present volume.
In 2002, a four-hour lecture series on anatomy, physiology, and pathology was presented at the Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.). The graphical materials developed for those lectures became the conceptual predecessors of many of the illustrations appearing throughout this book.
Accordingly, the present manuscript should be understood not as a standalone publication, but as the current stage of an ongoing scholarly project. While substantially revised, expanded, and reorganized, it maintains a clear continuity with earlier efforts to present the physiological concepts contained in the Cayce readings in a coherent, systematic, and academically accessible form.
Although each stage of the project served different educational and research purposes, all shared the same central objective: to organize the anatomical, physiological, and pathological concepts embedded within the physical readings into a coherent framework that could be studied systematically. The organizational structure of the present volume reflects the culmination of that developmental process.
Thus this project is intended to be a resource for anyone seeking to understand the Cayce physical readings. Conceptually it is an extension of a previous work created by Gladys Davis Turner titled "The Body is the Temple". One major difference is that the emphasis in this text is on anatomy, physiology and pathology without any extensive discussion of treatment.