In the 1980s, I came to Virginia Beach intent on merging the unmergeable: the metaphysics of the A.R.E. and Paul Solomon’s Fellowship of Inner Light with Pat Robertson’s 700 Club and the Christian Broadcasting Network. What do the shadow sides of these organizations tell us about the others?

Christopher Naughton is the current CEO of Edgar Cayce’s Association for Research & Enlightenment. He is a former New Jersey prosecutor, civil litigation attorney, and the six-time Emmy® award-winning host and producer of the American Public Television (APT) program The American Law Journal.

His New World Radio program, examining world spiritualities and parapsychology, aired on public radio stations, including WHRV 89.5FM in this market. He is the author of America’s Next Great Awakening: How the Convergence of Mysticism, Atheism, Religion and Science Will Impact the Nation. And You. Christopher likely holds the singular distinction of studying the psychic readings of Edgar Cayce while attending Pat Robertson’s graduate school for Broadcast Journalism at what is today Regent University. He lives with his life partner, Valerie, and their two doted-upon cats in Virginia Beach.