This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the Baltimore Dock, in a room on the State of Maryland, Old Bay Line, this 14th day of January, 1934, in accordance with request made by his wife, Mrs. [844], new Active Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mr. [486]''s niece, Miss [605].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Hugh Lynn Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Helene and Ernest W. Zentgraf.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 7:00 to 7:20 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Ky.
1. HLC: You will go over this body carefully, examine it thoroughly, and tell me the conditions you find at the present time, giving the cause of the existing conditions; also the treatment for the cure of this body especially in reference to his strong desire for drink. You will answer the questions which I will ask.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body here, [486].
3. Now, as we find, there have been those conditions that have disturbed the better physical forces of the body. These in the form of poisons have affected the digestive system, and with the addition of the things to allay the disorder there has been brought about the desire in the body for, and the use of, those things or conditions that would allay the pain. And there has been made the desire to keep from such a pain until the PAIN and the desire, bringing their fruits, have made for this inordinate desire for drink - until the condition has reached such as may be termed possessed with the spirit of both rum AND the sedatives to keep the satisfying of these influences.
4. The poisons that distress the muscular forces of the body physically, that have made for that which has been called neurotic or neuritis in the extremities, arise from a prolapsus in the colon area. This is from a strain in the early portion of the life that, had it been brought to normalcy when the body was developing - or when those conditions were in a position before the system had adjusted itself, would have been easy. In the present it will require time, patience, persistence, and the character of adjustments and treatments that will be applications from within, with the high enemas or colonic irrigations, and with the proper adjustments in the cerebrospinal system as to not only break up the lesions that have been formed, but to make for sufficient vitality stored in system to maintain
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the position for the transverse and the ascending colon.
5. In meeting the needs of the conditions in the present, as we find, it will require not only a desire for the awakening of forces within self that may combat evil influences in the inner life, but the maintaining of those conditions in the body for the period that will allow PHYSICALLY the spiritual forces to exert themselves.
6. Either, then, through applications of subjugating the conscious mind through hypnosis or through those treatments that may be accorded in those places where both drink AND sedatives may be taken FROM the body in such a manner that will allow the physical to exert itself. For, unless there is the arousing, under such conditions, for the WILL of the body to maintain, to gain control, LITTLE may be accomplished.
7. The Willett Institution in Nashville [Tennessee] is the better, the more appropriate for this particular body, as we find, to undertake; or that maintained in Macon - the Still-Hildreth Institution, [Still-Hildreth Osteopathic Sanatorium, Macon, Mo.] where there would not only be the correction of the desire but also the correction of the physical condition in the digestive system and the breaking up of those conditions that have disturbed the body-physical. We would make the effort through these channels.
8. Ready for questions.
9. (Q) Is it possible for his wife or mother to do anything to help him be relieved of this condition? (A) Only in aiding or in persuading or insisting that this application be made.
10. (Q) Over what area should the osteopathic treatments be given to relieve the colon condition? (A) First, as will be seen in the institution, there will be the cleansing of the system; not only of the poisons by the irrigations but by the diet and by the manner in which there would be the applications for the relief of the PHYSICAL desire in the body itself. Then the MANIPULATIONS would extend from corrections in the 8th and 9th dorsal to the lower lumbar area and sacral area; of course, keeping the alignments in the upper cervical but the corrections in the upper dorsal and lumbar area. As may be well gained by many, habit and desires are akin. Habit, however, is a physical reaction to the senses of the body, while desire is both mental, physical AND spiritual, and when INORDINATE desire has been created by the use of those forces that make for the activities in all the sensory
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forces of the body, it becomes as the possession of those forces from without and from within that create, without the cleansing influence of the spiritual entering in from without, that which is hard to cope with. WE would prefer the Still-Hildreth. Costs more, but the whole correction would be for body-physical, body-mental, and the opportunity for the will to be so acted upon by the associations and surroundings - though, for the moment, it may be corrected through the purely PHYSICAL in Willett's.
11. (Q) Does he use dope at this time? (A) As indicated.
12. (Q) Any other suggestions for the body or for the family? (A) Pray ye that ye enter not into such temptation so aroused within selves and in those surroundings of selves, that there may come the cleansing influence which may only come in making self and selves' life in keeping with the influences of the Christ-Consciousness within; knowing that the powers that be are within His force to use as is for the better development for the soul forces of each individual. Trust in Him, yet - as He has given - "If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments." If ye love Him, then show forth in that which is known that may aid in bringing for this soul the opportunity for its regeneration in this experience, that there may not be those forces that would CONDEMN thyself or him.
13. We are through. Copy to Wife " " Ass'n file