This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Va. Beach, Va., this 23rd day of September, 1932, in accordance with request made by self - Mrs. [911], Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [911].
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 11:00 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Va. (Body & enquiring mind, questions regarding all phases of her life)
1. EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, [911] - this in parts we have had before.
2. Ready for questions.
3. (Q) Regarding the physical, how is this body progressing? (A) As we find, the body physically is gradually becoming more able to adapt itself to conditions about self, and is gradually growing in the abilities to be more and more dependent upon that as may be created in the system. That there occurs in the mental attributes toward the physical those necessities to be dependent upon influences external is more the matter of the attitude, than the inability for the body to adapt itself. The body-physical and the body-mental should not be too over anxious, but - as has been given - the body must make the efforts more and more to control the desire, and to control those reflections and reflex actions of the system. Do not become discouraged in well-doing, for improvements ARE coming - though gradual, and even at times may appear to become somewhat discouraging. KNOW in self, SEE in self, that there ARE improvements in the right direction.
4. (Q) What can I do to be less nervous? (A) More and more employ self in doing something that will bring to others that the body feels will be a pleasure to them. Do not pity self. Do not be angry at self. Do not overtax self by the expressions either in word or action that there should be much greater changes in self so suddenly. Remember the growth and the time required for this
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nervousness, and how OFTEN the body has been so dependent upon external influences to produce sedentary forces in system to overcome these tendencies of exaggerated influences in the experience; and the body will find that little by little there will be more and more the ability to control the emotions, to control the coordinating between the sympathetic and the physical nervous system - or the tendencies for nervousness of every nature.
5. (Q) What can I do to obtain sleep now? (A) Follow more and more in keeping with those outlines that have been given, and make the activities such that the body will become PHYSICALLY tired.
6. (Q) Why didn't the battery bring proper rest and sleep as it was expected to do? (A) The applications of vibrations must be given the opportunity to create in system that necessary for bringing about sympathetic coordination, by the giving of sufficient time without breaking into the coordinating elements that are created by the balancing of conditions in the body. When the body rests for such applications, more and more put from the mind any desire or attempt to do other than seek that rest which will come from proper coordination in the system; and we will find there will be brought that rest mentally and physically.
7. (Q) Do sedatives and hypnotics help or irritate me at the present time? (A) As given in relation to the effect of outside influences, this means anything taken into the system of ANY nature to become active upon the nervous system - or any of those things that should be passive in the body. These will be found to change as changes are coming about in the system. At one time there will be found much irritation, while the next day - or the next two or three days - the sedatives would have a quieting effect for the system. It is the same with ANY of those influences that do not work in coordination. Let's for the moment understand what is being accomplished in the system, when it is given that the body is gradually growing to be capable of depending on that created within self: In a physical normal body we find there are those organs within the system that assimilate the elements, which are in the material forces, to create that within the body - through the assimilation of food, of thought, of the environs - to not only meet the needs of the body but to supply that which will bring resuscitation to all the forces within the body. That is the normal condition.
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With this body, [911] we are speaking of, those elements through pressures that have existed in the cerebrospinal system, in the upper dorsal and in reflex cervical areas, have prevented organs of the system from supplying the necessary elements for the carrying on of this resuscitation through that taken in body for sustenance, in food, in thought, in mind, in the attributes of the body. These have for a great period been supplied by outside influences, until there was not the NECESSITY for the body to create those elements that would carry on the assimilations, that would bring about these forces in the system. Then, with these changes, that force, element or power, that ORDINARILY would go to create this necessary element in the system has been directed in other channels, that brought irritation to the mental, the imaginative, and to many of the organs even of the system. This created, then, those elements of fear - aroused in the coordination of the sympathetic and cerebrospinal nerve system by irritations in the ganglia that made connections between these - that are of the nature as to produce this nervousness, the irritable irritations that arise at periods in the system. To this has been added those influences to SUBDUE or overcome these tendencies, through the use of hypnotics and narcotics - or those sedatives that are both narcotic and hypnotic in their effect. This of itself creates more of the forces that are not being used nominally in the system, and creates more to be rid of through the eliminations of the system. As to eliminations, we find these go off in certain channels - either through the drosses of the system, through eliminations through the functioning of the organs of the pelvis, or through the periods, or through the respiratory system, or through the breathing, or through the perspiration, and the like. These naturally, then, tend to create irritations in ALL directions; so that as the system becomes more and more accustomed to there being created the proper BALANCE in the system, through the correction of those pressures that have prevented organs from functioning in the normal manner, there is created more desire - imaginative and real - within
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the activities of the organs, the glands, the secreting forces of the system. With the recuperations, then, it may be expected that there will come the greater periods of irritation MENTALLY; and the resistance that will create even those forces warring against those very best forces that would be magnified by the system, so that CONTRARYWISE conditions arise; but in the spirit of truth, in the spirit of the desire may the body be in the attitude that "I will MEET all of these conditions. I will MAKE the fight to restore to my body that birthright, that it is capable of meeting all of these conditions that would supply elements or influences towards destructive forces"; and as we meet them by those elements that are NORMALLY created, by the positive flow of blood in the system that is not fired by resentment, not fired with discontent, not fired with any elements that will make for more and more irritation, we will find that the body will become able to meet all. There is no reason that the body should not, within six to eighteen months, be PERFECTLY NORMAL, physically and mentally! If it is not, it is its own fault! for the conditions are started right, for the elements to become perfectly NORMAL! If there is no fight, no resistance, there will still be more and more need for those outside influences, in the form of those things to create that to overcome, and it will require more and more, and more and more, until it is not of itself at all, but that created by itself through non-resistance!
8. (Q) Please describe the best ones I should use now, when necessary. (A) Keep as far from ANY as possible. When necessary, use those hypnotics in the form that have been used, or in those that are changing more and more; or these may be changed so that they will be LESSENED from time to time; that is, should the body find it impractical, impossible to wear self out even in not taking any, then the Luminol - and at the next period that it is found necessary, do not increase this quantity but rather change to bromides, or Bromidia, and fight it again and again! the next time it becomes necessary, take Codol, or the like - but do not build more and more, and more and more; rather fight to make it less and less, and less.
9. (Q) What strength Luminol? (A) Sufficient has been taken until the body knows! Why seek to know that which is known within self? Know that it MUST be reduced, if the body would fight against same!
10. (Q) When shall I eliminate sedatives and hypnotics entirely? (A) When the body has builded within self that
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determination "I will NOT!" and then DOES NOT!
11. (Q) Am I holding to my diet and program well enough? (A) These are very good; and, as has been given, be RATHER the boss OF the program than the program bossing you! and you will find that more and more you are the control OF the conditions, rather than the conditions controlling you! Remember this, from which you are reasoning with yourself: "THERE IS BEING CREATED WITHIN MY SYSTEM, THROUGH THE NORMAL IMPULSES FROM THE ORGANS OF MY BODY, A BALANCE THAT IS NORMAL! NORMAL TO OTHERS AS WELL AS MYSELF!" "THAT THE SYSTEM HAS BECOME SO THAT IT RELIES UPON OTHER INFLUENCES I KNOW, BUT I WILL BE THE BOSS!"
12. (Q) Why can I not reduce Insulin as has been indicated? (A) It CAN, will the WILL be set! As has been seen and shown, there are those periods when it becomes NECESSARY that there be the return to even a GREATER quantity than there has been used! This is not unreasonable! Be reasonable with self; be reasonable with that which is being attempted to be done! Consider this: Compare self, as it were, (and it is in very much the same condition) to an automobile that has been stuck in the mud! There would be the rocking back and forth, and the realization that it was going down deeper and deeper and deeper - BUT, if you stopped, or if you went altogether dead, would there be any pulling out? Put more force, more vim, more power within self - and you'll move out! Then the next reduction may be even greater than has been before. Because you have to return again, don't get discouraged - but know within self that the strength is being builded and that it can be reduced! that "I WILL reduce it", and you will! Change, of course, when these changes come about. Do not expect that you will reduce same and then add a whole lot more of those things, in foods or activities, that will require the use of more - see?
13. (Q) Is there anything further I can do to eliminate nasal discharge which causes so much trouble to this body, as has been indicated? (A) Through those same channels - that is, through the one applying the manipulations for the body - WE would use the sprays with the Ichthyol, in a very reduced strength, that will be found by the one making the applications - and these will clear up. These are the conditions that exist with this; let's consider the whole body in the light of what has been given:
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As conditions become more and more normal, necessarily those drosses must be eliminated from the system that have been taken on more and more, that are not normal to the system, in the form of drugs of one nature or another. They are to be eliminated through one or the other of the channels of eliminations of the body, as described. These drosses, these ashes in the system, as it were, what do they attack? The muco-membranes or the soft tissues in the various portions of the body, often the very ducts themselves that carry the lymph and the emunctory circulation. What is this? The very life blood itself in serum form, that meets the needs of conditions in gathering waste accumulations in body for its distribution or elimination through some condition or portion of the body; hence we will find there will be periods when the throat, the eyes, the antrum, the nasal cavities, the organs of the pelvis during the periods, will become congested by the accumulations, and pain will ensue through those functionings at the periods. There will be periods when there will be the tendency for constipation. There will be periods when the breathing, the heart's action, will apparently be abnormal, when it is from those drosses being distributed in the system - and NOT of the old trouble itself, see? So, in meeting the needs of the conditions, it is a battle, to be sure! but who, with such abilities, SUCH an outlook, isn't worthy of putting up a fight isn't worth much!
14. (Q) Are my sinuses draining properly? (A) If they had been we wouldn't have suggested to add something to the soft tissue! This we would do occasionally. This is not an irritation other than sympathetically, through the type or nature of conditions as described. Do not create for self the attitude that "Now I've got sinus trouble - Now I've got this trouble, that trouble or the other!" because you'll have it! and you'll become a hypochondriac, should these conditions continue! Know "I'm getting better." Know, "I will meet these conditions as they come about." Know, "I'm doing these in the proper way and manner, and it will come about!"
15. (Q) What causes frequent loose bowels and much gas? (A) We have just described the conditions, as to how various portions are affected. In the bowel there is seen more of the lymph and the emunctory and the glucose circulation than in most portions of the system. Why? It is necessary for the assimilation of that which is digestible, or digested in the system, for the creating of
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those necessary elements to carry on and to meet the resistances necessary through conditions in the system; hence these conditions come and go. Meet them as they arise.
16. (Q) Will the Forces please tell me what I should think and work towards for the reconstruction of my life? (A) Find first that which is the IDEAL; not physically, but spiritually. What IS thy ideal? What THINKEST thou of life? Why life at all? What is the purpose of life? Then LOOK at self in relationship to that which is the ideal. Let's illustrate: There is some knowledge and understanding of what is the ideal moral relationship with individuals in their various walks of life, and as to what is the conception of the Creator as respecting the consideration of Its (the Creator's) creation. Follow it? See? Then, as these are the ideal relationships, make for self that thought that "THIS BODY, THIS MIND, IS BECOMING MORE AND MORE NORMAL, AND CAPABLE OF MEETING AND DEALING WITH ALL MANNERS OF RELATIONSHIPS, THAT WILL BE AS NEAR IN KEEPING WITH THAT I HAVE SET AS MY IDEAL AS CIRCUMSTANCES, SURROUNDINGS, CONDITIONS AT THE MOMENT PERMIT; AND I WILL NOT ONLY THINK AND SAY I WILL ACT THAT WAY BUT I WILL DO IT!"
17. (Q) How long is it advisable for this body to remain at Va. Beach? (A) As long as it is deemed that it would be the better policy for that which is being created in the system, for the normalcy of the body physically and mentally. When the conditions, the surroundings, have ceased to create that for the body, then move! but do not, as has been warned, be so quick in jumping at conclusions that the body does not KNOW which way it's jumping!
18. (Q) Is it advisable that my parents should come down here now? (A) Be very advisable, as we would find.
19. (Q) Shall I have a treatment this afternoon, and then how often? (A) Have a treatment this afternoon and then when it is FELT necessary; not before Monday and Tuesday.
20. (Q) Is there any message I should give my husband to prepare him for the information concerning us to be given him in his reading soon? (A) Give him rather this message: I BELIEVE, AS YOU MUST BELIEVE, THAT WHICH IS TO COME ABOUT
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IN MY LIFE, YOUR LIFE, IS THAT THE CREATIVE FORCES, OR GOD, HAS SEEN BEST FOR THE MENTAL, THE SPIRITUAL, AND THE PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT OF EACH.
21. We are through. Three copies to Self Copy to File