This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 8th day of December, 1936, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [1303], new Active Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mr. [1196], [her brother-in-law].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 3:20 to 3:55 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Ala. (Physical Suggestion)
1. EC: We are about to meet the body coming out!
2. We have the body here, [1303].
3. Now as we find, there are disturbing conditions that prevent the normal functioning of the physical forces with this body. These as we find might from some schools be considered as periods under which the astrological aspects were not so well for the body. Yet as we find these - as most signs or inclinations - are but those things that should be as warnings, and those proper precautions or measures take to make for the adjustments necessary in the physical functioning of the body; or else we will find that as time progresses and the conditions become more either of a universal or of a specific nature, the body will become either subject to great disturbing conditions - as to bring about very destructive forces that would be hard to combat - or continually awakening the system, or the reverse.
4. The conditions becoming more and more of a nature that the combative forces of the bodily functions are aroused, the body would maintain a condition of such a nature where it might be said - as the body is at the present not so very ill yet far from being normal; and the hindrances and disturbances have become of such natures that many portions of the system are involved and without removing the causes of same the effects have been ministered to. Thus only temporary relief has been brought, or a change in the general condition without relieving the causes that again set up or brought about disturbing factors in the body.
5. These, then (Well, it's still going!), are the conditions as we find them with this body, [1303], we are speaking of, of ..., Alabama:
6. IN THE BLOOD SUPPLY - Well, with this body we will approach it from these, the causes, and then that as has been produced in the system:
7. In some times back we had a condition in the system of
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the nature from the effects or after effects of "flu" - intestinal "flu." And this condition so disturbed the activity of the liver, the spleen, the pancreas, the actions of the excretory and secretive functioning of the liver as a duct and the whole of the hepatic circulation, that these have been and are effects; though through the periods or for the last two and a half to three to four years these have gradually grown more and more disturbing - these are the effects produced:
8. In the blood supply we find the inclination for toxic forces to be apparent, and at times by over-taxation - or when the body has through either some great amount of physical exercise or of mental energy expended - there is the inclination for a feverish condition; with not a great amount, but that dull, laggard, heavy feeling throughout the whole of the extremities, through those portions even of the torso of the body, as of a feverish expression - with a dull, mean character of headache that brings rather those feelings of lack or loss of appetite, and with bad tastes in the mouth. And if the body does eat, especially of sweets or starches, there becomes rather a superacidity through the system; producing the inclination for cold and congestion to be easily taken on by the body, so that when either by the thoughts of cold or inclement weather of the damp nature or in drafts or crowds or groups of people - these become rather oppressive to the body. And the effects are superacidity in the blood, thinning of same as it were, by those tendencies for the weakened condition through those poor conditions produced in the assimilating system by the after effects of this condition in those portions of the organs that should increase and bring about the activity of pure, rich blood that gives vitality and vim and pep as it were to the whole of the body. The elasticity in the step is lost, the dimness in the sight is an effect - or the inclination to feel that it "doesn't care." All these become a part of the mental reactions to such conditions. It is not a mental cause but rather the effect of the physical upon the mental, and this reacting to the system becomes both mental and physical in its reactions.
9. These are the effects then upon organs and the blood stream as produced by the conditions.
10. Know that these are effects. Oft the applications have been made to these for helpful forces. For the moment these have aided and yet this general strain upon the nervous system by this continual feeling of even around the wrists and around portions of the lower limbs and the feet becoming as heavy or leaden, or aching about the wrists - around the
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through the neck and through portions of the shoulder and just behind the shoulder blades there is a heaviness. These are pressures upon the nervous system, and warnings to the body that there are disturbances that should be minded; that there should be those inclinations and activities to bring about again a better circulation, a relief of the pressure upon the nervous systems, the relief of pressures upon the organs of the sensory system so that the keenness, the awareness of the sensory responses to the vision, the taste, the smell, the feel, the activities of the whole body in its emotional nature are again aroused.
11. For as the body will experience, or has experienced, almost all of its emotional nature has been at times so submerged by these general reactions that even the organs of the sensory system (eyes, ears, nose) have had the inclination or feeling - from the lack of this lymph or emunctory circulation - of a form of dry eczema. This is only a reaction and not a condition. If the causes are removed, then the responses to the system would become quite a different reaction to the body.
12. In the activity of the organs, all of these become - as indicated - subject to these changes; but the gall duct area, the pancreas and the spleen have become involved the more. So the effect upon the duodenum, in its ability for the proper assimilation, in the effect of the assimilation through the jejunum or the activity and flow of the emunctory and lymph circulation, has made for this effect of the dryness to the skin, at times of where spots and blemishes over portions of the body make for some anxiety. And at times the body gives expression within self without outwardly, "Well, it makes no difference anyway - what do you care?"
13. These are then conditions to be met and to be overcome; not only effects but the basic causes of same.
14. As we find, this will require then some patience, some persistence, some periods of the body taking not only precautions but being very persistent, very consistent with itself and with its activities. But if these are done, consistently, persistently, we may bring back to the body quite a different outlook, upon life. And we will arouse those emotions not only to be good but to be good for something; and this the body has almost lost sight of.
15. Being merely good for self's own satisfaction doesn't satisfy a very great deal in the last analysis of the purposes of an individual experience in associations with others. But to become a channel through which hopefulness, helpfulness, patience, longsuffering, endurance, loveliness
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in its expressions to others, makes for life and its experience and its expressions and its outlook upon life more and more worth while. Something to hope for! It's not all just to live nor yet all JUST to die. For as the tree grows (and when it passeth or falleth), so it lies, and it has not changed that it has lived or experienced. For only that an individual soul is able to give out does the individual have. And ye cannot create a surrounding or an environment for self or others of that ye do not express or experience within, not only the own mind but the own body itself.
16. These hindrances have come, then, for a purposefulness - if they are to be used as stepping-stones to understand self and self's relations within a creative world - yea, a really beautiful world, if the beauties will be sought and not the sordid darkness of disappointments or failures or ill health. For if you continue to look for ill health or sordidness or disappointments or darkness, how has the law been given? "As ye seek, so ye find - as ye sow, so ye reap." If you are looking for these, ye cannot find happiness or contentment or harmony or peace, either in body or mind; neither can ye give out other than discontent to others in thine own self of self-expression.
17. First then begin with this ideal and this idea; that the corrections can be made, will be made, "IF I will only choose to have same that the usefulness of this experience may be worth while, not so much for self but spent for others; that I may indeed have love and hope and faith in my own experience."
18. Then begin as this for the physical forces of the body - first take these, as medicinal properties for the body:
19. Begin, after the morning meal - an hour or an hour and a half afterward - with taking one Zilatone tablet. After the evening meal (an hour and a half) take two Zilatone tablets. Do this for three days - three days; three taken each day as indicated, you see.
20. Then on the morning following the third day of taking the Zilatone tablets, take before arising a tablespoonful of Fleet's Phospho-Soda in a glass of WARM water - hot enough not to be insipid, but not so hot that it may not be drunk at least in sips. Lie on the right side, with a pillow under same.
21. Preferably do this over the week-end. That is, Thursday, Friday, Saturday; then on Sunday take the Fleet's.
22. Leave off until the next week-end, and do the same again, see?
23. Leave off until the next week; do the same again.
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24. Rest then from taking any, for two weeks.
25. Then begin by taking CABINET sweats, where there may be used the properties one evening - when the fume bath is taken - of Oil of Wintergreen in the water that boils that produces the vapor that settles over the body. Preferably use the cabinet that may be had as a garment, you see. The next evening when it is taken (and take them at least about three times each week, for two to three weeks), use Atomidine in the solution that is to boil or settle over the body.
26. After each of these have a thorough rubdown, preferably under a shower of lukewarm water, gradually turned to that almost entirely cold; then a thorough, brisk rubdown - especially along the spine, along the lower limbs, rubbing AWAY FROM the body, along the arms rubbing away from the body; briskly, that we may change this circulation, that we may stimulate the activity that has been produced or brought about by the cleansing of the system and the allowing of the organs of the liver, the pancreas, the spleen, the activity of the gall duct and the eliminations through the system to produce fresh blood.
27. Then be mindful ever of the diets. Do not eat white bread at any time. Do not use the combinations of meat and white bread or potatoes at the same meal. Either leave off the potatoes or the bread entirely. Do not eat potatoes (that is, white potatoes) and spaghetti or macaroni at the same meal. Do not eat white potatoes with white beans or with any of those natures; though, to be sure, peas - either black or green or English - may be taken with bread - for these form a different reaction. But have plenty of the juices of fruits, and nuts, as s portion of the meal; rather than so much meats - and NEVER any fried meats, never any fried eggs. Rarely take eggs, but when taken only coddled eggs or those that are cooked in the sweetmeats or of other natures.
28. Do these, and we will find we will bring about normalcy for this body.
29. Will be well, after beginning with the sweats, that these be taken for periods of two weeks (about three a week, you see), leave off for two weeks.
30. But during the two weeks rest have a thorough massage, as may be given osteopathically or neuropathically, so that these stimulations may be had for the body.
31. Then if the body finds that there are still those tendencies for languidness, easily tiring, the bad taste or the headaches or those sleepinesses that come at times, then repeat the doses for the cleansing of the liver and the gall
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duct and the alimentary canal.
32. The massages when taken, better that they be taken every day or every other day for a week and then leave off for a week to two weeks, or ten days, or even two to three weeks, and be given again; than just taken regularly plodding through.
33. Do these and we will find a different outlook, a different concept of Creative Energy's activity in its relationships with man and man's relationship to God and the Creative Forces and its fellow man.
34. Ready for questions.
35. (Q) What causes severe colds? (A) As given, and as to how the thinning of the blood allows for those congestions to arise from those periods when there's the tendency for the accumulations in the blood to find an easy access to the system. And produced in part, as has been given, by superacidity throughout the body. Lack of the proper flow of lymph and emunctory circulation, and the dryness produced by inactivity through the whole of the alimentary canal, primarily forming from the duodenum, gall duct and the jejunum areas.
36. (Q) What causes depressed feeling? (A) As has been given.
37. (Q) Shall I have to give up my position as bookkeeper because of my health? (A) So long as it becomes drag, unless something is done about it, you will have to give it up! But if something is done about it, in the direction and ways and manners indicated, it will be a different story!
38. We are through for the present. Two copies to Self (one for Mr. [1196]) Copy to Ass'n file