This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 20th day of August, 1940, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [2325], new Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mr. [2307].
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 10:50 to 11:10 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., W. Va.
1. GC: 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 suggestions for help and relief of this body. You will answer the questions, as I ask them:
2. EC: Yes, we have the body here.
3. While apparently there are no defects - or few - so far as the physical forces of the body are concerned, we find there ARE conditions which without corrections - and a change in the general attitude of the body to its environs and circumstances - may lead to great disturbance in the mental and the physical forces of the body.
4. As we find, there have been some disappointments, and some conditions which have caused the mental attitudes of the body to become as one being hindered, or not able to give that expression in itself as to the course to pursue, or as to the desire of the body mentally and physically.
5. However, we find that the basic causes of these hindrances are in the cutting off of impulses between the nervous system and the reactions in the physical forces of the body.
6. Hence those periods when there is the inability to rest, or the tendency to become aggravated at little conditions which may arise between the self and EVERY association as may be about the body.
7. At periods insomnia may be a result; with little nagging headaches; periods of great languidness.
8. These are, as we find, the effects of this incoordination between the sympathetic and cerebrospinal nervous systems.
9. As we find, these arise primarily from physical conditions that exist in the body from a hurt - or injury - to the coccyx end of the spine; which also causes a lesion in the upper portion of the 4th lumbar, or between the 3rd and the 4th. This is not of such a nature as to hinder locomotion entirely, but as to cause often - when the body-mind forces itself, or carries on any great exertion -
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a heavy feeling across the small of the back, and a heaviness to the lower limbs.
10. This is a SOURCE of the disturbances, that causes pressures upon the nervous system.
11. Hence we would remove these conditions mechanically, - that is, osteopathically.
12. We would use the Radio-Active Appliance to equalize those impulses through the upper and lower portions of the body.
13. Doing these, we find it will change materially the physical and mental reactions of this body.
14. As to the mental attitudes - these, as we have indicated, are a part of the physical distress; but there needs to be rather the studying by the body of some form of philosophy as to the relationships of individuals to those environs about them; that is, these should be the basis of such study - not cisms or cults, not those things that are intended to form merely attitudes or cliques or classes or the like, but rather those things that are based upon the commandments - especially those recommendations of Moses in his last admonition.
15. Here (that is, in those chapters) we will find that which is both of the mental and the spiritual, as related to not only the relationships of individual entities to their fellow men but also their relationships to Creative Forces or God.
16. Then - with the study and the analysis of this - go about to put same into daily practice in thine own experience. For, if ye would have friends, show thyself friendly - under every circumstance, every condition. If ye would have strength and love, expend same; not merely upon those who are easily inclined to accept or receive same, but upon those to whom the expending of same will bring hope, life, love, in their lives and experiences.
17. And in doing this ye will bring that joy, that hope in thine own experience which is the outcome of well-doing; as WELL as being that promise which is to every soul who seeks to know His biddings with his fellow men.
18. For as ye do unto the least of His children, ye do unto thy Maker. This is not that of longfacedness nor that which cherishes only the customs, the days or seasons; but rather it is that which is expressed in daily love for God's children, as may be manifested in the joys of an evening's social engagement as well as in the feeding of the hungry, in the cherishing of the sick, or in any form of attitude or activity that gives one the opportunity of becoming USEFUL in the own vicinity, the own home, the own environ.
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19. Then, doing these - with the physical corrections made, - the attitude of the body will be found such that much more easily will life become worth while.
20. And let thy prayer be, ever, as was His in that day He was called, "Here am I, Lord! Use me, send me!"
21. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file (See extra sheet of directions [which was enclosed] for osteopath. Let us have his name and address, so we may ask him for a report at the proper time. See article [which was enclosed] explaining Radio-Active Appliance.) ance.)