This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, this 8th day of July, 1911.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; L. B. Cayce, Conductor; Katherine Faxon, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading Unknown.
1. LBC: You have before you Mr. [3748], ... Street, ..., Ohio. Go over him carefully, examine him thoroughly and tell us what is the matter with him, if anything.
2. EC: We have in this body of Mr. [3748] a peculiar abnormal nervous condition of the whole nervous system, commencing from time away back. We have at present this condition: We have to do, or deal with that of brain force inside of the brain itself, and that of the nervous force of the cerebrospinal nervous system, with traces shown through that of the nerves as coming in special conjunction with that of the sympathetics, from the base of the brain where they join on up here from the inside, the first cervical. The condition is produced from two causes in the body. First, from the condition produced in the body internally, or that of the action of a foreign substance to the forces of the cardiac plexus. The secondary, not the first. This produced the first straining force or retarding to the rebuilding of the blood force, to the propagation of the nervous system, or the eliminating powers or taking away the used force in nerve matter, eliminated from the body. Second, from the condition produced in the head by a nervous shock or fear to the sensory organism of the system, which has produced into the brain itself a clot (that is not removed) of used matter not expelled through its proper channel. Hence the condition we have of the mental faculties, brought about by these two existing conditions in the body.
3. We have in the brain, cells, in the cranium, in the brain itself, impressions received by the nervous system, by the sensory organism of the system, transmitted to the brain through that of the channel of the cerebrospinal nervous system, by what is known as white and gray matter of the nerve tissue inside of it. The fear in the body, which is abnormal from healthful, or the opposite from a whole condition, becomes repressed, or suppressed by the conditions existing in the body. Hence we have, as would be termed from the exterior, or by material man from the outside, a man demented at times. At others, a normal, acting, working man. The fear, from some expression of
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thought, brought to bear on the sensory system, produces a flush of the condition over the whole system, and the man becomes, as it were, raving or falling. Once one way, once another. It depends on the condition we have expressed and how it is expressed to the body itself. Either through that of sight, that of hearing, that of the touch or that of all combined. It comes on without any fore-knowledge either to the observer from the outside or to the man himself, except at times he will know it is going to appear.
4. No resistive power from the outside, no material, has any effect, except to be with it, quiet it, soothe it. More is to be reached through that of the sensory system, through that of ease of mind. Repress the fear, soothe the temples, with pressing of the hands to the head and along the spine, a dash of water in the face. Those external expressions to the system. Nothing else has any effect, unless we produce a deadening to the whole nervous system, through that of a narcotic or hypodermic.
5. This condition is situated, as we have it, in the brain, at the right side, midway between the frontal and back brain, above the lower or third, above the sense as we know of remembrance, or to where impressions are brought to the mind of past occurrences, impressed to the brain, or those cells-like expressions transmitted and engraven [engraved] on the brain, or producing a cell wherewith it is remembered.
6. (Q) What treatment would you prescribe to relieve these conditions? (A) Never use force, that is, physical force, by over-powering of the body, or repressing those thoughts expressed by the patient at the time the condition comes over the body, but take the condition as we have it at the time of these spells. We humor, that is, we give in (force from the outside now) to these forces. We humor him in his acts and wants to what he expresses himself, until we gain control of the thoughts of the body itself and until we sink the body into a state of, not as it goes off at times, but through repression; or, as known, the control over the abnormal, or a state of hypnosis. Then we remove these thoughts from the body. A continuation of these forces, letting them gain power and control over himself, will bring him back to normal man and a normal condition in the body. Then, we will remove the rest of the conditions we have brought about over the system by this condition existing, as it has, through those of the blood forces and through the organs of the system in itself.
Or, we can remove this clot from the brain, by use of the
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knife, on the scalp itself.
7. (Q) Any other treatment you would prescribe for the present. (A) Do this if you want to get him in the condition of a normal man again.