This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the Hotel McAlpin, in New York City, in 1921 (?).
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; G. K. Nicodemus, Conductor; (?), Steno.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading Unknown.
1. GKN: Now, Mr. Cayce, you are going to sleep - a quiet, peaceful and restful sleep. All the organs of your body will function perfectly, you will be normal in every way. You will hear me what I say and answer the questions I shall ask you slowly and distinctly so that we may get every word. Now, Mr. Cayce, you are asleep and you have before you the body of [3840] who is at ..., N.J. You will see this body and go over it carefully and tell us what the trouble is, if any, and what to do for it to make it normal again. You will answer any questions about this body, Mr. Cayce.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body here. Now this body as we find it here, [3840] we are speaking of, is good physically and mentally, especially developed and gifted along spiritual lines or the spiritual development of the attributes of this body that go to make up the whole or the one body so that the physical actions at times are abnormal to the ordinary or normal mind as we have today, while within the body itself there are very few abnormal physical conditions and none whatever that would have to do with the development of the body if directed and carried along the proper channels for the development of this body to a useful life for many.
3. The special gifts of this body through its spiritual nature and development should be followed along the right and proper channels, the hallucinations that present themselves in any form to other bodies by the expression of any of the sensory actions should be guided and directed through the psychological action of mind with mind and developed and rid of any of these that would tend in any way to reflect or deter from the proper development along these channels as we have given here.
4. The artistic temperament should be especially developed and with the development developed through the same suggestive forces and channels all of the physical and mental attributes to the spiritual developments through the artistic channels.
5. (Q) What causes the extreme nervousness to this body, Mr. Cayce? (A) Just the condition we have outlined here of
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overdevelopment along the spiritual line. The body is not nervous except as to subnormal mind. To develop or relieve physical strains in this body by suggestion to this body at the right and proper time, specified certain length of time morning and evening that the suggestions to the body are given along the course of study of self. This is the way to overcome the condition that we have in this body. By suggestion we do not mean by one mind taking control of the other through hypnotic or mystic influences but we mean by the power of suggestion of mind through the psychological study of it - not psycho-analysis as termed by some but by study of mind or self with control of self. The nervous taxation in the body is the over-development without a means of expression through the sensory system which shall be overcome by the suggestion through the hearing, through the sight, through the taste, through all of the organs of the sensory system.
6. (Q) This body complains of the throat at times, Mr. Cayce. (A) The condition as we have is the action of the nerve forces in trying to express themselves through the sensory system. The nerves of the sensory system are the highest vibratory system in the whole body in the body especially developed, that is the human body we are speaking of along spiritual lines are especially to be careful of the physical condition of the throat and eyes that have become the highest cycles of vibration in the human body. Just so as in this body here by the careful study and suggestion to reach this body through the sensory system so that the action of these are brought, that is the action of the sensory system with the sympathetic nerve system with the reflection to the cerebral spinal system which governs circulation, which governs action of organs of the body through various channels. Do this in this form if we are to have this body properly developed.
7. (Q) What led this body to think she could not drink water, Mr. Cayce? (A) The impression through the sensory system from vibrations that had been expressed as to what might happen to the physical body acting on the sympathetic system produced the direct effect to the body. Physically the condition would exist at the time and the action of the physical body is such that the hallucinations are carried to the brain just so in the treating of this body we just reverse the same condition, the impressions to be carried to the cerebral spinal brain or to the cerebellum through the sensory system, through sight, through hearing, through taste, through smell, through feeling. Just as this
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hallucination reaches let healing reach to all the mental, spiritual and physical attributes of this body. Do that.
The body is wonderful in itself. It is a crime to the spiritual souls of men not to develop this body properly, to those whom this body depends on. Crime is resistance to the higher forces. Do as we have given her if we would have this body both good mentally physically and spiritually. The body is good if developed properly and not brought to the wrong impressions of the higher vibrations in the system.
8. (Q) Have you any further suggestions to make about this body? (A) Only as we have given here. Take some one, the mother, or the expression as taught by some others, healers who treat and develop the body, not through hypnosis but treat it along the lines we have suggested here. Treating this body through physical means that is, giving of medicinal properties into the system or taking in other properties other than already placing in the system, throws one or the other attributes of the whole body out of line, just as the impression just as the higher body as we have here is above the normal takes on impressions through the sensory system or the higher vibrations in the body. Treated physically is a detriment to the whole body, treated entirely mental is a detriment to the physical force. Treat it by mental and spiritual forces combined through the physical attributes of the spiritual and mental forces of the body.