This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce in Hopkinsville, Ky., this 5th day of April, 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. ..., Oregon.
1. LBC: You have before you Mr. [3990] of ..., Oregon. Go over him carefully, examine him thoroughly and tell us what is the matter with him, if anything.
2. EC: You see we have here in this body of [3990] we are talking about - we have the physical body, that is the man, with all its attributes in the system that go to make up the man as we have him here from the first, with the different systems, and organisms in the whole body, and organs that are governed from different parts in the system. We have those from the sensory system, wherewith he is afflicted here, in one of the senses. There is trouble here with the eye. From here, we have the impressions that are made to the brain or through the senses - feeling, seeing, hearing and smelling. The act on the sensory organism, or impressions to the brain, wherewith we know things which are tasted, by comparison. The supplying forces to these, or to the sensory system is through the circulation, or the blood in the body. We have the first impression in the embryo, here in the body, is made by the contamination of the secreting or taking into the organ, in the body in itself, the blood of the mother. As these are grown up, and built up into the body, and at the time it is taken from the mother, it becomes to rely on the sense, or the brain, in the organ here of the brain. The supplying forces from these organs are given out by the blood that is forced into the arteries by the heart, into the different parts of the body. The supplying of these, extend along the whole spine, or the nervous system, with that of the muscular force which supplies to these. The nourishment or nutriment to the head has been insufficient to supply these in the body. By the concussion of the causes in the head, we have the condition produced in the eye, on the nerve force or optic nerve to the eye, which effected these conditions in supplying the blood to these forces, to remove the rebuilding force which is supplied into the system by these. We come in contact with these along the spine from the first and second cervical, second dorsal, and second lumbar. In the rest of the body, we find some sympathetic conditions through the system, as carried by these organs into the system, from the
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rest of the sensory system to their perspective centers, or as we have the condition in the system of the head, from the ear, or that into the feeling or movement of the body here from the cardiac plexus, ileum plexus, sympathetically, or through the subconscious self in it. The impressions or feelings to the body become strong or animated, or the sense of nature takes possession of the person.
3. (Q) Any other conditions? (A) These are the conditions we have through the circulation and through the nerve force in the system.
4. (Q) Will these effects, if allowed to remain, cause a nervous break-down? (A) The cause lies here to the sense of hearing and to the eye. The sensation to the system, on the sensory system on to the nervous portion of the body is through the sympathetic system. The nervousness in the system or in any body, produced by the sensory system, of course, is stronger, and more tiring to the whole physical body than that of a nervous force produced from the cerebrospinal system, because that acts on the organism of the make of the man. That is, through the sympathetic or abnormal mind, and through the mind of the body in itself.
5. (Q) Is this trouble curable? (A) Could be, yes.
6. (Q) What treatment would you prescribe? (A) Suggestion and electricity.
7. (Q) Electricity along the spine? (A) Electricity is life, in the nerve force of the body. We have electricity, as we know from the outside, as a force that exists, motion. In the nervous system of the body or in the human body or being, as we have it here, impressions produced through the sensory system, acted by the force of nature given from the first impressions to the man, or make-up, from the maker, the electrical force applied, as we know from material, acts on the nervous system of the body. Relays of these are as the stations of ganglia or nerve centers as we have them situated in the system of the body. The relays of nerves to the sensory system, are through the sympathetics. Those of the cerebrospinal, or the spinal cord, are in the brain itself, or the ends here, as we have through the oblongata. The forces on these, applied by material, of electrical force from the outside, from direct current will produce exaggeration or inflammation to the nerve walls. The reverse, or a cold electrical force, that is of low origin, produces a sullen, or sedative to the nerve force and the suggestion or the power of control over the body, or mind, make the action of the forces in the
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system. If we use electrical force in the system, which we have now, it would be of low origin or of cold storage or batteries applied along to the centers of the lymphatic circulation, to the arm pits, ankles, or knee, and under them. Or the reverse current from static electricity along the spine or cerebrospinal forces. The suggestion would be to the mind in itself in a state of coma, or as it goes to sleep, and will reach the sensory system by touch and hearing.
8. (Q) Is the eye too far gone to stand electricity? (A) No. Electricity, if it is applied in the proper form, here to the spine, along the centers supplying these from it, from the dorsal and cervical, would irritate, but a cold or low origin, will produce a sedative to these.
9. (Q) Any other treatment he would need for the present? (A) Do this if you want to save the man. .