This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce in Selma, Alabama, this 21st day of June, 1917.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; (?), Conductor; (?), Steno.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 7:40 to 7:50 P. M. ..., N.J.
1. EC: In this life here of [4348] we have a demonstration of the susceptibility to the mind and environments, rather than the hereditary instinct which should be or what is ordinarily without the environment.
2. In this man's body we find that he has in his actions, and treatment of life to himself and those associated with him, is governed by his environments from day to day, or the class of people he associates with more than by teachings of his mother who is his guide. We all have a guide, either dead or living. Some are guided by dead, and some by living spirits. This man's guide is his mother. There is a warring of spirits mental and metaphysically, all three within the same body, as is in every man or woman.
3. Now this association has brought within his own mind those things that he knows are contrary to his guide, or his mother, as it happens to be in this case, so it causes him in his own mind to treat his associates not with proper respect also to his mother. This is his condition socially and physically.
4. To better the condition leave off some of THIS nagging - that is NO WAY TO GUIDE. Leave off some of the worry and apply those things to keep him under the rule or under the supervision of the guide more than his associates. Make things more pleasant at home - appealing to his appetite, reading, thinking, and what he sees and hears.
5. Appeal through the sensory system, to his better self.
6. All guides, whether spiritual or material, have the power to direct and influence their subjects.
7. (Q) Mr. Cayce, is this all that this personage needs? (A) This is what he needs but it is hard to bend back an old tree.