This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, this 2nd day of February, 1911.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; L. B. Cayce, Conductor; Katherine Faxon, Steno. Mr. [4648].
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 4:45 P. M.
1. LBC: You have before you Mr. [4648], who is in this room with you. Go over him carefully, examine him thoroughly, and tell us what is the matter with him, if anything.
2. EC: Let me get it together. This is complex. We have the forces now, in this body, that is of course in the normal state of the man. We have conditions that arise in the system, or in the body, which comes into contact at the time of which it produces effect both on the normal and abnormal mind; both on the cerebrospinal, and sympathetic nerve system of the body. We have a mind, a matter, that is the body, or we have the spiritual, or physical, in the normal man. We have conditions that arise in the system, that come in contact both with the abnormal and normal mind, through the nervous system of the abnormal and normal nerve forces - The waking state and the sleeping state. Different conditions in the system exist in the body itself, not from in the body itself but that propagate into the system here, as from back here before.
3. Now, we have into the system here, in the mind, and matter, in the propagation of bodies, from body to body, and instinct to care for self. That is the normal.
4. We have a brain in the body, propagated, grown, taken on by the sensory system, in this organ, or in this body in itself. This body is an an organ of the universe or part of it. We have propagated into this system, from the bodies before it, in itself a state of embryo here, a taxing of the nervous system, stimulated to sleep, rest. That instinct carried into the forces of the system, exerts itself here in the man we have now. Then we have into this body, this condition, this man in itself normal in its physical body, its state of sleep. That is, when we [have] his sub-conscious mind controlling the system; that is, all the organs of the body are under the control of the sub-conscious mind, of the sympathetic nerve system, and forces on the system. It becomes then into an overtaxed state from wherein it received its force from here before, or, we have malpractice of embryo on the body of its mother here before.
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5. This produces in the system a state of abnormal flow of blood to itself here, through the propagation of the nerves, through the sympathetic and upper end of the cardiac plexus here from the 9th dorsal. This produces then a nervousness or flowing of the blood to the head - waking with a start, you see - coming to the normal senses, and the body becomes taut, and relaxed all over. This condition comes over the muscles, in the body, along the arms, head, through the facial muscles, an overflow of blood to these. Have it in the head at times worse than others.
6. If we have an over-stimulation to the stomach, or an over-stimulation to the juices, that is taken up by the circulation, to increase the flow to the sympathetic nerve forces, or rebuilding any nerves, or any body, as propagated along from one to the other. We find them through the generatory system, through both the solar plexus, helia [iliac?] nerve force and cardiac nerve centers. They are branches of the solar plexus - the cerebrospinal nerve centers. As we increase these forces through things taken into the stomach, until we produce then an over taxing or stimulating to these, we have a more severe condition, of the gushing of blood to the head, of this state of awaking from a sleep. They don't come except when asleep. As we produce these conditions into the system, as this is taken on more, and is allowed to grow, because it will produce a lesion here at the upper cortex of the stomach, at the 5th and 6th dorsal, just below these. These come in contact, lap over each other from the end, from the 5th, reaching up from its branches and comes out from the 4th. Now, as these are allowed to grow - as this condition remains, it produces these lesions above the cortex of the stomach, the upper end, towards the tracia [trachea?], they produce then, a filling of these nerves, and the blood supply, and it will go on and grow until it will propagate within all the system, in itself, and produce then to the system, a lacking of nutriment to the brain supply here, thrown out by the nerve forces in the splenic action and then we will have it in the waking state, producing the same conditions in the system. It will become an abnormal mind in its matters.
7. Now we will take it from a normal condition - awake, you see we have a pulse, it is normal. We have a respiration, it is normal, 30; a temperature of the body, 98.5. We have the pulse 77. This is a normal body awake. We have a good flow of action from the heart force. We have a digestion fairly good, except where it comes in contact, through the organism of the supplying forces to the nerve centers here from the solar plexus, and cardiac plexus. We have a good
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capillary circulation; the lymphatics very good. - except the conditions we find through, or taken on by the sympathetics, or the sub-conscious mind at the state whereby all the sensory system of the body has become dormant. That is, when we have the senses asleep - we have this abnormal flow to the blood from the solar plexus forces, the cardiac forces, to the head.
8. To remove these conditions from the system, you see we will have to treat through the organism of the nerve supply, or that which will diminish to the supply to the sympathetic nerve system, and not in the cerebrospinal.
9. We have to treat through the abnormal mind, or treat it through the suggestive mind, through the senses, to reach the condition overtaxed from that received by a transmission through the embryo state. That is, we will take into the stomach of this body, calcium chloride, that is, salt, to produce not a sickening to the stomach, but a reduction of the properties of the blood, of the richness character that supplies to the organism of the splenic action on the forces of the system. Not enough to produce an overtaxed stimulation through the pancreas, nor to sicken; not enough to supply an over taxation to the mucous lining of the smaller intestines, (we find saline through it), but to produce a straining of the force of supply to the blood in these. This overtaxing will produce blood of an impoverished character. Then we stimulate the cerebrospinal nerves at the dorsals, 5th, 6th and 9th, and suggestion through the mind, as he goes to sleep, strong. Plenty of open air, plenty of oxygen to the body. Not the kind that will increase its forces to expel these from it. The body will be rid of this condition existing, or in other words, we overcome that insinuation to the mind through the abnormal condition of mind, to rid itself of the abnormal flow of blood to the head at the time of sleep. Begin it now, and it will improve.
10. (Q) How shall that be done? (A) Take into the stomach this saline, calcium chloride. Treat the spine along here, at the 4th, 5th and 9th dorsal. That is, the connections we have between those, supply to the cardiac and solar plexus nerve centers. As the saline solution is given into this body, it produces then a reaction from the stomach here. As it is it takes away and draws from this side of the stomach, as it enters into, away from this lesion. As we supply the electrical force to these nerves at the 4th, 5th and 9th dorsal, we relax these conditions until it becomes a normal condition, and they remain in a normal condition through sleep. Then the
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suggestion to the mind - that is, to the abnormal mind through the sensory system, as in sleep, until it becomes under the other mind, to remove this trouble from it. If allowed to remain, it will destroy the body. Through the normal conditions of the body, we have a good body here.
11. (Q) How long will it take to cure it? (A) As soon as you can get the mind under subjection to the other. Keep it awake; remove the conditions already existing. We have a body here amenable to suggestions. All bodies are, amenable to suggestion through the abnormal mind, or through the subconscious mind, or through the sympathetic nerve system of the body. That alone would not remove it. We must get the trouble away from here. here.