This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 322 Grafton Avenue, Dayton, Ohio, this 20th day of February, 1925, in accordance with request made by his mother, Mrs. [...].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 3:30 P. M. Dayton Time. ..., N.C.
1. What causes this lapse of memory and suppression of normal mental forces? Is this produced through a physical condition or through a mental, and what may be done to relieve or ward off these conditions? 2. Does the work or labor in the school at Staunton, Va., have anything to do with this physical condition?
1. GC: You will give the physical, mental and spiritual conditions of this body at the present time, answering the following questions in a clear and understandable manner:
2. EC: Now, we find in some respects the body has lapsed from the condition as existed when we had this here before. There are other conditions that exist in the system, in the awakening of the Lyden [Leydig] gland and in the development of the genital system in its connection with the pineal gland and the effect as is produced in the system when such is raised to an exaggerated state of action, plus the force as is exhibited in the psychic in the entity and the manifestations that are exhibited under such conditions as lie between the subconscious and the normal mind.
3. Now, in the condition that arises then in the body when the lapse of memory occurs, we find there are the awakening of the subnormal action of the normal functionings. Hence the body at such times comes under that control that gives the expression to the normal to function under such conditions. In that far the body comes under the influence then of other minds and does that in the abnormal way as is suggested by that subconscious mind. Then, we see, the condition partakes of the physical, of the mental, having an abstract reaction in the mental and in the physical forces of body. This, then, as we see, must be treated in the manner in keeping with the existent conditions. This subconscious reaction at such times may be from any individual whom the body contacts at that moment. Then is not of an individual hallucination but of the individual's imagination through whom such subjugation is affected. This, then, has nothing to do with the work as is implied in the school. Rather this (the work), with the normal
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functioning of system, would be to the development of the individual or entity.
4. The Bitters or the Maypop as given may be given more often, in small quantities, but do not accord the body Bromides that will affect the nerve system and cause the eruptions from same on body.
5. Do give more of the osteopathic forces to the body, and when these are being given let the mental forces be subjugated, the normal forces be subjugated, that the suggestions as given at time physical forces are being corrected will receive the same correction for mental and for the correlation between normal, subnormal, normal and subconscious forces in the body. In this manner we will find we will bring the normal condition to this body.
6. Be well, unless the acts, the actions, the reactions, in the mental forces of the body can be watched over in such times in sleep and in diet by someone that the body not be in school until the normal conditions are well balanced, well correlated in system, for as we see this is of the condition that relates to physical, to mental and to subconscious forces. Not of a physical as is produced in spasmodic conditions affecting the mental forces and producing any relaxation that would bring a mental degeneration, the degeneration being of a physical act itself, not in mental forces. Reaction as brought in mental forces produced by conditions in physical.
7. Do that and we will bring the better conditions and remove these spells, these hallucinations from this body, [4844].
8. (Q) How often may the Maypop Bitters be given, and in what quantities? (A) If given often; that is, two or three times a day, small quantity, six to eight drops. If given once each day, or twice each day, half teaspoonful may be given. The osteopathic treatments should be given at least every other day, until the body assimilates and eliminates nominally, whether normal but nominally.
9. (Q) Is there some person who has this influence over this entity to cause these spells? (A) As given. Any individual may affect. Just the same as any individual may assist. Better the one who understands the condition when the osteopathic or manipulations are given, for then the corrections, the suggestions to the subconscious, will be in keeping with that being corrected in physical.
10. (Q) Who would be the one to give these treatments that
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would understand this condition? (A) Anyone that understands the relation between subconscious and conscious forces.
11. We are through for the present.