This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 15th day of June, 1944, in accordance with request made by the mother, Mrs. [...], new Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., via Miss [993].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis and Jeanette Fitch, Stenos. [5234] and mother.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading Set bet. 3:30 to 4:30 P. M. Eastern War Time. ..., Virginia.
1. GC: You will go over this body carefully, examine it thoroughly, and tell me the conditions you find at the present time; giving the cause of the existing conditions, also suggestions for help and relief of this body; answering the questions, as I ask them:
2. EC: Yes, we have the body here, [5234].
3. As we find, there are conditions which prevent the better physical functioning of this body. As we find, there are some outside influences which have caused, to a portion of the brain, an adhesion or lesion, that under stress, as too much of certain foods or overtaxation, prevents the normal reflexes by that pressure produced where this scar tissue or adhesion produces a pressure on a portion of the brain. It is upon that portion of the medulla oblongata that this pressure is caused.
4. These, then, are not epilepsy, though there is some similarity in the character of the seizures. But it is not true epilepsy. Thus operative measures might bring conditions which would remove the fear of, as well as the sources of, these pressures. These we would have accomplished.
5. The effects may be kept more quiet by refraining from too much sweets, getting over-excited or taking any foods or drinks which cause any spasm to the diaphragm, that is a part of the brain flexes through sympathetic reactions.
6. Do that. As we find, in such a place as Johns Hopkins or Mayo Clinic would be the preferable for such an operation.
7. Ready for questions.
8. (Q) Would this operation affect a complete cure? (A) As just given, it should remove the sources of these pressures which come from flexes and reflexes which occur with the body.
9. (Q) Any physical activities which would aggravate his condition? (A) It is more mental. Whenever the body gets mad or gets
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thoroughly disappointed or gets aggravated, these bring on such disturbances.
10. (Q) Will this condition eventually affect my mentality, causing me to be less alert? (A) It already affects in this direction and this manner. Yes, of course, it prevents the full or complete reaction from sympathetic or from the imaginative system, see?
11. (Q) Is there any nerve severed? (A) No nerves severed. These are, as indicated, fractures and adhesions and a thickening of the capsule, and this upon the flexes in the lower portion. Look for it there. This should show a thickening with the shadowgraph.
12. (Q) Would marriage be advisable? (A) Not until these changes were brought about. Do this.
13. We are through with this reading. Copy to Mother " " Ass'n file " for indexing (The reading, as I see it, definitely advises an operation, but only at Johns-Hopkins or Mayo. I suggest that you discuss the reading with Miss [993] and get her reaction.)