This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 9th day of June, 1932, in accordance with request made by those present.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mildred Davis and Hugh Lynn Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 11:00 A. M. Virginia Beach, Va.
1. GC: You will please continue with the information which Edgar Cayce, present in this room, should give in lecture form on the subject "How to Develop Your Psychic Powers", to be given during the Congress of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment during the week of June 27th.
2. EC: In the warnings, there are seen many may be gotten from that which might be given in the development of ANY faculty or attribute of the physical or mental body; for the developments of the psychic forces are the development of the SPIRITUAL body, which manifests in and through the physical or mental body.
3. Then, as [to] the question [of] how to develop the psychic forces in an individual body:
4. How may one train their children - SHOULD one train their children - in such directions? SHOULD one have their children become acquainted with their Maker, or their selves? Would one have themselves be on speaking terms with the cosmic forces, with those influences that magnify the spiritual life? When one answers such, SOME would term this something of blasphemy, were this considered from much of the old or the period of orthodox thinking, as it has been termed. Rather may it be said that [is the] thinking of those that would have others think as they think, others feel as they feel. God speaks rather to EVERYONE! Whosoever will may learn of Him.
5. As has been said, there should ever be the criterion, the measuring stick by which all such phenomena may be measured. Would many see the visions that were experienced by the men of old who walked close with God, they would be called extremists (as a mild term), devils, and those that walk with unseen forces; yet there should ever be held the will of the FATHER concerning the influences. Study as to how Hannah consecrated the life of her son to the service of Jehovah, how that [he was] under the influence of the law in every respect and tutored by one who was unable to (or did not, at least) tutor his own. What [was] the difference? The consecration of the body yet unborn! When would one
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begin, then, to teach or train their children? Many months even before there is the conception, that the influence is WHOLLY of the Giver of good and perfect gifts.
6. How develop the psychic forces? So live in body, in mind, that self may be a channel through which the Creative Forces MAY run. How is the current of life or of modern science used in the commercial world? By preparing a channel through which same may run into, or through, that necessary for the use in the material things. So with the body mentally, physically, spiritually, so make the body, the mind, the spiritual influences, a channel - and the NATURAL consequence will be the manifestations.
7. How best, then, to develop those latent forces in one NOW, those who have reached the years of maturity or responsibility in self? Let that mind be in you as was in Him who thought it not robbery to make Himself equal with God, yet took on Himself the burden of all that through His physical suffering, His privation in body, in mind, there might come the blessings to others. Not self, but others. He, or she, that may lose self, then, for others, may DEVELOP those faculties that will give the greater expression of psychic forces in their experience.
8. What shall I read? Wherewithal shall I be clothed? Where shall I dwell? What shall I eat? and the like, become the questions of many. He that taketh thought of such has ALREADY limited the powers that influence through those forces in life. The NATURAL things, as known and given, are the things that make for the better physical body in normal activity. NORMALCY, not extreme in any manner! and there will be shown thee day by day that which will be the necessary for thine OWN development. To some certain amount of exercise, certain amounts of rest, certain amounts of various characters of breathing, of purification, of prayer, of reading - as is found necessary; but of ALL be true to that thou promiseth that source from which all health, all aid, must come! Don't fool yourself; for you CANNOT fool your Maker, and if there is fooling it is yourself - for your brother will soon find you out!
9. We are through for the present.
Copy to Hugh Lynn Cayce " " Cayce file " " Ass'n file