This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 26th day of June, 1926, in accordance with request made by his brother - [900].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Dr. T. B. House.

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1. GC: You will have before you the body and the enquiring mind of [137], of ... Avenue, ..., New Jersey, and the dreams this body had on the dates which I will give you. You will give the interpretation and lesson to be gained from each of these, as I read same to you.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, [137]. This we have had before. The dreams, as we see in this entity, as has often been given, are as exceptional conditions, for in same often enters that of the superconscious forces, or the spiritual lessons as are perceived by the entity, and may be applied more and more into the physical existence, if the entity will but gain that full concept of the lessons as are being given to this consciousness.
3. Ready for dream.
4. (Q) June 16 or morning of June 17, 1926, at home in ..., N. J. "I walked into a private house which was evidently the home of Solomon ..., my father's deceased brother. I greeted him in a friendly manner and sort of wrestled with him, calling him an 'old rogue' but said it as a joke or teasingly in fun. Myron ... was there and was very quiet."
   (A) This, as is seen, is the vision to the entity of those conditions wherein this entity, [900] and [137], may enter in through that as is builded in the entity's experience, if the entity would desire to do so. That is, as is seen, the entity enters into a home, a home recognized by the entity as one of the entity's associates, or entity's kin. The entity in so entering does not recognize that the entity has pushed into the Beyond and is not of that realm in which the now waking entity dwells, but is as but one with same, see? and as there is this consciousness that same IS one, these realms in which the physical conscious or the superconscious may enter in, are one and the same. As is seen, the entity meets on the same plane, as it were, of a purely physical consciousness, see? in the remark, in the manner, in the seeing of others about - all is as but one. Then gain that full concept that it IS one. Just the different phases of the same conditions as exist in the physical plane, for the physical plane is a counterpart of the spiritual plane, with its many phases, as there are phases in the material plane of the body, or of the mental forces, or the mind of individuals, for to each they present their own various phases of that necessary to make it a full complete consciousness; for as in this - this as a physical example: Take a LIVING human being - can it prove it is alive and not dead, except by someone else? No. There is no proof into what existence a physical condition is, save as it takes into consideration those various phases of other existences about same, for it repeats itself, and through this repetition of conditions a fact or truth is established. As this entity is able, then, to again and again enter that same realm wherein, in physical consciousness it is not conscious of the existing by its existence, then why not take the same condition as is proof positive in the material plane for the proof positive of the spiritual plane?
5. (Q) "I was going in bathing in the ocean surf and started to dive into a breaker, but instead found that I dived head first right into the sand and was caught there head first. [140] called to [4167] to help and they tried to pull me out. I woke up trying to breathe, but was having great difficulty and feeling that I was suffocating from my experience in the sand."
   (A) This again is as an experience to this body-conscious mind, of this individual, [137], of the various conditions and phases as are taking place in the mind of the entity.
   As is seen, the ocean represents that as to which all life in the material or physical plane proceeds, in its way and manner. The sand is the basis of the thing. Diving head first, then, into, as it were, the ocean of experience, the entity may find self fast in same, and such a mind as that as is called upon, by one close to the entity, to assist or relieve same, may confuse the mind as to that which it has obtained in its diving into sea of experience of the entity's existence in the material and spiritual plane, and thus bring consternation, or, as is seen from the physical existence, that trouble in gaining or keeping its mental equilibrium in this condition or this sea of experience. See?
   This, then, is as a lesson to the entity, that in the taking on of that experience that the entity sees, knows, understands, grasps a portion of, in the various phases of its earthly or physical or material existence, the lessons are then as stepping-stones, and WADE in, rather than dive in head first. For little by little, line upon line, line upon line, must one gain the full concept of the conditions in which one lives, moves, and has its being. Not that life and its phases are a mystery, or something to be afraid of, but rather that the glory of the knowing OF the existence and its MEANING is the worth while condition in the material and the spiritual spheres and planes; for, as is experienced in the entity's own concept, in the days as they pass, with fear for the physical conditions of the body, for the mental urges of the body, with the various phases of the material conditions, with the various phases of the mental development, there comes to the entity those awakenings, in those various conditions as transpire within the entity's own self, in the vibrations that are felt about the body, and the wonder comes - are these vibrations as are experienced of the material making, or are they the presence of some unseen force from within that would find expression in the world, or are they from unseen forces in another plane that seek a manner of expression in this plane?
   Then, as is seen and known of the entity, from these experiences that are given here, these are as but one. Fear not! WADE in! Don't dive in! Meet the conditions, and be ever ready, as was with those of old - "Here am I! Use me!"
6. We are through.

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