This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 W. 35th St., Virginia Beach, Va., this 4th day of January, 1926, in accordance with request made by her brother-in-law, Mr. [900].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.

TEXT

1. EC: Yes, we have the body here, the enquiring mind, with the dreams which have come to the body from time to time. These, as we have given, come to the body in the manner that they may be as experiences of the mental forces or body-mind of the entity and that, through the study of same, the lessons of the phenomena of life may be better understood by the entity. Ready for dream.
2. (Q) Night of Tuesday, December 15, or Wednesday morning, December 16, 1925. "We were in the country - on a party it seemed at Rose Fenton Farm, Asbury Park, New Jersey. We started to drive away from this restaurant over a lakeside road. Everyone was getting into their motor cars preparatory to the homeward drive. I had a two seater, NEW green Pierce Arrow Car. [137] climbed in next to me - I was driving, and as we started down the lakeside road, we kept close to the embankment and all at once I seemed to go over the edge. The car stopped and I thought to myself I could jam on the emergency brake and have it hold long enough for us all to get out and escape injury, but instead I did nothing. I jumped out of the car and into the lake, the car falling after me and on top of me. I was killed."
   (A) In this there is presented to the entity the phenomena, in this emblematical manner, pertaining to that condition in the mental forces, which pertains to the condition in life. That is, that the time for preparation for any condition is when there is the time, or before a condition appears in which the energies, the abilities, the conditions of all force are presented for the entity to exercise therein, see? for, as is seen, the life is filled with the beauties in life, the enjoyment of the pleasures of the flesh in every manner; yet when the emergency presents itself, although the action of the mind is to DO, without the trained responding of the physical to that action, there is the loss. That is, then: To know to do good and do it not, to him it is imputed as sin. This lesson is manifested to the entity here. Use it. No special significance as to a given time, place or condition, but as relates to Life, see?
3. (Q) Here is indicated the subconscious visualizing the changing of my physical self into my spiritual self - a subconscious consciousness of death (so called from physical standpoint). Is the change apparent to an individual while taking place?
   (A) As the lesson is given here, it is rather that as given than the propounding of a condition which is of the spiritual element. As answer to that: The spiritual forces, in the spiritual consciousness, are cognizant of the condition in a physical plane until the spiritual has left that plane. The reference as given is not applicable, as we see, to the question.
4. (Q) "Next, [137], my mother and myself were sitting in a room, I in my blue wrapper. I knew I was dead, yet there I was seated just as I do today, dressed and looking the same as in physical life and I was wondering if anyone knew that I was there, if they knew what I knew - that I had been killed. I could see them and myself, but could they see me - know I was sitting there and also know that I myself, even though dead, knew of my own presence - of my own consciousness? I was sitting next to [137] caressing him - loving him just the same as before. Just then my Aunt Lily [...] came into the room and spoke to my mother and [137]. Now I realized that this would be my proof as to whether they knew of my presence or not. Aunt Lily [...] looked directly at the chair upon which I was seated, but she did not see me - to her I was not there!"
   (A) This again shows that same force as given in that concept of the preparation necessary in the physical that each may understand that connection which lies between the physical and the spiritual, that such a condition as viewed and experienced by the entity in this vision may be in that way and manner as to be able to bridge this chasm. That is, that the consciousness of this entity is gaining in this vision a concept of what is called physical death, and that the consciousness, with all its earthly ties, so long as it (that consciousness) remains in the earth's plane, it (that consciousness) is cognizant of that condition taking place in the physical, see? and is then the spiritual action. Then the lesson is as given. The entity should gain from this that concept of the great truths which are gained from the subconscious forces which are being manifest in the physical world, that the full consciousness of self's projection from the subconscious, or death plane, may even be understood, comprehended, in the physical.
5. (Q) I was dead, yet conscious of myself as [140], dressed as she dressed, in the same room as [140] lived in. Would this be possible to the spirit entity of [140] in elemental form? Would I in form be able to do that?
   (A) The consciousness of the subconscious is of the earthly in the death plane, as the spiritual consciousness is in the physical plane. One projects into the other as the other projects from one to the other. And as there is seen manifest in the physical plane those actions of the spiritual force, so may there be in the spiritual elemental plane that action into the physical plane, see? and the projection then is of that same force brought by that seen that brings this entity in this condition - the love, the affection, the desire of that nearness, of that oneness with those individuals as seen, see?
6. (Q) Would this cosmic consciousness be possible to my subconscious consciousness - the consciousness of the life after death?
   (A) As given.
7. (Q) Would I retain my love for my husband and could I be conscious of myself caressing him?
   (A) Just in the way and manner as given, see? for as is seen, let's give this as an illustration of how the cosmic consciousness, or elemental consciousness, after death projects from one to the other, see? The loved one - just reverse the condition, see? The loved one is in the spiritual plane. The one as the lover is putting self in that attunement with that spiritual love element, as is manifest in physical or material forces. Then, that love brings each to the arms, as it were, of the other, see?
8. (Q) Could I not only see the spirit reality with my new spirit mind, but also see the phenomenized form of this spirit in the physical bodies of my mother, my husband, my Aunt Lily?
   (A) Just as has been explained and given, see?
9. (Q) Would it be my choice as to whether I desired to return to these conditions - say of love for my husband or not? Having created the faculty of love for this individual, could I take the old form of [140], come to [137] and caress him?
   (A) With the attunement from the other, as given, see?
10. (Q) As shown here, the physical [137] would not know of this - but could he know of it if he went to sleep - i.e. his subconsciousness and my subconsciousness meet as a vibration force meets a radio machine and causes a sound when the machine is tuned in?
    (A) Just as given. This is the illustration, see? Both must be in that attunement and separated from the physical forces to become conscious, for these are of the spiritual elements.
11. (Q) If this is so, could I deliver a message to [140] or my mother? Then why could not I deliver a message through another mind, another channel that I might find, to convey a message to [137].
    (A) Only with an attunement is the message received, as in the radio. Only with the same attunement may a message be delivered to an individual, see?
12. (Q) In this case, then, ones who subjugated their physical selves, (mediums - so called) would be channels for such a message - would open themselves to the operation of such messages being sent from my dead self to my living husband? Is this so?
    (A) Much as a kiss may be SENT from one individual to another.
13. (Q) That is, the subconscious of a medium might find in the one spirit subconscious condition my love condition and express it, if his physical or another physical caused the meduim's subconsciousness to tune into love thoughts. Correct?
    (A) Only correct as has been explained before in regards this, for the medium is as but that through which the transmission of a condition passes or exists, and is wavered by that physical, by that cosmic consciousness of that individual; while (get the difference, see?) a subconscious condition in which the subconscious contacts by suggestion the whole one spirit force that is, as an element of existent force in nature, and in the condition, the presentation of the fact - is manifested according to abilities of the entity to present same to the consciousness of the individual desiring that information from that cosmic consciousness, see? You don't see but this is it, see?
14. (Q) Now, bringing this into an example: If [137] by, or my mother directed by, physical thought or word their own or someone else's subconsciousness to attunement with my subconscious spirit action of love.
    (A) (EC interrupting) By themselves they may, BUT NOT THROUGH SOMEONE ELSE, gain that close access to that consciousness of the nearness and at-oneness of the individual, see?
15. (Q) (Continuing) [137] or my mother could receive through their own subconscious channel or the same subconscious channel in the medium.
    (A) (EC again interrupting) Not in the medium - in Self. Leave out the medium if you would understand these conditions!
16. (Q) (Continuing) could receive the love action in my subconscious consciousness expressed in words of their comprehension? Correct?
    (A) Correct only as has been given! FORGET THESE!
17. (Q) Sunday, December 27, 1925, while sitting at Ma [...]'s, New York City. "I saw a sort of crown over [137]'s head and while it appeared to my eye as though it might be a light reflection, yet it appeared not so, as it grew larger and then smaller until it became sort of cone shaped, with band on the wall and a very peculiar expression came into [137]'s eyes."
    (A) In this there is presented to the entity, for its comprehension and study, that condition which is existent, or may take place in the physical and in the spiritual, with physical of the body of [137], for as has been given for this body, through the connection, association of self, [137], with the subconsciousness of self and of the universal subconscious forces, it may gain that crown, though it appear in a manner of uncomeliness or of mysterious force. Yet as the light of truth is seen in the eye of the entity, through same is gained the great peace and joy and happiness that only comes with an entity contacting that full force of the universal forces as are manifest in the world from the divine spirit force to individuals who will allow, who will take, use same; not for own self motive, self purpose, self reasons, but that others may gain the full, greater access to that divine force as is manifested in this material world.
18. We are through with this reading at present.

BACKGROUND

1. 12/11/25 She obtained dream interpretation rdg. 140-9.
2. 1/04/26 Brother-in-law, Mr. [900], submitted more of her dreams for interpretation.

REPORTS

1. 1/09/26 She obtained dream interpretation rdg. 140-11.

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