This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 5th day of June, 1936, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [257], Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

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

TEXT

1. EC: Yes, we have the enquiring mind and the body, [257]; this we have had before.
2. Ready for questions.
3. (Q) Is there any growth or laceration that causes the blood [from rectum] to show up, or what does?
   (A) As has been given, this arises from a weakness; or the inclinations for the weakness through the intestinal tract, that from strain, from anxiety, and with certain characters of foods that produce a seepage, cause the blood to show in stool.
   These then have been the warnings, that there should be the refraining from fermented drinks or alcohol or red meat which means rare meat, see? These are the inclinations that cause the disturbance.
   The applications of the sweat baths or alternated with pine or bubble or the general rubdown, with the physical corrections osteopathically - that should include the removal of the strain upon the feet, upon the lumbar and sacral areas, will so strengthen the body, combined with the food values, as to remove the cause of this inclination and weakness, see?
   Do that.
4. (Q) Does lemon and olive oil answer the needs of being helpful when taken on vegetables?
   (A) These are good.
5. (Q) What meats are best for me?
   (A) Fish, fowl, lamb.
6. (Q) What cheese?
   (A) Cream, Old English - as a cream - the American cheeses; all are very good, NOT in excesses.
7. (Q) What vegetables?
   (A) Three above the ground to one beneath the ground.
8. (Q) Does Coca-Cola aid or deter?
   (A) Coca-Cola for the body is a stimulant, and will aid at times and deter at others. Taken when tired, very good; but do not gulp - drink slowly.
9. (Q) What exercise is best?
   (A) As has been indicated, these should be budgeted. Exercise of the mind, as well as exercise of the body in recreational ways and manners. These should be divided so that there are the recuperations, the activities that make for those things in keeping with the massage. Then, handball, tennis, golf, riding, all would be in line with the physical exercise.
   In the mental, relaxation in social associations that do not confine their conversation to that of business but rather to those things that are of specific interest - or general interest, and the like. Recreational also, interests in some activity that is of a spiritual nature outside of self's OWN convictions. Not for argumentation but for relaxation and edification. Know what others think and WHY, see? All such.
   Readings of magazines, books, articles, all should be a part of the mental exercise.
10. (Q) What fruits are best?
    (A) Any fruits are best, except apples unless these are rested. The jenneting or Jonathan variety is better than those of the woody stock; as the Winesap.
11. (Q) Why do I perspire just under arms so much? Is this normal?
    (A) Normal owing to the conditions. Under the arms, in the groins, about the waist and the elbows, under the knees, are those areas where the emunctory circulation is nearer the surface. And these in the circulation, owing to the conditions of the general circulation between the heart, the liver, the kidneys, are such that these are acting, as it were, for the breathing spaces of the lymph and emunctory circulation. Thus, with the less heat, it makes the perspiration throw off poisons from the system in those areas only.
12. (Q) Occasionally my heart hurts a little - why?
    (A) Circulation. Hence those conditions that have been indicated in the relaxation mentally, physically, as well as the exercise and the treatments for the body.
13. (Q) Is buttermilk good for the body?
    (A) If it is of the regular variety, or that that prepares itself naturally, occasionally it is very good. Because it portends to produce belching doesn't necessarily mean acid. This prepared - or the adolphilous buttermilk - is very good.
14. (Q) How often eggs and how cooked?
    (A) These may be taken two to three times a week; any manner save fried.
15. (Q) Is red wine still proper with food?
    (A) Red wine preferably only with black bread.
16. (Q) Are hot tamales and chili beans bad for body once in a while?
    (A) Bad for body, until those corrections have been completed throughout the system for better eliminations.
17. (Q) Should he abstain from Rye and Bourbon entirely?
    (A) Very occasionally they may be taken, but not too great quantities at any time.
18. (Q) Is there any hard liquor good at any time for body?
    (A) As has just been indicated, and as has been given heretofore, there are inclinations and tendencies for a strain upon the circulation between the liver, the heart, the kidneys. These in their activity through the system produce that weakness that has been indicated by the leakage, as it were, or strain upon the connecting forces of the bodily forces itself, by stimulating alcohol forces, see?
    RUM would be preferable, you see, but this in moderation.
19. (Q) Is once a week at Reilly's sufficient?
    (A) In most conditions, but as has been given the body, do not let any of these becomes rote; else we will find them as not being done consistently, but rather allow the needs of the body, the desires of the body, to call for same in the manner of same being a part of the body, see? so that when this is overlapped or allowed to skip for a time or two, the body doesn't "run down" on itself, or "run out" on itself. But be consistent.
20. (Q) Any medicines needed?
    (A) Better let nature's forces than medicines work in the present. If there is the desire for any medicine, use rather that of water to have the eliminations such as at least twice each day there is the thorough evacuation. Well occasionally, once a month or once in two months, when there are the treatments taken, to have an evacuation from the colon perfectly. And these will aid in keeping down the disturbances and those weaknesses. And the waters that are used in same should not be too hot, but should be alkalin or soda and salt in same. To three quarts of water add a level teaspoonful of salt, a heaping teaspoonful of soda.
21. (Q) Is Long Island Sound at Shippan Point, Stanford, [Conn.], the best place for [257] this summer?
    (A) This should be, as has been indicated, considered from all angles. The surroundings, the environs, what the individuals do in the surroundings, the conditions as related to the family, the relations of self, the character of the individual, the engaging in activities of the individuals; all of these considered. If these measure up, very good. It will depend upon the manner of the approach. If the activities are such as has been indicated, that as sought will be given. For as ye measure it is meted to you.
22. (Q) Can [257] take all Saturdays and Sundays from business, or is that what is meant about the budgeting time?
    (A) No; that isn't what is meant. Saturdays and Sundays may be necessary to be used in business at times. Budgeting his time is as Solomon has given; a time for all things. A time to laugh, a time to work, a time to play, time to give relaxation, time to take relaxation, time to recuperate, time for song, time for crying, time for all things. This is what is meant by budgeting the time. Not that it will do this about this time, or this time is for this or that; but don't let these run over. Be consistent.
23. (Q) [257] is concentrating on his business -
    (A) (Interrupting) Then keep on planning and keep on working these out, for these will make for the proper considerations; using not only those tactics but policies of the organization.
24. We are through for the present.

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BACKGROUND

1. 5/27/36 He obtained 257-166.
2. 6/03/36 He submitted further questions.

REPORTS

1. 7/02/36 He obtained 257-168 on business.

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