This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 9th day of January, 1926, in accordance with request made by self - [341].

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

TEXT

1. GC: You will have before you the body and the enquiring mind of [341] of ..., Virginia, and the dreams this body had on the date 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, and you will answer the questions which I ask you regarding same.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, [341]. This we have had before. The dreams come in that way and manner as we have given, and may be used in the way of the entity's development, in the entity's gaining that of how the subconscious weighs with the conscious forces of the entity, when these apply to action, and may be acted upon by the physical body. Ready for dream.
3. (Q) January 9, 1926. "It seemed that Mother and Dad were taking a trip somewhere and that I was to stay at home. Some people came in from somewhere and we talked gaily for a time."
   (A) Apt to be a trip, see? and visitors sought also.
4. (Q) Who would this trip be made by?
   (A) Who made the trips in the dream?
5. (Q) What is the significance of people coming in?
   (A) Visitors.
6. (Q) Does this indicate visitors would come in while the parents are away from home?
   (A) Just given.
7. (Q) It seemed that I was at home. (Don't know whether this is more of the above or not.) I went into the front hall and found that the front door was open and that the glass was broken and bent in it. I took the glass out and then began to examine the door with a large magnifying glass for finger prints. Not finding any I made some and looked at them. On going toward the back of the house I saw my grandmother with some wood. After talking about the wood for a time she produced some papers concerning voting. She and Aunt K... discussed them and I said that I was too young to vote, but I read the paper and put it in my pocket."
   (A) This is rather the correlation of that being read or being carried in the physical conscious mind, and the various conditions as are presented or given as place and as action, showing how that same becomes as an experience in the life of the individual. And as this is seen, there then is gathered how the entity is controlled, or how that as is read is made a part of the entity's individual self and how this individual self expresses to others. Take a lesson from it and heed.
8. (Q) "It seemed that I was a prisoner. A very strong man was holding me prisoner. He wrestled with me and hurt me. After he turned me loose, he and his servant (a white-faced weak looking man) lay down on a bed with their heads hanging over the edge and began to feed a pet turtle. I slipped through another room and picking up an ax, chopped off the man's head. A quantity of water ran out, no blood. Two friends now joined me and together we went into a cellar. There were a number of games scattered about of all kinds. These we looked at. On seeing a man enter the house, we escaped and went to what seemed my own home. Here we entered the cellar and started upstairs. On seeing a light, however, I decided to go first and told the others to be ready to come up and help me. I went out and around the house and found a number of people, both outside and in the house. On entering I was met by the servant of the man I had killed and realized that I was in danger. I went on and entered a small room in which I found two police, who at once arrested me and placed large handcuffs about my wrists. I stormed up and down the room, railing at the two men. I succeeded in frightening one of them. I told them in the course of the railing that I had a perfect alibi, that I always had one. I called my colleagues and then asked the police that I might have an interview with them. This was at first refused but then granted. I threw off the handcuffs and went into another room. Here we first hunted for a dictaphone and found one. This we destroyed and then began to make plans."
   (A) This again, we find, the attempt of the conscious mind to gain that concept of the weighing of those experiences of the mental mind, with the conscious concept in same, and these, as we see, are then but that experience as is given again of how the individuality of the entity is controlled by these various conditions, and these will be presented again and again to the entity, and this will give a better concept of same to the entity from time to time. The turtle, as we see, meaning the strength, or the new life, the long living, the indelible expressions of lessons as are being gained and given the entity, and the uses of how same should be made.

BACKGROUND

1. See dream interpretation rdg. 341-15 on 11/03/25.

REPORTS

1. 2/20/26 See dream interpetation rdg. 341-20.

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