Inquiring man. In this connection, [
341], my son, come sit
here beside me and I will give you an insight into this
experience that, applied in the life, will bring to you and
your understanding a fuller, larger, and broader conception
of that experience as you are aware of that is often manifest
through ...[
294]. Now you know, in my own last experience I
knew much of your thoughts and determinations in the life,
and have often watched with you and over you in the studies
as you have contemplated those things as pertain to the
psychological studies, or psychology in its making, and in
these studies there has often come to you those flashes of
the little things we spoke of at times, especially just after
arm was in place. Now you have seen with the mind's eye
those experiences of both the applied psychology as man
determines same, through that of an overtaxed mind mentally
coming to a sudden halt, or realization of how little, or how
short is the vision of man's experience. In this experience
as seen, when there is the halting between the ethereal or
cosmic, or unknown energy and that of the reality, there
comes the dread of seeing what lies just beyond; yet the
realization of the existence of the beyond becomes as real as
the last conversation with the body or bodies that were seen
in this experience; yet also there is seen the surrounding
conditions of which you well know that I held as one of the
drawbacks to a young man's development, this of intoxicants
in the body, deadening, deranging, or expanding the mental
faculties to such an extent as to burn them out; yet in mine
own experience these, under other guises, I often indulged to
the extent that in the end they took their toll. Then this
the greater lesson, my son, to gain from this experience.
Use - USE - all the faculties of the mental, material, the
cosmic, the ever ready sensuous forces, but never allow self
to abuse that mental body in any respect, would the body gain
cognizance or consciousness of the associations that lie
between the abilities of the mental being and of the body
mental in the cosmic or in that force, that vibration, that
is ever ready for expression as those are in the material
plane. Then, be not afraid of that that may be seen. Keep
self, body, mind, pure and clean, and you will find the
greater flow of consciousness for good that may be attained
in a material world. Yes, this is Gay [Samuel G. Gay, M.D.],
and I will speak with thee again.
We are through.
BACKGROUND
See dream interpretation rdg.
341-26 on
11/08/27.
5/21/29 He requested recall and interpretation of dreams and
experiences he had the night of the 20th - or morning of the
21st.
5/06/29 See
538-28 in which a message appeared from Dr. Samuel
G. Gay, M.D., to Gertrude Cayce as the Conductor, a copy of
which EC had mailed to [
341].
REPORTS
5/26/29 "I rec'd my rdg. and have gone over it many, many
times.
"Indeed it was very good and, too, gives me a very clear
understanding of the experience, as well as conditions
relating to it. I appreciate getting it - and in the way
I did (meaning the rdg.). One can always go back over a
year and pick out the high spots - that was certainly one
of mine. There is much that this opens up for me - and many
questions. There is one part about which I expect you
wondered, that referring to intoxicants in the body. On
first reading one would undoubtedly hit upon the happy
solution that I had been drinking and had simply had a nice,
wild dream. I am very glad that I do not prepare for
Greek exams in that way, or that would be very logical
solution. I had taken a couple of those Painodynes (?)
for a headache. They, plus the overtaxed mind, did the work,
I guess. I can't help thinking of Dr. Gay now and then, and
I am having a delightful time recalling, or trying to recall,
things he said to me. At times it isn't very hard, for some
reason or other.
"This morning I heard a very good sermon which struck me
pretty hard, the reason I liked it I guess. An important
idea which attracted me and brought me up with a start was
this. Some people simply try to get an understanding of God,
of goodness, of what is right and wrong, and believe that
because they understand they become good, religious, etc.
They spend all their time in trying to find out what it is
all about and forget to use and work with what they have in
hand. I have heard this so many times from the rdgs. in
dozens of forms to individuals and to groups, but it caught
me in mid air, as it were, this morning and, coupled with my
rdg., set me to thinking and checking up. I find I am
getting to be like that, and in so doing am losing all over
again my sense of the values of the little things in life.
In other words, I have tried to get so far up that my feet
have left the ground and I can't make a clear-cut, definite
decision as to the right an wrong of everyday affairs which
matter more in affecting others than I stop to realize. I
am losing contact with individuals and setting a bad example
where I do not mean to, for I don't consider it worth the
trouble to stop and make a decision. It hurts me, changes my
personality for the worst. I shall start out to change this
at once, and would like to talk it over with you when I get
back, with a view of checking on myself."
Edgar Cayce Readings © 1971, 1993, 1994, 1995 by the Edgar Cayce Foundation