This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Va. Beach, Va., this 25th day of October, 1933, in accordance with request made by self - Miss [386], on the Active Membership of her father, Mr. [2903], in the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. [760], Gray Salter, Mildred Davis, L. B. and Hugh Lynn Cayce.

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1. EC: Yes, we have the body, [386]; this we have had before.
2. As we find, there are considerable changes in the general physical forces of the body since last we had same here, and these are for the betterment; if that which has been gained in the changes is taken advantage of when there is the resuming of the vibrations and the suggestions with the other administrations that have been given for the body in the matter of the diet, the activities, the exercises, and the like.
3. In taking advantage of the situation, then, we find that the conditions are as these:
4. There is still at times incoordination in the sympathetics through the activities to the cerebrospinal and to the sensory reactions (we are speaking from the physical angle entirely in the present, you see), yet there has been created - by the activities of the properties in the system - more of a stimuli to the coordinating reactions in the form of filaments of circulation through the activities of plasm in the nerve forces themselves, as well as a better application of the blood supply about those portions through which the nerve plasm operates.
5. Then, to keep these in balance and to guide these impulses, so that there may be a controlling of the impulse to the nerve system, we would - with the manipulations and the applications made - give the suggestions for the body to respond in a normal way and manner in the impulses created by the vibrations that are set up from the elemental forces in the body. Such suggestions as this:
6. NOW THERE IS BEING CREATED IN THE IMPULSES FROM THE GANGLIA IN THE SYSTEM THE NORMAL REACTION TO THE SENSORY AND SYMPATHETIC SYSTEMS OF THE BODY. AND THIS IS BEING NORMALLY ACTED UPON BY THE VIBRATIONS, AND THE REACTIONS WILL BE A PERFECTLY NORMAL BALANCING IN THE MENTAL, PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL BEING OF THE BODY.
7. Ready for questions.
8. (Q) When should the suggestions be given?
   (A) As the outline has been. When the manipulations and battery actions are being given. That means at the same time!
9. (Q) Are the massage treatments being given in the proper manner?
   (A) If not, we would have told you about it!
10. (Q) Should the battery be charged at end of 30 day treatments, or should it be charged every 21 days?
    (A) Thirty day treatment.
11. (Q) How can I prevent my nose from discharging from time to time?
    (A) By the creating in the system, through the vibrations being set up through the manipulative forces that are to be administered in the upper dorsal and whole cervical area, the renewing of the activity of impulse throughout the body. With the use also of the active principles in the inhalant.
12. (Q) What should be done for hay fever, to prevent sensitiveness to dust, feathers, pollen, lint, lettuce, pears, and tobacco smoke?
    (A) Most of this is imaginative, and the responses will be as the impulse to USE these very things themselves in their activity in the body! and as would be in taking that termed preventatives, they become a portion of the impulses in the system. See? For, as the body in its vibrations along the cerebrospinal system is set in accord with a perfect vibration in each ganglia along the system, then these are only that builded (that is, these sensitivenesses to those conditions named; and others as they would be seen), and they become a portion of the consciousness in the use of all of them. Handle them! Use them! Smell them! And know they will not affect you, unless you let them!
13. (Q) How can I obtain a resistance power against outside annoyances?
    (A) By building in self that thought given in the suggestions, that the reactions in the body are normal, and all that is desired to be shut out may be shut out from self! And do not remain so much alone with self and self's own dependence upon other influences!
14. (Q) What can be done to take care of the excess kidney activity?
    (A) With the vibrations, the manipulations, this will gradually disappear. It is glands' reaction, and we are changing these through the vibrations that have been set up; as indicated in nerve impulses from the ganglia along the cerebrospinal system to functioning of organs through-out the body.
15. (Q) Would it be advisable for me to return to ..., Tenn., or remain at Va. Beach? How long should I remain at Va. Beach?
    (A) Until there has been created within self that ability to meet the conditions, the emergencies that arise within the system, and until resistance to outside influences is created; resistance to any influences, whether matter, gas, or spiritual.
16. (Q) How can I free my complexion from bumps?
    (A) By creating a positive circulation throughout the body, and making coordination through all the eliminating forces of the body; not allowing drosses that should be carried out through the alimentary canal to become a portion of the respiratory reaction in the body. This is done by creating the direct reaction in circulation, so that all organs function from the impulses of the ganglia along the cerebro-spinal system that control the activities of the body, and these - as we have indicated - are gradually being set up. And see in self that these are being created in the body, in a positive manner.
17. (Q) How can I have easy bowel movements without the use of anything?
    (A) One question answers the other, just as we have given. When there are the reactions in the system from the ganglia of the system to produce the proper reactions in or from the stimuli received from the ganglia along the cerebrospinal system, each organ, each portion of the system functions in its proper manner, see? When we have created the balance, then, in the physical forces, as indicated, these will come to acting in a near normal way and manner.
18. (Q) What vegetables in my diet will aid in this?
    (A) Those of any nature that are the more non-acid in their reaction in the system.
19. (Q) Is there any danger of these lumps in my left breast enlarging to any size?
    (A) If the circulations throughout the body, especially from the cerebrospinal system, are made to function near normal, these will carry away the drosses and not allow accumulations in any PORTION of the system; and this applies to these conditions as well as to the rest.
20. (Q) What makes my fingernails peel up around the cuticle?
    (A) Lack of sufficient activity from the thyroid glands in their producing the necessary elements in the forces of the body. Hence one of the main reasons for the body's inhaling much of the air, atmosphere, at Virginia Beach.
21. (Q) Should the massages be kept up during the rest periods?
    (A) They should.
22. (Q) How can I prevent myself from becoming blue and depressed at times? And how can I prevent myself from crying so easily?
    (A) By not remaining alone! Be joyous! Whistle, sing, holler, anything that makes for activity! Just don't allow it to come on! Put it on someone else! Be with someone else!
23. (Q) Should the massage be given just along the upper cerebrospinal system?
    (A) As anyone giving massages should understand, they go principally along the cerebrospinal system; but when the reactions are to be produced, especially as indicated in the conditions with this body, it is necessary that all the ganglia and plexuses from the 3rd and 4th dorsal to the 1st cervical be reacted upon both to the front and back, or along the top portion of the clavicle and to the neck and to the head especially; not necessarily over other portions, but the limbs should always be taken into consideration as related to their reactions from the locomotory plexuses in the lumbar and sacral area, and from the brachial plexus; that is, seeing that the reactions are produced from such centers so that the circulation to the limbs is equalized by such reaction, see?
24. (Q) How can I prevent from having colds all the time?
    (A) It would require volumes to give that which would prevent anyone from having colds! for all those conditions that produce colds would have to be considered; diet, eliminations, drafts, changes of temperature, and everything of the kind. But if a body is sufficiently balanced as to make for resistance, there will be sufficient leucocytes in the blood supply to choke a cold to death immediately! But to keep such a resistance is to keep a body normally balanced, and to be mindful of those things that we have given. For, colds are plasmas that find their reaction in the blood supply itself, and FEED upon the white more than upon the red blood, until they have become some form of the strept nature. Then they work through to the organs in the system. See? They first begin with the lymph, or the water and white blood, and get hold upon the system unless the supply of leucocytes or warriors is present in the system to choke them to death. A cold can't make headway when the warriors are sufficient, or the leucocytes!
25. (Q) Why have my arches always been weak? Can I ever go without wearing arch supports in my shoes?
    (A) To be sure, especially if the limbs and feet especially the bursa in the heel, or the Achilles bursa are stimulated. For such stimulation (besides the massage to the sacral and lumbar plexuses that stimulates impulses to the lower limbs), we would advise using a compound prepared in this manner (which will give the body a good deal to do for itself!):
    Each evening before retiring, bathe the feet and limbs to the knees in a very mild tannic acid; which may best be made (for such conditions) from coffee grounds. When they are ready to be thrown out, put on a cupful to a gallon and a half of water. Let boil for ten minutes, pour off and allow to cool sufficiently so that the lower limbs may be bathed in it. Massage the limbs and the feet, especially the heels and the arches and toes, all the time they are in the solution, see? The whole quantity being used, of course; drain the dregs off, or the grounds; and keep the limbs and feet in same for twenty minutes.
    After taking them out of the solution, massage them with THIS compound for five to ten minutes; putting the ingredients together in the order named:

    Russian White Oil................1/2 pint,
Witchhazel.........................2 ounces,
Rub Alcohol........................4 ounces,
Oil of Sassafras...................3 minims,
Tincture of Capsici................2 minims.

    That would make it hot enough! Massage only the amount the skin will absorb. Shake the solution together, for the tendency will be for the Oil of Sassafras to rise to the top - see? Pour a small quantity in a saucer, and only massage into the feet and to the limbs to the knees, including the knees. And do it yourself! And we'll be rid of all this trouble, and it'll help the body in many different ways. It'll walk ten miles instead of five!
26. (Q) Any other advice at this time?
    (A) Be joyous. Be happy at all times, and apply in the daily experience that which is not only a desire to be of help to someone else, but PHYSICALLY help others and it will help self the more - mentally AND physically!
27. We are through for the present.

    Three copies to Aunt [760]
    Copy to File

BACKGROUND

1. See 386-2 on 9/28/33 for mental condition, hallucinations, etc.

REPORTS

1. 11/13/33 Aunt [760] returned with [386] to Tennessee.
2. 12/10/33 Father [2903]'s letter to EC:
   "...I have delayed writing you since [386] returned home, that I might better give you a line on her condition, hoping it would be much for the better. Since her return she has gotten rid of her fear but continues to hear those voices that put her on nettles and she still has a bad case of nerves.
   "She has now taken to staying in bed a great deal of her time, in fact she usually goes to bed about 9:30 p.m. and does not get up till about noon the next day, when she eats a light lunch, takes an afternoon walk, eats a hearty supper and then retires as usual about 9:30 p.m. When she takes these long sleeps it seems to steady her nerves better and when she sometimes gets up in the mornings and stays up she has her bad spells in the evenings. Her mother is giving her the rubbings and electrical treatments and this is about all we can do for her. We have tried to have her follow your readings but she feels she is too ill; too ill to do any little work to occupy her mind and strengthen her physically.
   "We are therefore allowing her to have her way and not crossing her by arguing with her which would send her off to her room crying. We feel that we have done everything for her that can be thought of and have decided that possibly the best thing at present is to let her have her way and humor her in all things.
   "When she is rested she seems as normal as anyone could be, but when she becomes fatigued she simply goes to nerves and imagines all sorts of things.
   "I don't see that you could do more than you have done and feel that if she would follow out all that you have said she would be greatly helped, but her fancied physical weakness interferes. You don't know how much [4936] and I appreciate all that you have done for her, and she appreciates it, too, for she often talks of you and yours and how nice you were to her.
   "You cannot know what a shock all of this has been to us. [386] has not been strong since a child and seemed to catch every disease going and have different physical ailments which handicapped her as she grew up but there was no indication of this trouble until it broke all at once. We of course will do all possible and must trust to Providence for help..."
3. 1/04/34 Father [2903]'s letter: "...As you know [before she came to you], we had [386] go through the Vanderbilt Medical Hospital where the very best medical aid is at hand and after a week or ten days examinations by the best doctors [including Dr. Morgan], they could find nothing wrong with her by every test. As I told you here recently we had Dr. Harris of this city, whom Mayo Brothers of Rochester, Minn., says is one of the best in the U.S. on mental diseases, go over her and he said very frankly it was dementia praecox and gave us very little encouragement or hope...from what we have read and what Dr. Harris tells us, I fear she will not improve but will gradually grow worse..."
4. 3/11/35 Letter: "...She is just going along but doesn't seem to be making any improvement...just now it seems dark..."

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