This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 30th day of September, 1936, in accordance with request made by the mother Mrs. [...], Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. [466], her mother, Verdayne and Lee Alley, and [585].

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1. EC: Yes, we have the body here, [466]; this we have had before.
2. As we find, there are changes coming about in the general physical forces of the body.
3. While these as indicated are necessarily slow, as we find by the addition of those influences that may make for the better reactions through the ganglia of the nervous system, as makes for coordination with the sympathetic and the cerebrospinal and the reactions to the sensory forces of the body, this may be stimulated to a reaction that will aid in assisting this to be somewhat hastened.
4. Though, to be sure, these will make for changes that will produce that wherein the body at times will be somewhat harder to handle, these kept constantly - with the vibratory forces as indicated in and through the lower form of electrical vibration - and these kept - we will find we may aid in assisting this body to that of a much nearer normalcy.
5. We would begin then as with these:
6. First we would use the Soda Packs. This is prepared by putting the dry soda upon wet or very damp, heavy cloths. This bound across the lower caecum and across the lower portion of the lumbar area, and across the lower portion in the left side, or across the whole of the lower portion, across and around the whole of the lower portion of the abdominal area. This kept on about once or twice a week for an hour.
7. Then once or twice a week use the heavy Castor Oil Packs; these as hot as the body can well stand same; and after each of these we would massage over the areas and along the spine - especially at the base of the brain and on the last lumbar plexus - with a compound made from equal portions of Tincture of Myrrh and Olive Oil heated and put together, then to this add the Oil of Wintergreen the same amount, the Oil of Sassafras half the amount, see. Massage all the body will absorb each time.
8. Two of the Soda Packs, two of the Castor Oil Packs each week.
9. Keep the rest of these as have been indicated.
10. We should find these will assist in making for better coordinations through the body.
11. Ready for questions.
12. (Q) Should the Castor Oil Packs be over the same area as the Soda Packs?
    (A) This more over the liver AND the caecum area, or more on the RIGHT side than on the other side.
13. (Q) Are the osteopathic adjustments being given as they should be in order to help this body?
    (A) These are very good, though there should be more specific coordination made in the lumbar and coccyx area as well as in the cervical and upper dorsal.
14. (Q) What caused her sleeplessness last night, and what would have helped to quiet her?
    (A) The use of the Appliance will help to quiet same. This is the natural reaction from the attempts of the body to produce coordination, which under the existent conditions overtaxes the body.
    Hence the applications of the properties as indicated to produce, with the relaxations, the better coordination in the nervous forces and their reflexes to the body.
15. (Q) Are the treatments being carried out correctly at home?
    (A) These are very good. There should be kept the plates very clean, and keep the solutions changed as has been indicated.
16. (Q) How long before some improvement may be seen?
    (A) With these we should see in the next hundred and twenty days decided change for the better.
17. (Q) Why does she ball her fist up and keep it thrust in her mouth so much of the time? How can this be overcome?
    (A) The natural reactions from the attempts of the body to find self-expression.
    The applications of these things as indicated should gradually change these, as well as to make suggestions to the body while the massage is being given. The massages will be most pleasant treatment to the body - that's with the oils, to be sure.
18. (Q) Can the bone and nerve specialist in Richmond help my child in any way?
    (A) As we have given and indicated, these will not be aided until there can be the developments of the plexus and ganglia that make for connections to produce coordinations.
    Operative forces upon the body in any manner, those of nerve specialists' reactions, would only make for a staying of the conditions that might eventually be entirely eliminated.
19. (Q) Do you think it would be of any help to have an X-ray of the spine that might show where an operation might help?
    (A) This may assist those making the adjustments, but as we find these would only prove as to those things as indicated - and these are tissue involved more than structural portions of the body, as has been given.
20. (Q) Any other advice for the body at this time, or for those who have charge of same?
    (A) Be patient, be persistent, and we will find that the applications will aid.
21. We are through with this reading.

    Copy to Mother
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. See 466-2 on 7/20/36.

REPORTS

1. GD's note: Mrs. [585] told us that the mother gave up the treatments, saying that they were too complicated; her husband was in the Navy and gave her no encouragement or help. The child gradually stopped talking, or attempting to talk at all - not even making the giggles or throwing herself about as she did at first. She just sits and stares into space and never speaks, apparently not making any effort to speak.
2. 12/53 Mrs. [585] told us that she received a Christmas card from the mother who wrote that [466] was "just fine," which, [585] added, "means that she's just the same."
3. 8/24/59 Mrs. [585]'s letter: "The mother told me that when [466] was about 3 years of age she had a mastoid operation which drained over a long period of time. It is my opinion that vital fluid from the spine was lost at that time. The first reading contained a promise that she could become near normal. As it was they had to lead her around and she never spoke. Her mother had to do everything for her; dress her and feed her and bathe her also. The mother grew weary of carrying out the treatments and after a few months she quit.
   "Last week I was talking to the mother's daughter-in-law who told me that [466] died last summer. [At 37 years of age] They had just returned to their home in Florida from a trip. They went downtown and another car hit them from the rear. [466] was on the back seat. She was thrown from the car, landed on the pavement and struck the back of her head and was killed instantly."
4. 1/04/78 [466]'s mother visited A.R.E. and requested and received copies of her daughter's three readings and was asked to give a report on them after studying them.
5. 9/29/78 Letter written to [466]'s mother asking for a report on her daughter's readings.

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