This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 10th day of May, 1930, in accordance with request made by self and those in charge.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Linden Shroyer, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Dr. Lydic.

TEXT

1. EC: Yes, we have the body here, [1122] - this we have had before. Well were those applications of the changes, or the alternating in the repressions as have existed, be carried out, would we accomplish anything within this system. [See 1122-1, Par. 10-A.] Ready for questions.
2. (Q) What causes deafness, especially in left ear?
   (A) Because it isn't desired to hear!
3. (Q) What should be done to correct this condition?
   (A) Suppression of those forces as has been outlined.
4. (Q) Should tooth now being treated be extracted?
   (A) Be well if it was! Be better!
5. (Q) Is talking in sleep a manifestation of spirits passed on?
   (A) Manifestation of the own self and its activity through the earth's experience!
6. (Q) Is this condition anything to be ashamed of?
   (A) Something to be taken advantage of!
7. (Q) Does the body lack will power?
   (A) Too MUCH will power!
8. (Q) Is it lazy?
   (A) Lazy when it wants to be!
9. That is all the questions.
10. We are through with this reading.

    Copy to Dr. Lydic (to be delivered to patient on leaving hospital)
    Copy to Ass'n office
    Copy to Cayce Hospital
    Copy to Mother

BACKGROUND

1. See 1122-11 on 4/14/30.

REPORTS

1. 5/23/30 Letter from Charles Francis Taylor to EC:
   My dear Mr. Cayce:
   This is to thank you for your kind hospitality of last Sunday and to say a word on my reaction.
   You have as beautiful an institution and opportunity for experimental work as could be found anywhere. If you make no serious mistakes in policy and show a strategic ability in management, you will be able to build up an institution which will attract attention the world around. Everything that I saw and heard pleased me immensely.
   In regard to [1122], there are tens of thousands of cases similar to hers, all of which are considered hopeless from a medical and institutional standpoint. A large percentage of them are easily radically improved or cured by the method I have developed. My feeling is that if they cannot be done in an ideal environment, such as you have, they cannot be done anywhere. They are especially valuable from the public's viewpoint as they can be measured and photographed and are very convincing. They will secure a legitimate publicity without which no institution can ultimately survive. If instead of getting rid of [1122] and one or two other cases you now have, you secured more of them and cleared them up promptly, you would not be able to enlarge your plant fast enough to meet the demand, and it would pay as no other class of work is likely to pay.
   There are special schools for such cases in N.Y. and they are seen daily on the streets of Washington. If you opened a camp for them on your property this summer you would soon have your hands full of the most thrilling work you ever undertook and would be blessed by countless thousands before you pass on. There are also multitudes of paralytics who only need reeducational work to enable them to come to normal, but the kind of such work now found in institutions is of little value because it is on lines that have always been without much scientific foundation. They ignore well known facts of the nervous system and the condition of the organism.
   Compulsory neuroses are considered incurable, but are readily cured, as I have demonstrated on a considerable scale. If you specialized in work that others have practically given up, you would find it a rich one and one which others would not envy. The moment you could point to a few cases you would have no further difficulties. The world would send you cases across the seas.
   Best wishes to you, Dr. Lydig, Mr. Blumenthal, and all. Sincerely yours, Charles F. Taylor 2121 N.Y. Avenue, Washington
   [GD's note: Dr. Taylor was an Analytic Psychologist of New York. He was lecturing in Washington, D.C. at the time.]
2. 5/29/30 EC's letter to Chas. F. Taylor:
   "I have yours of the 23rd. Certainly glad to know you are pleased with the outlook for our work at Virginia Beach. We are most anxious to try and be of help to every one. To be sure, I understand the situation as you explain it, and - as you know - those that we have in the hospital, ninety-eight percent of them have been considered incurable by the medical profession. Ever since we have had [1122]'s case in hand, we have been hoping that we could in some way or manner get you to cooperate with us in her case. We, of course, recognize the fact that it is impractical and impossible for you to come for just the one case. It is impractical and impossible, also, at this time, for us to arrange to have a great number of these cases. So, unless we can arrange to send this patient to you, where you have arranged - or are arranging to take care of quite a number, or where you are taking care of a class or doing the healing work, I don't know just how we can manage it. How soon will you be established so you can handle this case? Let us know respecting this, for you of course know and realize just how anxious the mother, and the patient itself, is. The information in which they have implicit confidence has constantly insisted that you would be able to help this individual case, and they are anxious - and we are anxious - that you have the opportunity to handle the case if it is possible to be done.
   I hope to see you again in the very near future, and trust that things are going along nicely with you, that you are keeping in the way and in attunement with those forces as may manifest through those that do keep themselves in attune with the divine.
   Thanking you," I am...
3. 6/08/30 Charles F. Taylor's letter to EC:
   "I am still in Washington, busy with some very interesting cases, including two similar to [1122] [paraplegia] and the little boy [758] you have. One of these, a very bad case, cleared of the spastic condition, and had perfect speech also, after the first treatment. Three epileptic cases have had no further trouble and are not likely to have in the future.
   "My present plan is to return to N.Y. in about a week unless new opportunities open hereabouts. I have a feeling that my long experience in psychic phenomena and especially those in your field, together with the fact that your stress is on diagnosis while mine is upon therapy, would seem to point toward some sort of relationship between us, - perhaps of a very loose sort.
   "You spoke several years ago of introducing me to Virginia Beach through your church. If you wished to do that, I would be glad to handle physical cases for you free, provided I can secure enough analytic case-work to pay my expenses.
   "Your institution can have all the credit for improvement or cure and you can then determine whether my work is of vital importance to yours.
   "It would require cooperation of the press to arouse sufficient interest. If at the end of ten days the outlook demanded it, I might stay on. Otherwise I plan to go to the camp at Monticello, N.Y. and to work a day or two each week at Mountain Lakes, N.J., the headquarters of the Nazarene Movement.
   "If I go to the camp, I shall take a few cases with me who can afford to pay $50.00 a month for their board, doing the work free for those who cannot pay. If [1122] could spend two months there it would revolutionize her life in every way and she would probably be able to support herself from then on.
   "These spastic cases can close a useful institution in a few months, no matter how liberally financed. You have to cure or quit in a brief period. Epilepsy, paralysis, the neuroses, especially those of a compulsory type, and many other situations, are still classed by the medical authorities as incurable. Sleeping-sickness, dementia praecox, drug and other habits, can be added. Yet all of these yield easily to my techniques; provided the structure is not damaged beyond repair. Chronic and organic diseases respond equally with functional ones. With your facilities for examination and treatment you could make a demonstration in one summer that would make Virginia Beach a mecca the year round.
   "The reason the hospitals and institutions are overcrowded and cannot be built fast enough is because of wrong basic theories in both diagnosis and therapy. The chief failure everywhere is in therapy. There are ten diagnosticians today, thanks to the biological laboratories to one successful therapeutist. It is much easier to talk about a case, and give it scientific names, than to cure the condition. Only the latter counts ultimately. "If we developed some plan of cooperation this year, we might use the camp for extension work in future years, but if this year, or rather, this summer, does not produce results satisfactory to me, it is highly unlikely that I would be open for such a plan in the future.
   "On [1122]'s case, or others, I can do them free at Virginia Beach, otherwise they would have to provide for board, travel etc. I never do analytic work at less than $20 an hour and it is often worth $100 to $1000, just as your readings are."
   Faithfully, Charles F. Taylor 2121 N.Y. Ave. Wash. D.C. Apt 420 51 - 5 Ave. N.Y. c/o E. L. Taylor.
4. 6/16/30 See 1122-13.

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