Edgar Cayce Readings, 1135-4

([1135], his intent and desire to conduct specific experiments with the view of enlarging our understanding of thought transference (Mental Telepathy). You will advise him regarding the best procedure to follow, including basic principles and suggestions for properly conducting the individual experiments.)

TEXT

EC: Yes, we have the body and the enquiring mind; purposes, desires, and those conditions that we find are relative to such activity in the experience of others.
In considering conditions conducive to such an experience in the activities of individuals, there are three phases or three elements that go to make up the basic ideas or basic conditions that become relative or co-related to such experience.
First, the Physical; then the Spiritual; and then the Processive Manners.
In the first process there are from the pathological standpoint or view those elements in the first cause, or in the eugenics of that cause, that produce in the plasm the vibratory rates that go to make for the urge that produces itself through its relative activity to itself in its process - or the very nature physically or pathologically of the man, or portion of the animal in its activity.
These are basic forces that make for the process of the activity of relative thought, or primary interest, or a receptivity, or the ability to become - as it were - subject to those very influences that go to produce same.
Just as may be seen in certain necessary influences or forces that go to make for conductors of energies used for transmissions of this or that influence that may become active. Some are good conductors, some are bad. Hence the physical force - these processes, these conditions are to be considered in making the study of, or in producing the ideal setting for such an activity.
Then the spiritual, or the intent, the purpose, the influence that possesses such a house, such a body; not merely from the physical the tangible intelligencia of the activity, but the purpose and intent and desire of that manifesting through same; whether it, that activity, of the spirit, is in that process of its own ego or that merely as the channel for those expressions that may be as an activity in such a process.
If these are of the nature that they are for, or have as their keynotes, the exploitation or self-indulgence or self-aggrandizement of the man's activity, then they must eventually become as those influences that would destroy the very influence that would be activative through such a channel.
Then the process, as indicated, in knowing, in realizing or classifying those that are from their very natures those subjects for such an activity. And those influences as indicated should be the basis for such attempts for the creative force or activity of that which is indeed the psychic force. For here, as indicated by the very term itself, the spirit or soul of the entity or individual (not the personality but the individuality of those that are in accord or may be attuned) is active. Not all elements may be attuned to a vibratory influence sufficient for sending or receiving. Some may send while others may receive. There may be those that are able to do both.
And such activities make for, then, a unison that becomes coordinant in its every relationship.
First, then, what are the necessary forces, the necessary elements? Or what would be the vibratory rate of individuals that may be said to be chosen as susceptible to attunement? Those that would be called emotional, or those staid? Those that would be easily moved by the influences about them, or those that remain malleable to influences of every nature?
What would be the pulse rate, the heart beat, the vibratory forces of the body-influence itself?
There must be, from that indicated, an ideal relationship in such, from the purely mechanical or the purely material viewpoint.
Those in which the ratio of those cycles about each of the red blood corpuscles is one to three. Those whose body-vibratory forces are eighty-seven and seven-tenths (87 & 7/10). Those having a pulsation that would range from the normalcy of a seventy-two to seventy-eight and six tenths (72 to 78 & 6/10).
These are the physical activities that become necessary for a consideration that may be had in same.
All such would be found to respond to normal reflexes; that their activity in making for the vibrations through the influences of the lyden upon the pineal becomes a normal reaction; that they are negative to influences that arise from any infectious or insidious force that may have been a portion of the impregnation from the very firm [?] [vermiform?] or first activity of the effluvium in its creative influence.
These would be, then, the physical processes that would be for the beginning - or the basic force. Then those that would be of the nature that their thought, their intent, is not by self acclamation but by activity less thoughtful of self than of their duties, obligations, dependencies, influences - [H. L. got up, starting to leave the room, and the rdg. stopped.]
We are through for the present.
Copy to Self
Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

See 1135-3 on 3/27/36.

REPORTS

4/26/36 [1135]'s letter to HLC:
..., N.Y.C.
Dear Hugh Lynn:
I hope you haven't feared that I had dropped out of your ken because I haven't written since leaving the city. It really didn't matter that we failed to get together before I left - I trust the auto accident was truly trivial. I simply wanted to reassure you and your father about my continued interest in the work. My aim is, as it was, that of bringing your work to the attention of students who should profit by a knowledge of it. Perhaps the clairvoyance study is not the best means to this end, but I DO believe it worth trying especially since Duke will eagerly welcome any positive experimental data I can give them. In other words, through my connection we have a sure method, providing only that we CAN and DO supply them with experimental evidence for telepathy or clairvoyance. As I think it over I am persuaded that we can actually do this better if I do NOT go to Virginia Beach at this time. Supposing we were to do work that entirely satisfied me - there might still be those scientists who could not accept my word. But if we plan tests with the cooperation of an informal committee of Columbia professors who will be witness to the evidence the matter will really be settled for once and all. And it is actually far better that they be Columbia than Duke men, because the former are more objective and disinterested and thus their combined word will have final and authoritative weight. So I suggest, if this meets with the approval of you and of your father, that the telepathy reading be completed and a copy sent me. If the information continues to indicate a cooperative attitude toward our efforts to learn more of telepathy and clairvoyance throw [through?] the help of the information we shall either, a) undertake such tests as it suggests, or b) undertake a test which I have devised as being capable of throwing much light upon the problem of clairvoyance (not merely proving it). I truly think I can promise you that with the cooperation of the information this test will be the turning point in the attitude of modern, materialistic psychology, this because of the conclusive nature of the tests and because of the calibre of the men taking part.
To repeat what I have already said, I shall be responsible for the fact that these tests will not involve the Association in any publicity at all. I shall make certain of this by not revealing you as the source of the crucial data. If later on you should not object to its source being known I can corroborate it, but other wise I would not open my lips. I hope you know that you can trust me. I meant to have paid for Mrs. [1136]'s readings, and I do not have a check book with me, but I shall mail in my check as soon as I get back to N.Y.
With my best wishes to your parents and to Miss Gladys,
Sincerely yours, [1135]
5/04/36 He sent $10 check for Mrs. [1136]'s Physical Reading and $10 for Life Reading for his son [1177] by a former marriage. He had paid $20 for his original Life Reading, 1135-1, but his subsequent readings had been given without charge, as a cooperative experiment in psychic research.
5/06/36 See 1135-5, a continuation of the data on mental telepathy.