5/06/36 HLC's letter to Dr. [...]:
Dr. [...]
..., N.C.
Dear Dr. [...]
Thank you for your letter of April 13. I have refrained from
answering it until returning to the Beach where I would have
the opportunity of going over the reading which was secured
on your daughter. We appreciate the attitude which you
assumed.
You point out that the analysis of your daughter's condition
was, so far as you could determine, incorrect. This
interests us just as much as if you told us that it proved
to be entirely accurate. For our own information I plan to
follow this up and learn if possible just why it was not
possible to secure a more complete reading for you. I will
be glad to forward to you the results of my questions.
In connection with the information already received I am
wondering if you interpret the remarks regarding the cause
and condition in your daughter's case as I interpret them. I
will appreciate it very much if you will advise me if the
following thoughts on this subject are in line with your own.
The reading indicates that at some time in the past some type
of infection arose in the gastrointestinal tract. This may
have caused fever and disturbed stomach or disturbed
eliminations. This left in the body some congestion in the
lacteals, which are closely associated with the assimilation
of properties from foods that furnish rebuilding substances
for nerve tissue. In other words the disturbance in the
lymph circulation extends through the lacteal area and
affects the assimilation in the caecum and ileum. I would
understand that this results not just in a disturbed
assimilation but in the cutting off of the supplies of nerve
energy to these areas. It is unfortunate that the statement
which follows next in the reading is not made more specific
as there are many types of voluntary and involuntary
reactions. We certainly might say that all the internal
functions of the body were involuntary, but this information
would apparently indicate this incoordination to exist
through the lower portion of the body.
Reference is next made to the glands and to locomotory
centers. According to this I would understand that
impoverishment in the nerve and muscular tissues has resulted
from this block in the areas mentioned. From this it would
certainly be hard to give any name to the condition, yet it
is certainly a definite description and not vague as might be
first thought upon a cursory reading. The question would be
as to whether this fits at all with the existent conditions.
The questions that naturally come to mind would be: (1) Has
there been any condition of up set stomach, fever and
disturbed eliminations? Not necessarily in the immediate
present but in the past. (2) Are there now existent any
conditions that show incoordination between the voluntary and
involuntary reactions, especially in the lower portion of the
body? (3) Is there any sign of nerve or muscular
impoverishment in the centers that control the legs or arms?
Please do not consider it necessary to answer these
questions. I simply indicate my own trend of thinking in
interpreting this reading. And I will appreciate it very
much if you will, as I have mentioned, advise me if this
thinking is in line with your own approach in understanding
the information given.
I have devoted just three or four years to a constant study
of this work, while the readings as given by my father have
a history of some thirty-five years. I have myself observed
and checked case after case in which the analysis is
positively correct, indeed amazingly correct. It is most
interesting to find one that does not check, especially in
the case of an individual like yourself who is in sympathy
with the many difficulties encountered in securing the
proper mental atmosphere, if I may use this term, for such
experiments. We shall certainly like to trace this to its
source and will appreciate your cooperation.
As you have learned from Dr. [
1135], I am sure, we are not
interested in trying to prove anything. We are most anxious
to cooperate with, and make available any small results we
have obtained, as we meet individuals who are seriously
studying the many phases of psychic phenomena.
We have over fifteen thousand copies of these psychic
readings on various individuals and subjects in our files.
Thousands of these cases are complete with reports on very
favorable results. Complete reports, including physicians
parallel examinations, x-rays, etc., showing correct analyses
and remarkable results number more than a thousand. My
father continues to give two of these readings each day for
individuals in all parts of the country. In many of these
definite and specific examples of unusual powers of
clairvoyance are appearing frequently.
We have furnished Dr. [
1135] a cross section of our files to
be included in a report to be submitted to you. On the basis
of this report and such further material as we will be glad
to furnish you from time to time we hope to be able to be of
service. Please advise us if there is any way in which we
may cooperate.
I would like very much to meet and talk with you personally.
I have a brother who is now in the freshman engineering class
there in [...]. May I stop in to see you the next time I am
in ...?
In behalf of the Association and my father I would also like
to extend to you a cordial invitation to visit us here at
Virginia Beach whenever you find it possible. We would like
to have the pleasure of showing you our files and discussing
the work we are undertaking. I am sure you could offer many
helpful suggestions.
Sincerely yours, [Hugh Lynn Cayce]
5/16/36 Dr. [...]'s letter to HLC:
Mr. Hugh Lynn Cayce
Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment
Virginia Beach, Va.
Dear Mr. Cayce:
I think you for your letter and its explanation. It would
indeed be a pleasure to talk with you, and it has been my
intention if I ever could get away, to visit your place at
Virginia Beach and talk with your father about the work. By
all means I hope you will come to see me if you are in ...,
and also bring your father if you can.
Sincerely yours,
5/11/60 Mrs. [...], A.R.E. member's letter:
Dear Dr. [...]
I am now working on a book concerning some of the readings
of Edgar Cayce. According to [...], the readings in March of
1936, and in April you secured a reading for your small
daughter, but the diagnosis did not seem to fit her
condition.
If it is possible and you can find the time to do so, I would
very much appreciate knowing anything else you can tell me
about the correctness or incorrectness of that reading. The
editor has asked that I should be sure to follow up any
inaccuracies in order to present as true a picture as
possible. I have checked on some of his predictions and
prophecies, many of which have come true amazingly, others
being either misunderstood or incorrect. But in medical or
health readings there is very little record of inaccuracy and
anything you can give me as information will be appreciated.
A stamped, addressed envelope is enclosed for your
convenience.
Yours sincerely,
5/16/60 [
1139]'s father, Dr. [...]'s letter:
Dear Mrs. [...]:
My daughter, [
1139], then a child of about six, had empyema
following pneumonia. The Cayce diagnosis was that it was an
abdominal infection and the prescription was some sort of
treatment with an electric circuit and a gold solution which,
in addition to the diagnosis, which cost me $20.00, would
have added $40.00 to the bill, since he was the only producer
of such therapeutic devices.
I draw no generalized conclusions from a single case and,
indeed, I find it difficult to draw conclusions from such
material, even when it is available in quantities. One has
to know first of all of the attempts made so as to appraise
percentages of cures. One has to know, too, what the basis
of judgment as to what is called a cure really is. This is
difficult in many areas of medicine, but even if percentages
of cures on some acceptable basis were reliably available,
there is then a very much more difficult question still to be
considered - that of what sort of basis of control or norm or
background to use by which to judge the importance of the
percentage obtained. How many people would have got well
anyhow? How many people are permanently benefitted? What
sort of controls would be necessary to deal with those
factors of belief which might as well apply to belief in
some other treatment?
I am sincerely and deeply interested in additional abilities
and principles which can be found and verified in human
beings which might benefit them in health and other areas of
importance, but I distrust very much claims based upon the
kind of evidence and the kind of methods used in evaluating
it which have, so far as I know, been associated with this
particular group of claims regarding the Cayce material.
There is so much of prominence and importance to look into
that is fresh and available today, and on which new and
better experimental tests can be carried out, that I only
wish all those who are giving time and money to this old
collection could put their energies to better use. I think
the problem is a good one, the interest of all concerned
constructive and, for the most part, sincere. The material
and the methods are just not up to the requirements, and I am
not, therefore, interested although I respect the sincerity
of many friends who are.
Sincerely yours, Dr. [...] [child's father]
9/23/73 Letter to GD from a friend of [
1139]'s family, wife
of a psychologist:
"Regarding the information we have available on [
1139]. To
the best of our recollection she was somewhat slow. Without
ever having tested her we're reluctant to emphatically state
she was retarded, although our guess would be that her I.Q.
was in the 80's range.
"She led a more sheltered life than the other children,
staying close to the family farm, and grew up to a vocation
of raising dogs.
"Her social life was also quite restricted and we don't
believe she ever married.
"I hope this sheds some light on the subject, with our
apologies for not being more definitive."
[GD's note: The above lovely lady, when talking to me, said
that the mother of [
1139] had admitted that perhaps they
should have followed the reading on the child.]
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