Edgar Cayce Readings, 1379-1

(Physical Suggestion)

TEXT

EC: Yes, we have the body, [1379], here.
Now, as we find, while the conditions - or the effects - are rather specific, the causes are of a compound nature; to say nothing of those activities or precautions that should have been taken sometime ago.
But we will give that as we find that may be helpful, or constructive in the experience of the entity (and body) in the present, and to meet in so far as is possible the present conditions, that the continuity of life or the expression of same may have the greater opportunity for the manifesting of constructive or creative forces in its experience; and to thus fulfil more and more those purposes for which the entity enters a material experience.
As we find, then, there have been the conditions that have allowed a hindrance in the circulatory forces of the body; thus producing a center of infectious forces that affect the lymph circulation as related to the extremities, and the locomotory forces or centers of the body.
These in part arise from pressures of specific nature that exist in the cerebrospinal system as related to the central or cerebrospinal nerve system and the coordination of the vegetative or sympathetic nervous system.
Thus the muscular and tendon contraction which has been and is a part of the effect.
The source of the infection arises from a pressure first in the lumbar and lower dorsal centers, and affecting the lower portion of hepatic circulation as combined with the activity of the liver, the pancreas, with an inclination towards an excess activity through the pancreas and spleen that produces this combination of disturbances.
To be sure, the effect upon portion of the sensory forces is at times more acute than others, but as we find - with the correction of the lesions and pressures in the cerebrospinal system, and a setting up or a creating of the correct vibratory forces as related to the glandular system's effect upon the organs of secretion and eliminations, and the disturbing elements in the circulatory forces brought to near that of creating a constructive force - we may bring help and relief to the body; and overcome those conditions that have caused and do cause such disturbance or distress in the body. Also we will gradually make for a correction in the locomotories and the extremities where contraction and hardening and the conditions in the system have been indicated.
This will require persistence, it will require precautions as to the diet and as to the effects of same.
FIRST:
We would have corrections created or made, OSTEOPATHICALLY, in the cerebrospinal system; especially in the lumbar and in the lower dorsal centers. Naturally there must be with the manipulations the coordination of the ganglia about the system to the released areas; coordinating the upper dorsal and throughout the cervical with, to be sure, the solar plexus and lumbar axis centers. Such treatments or manipulations should be made at least twice or three times each week, and should be continued until corrections are made.
Also we would make applications each day for thirty to forty minutes (not longer than forty minutes) of the low electrical vibratory forces of the Wet Cell Appliance carrying elements in the system in the vibratory state, so as to aid the activities of the system in relation to the releasing of the circulation from those centers where pressures have been indicated. Such elements would be carried into the system alternately; one day the Chloride of Gold, the next day the Atomidine - preferably in the evening. But the solutions should be changed every twenty-eight days, as well as the charge for the electrical appliance. Do not leave the attachments in the solution when not in use, but make the connections and put into the solution at least twenty minutes before the Appliance is attached to the body. The attachments would be made in these manners:
The first day, the smaller plate would be attached first, to the 9th dorsal; while the larger plate - through which the Chloride of Gold Solution passes (in the proportion of two grains to one ounce of distilled water, but use about six ounces of the Solution) - would be attached last, to the lacteal duct and umbilicus center.
The next day, the smaller plate would be attached first, to the 4th lumbar center; while the larger plate - through which the commercial strength Atomidine Solution passes - would be attached last, to the umbilicus and lacteal duct center, or over the same area as the day before. This would cover portions of the gall duct and lacteal duct centers, that made for the greater activity with the assimilation.
Keep alternating the attachments in these manners, one day the Gold, the next day the Atomidine.
After such electrical vibrations each evening it would be well to massage gently over the limbs and affected portions of the structural body with oils; that is, an equal combination of Olive Oil, Tincture of Myrrh, and Compound Tincture of Benzoin. Shake these together and massage only sufficient that the body absorbs.
The diets have been very well outlined for the body - these we would adhere to.
Do these, and in sixty to ninety days we would give further instructions.
Ready for questions.
We are through for the present.
Copy to Dr. Saul B. Sells
Copy to Ass'n file
Copy to Sponsor - Theo B. Dobbins [wife of Dr. Frank P. Dobbins]
(6/02/37 At end of Wet Cell Appliance directions [1379]'s case: Note to Dr. Saul B. Sells, Dept. of Psychology, Columbia University:
For information as to this type of Appliance, write - sending this explanatory sheet (as each such Appliance is made to order) - to: The Health Home Remedies Corp., 308-9 Essex Bldg., Norfolk, Va.
For experimental purposes, our Manager, Mr. Hugh Lynn Cayce, might be able to arrange with the H.H.R. Corp. to lend such an Appliance for use in Mrs. [1379]'s case. Kindly take the matter up with him.
[signed] Gladys Davis Secretary. At end of Osteopathic directions: We would refer you to:
Dr. Frank Dobbins 551 Fifth Avenue, New York City)

BACKGROUND

See 1135-2 thru 1135-6 explaining best methods for testing EC's clairvoyance, telepathy, etc., etc.
1/15/37 HLC's letter to Dr. Warner:
Dr. Lucien Warner [Ph.D., Psychology] 405 East 54th Street, New York, N.Y.
Dear Dr. Warner:
I took you at your word in reference to the postponement of the readings to be observed by you and Professor Murphy. January is always hard for us and appointments set in New York carried through to the Christmas holidays. If you could hear and see the phone calls, wires and special delivery letters of the past few weeks you would understand.
We are having a meeting of our Trustees in New York the last of this month or first week in February. I hope to be able to see you at that time and set definite dates for the series which we have discussed. If my plans and program for the Association take definite form we will be in a position to cooperate much more fully than in the past.
Through you in order that there be no established contact until the readings are given, we would like to arrange for the individuals on whom the readings are given to receive the literature explaining the work my father is doing. I feel that such interest and a personal desire for the reading is essential to complete success. Also we would like to go further and arrange for such treatments as are suggested to be carried out and in cases where the individuals are not able to meet the expenses we will meet them. Such readings must do more than just provide a good analysis of conditions, it should be helpful.
If you find it difficult to secure such individuals we will arrange for our members there to communicate with you before recommending individuals to the work - many of them will not object to such observations - and thus provide cases with established contact. Our primary considerations are securing a proper mental attitude and in being reasonably assured of getting results, that is, of helping the individual.
I will drop you another line just as soon as the definite time of my trip to New York is set and arrange to see you. Your advice in planning our whole research program, for which we are setting aside a definite number of readings during the year will be most helpful.
With best wishes for the new year, I am Sincerely [HLC]
Works by Dr. Lucien Warner re Par. B2 above:
"The Development of a Standardized Animal" by Lucien Hynes Warner and C. J. Warden
"Comparative Psychology"
"Study of Sex Behavior in the White Rabbit by Means of The Obstruction Method"
4/23/37 HLC's letter to Dr. Warner:
Dr. Lucien Warner 405 East 54th St., New York City
Dear Dr. Warner:
I hope the protracted delay in sending you the explanatory material on the Association's work has caused no upset in the plans for a series of readings under your and Gardner Murphy's direction. There was a tie-up in getting our booklets which was followed by my grandfather's death which necessitated my father being away from the Beach for a time. We are ready to proceed at your convenience.
Under separate cover I am sending you booklets which I hope will help to explain something of the nature of the physical readings to be attempted. We are anxious to secure the fullest possible cooperation from those on whom the readings will be given. It is our desire to have the experimental factor as a result and not the object. From our experience these readings may be extremely helpful. We are presenting them with this belief and hope for those taking part in them.
You are familiar with the general procedure, and I offer the following only as suggestions. After the readings have been explained and the individual agrees and shows some interest and desire to take part you write us and we will set a date for the first appointment. Then, time the letter so as to arrive on the same day or day before and have the individuals write a simple request giving their name and the address on the blank which you will find in the back of each Association booklet. We must have the signed blank and the personal request. But in order to avoid criticism later you need not give the name or any information regarding the person in arranging for the appointment.
This might be handled simpler by us setting dates and keeping them for you if arrangements with the individuals in question would be satisfactory. For example we will now set Monday, May 3rd, from 3 to 4 eastern standard time as one period. If you can arrange the first reading for this period simply have the individual send in the blank and request. Please advise me as to how frequent you desire these readings and perhaps we can work out a complete schedule.
We are handling these under the sponsorship of individual members interested in the possibilities of research activity and there will of course be no expense involved. In fact where you present needy cases we may be able to assist in having the treatments followed. The results will be more important than the accuracy of the analyses.
A copy of the Duke Journal reached us yesterday. I have not had time to go through it thoroughly but it looks highly interesting.
I expect to be in New York sometime in May and hope to see and talk with you then.
With kindest personal regards and best wishes, I am Sincerely [HLC]
4/28/37 Lucien Warner's letter to HLC:
Sherwood Island Westport Connecticut
Dear Hugh Lynn:
I am so glad to hear from you. For speedier communication write me here from now on. Unfortunately I am laid up with a bad case of piles or hemorrhoids and will probably be in bed a week or more. Seems to me I read in a reading of some treatment your father suggested. Wish I had it here. Despite my infirmity, however, the test readings can start for I am turning your letter and the pamphlets over to Prof. Murphy. I emphasized - as you did in your letter - having each patient read each of the two pamphlets prior to the reading.
You will probably hear from Murphy. If, however, pressure of work made it impossible for him or Dr. Pratt, his associate, to arrange for these readings I shall gladly do so once I get back on my feet again.
Best wishes to you and yours, [signed] Lucien Warner
5/27/37 Sal B. Sells letter to HLC:
Columbia University in the City of New York Department of Psychology
Mr. Hugh Lynn Cayce Arctic Crescent Virginia Beach, Virginia
My dear Mr. Cayce,
I am writing to you at this time, in accordance with Professor Murphy's recent note, to discuss arrangements for the clairvoyant test readings by Mr. Edgar Cayce.
We have already secured the cooperation of three patients who are now available, having read through both pamphlets carefully and expressed interest in the test.
Dr. Warner has suggested that we either mail or wire to you the name of each subject and the specific place where the subject will be at the time of the reading, so that the information will reach you just prior to the reading.
Will you let me know whether this arrangement is satisfactory to you. If it is not, I should appreciate you stating just what information you desire prior to the readings. We shall endeavor to cooperate in every respect.
I believe it will be possible to arrange the time of the readings to suit your convenience. Therefore if you will suggest the exact time (Eastern Standard Time) for each of these first three readings the patients will be ready.
Very sincerely yours, [signed] Saul B. Sells [Ph.D.]
P.S. I have just seen your letter to Dr. Murphy. Since the regular semester is over it might be better to write to my home address, which is
220 Kingston Avenue, Brooklyn, New York
5/29/37 HLC's letter to Saul B. Sells:
Mr. Saul B. Sells 220 Kingston Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Dear Mr. Sells:
Thank you for your letter of May 27th.
I am writing you at this time to set the dates for the two other individuals mentioned in your letter as being willing to cooperate in these experiments.
The first appointment, as stated in my letter to Dr. Murphy under date of May 25th, is set for Tuesday, June 1, between 10:30 and 11:30, E.S.T. For the other two we are holding Wednesday, June 2, 10:30-11:30, E.S.T. and Thursday, June 3, 3:30-4:30 p.m. E.S.T.
Since there is sufficient time I would suggest that you let us have the following information on or before the date set for each reading. The Association membership blank filled out by the individual on whom the reading is to be given, or in the event that the individual is a child have the blank filled out by a parent responsible for the individual, you will find a blank in the back of each Association booklet; a note from the individual on whom the reading is to be given stating that they have read the literature and would like to take part in the experiment; the address of where the individual will be at the time the reading is given is essential.
We have found from long experience with these readings that the best results are obtained when there is a sympathetic interest and real need on the part of the person securing the information. A simple statement of this interest, the name and address are very little to require and will complete our records on each case. I can assure you that the greater the interest on the part of the individual and the greater the real need the better the information will be for all purposes under consideration.
We appreciate your interest and cooperation and shall look forward to carrying out this series with you.
Sincerely yours, [signed] Hugh Lynn Cayce
5/31/37 Saul B. Sells letter to HLC:
Columbia University in the City of New York Department of Psychology
Mr. Hugh Lynn Cayce Arctic Crescent Virginia Beach, Virginia
My dear Mr. Cayce,
I am herein enclosing the signed statement and note of case 1, [1383][see HLC's letter 6/02/37, 1379-1, Par. R1]. This reading is scheduled for Tuesday, June 1, from 10:30 to 11:30 E.S.T. The subject will be at 29 East 36th Street in new York City, Borough of Manhattan, at this time. I understand that you are to mail a report on each case directly to us as soon as it is completed.
With best wishes for the success of our experiment, I am, [signed] Saul B. Sells
6/01/37 Saul B. Sells letter to HLC:
Columbia University in the City of New York Department of Psychology
Mr. Hugh Lynn Cayce Arctic Crescent Virginia Beach, Virginia
Dear Mr. Cayce,
This is case 2, scheduled for Wednesday, June 2, 10:30 to 11:30 A.M. E.S.T. [1379]
With best wishes, [signed] Saul B. Sells
6/01/37 "I have read your little books and am greatly interested in your work." Mrs. [1379]

REPORTS

6/02/37 HLC's letter to Saul B. Sells:
Mr. Saul B. Sells 220 Kingston Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y.
Dear Sir:
We have just received your letter enclosing the information for the reading on Mr. [1383] which was scheduled for yesterday (June 1). We were very sorry not to have received this in time for the period yesterday.
Your letters will reach us more promptly I believe if you will not send them Air Mail, as there is no direct service to Norfolk or Virginia Beach.
The information is quite complete which you sent and entirely satisfactory. If you care to use Mr. [1383] for any of the periods scheduled simply advise us by wire of his address for the scheduled period. If you care to use other subjects due to this delay do not hesitate to do so.
I am scheduling another period for your use - Monday, June 7, 10-30: 11-30 A.M./E.S.T.
We are hoping that the information for this morning appointment will arrive in time. Where the information is in our hands a wire giving location at time of period will be enough. (Give name of course so as to avoid confusion when wiring.)
For your information your letter mailed in Brooklyn May 31 at 10 p.m. (post Office mark) reached us June 2 about 8:30. The delay was in the Air Mail which went to Richmond, I think.
I regret this delay but we will stand by until our schedule is smoothed out.
Sincerely yours, [signed] Hugh Lynn Cayce
6/02/37 Saul B. Sells' letter to HLC:
Columbia University in the City of New York Department of Psychology
Dear Mr. Cayce,
Enclosed is the data for case 3, which is scheduled for Thursday, June 3, 3:30 to 4:30 P.M., E.S.T. [1380]
Sincerely, [signed] Saul B. Sells
6/03/37 See 1380-1.
6/18/37 HLC's letter to Lucien Warner:
Dr. Lucien Warner 405 East 54th Street, New York, N.Y.
Dear Dr. Warner:
You will remember that sometime ago I talked with you regarding the establishment of an advisory research board (informal), to be composed of interested doctors, psychologist and investigators (these last two are sometimes separated) to whom the various research papers published by the Association will be sent for comments and suggestions.
In this way we hope to build up our reports to a form that will be really valuable meeting the best standards for such work. You know our problems. We have the material, we are daily acquiring evidence but we have never attempted to put it in presentable form.
You have received copies of the two papers on which I would like to have your comments. If you have misplaced them I will be glad to send other copies. One was on Arthritis [Case [951], 1/37] and the other on Appendicitis [6 cases, 3/37].
I have been sorry to learn that you have been under the weather. I hope that by now you are recovered.
We have had three of the readings for Columbia, as you probably know, and are prepared to continue with at least three more in order to present sufficient evidence on which to base an estimate of the value of further investigation. Knowing the need for the proper set up as you do we will appreciate any activity you are able to take in these experiments.
Our Congress this year, June 28, 29 and 30 will be devoted entirely to reporting the work of our Association. It would prove of interest to anyone who would desire to get a complete picture of our work. I hope it will be possible for you to come down, or we will be glad to have anyone connected with Columbia who could slip away for a few days.
With kindest regards and best wishes, I am
Sincerely, [signed] Hugh Lynn Cayce
7/02/37 Lucien Warner's letter to HLC:
Owenoke, Westport, Conn.
Dear Hugh Lynn,
You deserve an apology for having to wait so long to hear from me. I have had the nuisance of moving added to my usual work. But even so I should have kept up with my correspondence better.
I read the two reports [Arthritis & Appendicitis case study articles] with great interest and to me, personally, they furnish strong evidence for the authenticity of your father's work, perhaps as strong as any you have. But I am not trained in the evaluation of clinical reports and do not feel qualified to speak as a scientist. My experience has concerned laboratory evidence, which is a quite different kind, as you know. And, also, experimental data are far simpler to evaluate since they are derived from predetermined tests. Believe me, I am not trying to evade an opportunity to express my opinion of your father's work.
I have had no word on the readings being done for Columbia, but I shall have after they are completed, no doubt.
With best wishes to you all, [signed] Lucien Warner
9/16/37 HLC's letter to Lucien Warner:
Dr. Lucien Warner 405 East 54th Street, New York, N.Y.
Dear Dr. Warner:
Thomas Sugrue, writer for the American Magazine, the Chairman of our Publication Committee, is to be sent to Duke to write an article on their research work there in psychic fields.
You will remember that I have spoken to you regarding Sugrue. I have taken the liberty of advising him to see you before he goes down. He is a very good friend of mine and I will appreciate very much any suggestions that you may offer him and any introduction to Dr. Rhine which you can give him that will be of help.
Sugrue is naturally sympathetic and his work can be of real help in the whole field.
We are anxious to continue the experiments with Columbia whenever the set up is complete. Hope you will have time to check on this. Will see you in New York in November if you are in town.
Sincerely, [signed] Hugh Lynn Cayce
1/20/38 GD's letter to Dr. Dobbins:
Dear Dr. Dobbins:-
Not having gotten a report on the three cases you sponsored from Columbia - I mean a satisfactory report - I don't know how you feel about the other two Readings to be Sponsored by you according to your Pledge. It may be that you do not wish to continue them. If so, it will be alright. However, I'd like to explain what happened on the Columbia cases - I don't think Hugh Lynn has written you. The professors (psychologists) who were making the "experiments" took the Readings to an MD and naturally he said it was all the "bunk," and they let it go at that. At least this is as much as we can gather, for they haven't given us a written report - just said the experiments weren't satisfactory, though they told Hugh Lynn that the MD said the Readings didn't fit. So, we don't know whether they really didn't fit, or whether the MD just couldn't see it. Of course, as you remember, Osteopathy was recommended in two of the cases - and they didn't do a thing about following out the instructions, evidently. We must, on these Sponsored Readings, get more cooperation from the doctors or those who will agree to carry out the information; I mean we should have done that on the Columbia cases - gotten them to agree to it beforehand. Because, as we know, there isn't one doctor in a thousand that will say a Reading is correct when he sees it for the first time - especially when some other school of treatment is recommended than his.
Now I'm enclosing a copy of a Reading we had today for a very destitute family in Norfolk. The father has been out of a job (See 1519-1) for several years, first because of a long illness - which he has been able to overcome by following the Readings, with the help of a sympathetic Naturopathic doctor in Norfolk. The mother has been working for the City and has made just barely enough to feed the three of them. This Reading is for the child, and I know they're going to follow it - she has the same Naturopathic doctor on the case, who has followed many of out cases with splendid results. So, if you wish to Sponsor THIS Reading we will be glad to furnish you a complete report from the physician when the child recovers - which I'm sure it will. If on the other hand you do not wish to Sponsor it, but had rather choose one for yourself there in New York that you can observe more closely, please say so and it will be perfectly agreeable with us - and in that case you can return the copy and I will send it to another Sponsor. We appreciate your cooperation during the past year, and trust we may continue to have your help and interest. I'm sorry we did not get to see you when in New York in the fall.
I'm enclosing some Report Blanks, and would appreciate your filling out ones for us who have come to you with their Readings - these reports are such a great help to our indexing system, as they enable us to SPECIFY the ailment by the common term used by physicians. We have just received a Report Blank from an Osteopath in Massachusetts (of the CCO), reporting his experience with following the Reading directions for a young boy [See case [1215]] who has "spinomuscular paralysis from a fracture." He says, "There is a definite sign of nerve regeneration which in time, if he follows instructions, may result in fair recovery." Isn't this remarkable? The parents had him treated by the best MD's who said there was nothing to be done - the nerves were dead. The Reading recommended an Osteopathic Nerve Specialist. Now he's shown GREAT improvement in the last six months. We haven't seen the patient OR the doctor!
Kindest regards. Sincerely, [signed] Gladys Davis Secretary
4/07/38 See 254-97, Par. 42-A in regard to what HLC should do about the Columbia contact with Dr. Murphy: "Let it lay until there is a sufficient report on some of that they are, in a manner, of an underhanded way, following."
4/07/38 See 254-97, Par. 43-A in regard to what HLC should do about Dr. Warner: "Cultivate him, but leave it at the cultivation; for he needs to grow."
11/27/44 Miss [1387]'s letter to GD:
It looks at last as if I have found someone who will do the thing we have tried for so long. He is very much interested in Mr. Cayce's work and would willingly follow instructions that come from him.
He is 47 years old and very Jewish, even to accent, but there is a sweetness and goodness about him and a desire to help that is very evident to any who have eyes to see. He charges $5.00 a treatment but it is well worth it.
His name is Dr. A. Shapiro and his downtown office where he sees patients on Tuesday and Saturday is at 33 West 42nd Street Suite 822-23. Dr. Gardner Murphy who used to be at Columbia was now giving a series of lectures on psychic matters at the new school of social research and he went to him about taking his course. Murphy reserved the right of accepting or rejecting anyone who applied. He went along talking to him all right about various things in their interview until Dr. Shapiro mentioned that he had read "There is a River" and was interested in Mr. Cayce's work. Murphy immediately froze and said, "Oh, you are - well we gave him some tests. Where do you think he gets his information?"
Shapiro said he presumed he got it through some supernormal means whereupon Murphy said, oh he studied medicine - we gave him some things to diagnosis and he was all off on them - and without more conversation he dismissed Shapiro and was to let him know if he qualified for entrance in the course, but he never heard from him again.