This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 9th day of October, 1937, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [1452], through her cousin, Mrs. [...], new Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.

TEXT

1. EC: Yes, we have the body here.
2. While there are physical disturbances, these as we find have been produced as much by the mental attitude - to self, to conditions, to surrounding influences.
3. And these then need not only a physical but a spiritual approach to the applications for relief and help to be brought the body.
4. As is SOMETIMES understood, the physical will deteriorate through MENTAL suggestions to self.
5. And the self-condemnation has produced in those portions of the cerebrospinal system such activity upon the nervous system as to produce a reaction that is contrary to the activities of the nervous body.
6. Hence those periods of melancholia, those periods when there is the determination for self-effacement in one manner or another.
7. This has produced in SPECIFICALLY the centers in the upper dorsal and through the cervical, and especially in the vagus area, such reactions that there becomes an incoordination between the cerebrospinal and sympathetic or vegetative nerve systems of the body.
8. Then, under the VARIED activity, this produces disturbances in the reaction of the organs that become involved by the too much flow of impulse to the system.
9. Thus we find there are those overflows often to the ducts that magnify and manifest sadness, sorrow, and self-effacement; in that the condemnations which arise make for the dislike of activities that are necessary for the expression of any NORMAL, cooperating, balanced system of the spiritual activities in a physical body.
10. In the approach then, first as we find, from the very nature of the reactions, medications - as medical reactions, in the form of any bromides, or those that would make for a degeneration of the feelings to the system - would only allay; but produce those conditions where softening of the reflexes from brain forces to the activities through the system would set up in such natures as to become WHOLLY destructive to the physical body and its reactions.
11. Then, this should be rather the physical approach:
12. We find that the body should be in such an environment, and with such applications as may be had in an institution such as Still-Hildreth; or the applications such as may be received there to stimulate activity in associations with a constructiveness in the mental reactions.
13. These would necessarily come slowly at first, until there is the arousing of the mental reactions to the body that there are those individuals who DO care!
14. Then the spiritual realization that God IS and that He cares; even though the darkness of hate overshadows thee, even though there are the determinations of those that may create surroundings that become heart-rending.
15. As an individual, as an active force within self it may be aroused to an activity in which there may come yet those awarenesses of His presence abiding IN thee AS an individual; and that the physical activities of self - physically, mentally, materially - must be such as to give expressions to those influences that applied in the experience of each soul bring the consciousness of well-being and not of degeneration in ANY sense physically, mentally or spiritually.
16. In such an attitude, then, let there be sought those environs such as indicated [Still-Hildreth]; and keep self in accord with a study and an application of that studied as to the development of the soul through any given experience.
17. For, He has not willed that any soul should perish but has with every trial, every sorrow, prepared a way, a means of overcoming.
18. And instead of the conditions that exist in the environs physically, mentally and spiritually, becoming stumbling-stones to thee, they may become stepping-stones to a larger, a more abundant life of service in His Name.
19. Ready for questions.
20. (Q) Any special treatment that would be suggested at Still-Hildreth's?
    (A) That there may be those applications of the mechanical nature for making the better associations and connections through the areas indicated, for a more perfect NERVE reaction; and that the activities physically and mentally be directed in constructive and spiritual study AND application.
21. We are through for the present.

    Two copies to Mrs. [...], [1452]'s cousin]
    Copy to Ass'n file
    Two be sent to Still-Hildreth Osteopathic Sanatorium, Macon, Missouri, Atten. Dr. A. G. Hildreth, when writing for particulars about their taking the case

BACKGROUND

1. 10/01/37 [1452]'s cousin's letter to EC: "...I have heard so much about the splendid work that you have done that I am hoping that you can help me. I have a cousin who has been a manic-depressive during the last ten years - she is now in a depression although it is not nearly as serious as the previous ones. I am thinking of putting her in a sanitarium but before doing so I would like to hear from you. If you could do anything about her will you send me a telegram collect at the above address. Her name is [1452], born February 17, 1899. She was married to my cousin, [...], and divorced several years ago and he has their three children..."
2. 10/06/37 [1452]'s cousin's letter to EC:
   "...Thank you so much for your prompt reply. Mrs. [1452] is with me for the present but I am planning on sending her to a sanitarium in about a week. She is in a state of melancholia at present and I feel that I can't keep her here with justice to my family. If it were possible that you could give her a reading immediately it would be best to have her here. A collect telegram to me would same time, but if you cannot do it soon I will have to forward her address... We have read your your pamphlets today and she shows more interest in your work than anything that has come her way in a long time. She is keen to have a reading and I hope that you may have something to suggest, as her life has been completely empty since her husband divorced her and kept the three children..."

REPORTS

1. 10/16/37 [1452]'s cousin's letter to EC:
   "...Thank you for your prompt answer and for hurrying with the reading for Mrs. [1452]. It gave her great comfort to find that she had no growth on the brain as she had feared. She has always thought that osteopathy was a great help for her. Several years ago she was at Still-Hildreth but did not like it there at all. I am going to have her have regular osteopathic treatments and also some spiritual help and hope that they will solve her difficulties..."

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