This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 6th day of December, 1941, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [1467], Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mr. [1467].

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1. GC: You will have before you the body and enquiring mind of [1467] present in this room, together with his physical body, his sister, [1540] now at ..., Va., his present work, present conditions and environments surrounding him and his sister, the making of the electric appliance, and his mental and spiritual development. You will answer the questions that I ask:
2. EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, [1467], present in this room; this we have had before.
3. In the activities, much may be given.
4. Ready for questions.
5. (Q) Will you give me the place where I can buy the Quinine Shampoo, or give me the formula to make it?
   (A) There are several companies that make Quinine Shampoo. The formula that is the better, in the present, is the one made by Fitch and Company. This is very good. We would prefer this to giving another quinine formula, unless there were a great deal of care taken in making same. For, this will be found to be a beneficial product. And wherever the Fitch's products may be obtained, this may be had.
6. (Q) Has Dr. Hamilton given my teeth the correct treatment? If not, please give me specific information as to which teeth are affected and what special treatment they should have.
   (A) As we find for the present, these are in very good shape. We would keep the massage with Ipsab occasionally, once a week or once a month, or oftener. This should not only keep the gums free from infection but stimulate the circulation so as to prevent a great deal of disturbance in any other direction. Massage with finger or tuft of cotton at least once a week at times, at others once a month is sufficient.
7. (Q) What is the cause and cure for my finger nails splitting and crumbling oft?
   (A) This is an affectation from the glandular system. We would take the peelings of Irish potatoes, or boil these and drink the juice from same. Boil the skins, you see, and drink the juice or prepare it as a soup once or twice a week. Also once a week take a little Calcios. This will stimulate sufficient activity of calcium in the body forces, with the present activity of the thyroids, to prevent nails splitting, and it will give a better stabilization also in the heart's activity, making less tendency for smoke or the like to cause headache or heaviness in the head. [See also 1467-17, Par. 25-A.]
8. (Q) What treatment should be given my sister, [1540] in order to bring about a near normal condition in her body now? Please advise me in detail.
   (A) As the conditions exist in the present, we find that the environment in the present is well - and should be continued until there is a change in the attitude and hopes and desires of the body.
   Use only the Radio-Active Appliance as an equalizer to the system in the general nerve forces of the body. Use this at least thirty minutes each day. And this should be made the period for meditation and prayer.
   It is the mental attitude, now, that is to be corrected for the body. The body should in this manner, as it were (and this literally), make a LIST of its beliefs, its tenets, its faiths, its hopes and desires. Gradually, as these are studied, eliminate all that the body-mind sees are of a self-centered or a selfish nature - the things it would like to do, associations - as to their purposes and the like. Such as this: If the body desires to labor or to employ its mind, WHY? Is it that there is to be RID of something? Or is it to be of a constructive influence? Is it to be a selfish motive?
   Why the environs at present, one may ask?
   As has been indicated, there are ideas and ideals here that naturally, nominally, clash. Yet there is to be give and take from each. There is a responsibility on the part of each. There are opportunities on the part of each.
   Do not attempt (this to the body, [1540]) to hide, conceal or to do things unbeknowing to others, either in thought or in deed. For, this only builds grievances. The sources of that which is the ideal attitude may be taken from the Scripture itself, those especial portions that have been indicated. Know them by heart. Not merely as rote, or something to hide behind or something to profess, but as something to be lived. The ideal, then, becomes the daily rule, the daily activity. This will not bring confusion, but done in the manner indicated will harmonize, rationalize the purposes and the ideals of the body.
9. (Q) Is she capable of going to work? Suggest what kind and where to find it. Is there any kind of work at [... & Co.] that she is capable of handling?
   (A) As we find, this should come a bit later. In a month or six weeks, or when the body-mind has rationalized itself to the purposes of the present environs and surroundings. Six to eight weeks, and then the body may take up the work, and it may be in the same lines or same associations that have been here. But there will be a different attitude with and for same.
10. (Q) What members of the family would I seek help from regarding [1540]?
    (A) As we have indicated, most shall come from the father and their making, bringing about peace one with another.
    Let the body make a list - and this doesn't mean just in mind - but writing them down! Make a list of "What I shall do, what I shall not do." Not from what someone else says! This shall be from the mind of the body itself. And then these may be discussed at times with the father, see? but not in the present. Wait until there has been reduced the number of the desires, the hopes, the fears, until there is set the purpose of the body itself - through a study of Deuteronomy 30th, John 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th.
    All healing - body, mind, soul - must come from Him. All applications - as we have indicated, of a mechanical nature, of a medicinal or of a suggestive nature - are only to stimulate any portion of the body, mind or soul activities to coordinate and collaborate with the spiritual force of the body-soul itself.
11. (Q) Would it be advisable for her to sell her car?
    (A) That might be one question to ask herself. Consider from every phase, and eventually cross out and may be written in again, crossed out again. Eventually the choice should come as to whether it is a benefit or a liability to bring dissentions by the use of same in directions that might bring about questionings, fears or disaster to the body itself.
12. (Q) Would it be advisable for her to build a home at ...?
    (A) In four or five years from now, be very advisable - not in the present.
13. (Q) Suggest something that would make her and Mrs. [...] [[...]'s mother] at ... better friends.
    (A) The change in the attitude or the approach to conditions in LIFE. The change must be in self, not in Mrs. [...] [[...]'s mother].
14. (Q) In regard to the back pay due me and others from ... Grocery Co. referred to in the Rdg. of Sept. 25, 1941 [1467-10], would it be the better way for me to advise [...] to collect this for us through a lawyer, or allow C. A. Rice of the Chamber of Commerce in Washington have the Government make an investigation?
    (A) It is not the Chamber of Commerce but the Interstate Commerce Commission. This should be the channel, to prevent questionings not only to self but others that are interested in the conditions that exist. Approached from this angle, it may require longer but will be the correct manner and not bring turmoils.
15. (Q) Are the Appliances I have in my hands, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 all made correctly and in good condition?
    (A) These as we find are correctly assembled, and should work properly, used as has been suggested for the use of such appliances.
16. (Q) Please give me any spiritual and mental advice that I may need.
    (A) This is not as needs, but rather as a helpful influence to be kept as an ever present experience of the mind and the body.
    Keep close, this:
    "I and the Father may be one, in Jesus the Christ. Through the love He hath shown to me through the Christ, I - in applying those tenets in my daily life with my fellow man - may know the true meaning of Jesus Christ, the Savior of man."
17. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file
    Extract for [1540]

BACKGROUND

1. See 1467-11.

REPORTS

1. 6/07/42 He and his wife had a joint reading on their marriage - See 263-18.
2. 6/24/42 He referred Mr. [2768] for a Physical Rdg.
3. 9/01/42 He referred Mr. [2804] for a Physical Rdg.
4. 9/22/42 See 1467-14.

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