This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 24th day of February, 1940, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [2114], new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mrs. Nancy Lansdale, through Dr. Mary Miller and Miss Florence Campbell.

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

TEXT

1. GC: You will have before you the body and enquiring mind of [2114], born May 18, 1909, in Johannesburg, Africa, who is now at ..., New York City. This entity seeks information, advice and guidance in a Mental and Spiritual Reading, as to the cause of her terrible fear of trains and going out by herself, and what she may do to overcome it.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind; the mental reactions, the spiritual attributes and developments of the entity.
3. In giving mental and spiritual advice or counsel, it is well to consider the entity as a whole. While the entity finds itself made up, as it were, of body, mind and soul, each of these may function in a consciousness without the awareness of the other.
4. Hence we find, in the experience of this entity, there are physical or material, as well as mental and spiritual attributes, that oft attempt to function in their individual sphere of activity through the experiences of the other. Thus the disturbances which arise.
5. For, the effects in the physical consciousness appear as fears, inhibitions, or doubts.
6. Hence we may say that there are pathological and psychological reactions in the body. There are centers in a physical body through which all phases of the entity's being coordinate with one another; as in the physical functioning there are the pulsations, the heart beat, the lungs, the liver, and all the organs of the body. They each have a function to perform. They each are dependent upon the other, yet they function according to those directions of the mental self - or the nervous systems.
7. Yet, while the brain and the cords through which the nerves function are the channels, these are not the mental consciousness; though it is through the nerve plasm that the nervous systems carry impulses to the various forces of the system.
8. There are the spiritual attributes, desire, hope, will, - that function through the organs of reproduction, as well as becoming the import or motivative force in expression even in a material manner through the senses of the body; the eye, the ear, the taste, the feeling.
9. All of these, then, through the lack of coordination, are at times drawn into confusion through those reactions that reflect themselves as inhibitions and fears in the body.
10. This not only causes a great deal of disturbance, but the lack of the ability to concentrate, or to rest at times.
11. These naturally, in their various phases, find centers in some portions of the physical or anatomical system through which greater expression is given than in others.
12. In this instance we find that the glands of the body form the greater portion of such associations or activities. And, as we have indicated heretofore, one of the more sensitive glands to such is the thyroid, and the activities of same in their entirety.
13. Thus we find in this particular body, [2114], some deficiency in the activities there. Hence at periods when, through the association of ideas or conditions or circumstances, the body becomes overexcited and active, there are periods of fear, trembling, and conditions in which the body will find the reactions as to the lack of a circulation at all scarcely to the superficial, or even to the extremities.
14. These, then, need those applications that will not only bring an equal balance to the mental but also a stabilization to the physical body.
15. First, then, know that the mind is the builder, or that phase of consciousness which carries the impulse in the physical self, as well as the reaction of that which the entity as a whole holds as its ideal, and reacts upon same; finding expression through the sensory self, - as in the emotions of the body. Hence, these must be made to coordinate the more properly; so that there may come a spiritual assurance, that may give to the mental consciousness the assurance of safety in itself, through the protective forces which are existent with the attributes of its own inner self.
16. First, then, there is to be considered by the entity that it is to quietly, gently, - not dependent so much upon the expressions of others, but that it is to, within the inner self, - find that upon which it may rely for SPIRITUAL enlightenment, spiritual affiliation and associations.
17. These, for this entity, may not be better expressed than in that as may be found - first - in the thirtieth chapter of Deuteronomy. Read this with the knowledge and realization, as it is assimilated (not merely read but assimilated), that it is self that is being spoken of, as to the sources of consciousness, of awareness, of awakening, of promise.
18. As this is assimilated, then turn to the words of Him - in the 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th chapters of St. John - for He is the truth, the light, and the light of men, - whose assurance and whose promises may be so much a part of self. For He, being the way, being the water of life, - if ye take hold upon the promises there, they will indeed give refreshment to the mind, to the body, and that assurance to the soul of self that He indeed is thy brother!
19. These are the mental and spiritual guidances.
20. Physically, - we would take in the system material things, in this manner:
21. Take one drop of Atomidine in half a glass of water each morning before breakfast, for five days.
22. Leave off for two days.
23. Then take Calcios twice each day for the next five days, for this will supply to the activities of the body that necessary assimilating force (calcium) to strengthen the vital forces which flow through the nerve impulses themselves.
24. After this has been taken five days, then take a combination of Gold and Soda, prepared first in this manner:
25. Add one grain Chloride of Gold to one ounce of Distilled Water. This would be kept as one solution.
26. Add two grains of Bicarbonate of Soda to one ounce of Distilled Water. Keep this as the other solution.
27. Each EVENING, then, for five days, take one drop of the Gold Solution and two drops of the Soda Solution in half a glass of water.
28. Leave off for two days.
29. And then repeat the whole series; beginning with the Atomidine for five days, rest two days, Calcios five days, rest two days, and then the Gold and Soda for five days, rest two days, - and so on.
30. Do these, - not merely REMEMBERING the words of the promises in the Word of those who were given as those who should give hope and trust in the experience of man, but realizing and experiencing these as related to self, - we will find that by the third or fourth series of taking the properties indicated, there will come that awareness of His presence abiding with thee.
31. And His promises are, as to thee, that He will cast out fear. And knowing the truth will make thee free indeed, - in body, in mind, and the soul resting in Him.
32. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file
    (Atomidine is distributed by Schieffelin, Inc., New York. Calcios is distributed by The Colloidal Health Products Corp.
    No doubt Dr. Miller can get the Gold and Soda Solutions prepared for you when you are ready for them; if not we may be able to get them from our local druggist here.)

BACKGROUND

1. 1/23/40 Letter from [2114]: "...Mrs. Nancy Lansdale has kindly allowed me to secure a reading from you [on her membership]... I don't know quite how to explain my trouble... It started almost a year ago; it seems to be nerves, but I have a terrible fear of trains and going out by myself; as my job necessitates train travel to ..., I live each day in constant fear that I shall have to go. When one of these attacks comes on I feel as though I were going to leave my body and the fear is terrible. They come on even when I am going to a familiar place, now, whereas before they only seemed to occur when I went to a new place. ...It is ruining health and my opportunities and I do not seem to be able to fight it. I have tried everything I know. I have forced myself to do things but it doesn't help. Now this feeling comes more frequently and without much apparent cause. I'm afraid I am not being very clear about this thing, but I do ask you please to find out what I can do to cure myself. I cannot stand this panic much longer and feel that I am in for some kind of break-down. Nancy tells me that I can ask questions, but all I want to know is how to stop this fear..."

REPORTS

1. 2/27/40 Letter from [2114]: "...I am most glad to get it [reading] - I am faithfully going to follow the instructions. If hope that this is the answer has anything to do with it, I can assure you that it will be successful. Hope to meet you when you are in New York..."

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