This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 3rd day of June, 1941, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [2175], Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [2175] and Mae Gimbert Verhoeven.

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1. GC: You will have before you the life existence in the earth plane of [2175], born October 23, 1911, in Danville, Virginia, and the earthly existence of this entity as Sarah Grossman, in Jamestown and Williamsburg during the early settlings. You will give a biographical life of the entity in that day and plane of earthly existence, from entrance - and how -into the earth's plane, and the entity's departure, giving the development or retarding points in such an existence. You will answer the questions she has submitted, as I ask them, concerning her present associations and problems arising from that period.
2. EC: Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called [2175] - Sarah Grossman.
3. In giving the biographical sketch, those conditions which surrounded the early settlings - when Williamsburg was being established or built, - that portion of the history of same should be studied and analyzed; that the problems of the entity through that experience might be better understood.
4. The entity was born in that now called Jamestown, during those periods when there was the distributing or the dispersing of landholders or owners about that portion of the land.
5. The entity grew up under those environs as may be seen from the study of those happenings in the early settlings in the land.
6. Then, the entity was born in 1622, in that camp or fort.
7. During the early periods the entity was very much associated with the activities that brought about the better affiliations with the Natives of the land.
8. Is it a wonder, then, that the entity has at times been called "the little Indian"?
9. In the experience the entity gained, the entity lost, through those activities in which there were the disputations owing to the disturbance in the home of the entity; by those happenings that brought about the changes in the environs.
10. Thus the entity took up its abode, or its activities, in Williamsburg - when it had grown to young womanhood; and became as those who made some disturbing conditions among some of its families.
11. Yet the associations with a closer companion, or closer association with one of its own household in the present, eventually brought about those activities and associations which brought a helpful influence in the entity's experiences, as well as happenings that made the changes which brought the establishings of the place as a cultural center.
12. Then the entity became active in those directions that brought about the developments; and it would be well in the present for the entity to search out the roster of that school established there.
13. For, it will be found that the entity was associated in those early activities there. In the home building the latter portion of the entity's experience brought about those activities for the entity.
14. Then, the entity lived to see those of its second generation in the activities pertaining to the developing of the land into a nation.
15. As to the activities of the entity in the present from same - many associations, - many an urge, many urges latent in the mental as well as in the material, arise from same.
16. Ready for questions.
17. (Q) What were the conditions in that sojourn which bring about the present inability for [2301], my husband, and I to understand each other; [2301] then being my father, Monroe Grossman?
    (A) As just indicated, there was the breaking up of the home. And the misunderstandings that arose make for that urge of the inability almost to do without one another, yet almost the inability to "get along" with one another!
18. (Q) What were the relations then that bring the present questionings in our minds regarding sex, as indicated in his life reading?
    (A) There were many questionings in that experience as to the relation of the entity with others; and these became a part of the material experience of the father in that sojourn.
19. (Q) Are these questionings in regard to our own sex relationship, or in regard to others?
    (A) Of course, they become partially both. More, of course, with that influence arising that has much to do with both in thought, - little in material.
20. (Q) In meeting the problems in my relationships, my life reading indicated I should depict the happenings in the lives of others. Please explain just how this should be done, - by writing the actual stories of such happenings, or by conversation, or just how?
    (A) As was indicated heretofore, it is best that there be the attempt to write such, or the actuality of writing such; whether they are to be published or only to make for the analysis of same so as to give the outlet for the entity's urges in relationships. Then in the analysis of same there may come the understanding of the better manner in which they may be applied in the own experience. Write them, then.
21. (Q) How was I associated with [3569] Sr. during that period?
    (A) One with whom the entity had the "affair".
22. (Q) What should be my attitude to hold toward him in the present?
    (A) Loving indifference.
23. (Q) How was I associated with [...], his wife?
    (A) A companion in many questionable experiences.
24. (Q) How may I bring about a reconciliation of the friendship which formerly existed between my husband, [2301] and [3569] Sr., and between myself and [...] [[3569] Sr.'s wife]?
    (A) Let it be rather as an outcome of naturalness of living and of experience, than in any attempt to bring about circumstances or conditions. For each would question the activity of the other.
25. (Q) Considering this as an example of present problems in relationships to be met through depicting this happening for others, please explain just how I should go about to do this?
    (A) As just indicated. Write this, just as also any circumstance in which there is a similar problem, or one akin to this in thy acquaintanceships.
    Then, do not dwell upon such merely as conversation, for this would tend to arouse emotions that would necessarily become such as to attempt to find outlets. BUT, if there is the attempt to put these on paper, and the analyzing as to what is necessary to bring about correct situations, it may be seen how to meet the problems in thine own experience - if the standard of bringing about situations in the writing is followed according to correct daily living.
26. (Q) What were the activities then in which I fell, and from which Duane Worrell, now my daughter [2308], picked me up?
    (A) The questionable relationships with others. And in her own household did Duane make for the regeneration of the entity through that experience; by bringing the entity into her OWN home, into her OWN activities, into her OWN relationships, see?
27. (Q) How was I associated with Helda Armmond, now my daughter, [1566]?
    (A) An acquaintance; and some jealousy arose because of activities in the middle or latter portion of the entity's sojourn in that experience. But these became very close in their activity later.
28. (Q) How was she associated with Monroe Grossman, then my father, now her father [2301]?
    (A) A friend; and at times more than a friend.
29. (Q) Why in the present do I have such great sympathy for unmarried mothers?
    (A) Consider the condition we have just given! You were almost one yourself, if you hadn't been picked up!
30. (Q) Especially in regard to associations between [2301] and [3569] Sr. and [3569] Sr.'s wife and myself, please give me an affirmation that will help bring about harmonious relations.
    (A) FATHER, GOD! IN THY LOVE, IN THY MERCY, SHOW ME THE WAY! FOR I WOULD KEEP THE FAITH WITH THOSE; THAT DUTY AND LOVE AND HARMONY MAY REIGN; THAT WE, THY CHILDREN, MAY KNOW THEE IN THAT WAY AND MANNER AS TO BE CHANNELS OF BLESSINGS TO ONE ANOTHER AND TO THEE.
31. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. 4/23/40 She obtained a Life Rdg. 2175-1, and on 2/10/41 a Physical Rdg. 2175-2.
2. 6/03/41 She was present, submitting questions.

REPORTS

1. 6/28/41 She obtained a Check Physical Reading - See 2175-4.
2. 8/26/41 EC consciously read her aura at an open meeting of his Tuesday Night Bible Group - See under 5746-1, Reports.
3. 12/05/41 See her joint reading with her husband, under 2301-2, regarding home and marriage affairs, training of their children, her own studies and writing, etc.
4. 9/20/42 She obtained her Aura Chart Reading - See 2175-5.
5. 11/20/43 See friend's reading, 2390-9, regarding their early American incarnation associations.
6. 11/20/43 See daughter's reading, 2308-4, in re mother and daughter praying for healing.
7. 11/45 A.R.E. Bulletin article, by Gina Cerminara, entitled CANDID CAMERA OF THE COSMOS, carried this item resulting from a discussion of her Life Reading with Mrs. [2175]:
   Two people found marriage increasingly difficult because of the husband's marked tendency to dominate. It was learned through a life reading that in a previous life they had been associated as father and wayward daughter in Fort Dearborn* (now Chicago), where a pattern of dominance and resentment had been set up. The situation had not been met in love and understanding; hence the two were brought together once again in order to dissolve the debts contracted and to redeem the flaws of character that made their friction possible. With this new understanding both husband and wife were able to regard themselves with detachment and a sense of humor; problems which previously loomed large were now seen as opportunities upon which to exercise their spiritual muscle. The marriage has become harmonious, with both partners seeking to cooperate in building soul-qualities, rather than to compete for ego satisfactions. (Case No. 2301-1 and 2175-1.)
   * [GD's note: The use of another area than Williamsburg, Va. in her article was perhaps deliberate on Gina's part, to prevent pinpointing the identity.]

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