This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 23rd day of August, 1943, in accordance with request made by the self - Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. (Notes read to and transcribed by Jeanette Fitch.) Mrs. [2376], Mrs. [263], Millicent Horton, Mary Ann Woodard and Ruth Buckwalter.

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1. GC: You will have before you the life existence in the earth plane of [2376] born January 29, 1917, in Norfolk, Va., and the earthly existence of this entity in the name Dove, as a native on the islands off the coast of Carolina. 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 that may be asked:
2. EC: Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as [2376].
3. In giving the biographical sketch of the life of the entity during that sojourn in Carolina, it would be well to review much of the happenings or the history of that period; so that there may be the full interpretation of the entity's activities, as to how those associations and relations may influence the experiences of the entity in the present.
4. As indicated, the entity was a native - or an Indian; the daughter of a brave, close in friendship to those tribes that lived in various portions of the land as they journeyed from Georgia to the central portions of Virginia - as now known.
5. Peace had been established between the leaders, or braves, or chieftans, in the Virginias and Kentucky, the Carolinas and Georgia; when there were the first settlings of whites in what is now called Roanoke Island.
6. This settlement, which is a matter of record with some, was left there without being aided by the return of those period on time, due to conditions they were not able to meet - or storms, and raiders also.
7. The entity had become acquainted with those people on the Island by or through individuals who had been hunting on the mainland, as well as fishing in the adjacent waters. There had been regular communications and then the entity met the sojourner or traveler Bainbridge. [[294] - now Edgar Cayce] In these associations Bainbridge traveled with the tribesmen to the extreme portions of the camps; those in Georgia, near what is now Lookout Mountain, as well as the eastern portion of Alabama, or in those camps there is where eventually trades were made for all of Georgia and Tennessee, but the trades of the Indians with the whites (This another story). [GD's note: I think EC here meant he was digressing from [2376]'s story and should get back to it. The "other story" can be constructed by reading all the Life Rdgs. of people who had early American incarnations.]
8. This is intended to indicate the associations of the entity with Bainbridge in the traveling far from home, and to the varied lands. Yet the entity was returned to its own peoples and own tribes just about the period when it was the breaking up of the colony on the island, when there were the attempts for the people to care for themselves through mingling with the Indians. And this brought about a division of the people.
9. The entity then, Dove, was the companion or the wife of the entity who is the present husband. And the application of those experiences through that sojourn may be used in the present as a helpful influence.
10. While there will come those periods when there is the longing for changes, for new environs, for activity, we find that the home building and acting in the capacity of being a strengthening influence to its associations, friends and companions close in the home, will bring the entity the greater outlet for its abilities that arise from those experiences.
11. There is the ability to use whatever is at hand. There are the abilities to use nature's storehouse; the intuitive influences of the body; the abilities to maintain friendships of various characters of groups or individuals.
12. There are the abilities to make a home, which in itself, is that nearest akin to the hopes of the future or of heaven.
13. For, these activities are the counterpart, the growth, the unfoldment, the awakening of the associations, of the offspring, of the companion, of the friends, to the spiritual and material application in the light of creative forces. These become, then, those influences that may be for the greater unfoldment of the entity.
14. As to the happenings in the various groups broken up, - these mingled or intermingled with the various tribes. For, as indicated, these were not composed of merely the one tribe. Some went to Alabama, some to the northern or central portions of Virginia, some became the companions of those in northern Georgia. Some remained among those that eventually moved back to the western portions of Carolina, the entity journeyed with those people that settled in a part of Georgia. There the entity with its companion made a home. There those activities and influences were brought about that builded for creative and constructive forces in the experiences of the peoples of that period.
15. The entity lived to be 56 years of age. Five children were born to the entity. These became active in those relationships that were both helpful and destructive in the period of the settlement much later in the land.
16. Ready for questions.
17. (Q) Explain about my wandering far from home.
    (A) As just indicated, the entity journeyed with Bainbridge to the various camps of the friendly tribes; as in Georgia, Albama, Virginia, and back again to the settlement where there was the home camp of the entity, before there were the associations with its companion from the settlement on the island as husband and wife.
18. (Q) What was my relationship to Bainbrige?
    (A) The companion.
19. (Q) In what ways did I gain?
    (A) In the abilities of the entity to keep those relationships in the home, to build same throughout the experiences.
20. (Q) What was my relationship to my daughter [2942]?
    (A) Rather a friend at long distance, if such may be called friend.
21. (Q) In what way will the associations of that experience bring help and great contributions in this experience?
    (A) In the ways in which the entity may use those urges arising from those experiences in maintaining and in keeping the home and its environ.
22. (Q) What 'questioning' is referred to in relationship to present associations?
    (A) The longing at times for change, which is the characteristic of one born in the heritage of the Red man.
23. (Q) What became of the people in North Carolina who composed the Lost Colony?
    (A) They were distributed among those of the three varied centers or groups. The greater portion, with which this entity was associated, went to Georgia.
24. (Q) To what particular section did they go and with what tribes did they mix?
    (A) As just given.
25. We are through for the present.

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BACKGROUND

1. See 2376-4.

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