This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 31st day of October, 1942, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [2533], Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mr. [2533], Mrs. [2390] and Mrs. [2175].

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1. GC: You will have before you the life existence in the earth plane of [2533] present in this room, born December 22, 1904, in ..., Virginia. Considering the statement in his reading of September 4, 1942 that the life expectancy in that period extended over hundreds of years, this entity being active for some 177 years, you will examine thoroughly the present development of this body and mind and give a discourse on how this body may be regenerated, giving comprehensive directions as to necessary exercises, diet with effects of different foods combinations, sleep and rest, and such other information as may be helpful in greatly extending the years of activity of this body and mind in the present. You will answer the questions that may be asked.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, [2533], present in this room; together with the information which has been indicated as to the experience of the entity in the earth plane.
3. In giving a discourse upon how this entity may extend the life expectancy, with a body-mind-activity in keeping with the conditions to which the entity may hope to attain, - to be sure each entity, each soul, is in many respects a law unto itself; especially as related to the activities and the diets that would extend or impel life expectancy.
4. Thus, that which might be applicable in the experience of the entity as may be indicated here, should NOT be forced upon, or even considered for others; unless their OWN condition is in that state of being parallel with this individual entity.
5. To be sure, - as indicated in the study by the entity, - those things that have to do with body, mind and activities of a body, are the result in a physical manner from those conditions which existed in the experience of the parents of the entity, as well as in the experience of their parents.
6. For, as is determined, and as is the fact, there ARE circumstances and conditions which arise in the genealogical reactions that extend, as indicated in the law, "unto the third and the fourth generation."
7. These, then, are tendencies, inclinations as may arise in bodies; provided such bodies are not aware of such, or if measures are not taken to correct such weaknesses or tendencies as may be found to be a part of the physical experience of an entity.
8. Also there are those inclinations, those urges, those experiences, that will be a part of the mental and the spiritual entity, from that the entity did in the earthly sojourns as related to the law pertaining to the moral, spiritual and material aspects of an entity's consciousness.
9. But as related to this entity, and how this entity may apply in its own individual experience the truth, the law, the knowledge of interpretations of those activities of a physical-material nature, of dietetics and the like.
10. As we have indicated for the body, there are certain tendencies, certain weaknesses that are present in the body. They are not diseases, - these are rather dis-eases, when certain stresses or strains are brought to bear in the mental, in the spiritual and physical experience of the entity.
11. Urges arise, then, not only from what one eats but from what one thinks; and from what one does about what one thinks and eats! as well as what one digests mentally and spiritually!
12. The weaknesses that exist in this particular body are a projection of those conditions which existed in the great grandfather of the entity, in an experience in the earth; and has to do with those elements bearing upon the hormones of the blood force itself. And in the body, [2533], it exhibits itself as a tendency.
13. To eradicate, to eliminate such from the body, is to be interpreted from that given in the beginning; "Be ye fruitful, multiply, but SUBDUE" the tendencies, the inclinations, "the earth." For, in manifestation in the earth of spiritual and mental forces, it partakes of the earth. And the earth is earthy, as it changes, as it is in constant change.
14. And that which bespeaks of longevity in a body bespeaks of each cell, each atomic structure, each of the corpuscles being able to reproduce itself WITHOUT those tendencies or inclinations of racial or environmental conditions, but as one purified or cleansed for that continuity of experience within itself.
15. Knowing these tendencies, these weaknesses, does not then indicate that there are those bugaboos continually before the entity. For, these are left behind when ye do that ye know to do, and leave undone those things ye must or else pay the price of neglect, over-indulgence, gratification for the moment that there may be the satisfying of an appetite or tendency as may exist in the body!
16. Here we find the necessity for care, for exercise, for constant checking up on the bodily activities; not daily, necessarily, - but we remember that the body-physical alters in its expression continually, and by the end of a cycle of seven years it has entirely replaced that which existed at the beginning of the period seven years ago. Replaced with what? The same old tendencies multiplied, the same old inclinations doubled - or eradicated?
17. This depends, then, upon those activities as related to the influences or tendencies which exist. For, as may be told by any pathologist, there is no known reason why any individual entity should not live as long as it desires. And there is no death, save in thy consciousness. Because all others have died, ye expect to - and you do! These are a part of thy consciousness, in what? In the mental, in the spiritual, - and the physical reacts to same. [See 2533-6, Par. R3 in re "The Bantu Die at Will", etc.]
18. This is the condition that exists, then, with this body; a weakness, a tendency, - not a disease but a dis-ease, - in the hormones of the blood plasm; that tends - with cold, congestion, overacidity, or the improper balance of foods for the plasm's reproduction - to cause in sinew, in bone, a plastic or static condition.
19. As far as the blood count is concerned, in numbers, in protoplasm cells, or red blood, white blood and the leucocyte, we would find few bodies better balanced than this individual entity.
20. As to the plasms in the nerve reflexes from brain, and the coordination of the gray and white matter, - only at times do we find these show a variation.
21. Frustration will at times cause, to this body, a reaction that becomes rather aggravating to the body afterwards. At the moment it is too much disturbed to even know the cause of same, but it blesses itself out, or someone else, after same is passed!
22. This is a reflex from the hormone supply, the inability to supply in the brain circulation sufficient of the quick activity to the impulses there, under stress.
23. These are merely tendencies in the body.
24. As to spiritual tendencies and inclinations, - these may not be given. For, these are choices of the soul itself.
25. The tendencies as to the ideal are well. As to whether ye keep same, this ye determine in thine own mind. But ideals are not your mind, - ideals are principles acted upon BY the mind. But remember, just as that expectancy - because your great, great, great, great grandfather died you will die too - is there, and is part of the expectancy of every cell of your body! It can be eradicated, yes. How? By that constant activity within self of expectancy that this condition does not HAVE to happen to you!
26. That is as the spirit. And as the spirit builds, as the spirit forms in its activity in mind, the mind becomes then the builder. The mind is not the spirit, it is a companion to the spirit; it builds a pattern. And this is the beginning of how self may raise that expectancy of its period of activity in the earth. And this is the beginning of thy ideal. Of what? Of that the soul should, does, will, can, must, accomplish in this experience!
27. And by what authority? WHO, WHAT do you put in authority in thy earthly experience? In spirit, then in mind?
28. As to the manner of eradicating these fluctuations, these confusions, - do not confuse these with that as of a "front," as of a defense. But merely to know that you are right, to know in activity that you are right, has paved the way for self to control ANY situation that may arise, - whether of a mental confusion or of a combination of confusions from the mental and spiritual situations.
29. Hence again the mental rests upon its conception and choice of its ideal in spirit, and as to Who and What is the authority in same.
30. As to the physical conditions, that are a part of the pathological effects in the body:
31. At certain periods have those tests as to acidity, albumin, the balance in chyle activity through the body, as to glandular reactions; and these give then the positive or negative flexes in the body.
32. Knowing the tendencies, supply in the vital energies that ye call the vitamins, or elements. For, remember, while we give many combinations, there are only four elements in your body, - water, salt, soda and iodine. These are the basic elements, they make all the rest! Each vitamin as a component part of an element is simply a combination of these other influences, given a name mostly for confusion to individuals, by those who would tell you what to do for a price!
33. In those activities, then, add - in the proper balance - that which will maintain this equilibrium. And if you set your life to be a hundred and twenty, you can live to be a hundred and twenty-one!
34. Ready for questions.
35. (Q) Give simple method of reducing the blood pressure of this body to normal.
    (A) It is near to normal now. The simple method is to keep away from fats, and this will keep it near to normal.
    Walk in the open early of mornings. This brings better activity of oxygen and ozone as to keep the balance in the blood flow through lungs, heart, liver, kidneys. These are the sources from which either the pressure or repression causes disturbance.
36. (Q) How may my eyes be strengthened so as to eliminate the necessity of reading glasses?
    (A) By the head and neck exercise in the open, as ye walk for twenty to thirty minutes each morning. Now, do not undertake it one morning and then say "It rained and I couldn't get out," or "I've got to go somewhere else," and think there aren't these despot conditions that rebel at not having their morning walk!
37. (Q) How may I promote the growth of new hair on my head?
    (A) Eat more shell fish; and rub same with a few coffee grounds occasionally.
38. (Q) Is the moderate use of alcohol and tobacco harmful to this body?
    (A) The body must answer that within itself. To be sure, if we would give from the ideal, - these are made to extract from you the satisfying of appetites. The body CAN produce all the alcohol necessary, as well as the nicotine. Both are needed in the body. If you get it in the mind and spirit that it may be supplied, or can be supplied from other sources, to satisfy social or other relationships, then the body pays the price! Your ideal is not altogether one, is it?
39. (Q) In going over this body do you find any other disturbances not corrected?
    (A) We find that as just indicated, - that in the physical, that in the mental and that in the spiritual, as given.
40. We are through for the present.

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REPORTS

1. 5/29/43 He obtained a Mental-Spiritual Reading, joint questioning by self and wife, [2390], as to their individual ideals and working together for a successful marriage.
2. See 2533-6, Par. 17 in re individual being able to live as long as he desires, etc.
3. This extract [See 2533-6, Par. 17] and the following clippings were used in the A.R.E. Journal, WORLD NEWS SPOTLIGHT, Spring 1968:
   Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 11/23/61
   THE BANTU DIE AT WILL, AFRICAN DOCTOR REPORTS
   Heart Disease Virtually Non-Existent, But Witchcraft Beliefs Apparently Kill
   DETROIT, Nov. 22 (AP) - "I've seen a woman point at a man and say, 'You'll die before sunset,' and he went home and died," a physician from South Africa said yesterday.
   After investigating scores of sudden deaths among the Bantu in South Africa, Dr. R. J. W. Burrell said, he is convinced that the results of belief in witchcraft are real.
   Dr. Burrell, who is with the Bantu cancer registry, Cape Province, South Africa, addressed a symposium on the causes of heart attacks at Henry Ford hospital.
   Heart disease is virtually non-existent among the Bantu because of their diet, which is almost wholly carbohydrates, the physician reported.
   "But I have seen sudden, inexplicable, wishful death, for which an autopsy showed no cause, and chemists could find no evidence of poison," he added.
   "They (the Bantu) die at will," Dr. Burrell stated. "They just lie down in their huts, perfectly well, and don't wake up again."
4. DAILY TIMES-ADVOCATE MONDAY ESCONDIDO, CALIFORNIA NOV. 6, 1967
   DEATH SIGNAL STUDIED
   SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) - A pill to stop death may become reality if researchers seeking the answer to an ages-old dream can develop a medicine that will halt the brain's fatal signal to the heart.
   The fatal signal can be triggered even though the heart, brain and lungs are not damaged. Dr. Stewart Wolf of the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine explained Sunday.
   The key is a tiny nerve called the vagus nerve which connects the brain and the heart, described by Wolf as a device for dying.
   "The mechanism is like a cocked gun that can be set off by reflex or instruction from above," he told about 2,100 general practitioners at the opening session of the California Academy of General Practice's annual assembly.
   Wolf said that the brain's operation of this nerve is the cause of most so-called natural deaths.
   But in 30 per cent of heart attack deaths, Wolf said, the heart is not damaged sufficiently to cause death.
   "Sudden death in heart attacks is not so much a matter of the heart failing as it is in the heart being turned off," he said.
   "Therefore, if an easily taken drug can be developed to block the brain from signaling the heart that it is time to die, a remarkably lower death rate from heart attacks would result," Wolf said.
   Research has proved that people unconsciously decide they are better off dead, triggering the brain's fatal signal, Wolf said.
   "This is usually described as a heart attack, although autopsies reveal no organic damage to the heart," said Wolf, who is head of Oklahoma's Department of Medicine and consultant professor of neurology and psychiatry.
   Other speakers during the Academy's four-day meeting include Dr. Michael E. De Bakey of Houston, pioneer heart surgeon; Dr. C. Henry Kempe of Denver; and Dr. Philip Thorek, Chicago surgeon.

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