This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 26th day of October, 1943, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [2946], Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research and Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. (Notes read to and transcribed by Jeanette Fitch.) Mrs. [2946].

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1. GC: You will give the physical condition of this body at the present time, with suggestions for further corrective measures; answering the questions as I ask them:
2. EC: Yes, we have the body here; this we have had before.
3. As we find, in many ways there is quite an improvement in general and specific forces through the body.
4. However, with the dissipation of those tendencies for segregation of lymph, or the breaking up of the tendencies to form cysts in the body, we find that these dissipations have not been eliminated by an increased flow of energies through the blood stream.
5. There are deficiencies, then, in the elements that supply energy for body. Thus the activities of the body, mental and physical, exceed the abilities for the restoration of energies or the storing of energies through the body. Thus the pressures in many portions, especially in the limbs, the torso, through the hips, through the areas around the liver and gall duct, and through the shoulders, neck and head.
6. Hence we would supply these energies in a compound carrying many of the elements lacking - Kaldak. Phosophorous, which is very much lacking, will be added in a manner that will aid. Take half a teaspoonful twice each day, stirred in a small quantity of very hot water and then filling the glass with milk and cream. This also will supply niacin and iron, and the rest of the B complex, as well as something of the D needed for structural portions, and keep down colds with the A that is supplied.
7. Do that.
8. Then don't overtax the self.
9. Do occasionally have the stimulations that follow relaxation of the taut centers where the cerebrospinal and sympathetic nerve systems coordinate the greater - through the patches of lymph along the spine. These will be found, for this particular body, in the areas from the 3rd and 4th lumbar, 9th dorsal, 1st, 2nd and 3rd cervical, and around the head.
10. Do that.
11. Ready for questions.
12. (Q) Would you indicate changes in diet which would help to eliminate constant ache in back and knees?
    (A) As indicated, those come from these conditions. The change may be had more in the addition of the properties to be taken in Kaldak; not so much as medicine but as a stimuli for correcting. Then keep the regular diet.
13. (Q) Is the present osteopathic treatment correcting the trouble at the dorsal centers?
    (A) It's very good - very well done.
14. (Q) Is the attempted posture correction right?
    (A) Yes - this will lead to the correction.
15. (Q) Could you suggest a kind or make of shoe which would help to correct difficulty through the lumbar area?
    (A) The correcting in the foot will be much better than trying to correct the condition by a type of shoe; though the Locke shoe would be well for the body to wear - as it would be for most others, in that respect.
16. (Q) Sometimes in meditation the body becomes free of pain and the spine seems to adjust itself. Other times "nothing happens" - body seems cut off from spirit. Where is the fault?
    (A) Haven't we just given that all of the connections are to be established between the physical consciousness and the spiritual? The connections between spirit, mind and body are through the emunctory and the lymph flow in the body-force itself. It is at these places where there are physical hindrances that prevent a unified or coordinant activity when there is the attuning of the body. Of course, by sinking deeper into meditation there might be aroused for the body, through the Leydig center, that which might flow out through the body - but we wouldn't advise it until corrections are made. Don't have the deeper meditation, for it is as using spiritual forces in the wrong directions.
17. (Q) Could you suggest any treatment to clear the right antrum and strengthen the right eye?
    (A) The applications of the things suggested here should attune or tone the body to better resistances throughout. Long series of osteopathic adjustments, if particularly made as indicated (3rd cervical, 3rd and 4th lumbar, 9th dorsal), would correct much of these by allowing better drainages from the antrum and from the supply of nerve energies to the organs of the sensory system - or for the eyes and nasal passages.
    For, as indicated here, the sensory forces are the connections between mind, spirit and body. These are perceiving - not merely vision but feeling, hearing, speaking, all of these responses as by feeling. One becomes attuned to the vibrations even of a room, a place, and other conditions about an environ, through the same tendencies of being or having such attuned to the infinite or to those things that may be very material.
    So with the correction of the conditions here with this body. Then the natural spirituality - now, spirituality - of course - and spirit are quite different. One is being used and the other is just a fact. Applying same in self, though, brings harmonious reactions.
18. (Q) What inherited tendencies or personal habits retard the proper functioning of this body?
    (A) None! It's the will of the body, you see, that you change. No impression exceeds the ability of the will to direct.
19. We are through for the present.

    Two copies to Self (one for the osteopath)
    Copy to Ass'n file
    (KalDak is distributed by The Lanworth Company, Lansing, Michigan, at $2.50 a package.)

BACKGROUND

1. See 2946-1.

REPORTS

1. 1/17/44 [2946]'s letter:
   Our doctor is trying to get me to a hospital for an operation. Right now we are sort of arguing from day to day. Most of last night I was ready to go but feel better again today. Before I actually crawl up on the operating table I will holler to you. Not that I expect you to really have time for a physical check but I certainly wouldn't look a knife in the face without at least trying. I wondered this morning if there were anyone who would swap me an immediate date for one of my May dates - but I know without asking that there isn't. I'm enclosing a sheet of questions which I wish Gladys would put in the files under [2946], DIMWIT. Then if I have to wire, the questions will be there. But I believe so strongly that a person ought to be able to meet this physical disabilities with spiritual resources. I've been rereading, this morning, some of the notes I took when with you last time. Over and over you say that God has promised to meet us within our own bodies. I know He does, too, but He must be landlord in absentia with me right now.
   1. Is surgery indicated? If so, should the left ovary be removed or a complete hysterectomy performed?
   2. Would hormones administered by hypodermic be effective? Is the body still short on female hormones?
   3. Is sufficient beet juice being taken? Would you suggest any further addition of vitamines to the diet?
   4. Is the difficulty in the left ear part of a circulatory disturbance or an infection of the ear?
   5. Is the skipping of heartbeats a circulatory disturbance or a reflex of indigestion?
   6. What causes the extreme tenderness of the breasts? Is any treatment indicated?
   7. Could osteopathy get to the cause of the present disturbance? If so, how often should treatment be taken?
2. 1/19/44 [2946]'s wire to EC:
   WESTERN UNION
   FH5 NL=TDSN ..., ILL JAN 19 EDGAR CAYCEY=V=
   FEELING MUCH BETTER NEVER MIND ABOUT QUESTIONS IN LETTER= [2946]
3. 2/10/44 [2946]'S wire to EC: FH2 NL=TDSN ..., ILL FEB 10 EDGAR CAYCE= ARTIC CIRCLE V=
   IF YOU HAVE TIME FOR CHECK READING I WILL SURELY BE GLAD PLEASE USE QUESTION FORMERLY SENT PARTICULARLY QUESTION FIVE BUT OMITTING SIX=
4. 2/13/44 [2946]'s letter:
   Speaking of trouble, I have some. Makes me mad, too, because I think one ought to be able to manage health from a spiritual basis. Sometimes I feel sure that my physical difficulties are entirely spiritual in origin. Then again, I can't get to the root of them and your last check-reading comes to my mind - in which you told me not to use spiritual means as a substitute for physical help (or words to that effect) and to take Kaldak as well as meditation! Ever since Christmas I've been no-end annoyed by having my heart skip beats all over town. I'm sure it is some fancy kind of nervous indigestion and I know no one dies of the skips. But I have some speaking dates coming up and I can't go forth in this state. Mind-over-matter is a good motto but I have more matter than mind, I guess. If you ever see a reasonable place to put in a short check reading, I will be more grateful than I can say. Either I ought to be put in a feeble-minded institution, or get onto my feet. Last night I thought if morning ever came, I'd write to you the moment the sun came over the tree tops.
   1. Is the skipping of heartbeats a circulatory disturbance or a reflex of indigestion? What procedure do you suggest for cure?
   2. Are the occasional paralyzing pains immediately under and to the left of the breast bone indicative of heart difficulty or also a digestive reflex?
   3. Is the fluttering in the left ear a circulatory trouble and how could it be treated?
   4. Is surgery indicated to correct the menstrual difficulty? Would the hypodermic administration of hormones be a help and if so, in what dosage?
   5. If beet juice is indicated, how much and how often? What about the use of the low voltage violet ray bulb?
   6. Has the body made up its calcium and phospherous deficiency? Are the proper vitamines being taken?
   7. Believing thoroughly that the body is indeed the temple of God, how could I keep it more evenly in tune with his spirit? 8. Do you have any basic suggestions of routine care which would help the body to stay in good shape through the years ahead?
   9. For this body, is it a good thing to eat the high proteins with vegetables of low carbohydrate value and not mix citrus fruits with starches?
   But long before this, I bet Mr. Cayce will be awake!
5. 2/14/44 Rdg. attempted 3:45 p.m., [5070] present.
   "We don't get the vibration." [...] said ... College. "We don't find the body here." Try ... House. "We find Illinois, we find ... College, but we don't find [2946]!"
6. 2/15/44 See 2946-5.
7. 2/15/44 [2946]'s letter to son and daughter-in-law:
   Dear [5070] and [3188]
   It was surely nice to hear your voice today, [5070], and to know [3188] is better. I surely appreciate your going to all that trouble. It was a relief to know the reading had been taken as well as what it said.
   Of course I believe that illness is a confession of failure. An operation should not be necessary. I don't even think it is necessary if I could get out of the Light and let it in. All our mix-ups, physical and mental, are sins some place. The important thing is not to get out of pain or to get rid of the illness but to get rid of the cause. Tomorrow night I plan to go in to Chicago with your Dad and I'll go over to the University of Chicago clinic and have the once-over. The Savanna doctor - Dr. Hussy - was here today to see some girls and I had to see him about an infected eye. Talked with him a bit about my skippy heart etc. and he thought the trouble could probably be regulated with hypos of hormones. No doubt they would help. What I'd like to do is to work on my own soul the next few days and see whether it is possible to make the improvement from that end. If the hospital thought we should wait a week or so for the operation, I wonder if Mr. Cayce would check again at the end of that time and see whether I've made sufficient progress. I think the Information would be the first to say it is possible - and the first to report progress. Evidently there is no great rush although I won't put off the operation very long.
   Do you want to help me? Imagine being able to turn to some of one's own family! It really moves me to tears. Never happened to me before. Of course we ought to be able to come to one another's assistance and make the grade at a time like this. The thing to pray for is not eradication of pain, I'm sure, but actual revelation of the underlying sin. Forgiveness brings the healing.
   I will have to use some will power, too, not to be involved in "things". Duties seem very many here as long as one can be and going at all. We had several faculty members in for lunch today with Dr. Young - who has now gone on. Had a faculty dinner last night at the hotel. A tea in West Hall again this afternoon.
   It's an adventure - and exciting - to have something like a definitely planned operation to work on, isn't it. I bet that prayer group there would help, too. Maybe Mr. Cayce won't see the point in another check reading but I think he will. In fact, he would probably be the best prayer of all of us. If I could see the financial end of an operation I might just take it as the easiest way out of pain. But it always seems as if our sins boomerang back on someone else who has to help pay the bill. Well, I'll let you know what turns up in Chicago - and I'll be waiting to see the reading and hear from you.
   If you ever have to phone again I'd be grateful if you'd pay for it at your end and let me send the money to you. Your Dad was flabbergasted at the call today and he will die when he finds out about yesterdays.
   Thanks a heap and much love. Mom

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