5/15/53 Miss [
3053] wrote a "religion term paper" about Edgar
Cayce from which she sent us these extracts:
"The events leading up to my reading are very pertinent, so I
shall tell them now.
My Father has been in the Navy for 30 years this past October
and as a result my family and I have lived in many parts of
the U.S. It was when I was 3 years old, having just moved to
San Diego, Calif., that I had my first 'asthma attack'.
Perhaps I would not have been afflicted with this ailment at
such an early age if we had not gone to San Diego, but we did
and the climate there must have had something to do with it,
plus other factors which I will mention later.
We were living very near a doctor who happened to be an
osteopath too. The Doctor gave me a hypodermic injection of
some sort, which temporarily relieved my condition. He also
gave me some osteopathic treatments to relax me, since the
type of Asthma I had was of such severity that I could barely
breath at all, and my muscles were very tense trying to get
what air I could into my lungs. These details were told me
by my parents, since I couldn't remember all the facts, being
so young at the time.
From that time on the attacks kept getting worse and more
frequent. Every time I would have an attack I would get an
injection to try to relieve it, which it did, temporarily,
but the effects from the shots, which were usually
adrenaline, or something similar, were causing me to shake
for quite some time after the shot would be given, and to be
very restless and not be able to lie still, etc. The attacks
might vary according to the locality we might be living in at
the time, but they continued. They usually would come if I
would exert myself and get over-heated. All this time we
were trying to discover some cure. I had so many 'allergy
tests' that at one time I had both arms covered with
adhesive and gauze strips to protect the tests made that one
day. I had experimental diets including a milk test that I
was on for a week and a half, eating only milk and milk
products. (I was the best on this diet.) As a result of
those diet tests I cut out citrus fruits and chocolate and
a few other specific foods. We then moved to ..., Conn. and
I was taking a series of shots as many as three or four times
a week. They tried to grow a culture of my mucous to
immunize me against myself. A specific number of cc of blood
was taken out of my arm and injected in my back for the same
reason. Still my attacks continued, a little longer each
time.
It was at the point where I would stay up so long trying to
breathe, that I would fall asleep sitting up (since I
couldn't breathe lying down) and I would turn night into day,
from my efforts to move as little as possible. It got to the
point where it felt like there was a tight band around my
chest, and it was just as much a problem to get the air out
of my lungs as it was to get it in. These attacks were
usually accompanied by a cold and when ever I had a cold, I
was certain to have asthma with it, though I did have some
attacks without a cold.
During our stay in ..., Mother met a woman whose 4 year old
son [
2542] had the same sort of ailment I had, with the same
accompanying difficulties.
She told mother of a man in Va. Beach who gave readings that
told what was causing the ailment and told what to do about
them. At the time Mother was skeptical.
In Jan. of 1943, we moved to ..., Va., where the attacks got
even worse (if that were possible). It was the previous Aug.
that Mrs. [
2454] had told mother of Mr. Cayce's work. I was
still taking the series of shots to try to overcome the
allergies they thought were causing the attacks, but the
asthmatic condition kept on. Mrs. [
2454] urged mother to
just try what Mr. Cayce might say, and finally as a last
measure of hope, as so many people have done, she made an
appointment for a reading.
Mother and I went to Va. Beach and I met Mr. C. for the first
time. ...Mother had been out to the A.R.E. only once or
twice before and the only mention of me was that I was to
have a reading and that I had Asthma...
...Mother and I waited for the reading to be typed so we
could take a copy of it with us. When we got home I began
following the instructions and though I had a cold the
following week, I didn't have an asthma attack. I took the
osteopathic treatments, and stopped having the shots...
Being a child, and getting disappointed because I couldn't
eat certain things, I would break my diet,... When we told
the osteopath that the readings said the corrections were not
being made properly he admitted that he had been trying to
trip the readings up...
Perhaps you are wondering what this has to do with my belief
in reincarnation. It was from the Physical Reading that we
came to know of the life readings..." [See
3053-3 Reports.]
