This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 29th day of July, 1943, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [3139], new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research and Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by the book, There Is A River.

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

TEXT

1. GC: You will go over this body carefully, examine it thoroughly, and tell me the conditions you find at the present time; giving the cause of the existing conditions, also suggestions for help and relief of this body; answering the questions.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body here, [3139].
3. As we find, considering the stresses under which this body has manifested for some time, it is in exceptionally very good reactions. True, there are upsets as to the digestive system at times, and the eliminations at times. The sensory organs show the result of their use or activity through the period of years, and the experiences which have been impressed upon the consciousness of the unconscious.
4. These as we find, in the main, in their weakness in the present arise from distresses or fractures and lesions that were formed along the cerebrospinal system many moons ago. The effect of these is indicated in the halting step at times, the quickening in the pulsation, also the upsetting as to regeneration forces within the body itself.
5. These as we find may be materially aided with the use of the simple hydrotherapy treatments or the Swedish massage; though we would use the very definite solutions in the massages for this body. For there are reasons why the body responds to the combination we will indicate. Use then, an equal combination of Peanut Oil and Witchhazel. These do not mix, so shake well together, then massage into the body along the spine and especially the lower extremities. These will make for better conditions of the body.
6. With the better activity then of the physical forces as related to the distribution of that assimilated will aid in the rest of the body, and the body may yet carry on with many years of useful activity - if such activity is directed to the more creative influences that are in the lives of those about the entity or of its own household.
7. These, of course, imply their activity and if those associations are sustained in the active forces of mind and body, with the rubs, we will find much better conditions of the body.
8. Ready for questions.
9. (Q) Would it benefit me physically to avoid foggy or humid climate?
   (A) It would benefit considerably if it were the more uniform climate with somewhat more rarified air than oppressive - or not that of heat.
10. (Q) To avoid eating meat, fish, eggs and condiments?
    (A) No. Add these in the proper relation one to the other in the diet. When fish is taken let it be seafoods for the body. Fowl and lamb may be taken. Other meats should be tabu.
11. (Q) To walk at least a mile a day?
    (A) As we find, this will be overstrenuous for the body in the beginning. It may be extended. Walking is the better exercise for the body.
    Do those things indicated; then be sensible, be consistent and be persistent; and we will find better conditions for this body.
12. We are through with this reading.

    Copy to Self
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BACKGROUND

1. Note: Mr. [3139] was a teacher at a Virginia university for 28 years, but was retired at the time of the reading.
2. 4/20/43 Letter from [3139] to EC: "I am suffering from an attach of shingle which began more than a year ago. I have employed a competent physician but he has not remedy to suggest except to wait for warm, dry weather..."
3. 7/05/43 Questions submitted: "...Would it benefit me physically: - 1. to avoid foggy or humid climate? 2. to avoid eating meat, fish, eggs, and condiments? 3. to walk at least a mile a day? 4. to deny myself all sexual intercourse with my wife? 5. am I still feeling the effects of an injury to my back received over sixty years ago?..."

REPORTS

1. 9/26/43 Letter from [3139]'s wife: "...My husband, [3139], is carrying out the treatment suggested in your reading of July 29, and hoping for greater improvement than is apparent yet. He has faith in your diagnosis..."
2. 3/12/44 Letter from [3139]: "...In response to the suggestion in the February Bulletin, I am glad to report on the results of the physical reading of July 29, 1943, for me.
   "I was able to find locally an excellent masseuse and a supply of peanut oil. For six weeks I took two treatments each week, and gradually found that the soreness of my left side caused by an attack of the shingles, two years earlier, was decreasing a little.
   "My home overlooks a river where morning fogs come with fall temperatures. My soreness soon got much worse and when my ankles became very lame I consulted the physician who attended me during my months in bed with the shingles. He thought the fog was the cause of the increase in soreness. I did not tell him of my treatments for I was sure he would not be in sympathy with Mr. Cayce's methods.
   "As I seemed to be in for a slow recovery, I cut, for financial reasons, my treatments to one a week, but remained as before alternately better and worse.
   "When I had taken massage for six months my supply of peanut oil gave out. No more could be found in this city nor in Boston where a friend made inquiry at a large store: so I substituted soy bean oil. The results have apparently been the same.
   "When I am standing or walking, I have pain, varying in severity, in the area originally inflamed by the shingles, but when I am not standing or walking, the pain generally subsides.
   "My height at eighty years of age is five feet. This is four and a half inches less than at fifty years, but my weight is twelve pounds more than it was ten years ago. Since the attack of the shingles, I have had to lead a sedentary life, occupying most of my daylight hours in reading. However, each day I walk, rather painfully a mile in four different divisions. My increasing weight is unfortunate, for it prevents my wearing a truss to support a hernia that allows a loop of the bowel to drop into the scrotum. This weakness tends to cause constipation which part of the time necessitates a daily enema.
   "For sixty years I have been interested in mental pathology and have been a student of philosophy and religion; so I was ready to accept without qualification the principles set forth in the last chapter of 'There Is A River'. "Although I may be suffering through karma, I am not convinced that the resources of material medicine have been exhausted in my case. In the February 1944 number of Good Housekeeping Magazine appeared an authoritative article on shingles. One of the remedies advocated was X-Ray. This my physician, while I was in bed, did not advise me to try, because he had seen it so many times utterly fail. He also disapproved of a drug suggested by a physician related to my wife because in 1935 I had a slight attack of thrombosis.
   "Let me add that I am following all dietary advice given in my reading and that I am continuing with the massage treatment although with little or no improvement..."
3. 9/27/44 Letter from [3139]'s wife: "...Mr. [3139] died September 26. He was much interested in your work and I am sure his interest continues..."

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