This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 22nd day of January, 1944, in accordance with the request made by the self - Mr. [3384], Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research and Enlightenment, Inc., through mother - Mrs. [5009].

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

TEXT

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. There are helpful conditions taking place in the body. The closer the body will keep to those truths and the dependence on the abilities latent within self through trust in spiritual things, the quicker will be the response in the physical body. For all healing, mental or material, is attuning each atom of the body, each reflex of the brain forces, to the awareness of the divine that lies within each atom, each cell of the body.
3. The manner in which these administrations are being made are very good. No fault may be found, though it will be necessary to carry on these for some time. As to how soon they may be discontinued depends upon how soon the entity, the body, the mind, the soul of the entity accepts and puts its whole faith in the divine that is within itself.
4. Ready for questions.
5. (Q) What would you suggest to clear up the skin irritation I have had for the past few years?
   (A) Setting up better eliminations through the alimentary canal. Take into the system the vegetable force that will aid in setting up coordination between the eliminating systems, so that the drosses and poisons from used energies will be eliminated through their proper channels. Oft have in the diet figs, pie plant and such. Take internally Simmons Liver Regulator as an eliminant, and then the rest of the treatments keep up.
   After the bath, dust the body with a powder that carries Stearate of Zinc and Balsam. This will tend to heal the external irritations. Properties taken will correct and attune the energies of the body for proper eliminations.
6. (Q) How long should the osteopathic treatments be continued?
   (A) As indicated, it will be necessary to keep up the osteopathic applications in series, with a few days rest between. These adjustments are merely to attune the centers of the body with the coordinating forces of cerebrospinal and sympathetic system. Thus the body is purified or attuned so that it in itself and nature does the healing.
   As to how soon you may leave off the treatments depends upon how soon you can trust in your spiritual self, your mental self, to direct your physical being.
7. We are through with this reading.

   Copy to Self
   Copy to Mother
   Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. See 3384-1.

REPORTS

1. 1/44 Mother's letter: "[3384] is a huge man - weighs nearly 200 - he is so sensitive - doing nothing to earn..."
2. 1/29/44 Letter: "Thanks very much for the check reading. I am glad to see that things are going along o.k. I might add that for the past couple of weeks I have thought that I detected an improvement in my condition. I thought so and my wife mentioned that she also noticed a change."
3. 1/29/44 Report: "...I am glad to see that things are going along o.k. I might add that for the past couple of weeks I have thought that I detected an improvement in my condition. In this check reading you state, 'As indicated, it will be necessary to keep up the osteopathic applications in series, with a few days in between.' In your first reading you just stated to have 'some six or seven of these osteopathic corrections'. I gather you want me to have six or seven then wait for a few days and then have six or seven more... In regard to the skin irritation, the reading says to 'dust the body with a powder that carries stearate of Zinc and Balsam. I have gone to various drug stores here and they all say 'Balsam of what?' Balsam is apparently a sap like substance from trees. I finally found some 'Puretest Zinc Sterate with Balsam of Peru'. This was about the only thing containing anything that looked like Balsam... I have for years used various types of Zinc Oxide powder and the one I found as best is 'Mexsana'. This is put out by Plough Inc., and contains Camphor, Zinc Oxide, Starch, Boric Acid, and Oil of Eucalyptus. The latter, I imagine being a Balsam. I have gone to doctors all my life to try to find a way to overcome this tremor. You don't know what it means to know that I am going to be able to do just that."
4. 1/31/44 Mother's letter: "...My son writes me today, I quote 'For about a week or so now I thought that I detected a little improvement. I have mentioned it to my wife and she has thought so too. In any case I know I am more relaxed...'"
5. 2/23/44 Mother's letter: "...My son writes, 'I have been doing a little flying, making side trips for some people around the state... I have finished three books in the Old Testament. My hand writing is better I think. I seem more relaxed and by writing slowly, can do much better than before.' ...At the wind-up of the last letter he wrote five words in script. 'Does this look any better?' Pathetic of course and yet actually better as an attempt to write than I have seen from him in a long time..."
6. 3/04/44 Mother's letter: "...There are two articles which he cannot obtain in Ariz. and I have had no success here. These articles being dusting powder which carries 'Stearate of Zinc and Balsam' and Simmons Liver Regulator. He being a marked sweater and the country being hot, he has suffered and been to doctor after doctor for relief from the 'sweat rash' that itches, burns and is most over his body. Hence this first question in his check reading to clear up the skin irritation he has had for years. The rash is more or less a torture and it has been diagnosed from one doctor to another for years as 'athlete foot' and 'smart rash', etc. and nothing has helped... The improvement in the tremor is not much but any control and gain is a good one..."
7. 4/19/44 Cousin, Dr. [4927]'s letter: "It has been your privilege to help my cousin, [3384], who was hurt in a plane crash. As an Osteopathic Physician I had gone over him and managed his case early last summer while we tried to arrive at a definite diagnosis as to the cause of his tremor and speech defect and outline some plan of treatment. I have been impressed by the change in his signature in recent months. He has improved, of that there is no doubt."
8. 5/20/44 Mother's letter: "I am visiting my boy now back from the coast after two plastic operations on his nose. He is struggling to attain. There seems to be considerable unsteadiness. Of course the operations and plane crash have been difficult. He is not flying but is studying for a Tomr (?) job and going down each day - exams etc. I can see that your reading has opened up a search in his soul and that means a great deal I know, and so I say 'Thank Thee Father'... He is faithful to his exercises at all times and has been, when the operation allowed no interferences..."
9. 6/03/44 Letter: "Mr. Cayce, both my wife and I are seeing a slow improvement in my tremor. I am much calmer than I have ever been and am learning how to relax for the first time in my life. I know that it will be just a matter of time until I will be completely over this condition. I sincerely thank you for everything you are doing."
10. 6/10/44 Mother's letter: "...His progress is very slow. I can see he is discouraged, ...for a while he was threatened or in danger of meningitis, so the doctors said... He was quite encouraged for a while, then the accident about the time of the reading... May his life reading give him new encouragement..."
11. 6/12/44 See 3384-3, a Life Reading.
12. 9/26/44 Letter: "I am very glad to say that I am continually improving myself. It is slow but it is taking place."
13. 10/12/45 Mother's letter: "...His wife said that the tremor for which he had his reading was no better but no worse. He is keeping up his treatments and meditation too, I feel sure. Then bang! came this second plane crash. While I do not speak of this for a hard times story it has been a real calamity, financially too, as with the first accident he was covered by insurance. This time his job did not have any responsibility for it at all, as he had merely been giving a fellow a private lesson on his own time and used someone's civilian plane. Something happened to the plane up there and the crash landing did not work out happily. The other man was killed and my son has been at death's door. 41 friends immediately lined up offering their blood and it was over 2 weeks before the doctors dared give him the major operation his leg demanded. Ribs, shoulder, arms, wrist - all broken. Twenty-five scalp stitches taken and the leg with two compound fractures. On the table 3 hrs. 40 minutes - put in screws - three!... It will be six months before he can try to walk..."
14. 5/31/46 Sister's letter: "...Will you remember to write to my brother [3384]? He had both a physical and a life reading. After 20 months following the readings treatment with no observable changes, he lost faith in it, seemingly and gave it up..."
15. Questionnaires sent April 1950 - no reply.
16. 8/17/59 See sister's letter under 3384-3, Par. R2 indicating that [3384] had been using the treatments for 18 months when he was in a serious air crash [in 1945] and had a 9 months period of convalescence. Now, after 14 years of leave-taking from the treatment, he is thinking of returning to it, since the only improvement he ever had was while following the treatments given in the readings.

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