This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 16th day of March, 1944, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [3697], new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research and Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by parents of [2983] and several other people.

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

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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, as I ask them:
2. EC: Yes, we have the body here, [3697].
3. As we find, while conditions are rather specific in regard to the helpful forces desired, in contemplating or in giving that which would be more beneficial to the body it is necessary to take into consideration more than just the physical conditions.
4. For with the particular conditions that are preventing the hearing, we find that there is much more than may appear upon the surface to be considered.
5. To what has the body attuned itself as to its hearing? Hearing is one of the senses of the nervous systems of the body, and the nervous system of the sensory organism which is as the passage between mental and spiritual aspirations of an individual entity.
6. True there are purely pathological conditions, yet these - if attuned to or centered upon the spiritual things and spiritual desires - may indeed be helped so that, even with the loss of auditory reaction there may be even greater hearing attuned by the body.
7. Have you considered the great artist as a pianist who accomplished his greater works when little or no hearing was available of a physical nature? As to how the inner sense was attuned to the infinite?
8. As the sensory forces or nerve centers are the passage of the finite to the infinite, why not attune the body-forces of self to the beauties of the infinite and study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman not ashamed? No, one not hindered even by the handicap, as might be termed, of imperfect hearing.
9. True, catarrhal condition in the nasal passages and the throat, and the tendency of the boy to disregard the existent conditions when there are periods of cold and congestion having to do with the organs of generation in the body, have also contributed to the reckoning to which the body is responding in the present.
10. Attune self to the divine within, using the abilities of every nature for the reconstruction of self as well as that about self. For if you would have hearing, give it and make the listening to something that the entity might accomplish be worthwhile - and ye will hear.
11. Then use finger surgery, osteopathically; correcting subluxations that exist in the 4th lumbar, upper portion of 9th dorsal, 3rd and 4th dorsal and in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd cervical; preparing the body for finger surgery. Thus there may be gained physically fifty per cent of the hearing, which is now existent only about sixty. So we may attain almost to full hearing, or to at least ninety-four per cent.
12. Do that.
13. Do the first things first. Don't begin with the mechanical treatments. Begin first with self and the correcting of body energies towards creative forces.
14. Do keep close to music.
15. We are through with this reading.

    Two copies to self (one for the osteopathic finger surgeon - when you are ready to begin these treatments)
    Copy to Ass'n file
    Two Loose-leaf book in Library for indexing
    (Perhaps you would like to get in touch with one of our active members who has just recently moved to Jacksonville, who will be glad to go over your reading with you if you wish, Mrs. H. G. Allen, 2963 Remington Ave.
    Please let us have the name of the osteopath you choose. Dr. Julia Kline, St. James Bldg., has treated several people with readings.)

BACKGROUND

1. 10/01/43 Father's letter: We sincerely believe that you can be of great help to [3697], who on March 9, 1943, first felt a little roar in her good ear (when she was age 14, she lost the hearing in one ear as the result of the Mumps) this was on Friday night. By the following Tuesday, her hearing had completely disappeared. She was immediately placed under the care of Ear Specialists, with no favorable results. She was given thorough diagnosis, by Medical Men and Brain and Head Specialists. She was X-rayed fully. Following that, she spent three weeks in John Hopkins going through the same thing there. All the Doctors tell us that her hearing may return just as it left. Her spirits are fine, her health condition is apparently excellent. She is an Honor Graduate from ... State College for Women, and she has an unlimited confidence in you being able to help her.
2. 3/16/44 3:30 - 4:30 P.M. E.W.T. Questions submitted:
   1. What caused the loss of hearing? 2. How may it best and quickest be restored?
   I hope that Mr. Cayce will recommend who should give any treatment that may be necessary.

REPORTS

1. 9/09/44 [3697]'s ltr. to EC:
   ..., Florida
   Dear Mr. Cayce,
   Re. Physical Reading [3697-1] Miss [3697], given March 16, 1944
   This is a belated report on the above reading - belated because I kept hoping for better news than I have to give.
   After receiving a copy of the reading given for my loss of hearing I consulted Mrs. H. G. Allen, the life member of the Association whom you recommended I see. She was most generous with her time and gave me a clearer understanding of your reading.
   As you advised, I did not start the mechanical treatments until I felt I was better attuned spiritually.
   On June 25 I consulted Dr. Julia Kline, whom you recommended, and have had two or three treatments a week from her since then. Since middle July I've had a slight but definite improvement. It has all been very slow and for the past three weeks things seem to be at a stand still. Perhaps I am too impatient. It's still a thrill, though, to hear a slight squeak that I've learned is an automobile horn or a rattle that I know is a low flying airplane.
   Mrs. Allen, after talking with Dr. Kline, suggested that I write you for a check reading, as there are several questions we would like to ask so as to enable Dr. Kline to better do her work. I enclose a check for $10.00 and a list of questions in hope that you will be able to give me the reading soon.
   I deeply appreciate your kindness in giving me my first reading and I feel that I will eventually be "hearing again as usual."
   Sincerely yours, [3697]
   Questions for Check Reading, Miss [3697]
   1. Is Dr. Kline following your directions correctly? 2. Is smoking hindering the restoration of hearing?
   We would also like a definition of "finger surgery" as this is a new term to Dr. Kline.
2. 3/26/68 She requested a copy of her rdg.

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