5/04/79 Horton W. Amidon's letter to GD [Background note by
GD: A few days ago Horton was telling me his interpretation
of this 4893-2 quote and I asked him to write it out for me
to use as a Supplement, also to suggest a subject under which
to index it so we would find it again.]:
Dear Gladys,
The enclosed interpretive comment might be inserted as a
supplement to the 4893-2 reading.
I am sorry to say that I don't know how it should be indexed
in the card catalogue. I don't understand the indexing
system. In trying to use that card catalogue, I have
been frustrated about half of the time.
I would be inclined to put this item under the heading of
precognition. On looking up precognition, I found three
cross reference cards to other sections of the catalogue
one to psychic development, one to death, and one to psychic
experiences. I spent about fifteen minutes going through
part of the cards in those sections. Frustrated again, I
concluded that the average person who might be trying to find
something on precognition would give up sooner than I would.
Incidentally I have found the "Index of Reading" by J.M.M, on
the blue sheet preceding each reading to be very helpful. I
suspect that there might be a relationship between the blue
sheets and the card catalogue, but I am not sure. There
are too many cards in the card catalogue. The drawers are
often so tightly packed that they are hard to use. Probably
over a half of those cards are unnecessary. For example,
under Bible:John 2 there are 65 cards each referring to an
individual reading number. Two cards with reading numbers
in numerical order, double spaced in three columns would do
the job and the seeker would be able to find any reading he
wanted with greater ease. In this way some cards that are
more useful could be included in the existing filing space.
It seems that I recall someone saying that Gail wanted
suggestions for improving the indexing system. If so,
please pass this memo along to her.
[GD's note: Subsequently I suggested to Horton Amidon that
he meet with Charles H. Sinex who has been working with us
in the E.C.F. on a proposed Index System. He did so. Today,
2/15/80 Charles H. Sinex, via my request, has written the
Proposed Index System which I am adding as a Supplement
under
254-55. It was the reading that told us how to do the
indexing - under which we have worked so far. See previous
Supplements under it, including the Remington Rand System
which we initiated 1/60 - 9/71.]
Have a good summer and God bless you!
[signed] Horton
5/04/79 Horton W. Amidon's interpretive comments on 4893-2:
HOW LONG IS NOW?
By Horton W. Amidon
On December 28, 1922 a second reading was given to a fifty
year old woman who was afflicted with arthritis. From the
section giving treatments, the following extract is taken:
"... Electric blanket would be good for it (the body) to
keep it wrapped in."
No one present had ever heard of an electric blanket so the
entranced Edgar Cayce was asked:
"
(Q) Where can the electric blanket be obtained?
(A) Here.
(Q) What is the form of the electric blanket?
(A) Use it as already formed - to the vibrations to the
body."
This caused wonderment, especially when no electric blanket
could be found. Had the unconscious mind of Edgar Cayce
goofed?
Following this reading (4893-2) a memo was inserted by Gladys
Davis Turner on January 20, 1958. We quote: "On
12/26/57
General Electric Company answered our inquiry re date
electric blankets were put on market: "...The first General
Electric Automatic Blankets were sold commercially around
the year 1936, and not quite as far back as the 1922 date
mentioned in your letter, and you might be interested in
knowing that the General Electric Company did pioneer this
product..." We repeat the question, Had Edgar Cayce goofed?
This is a natural question for the conscious mind to raise
since it is difficult to think in terms of the way the
unconscious mind functions. To give an analogy - some years
ago a father went into the bathroom one night and on turning
on the light discovered his blind son, who was thirty,
shaving with a straight razor. "Hey!" he exclaimed, "do
you want to cut your blooming head off?"
In this incident where the unconscious mind of Edgar Cayce
was giving information, we have a beautiful illustration of
at least one aspect of the working of the unconscious mind.
The people around Edgar Cayce were well aware of the fact
that his unconscious mind had a wider perception of things
that were happening in space than did their conscious minds.
Also, that his unconscious mind could perceive all that was
going on within the person for whom he was giving a reading
was an evidence of another kind of expanded awareness. But
that the unconscious mind has greater awareness time-wise
than conscious minds was perhaps not so readily understood.
Who knew in 1922 that an electric blanket would be invented
and on the market in a few years? To the unconscious mind
with its greater range of perceptiveness in time, a few years
in the future like a few years in the past is looked upon as
the here and now. This understanding of the functioning of
the unconscious mind clears up to a degree the mystery of
precognition.
3/07/80 Dr. Herbert B. Puryear's note to GD: Could it be that
the Answer "HERE" meant that he could have given instructions
for the design and INVENTION of the electric blanket if that
line of questions had been pursued?
