Edgar Cayce Readings, 5014-1

Time and Place: Set bet. 3:30 to 4:30 P. M. Taken 3:30 to 3:40 P. M. Eastern War Time. ..., Mass.

TEXT

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.
EC: Yes, we have the body here, [5014].
As we find, there are disturbances preventing the better normal development of the body. These suppressions are in the areas where reflexes to the various activities or impulses through the body find their reactions; that is, the incoordination between impulses received by suggestions activative along the sympathetic nervous system and the responses through the central nervous system. We find that these are the sources of the retardments, the inability of concentration, the inability to coordinate the body's reaction with others; for the body becomes confused with groups or crowds. Thus those reactions in which the body attempts to shield itself, to get away from or to be closer to those who have respect for or interest in the body itself (as he sees it).
These conditions began with the period of presentation. For this was a breach or foot, breach and foot presentation. This brought about pressures in the coccyx and sacral areas that have prevented the normal reactions through the pineal. Not that portion having to do with growth but the exterior portions or to the left side, where there are connections in the lumbar axis, 9th dorsal, the brachial center and the upper cervical center.
First we would give that there be begun the use of the very low electrical vibrations from the Wet Cell Appliance used as the Radio-Active Appliance is ordinarily used. Both attachment plates here, for this particular body, would be of nickel. Be sure to attach each time the same plate first to the body. Use the Appliance for thirty minutes each day, preferably as the body is ready to retire at night.
Keep the attachment plates very clean, polishing with the emery paper each time before applying and each time when taken off. Do disconnect the leads from the Appliance itself when not in use.
Every thirty days, recharge the Appliance.
Each day following the Appliance give the body a gentle but thorough massage with an equal combination of Olive Oil (heated) and Tincture of Myrrh. Pour a small quantity into a saucer, dip the fingers into it and massage along the spinal area, from the 1st cervical to the 9th dorsal, including the coccyx end of the spine on each side, and then massage from the base of the spine on each side in a circular or rotary motion UPWARD to the 9th dorsal, then very thoroughly in the 9th dorsal.
Keep these up regularly. Even through the period of giving the massage, as well as the Appliance, let there be suggestions given to the body in that way not merely of speculation but as to positive activities of the body; planning, as it were, its activities for the next day. As an illustration: On the morrow, or in the morning there will be certain activities. This should be very thoroughly outlined, very consistently suggested.
Thus, we will find a change in the activities of the body, bringing the reflexes to the brain centers with the nervous system in the ganglia where there are the closer associations with the sympathetic and suggestive nerve forces of the body.
Ready for questions.
(Q) Should he continue to take thyroid medicine, if so, how much and how often?
(A) Not if these applications are given. About once a week it would be well to take internally one drop of Atomidine before breakfast for two days in succession. This should be Mondays and Tuesdays or Wednesdays and Thursdays. Then wait until the same period next week. Keep this up each week for about five weeks, then leave off. The activities that will be produced here will be to purify or cleanse the glandular system, allowing the activities of the body for all of the glands to be coordinated by this low form of vibration and the reflexes to the brain not merely through the Appliance but the suggestions that will be made and also the massages that will be given to the body. Do that.
(Q) Any advice regarding the diet?
(A) Keep away from too much sweets or too much starches. Do keep good eliminations, for there will be a tendency for engorgements in the colon. These may be aided by massages occasionally, as kneading or giving the treatments to the colon to add in emptying it.
We are through with this reading.
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BACKGROUND

11/04/43 Letter from [5014]'s step-mother to EC: "...I have just finished TIR and wish to say I feel truly humble and greatly privileged in writing to ask if you would use your heaven-sent gift in behalf of our 10 1/2 year old body (who is my husband's son but my step-son). The child was greatly neglected and underfed for the 5 1/2 years he lived under his grandmother's supervision. In the several years I have had him my husband and I have done all possible to build the child's health up and mature him but he remains very retarded physically and also in all mental endeavors and in mental and social adjustments. Each new doctor prescribes something different to stimulate the lad's vitality and resistance but always thus far without results. We should deeply appreciate his reading at the earliest possible time for he is away at a small private special school in Mass. due to his retarded general condition, he is unable to keep up in the public schools. The expense of private school is greater than we can afford... God has indeed called upon you for a very great task..."
3/18/44 Step-mother's questions submitted in addition to those at end of Physical Rdg.: "(1) How can we better build up child's physical and nervous strength? (2) How much thyroid a day necessary to correct thyroid inactivity? (3) Also what will keep the hemoglobin up to normal? (4) What will tend to improve his extremely subnormal concentration? (5) Please suggest treatment for child's extreme lack of effort and utterly irresponsible attitude toward school work. Would greatly appreciate it if all the above questions could be answered as this child is badly needing help."

REPORTS

9/26/44 Letter from [5014]'s step-mother to EC: "...I wish to report improvement in the condition of my son. You gave a reading for him April 8th, and we have pursued and are continuing the treatment suggested by the reading..."
5/28/50 Letter from [5014]'s step-mother to EC: "...Child was retarded in every way. Behavior was very erratic and abnormal. Personality lacked integration badly and in every way. Always that way from babyhood. Physicians could not diagnose. Just said child was abnormal and retarded with sympathetic nerve and thyroid abnormalities and very little coordination or correlation throughout. Treatment outlined by the reading was carried out continuously except for 2 mos. each summer and we expect to continue another several years. First year - little improvement. Second year, some improvement noticeable and third year definite improvement noticeable. There is no technical name we know of for his condition. No doctor (and we took the boy to a number) gave it any specific name. Mr. Cayce calls it a condition of general retardment as result of an injury to coccyx and sacral area at birth. He is not 100% normal for his age as yet. In fact he appears and acts a full two years younger than his age, but the improvement is 1000% - not 100%. The abnormal behavior and abnormal traits and neurotic characteristics disappeared several years ago. His responses (physical and mental) are still lower than average, but more and more all the time, does general integration of the boy approach nearer a normal personality. His span of concentration which was but a very few seconds at the time of his reading by Mr. Cayce, is now greatly lengthened. He now can study or concentrate without a break for 30 to 40 minutes. He has been unable to do any of his school work. He now is able to do all of it (2 yrs. behind grade) provided he is allowed somewhat more time than generally allotted to the average pupil. It is very difficult to give specific definite facts, for this condition has been an extremely erratic yet subtle thing. Without Mr. Cayce's reading this boy's life would have been unmistakably one of great tragedy. (Mass. General Hospital Clinic in Boston diagnosed him as a permanently retarded child.) But there is now every promise and evidence that with continued use of the treatment outlined by Mr. Cayce that he will ultimately be normal. We may continue his treatment another 2 or 3 or even 4 years. There has been a tremendous improvement in physical coordination, too..."
11/29/50 Letter from [5014]'s step-mother to EC: "...My son's improvement is marked in past few months. Healing seeming to be gaining more momentum as time goes on. EVERYONE sees and remarks lately the big change in him. It is a definite emergence and you can put it down for the record..."
6/30/51 Letter from [5014]'s step-mother to EC: "...My son still gets his nightly Wet Cell treatment, and is COMING ALONG. He seems sixteen rather than eighteen but is working six days a week, 8 hours a day on a truck garden and in school is an advanced sophomore. Without EC's reading he would have been a far-cry from that today!..."
5/10/56 Step-mother's letter: "...You will be sorry to hear [5014] had a severe mental break in January and was placed in one of the State hospitals. He was highly irrational, and showed typical schizophrenic (so-called) symptoms and was diagnosed accordingly. One of the new drugs, Thorozene [Thorazine], brought him back to rationality in about 6 weeks time, - since when he has been in his usual normal state - though perhaps in a little slower than usual motion in all responses. The State has committed him for indefinite hospitalization. He is in what is considered the ward for the nearest normal behavior, and is doing certain duties in either dining room or kitchen, and soon to be given yard work.
"This is not his first aberration. He had one in Jan. '55 and one in Jan. '53, I think but of only a few days duration - both more in form of amnesia, and of course was discharged from Navy in Sept. '54 as psychologically and nervously unfit."
6/11/56 Step-mother's letter: "...Thank you so for your very kind, dear letter [HLC]. We certainly greatly appreciate your loving thoughts and prayers. I cannot help but feel [5014] is karmically held, for he seemed to cease to absorb help about five years ago, and these occurrences have ensued since."
7/60 Father's oral report to GD: "[5014] is still in the State Hospital but is allowed to come home on occasional weekends. He is happy there; he has regular duties that are not too strenuous or taxing on him physically or mentally."
4/03/69 Mrs. Jeffries letter to [5014]'s mother:
Dear mother of son in Case 5014-1,
I note that Edgar Cayce said to restrict sugars & starches. I note also, that he was no longer living when your son fell into the schizophrenic state.
The booklet, HYPOADREN-CORTICESIN, published by the Adrenal Metabolic Research Society of the Hypoglycemia Foundation, Inc., Scarsdale, N.Y. says - p.5: ...in one extensive series being studied in a large psychiatric hospital, not a single schizophrenic has failed to show hypoglycemia & the few therapeutic trials yielded dramatic results. I quote this to you because my son has the same situation your son had, & also has hypoglycemia, which restricts sugar & starches, & uses a high protein diet. And his doctor has helped him so much that I wanted you to know of his work. Also, he has had much success with treatment of psychiatric cases like that of your son.
He is Dr. Lloyd A. Grumbles, endocrinologist, 1000 W. Cheltenham Ave., Philadelphia. Telephone - 548-1366.
If he could see your son even now, it would not be too late to help him.
A colleague of Dr. Grumbles' is Dr. John W. Tintera in New York City.
I hope you are led to follow thru with checking with Dr. Grumbles concerning your son's case.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Wm. M. Jeffries 2517 Westmoreland Drive Greensboro, N.C. 27408