Edgar Cayce Readings, 5022-1

Time and Place: Set bet. 10:30 to 11:30 A. M. Taken 11:00 to 11:10 A. M. Eastern War Time. ..., Calif.

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 and those activities.
As we find, the better interpretation might be obtained for these physical disturbances through the Life Reading to give the experiences of the entity in the earth. For the greater part of the disturbance here is karmic. While there are incoordinations, there is not the lack of nerve and brain development. Rather this becomes more and more a result of suppression and rebellion on the part of the growing entity or body.
These may be met by force but the ones responsible for the body will thereby lose much of their own development.
We find it would be preferable to use the Radio-Active Appliance daily to put the body to sleep. Then as it is going to sleep, let the parents - the father, the mother - together, not separately (for this is your responsibility - you can't shun it - you can't delegate it and get the results yourself), make suggestions to the body. Prepare for it in this manner:
When the body is ready to retire, have it take its bath and then along the whole spine, from the base of the brain to the end of the spine, rub gently with very warm water. This should be done with a pad or cloth, so that the pores of the skin are opened. Then massage into the area one day Cocoa Butter, the next day this combination of oils:
This can be given one night by the mother, the next night by the father, but let it be one or the other of these. It is worth the time for self.
Then attach the Radio-Active Appliance, and as the body goes to sleep, make the suggestions.
Then take thy troubles to thy Maker, and in thy suggestions appeal to the divine within this developing body.
Begin first to prepare self by reading Exodus 19:5. Know that this is speaking to each of you - the parents. Then read Exodus 20, especially the first 18 verses giving the commandments, and these are to be not merely literally but spiritually applied in self.
Then read Deuteronomy 30 and apply these admonitions in self.
This will give the parents the background, the purpose and the ideal for which and through which they would prepare themselves to give the suggestions necessary for this body.
Do that.
Fail, and it will ever be a canker in the mind and purpose in one or the other or in each of you if ye delegate it to someone else - for ye will lose thine own self and ye will one time find conditions reversed.
Ready for questions.
(Q) Are we too drastic with him or are we not sufficiently drastic in our disciplinary methods?
(A) Study these things indicated, as to how to prepare self. Then use those things suggested. There have been suppressions, yes. There are pressures that cause animosities, hates, rebellion in the body, because of the manner in which there are reflexes to the brain. Not that there isn't the brain, but there are such incoordinations in regard to suggestions as to cause the body to be rebellious and to forget. Mostly when individuals forget it is because something within themselves, all their inner consciousness, has rebelled - and they prepare to forget.
Do as given.
We are through with this reading.
Copy to Father
Copy to Ass'n file
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(GD's note at the time of the reading: See article [which was enclosed] explaining theory of the Radio-Active Appliance.)

BACKGROUND

9/05/43 Mother's letter to EC: "I have almost finished your amazing book and can't wait until I have completed it before writing to you. I'm so anxious for your help. It is for my son who is now 9 years old. He had a fall when he was 17 months old, that I firmly believe affected his mental development. Up to that time, he was a fine normal child, but a few months later, he got very nervous, would wake up at night screaming, which the doctor (baby specialist) diagnosed as gas. From that, he went to pulling his hair out on both sides of his head and scratching his face pitifully. We had all the finest doctors in ..., trying to help us and had constantly to deprive ourselves so we could give our boy every possible aid we could, but as far as the doctors were concerned, they gave us no help.
"When last March we had an X-ray made of his brain, the brain specialist told us the brain had not developed sufficiently up to his years, but the development was continuing all the time, which of course, I can see and I am very grateful for. He is like a child of about 4 or 4 1/2 now. He dresses himself, speaks plainly, but does not ask questions like other children do. He has fine coordination, rides a bike, skates, etc., and now in the last few months he is taking an interest in looking at picture books which he never did, and from that we are very hopeful he may read; he has a good memory, loves music, and can do many things if he wants to. But he always seems to have such a feeling of insecurity when we take him for a ride - he keeps saying 'I don't have to go home, mama, do I?' And he is so mad about his daddy that at night when he goes to the bathroom he has to look in his daddy's room and say 'Daddy are there.' At times of course, he is very hard to manage and has a bad temper. I do try and be patient with him, and pray constantly to God to help me to give me strength for the job I have to do with him. I also want to tell you that he was tongue-tied at birth, and his tongue was clipped. Since then it has grown back and he can stick his tongue out further than his lower lip, but the only words he can't say are those like love, or play or any such words as he would have to raise his tongue - otherwise he speaks plainly. We intend having it clipped again, only he has had so much doctoring that we wanted to give him a rest for a while. I am very susceptible to any help in the spiritual or material way... I am of the Jewish faith and have tried to embrace all the fine things of Christian Science in my own groping way, but I can only believe in God as being the only healer and my salvation. I am impatient to hear from you, and I want to have all the faith in the world in you and in your help, please God, I may make a place for my boy in this world."
11/18/43 Mother's letter to EC: "...Mrs. [...] told how you had helped her boy [2963] so much. When she was in California, I had quite a talk with her and she just couldn't say enough in praise of the wonderful help you had been to her boy and what an improvement he had made under your care... My boy needs your help so badly; he has just been a guinea pig when it comes to doctors, and now he is terrified when he sees one. It has cost us so much money without any benefit to the child. Please, Mr. Cayce, maybe you can see your way clear to set aside some adult's reading for him. With this boy, it is so vital that he gets help. I have such faith that you will help him that I can't wait until I hear from you telling me when the reading will take place. I shall follow your instructions implicitly since coming in direct contact with Mrs. [...], and seeing what happiness you have brought her, I know you will help me too. I only pray that I might make a place for my boy in this world..."
12/19/43 Father's letter to EC: "...Both my wife and myself are confident that you shall be able to give us the help that no one has, as yet, been able to give us... Each day tears our life and hearts more. The burden which we have to carry falls on my wife. I can get up and go to work, wherein I am away from the ordeal all day, but my wife is constantly with it all the time. The war situation in ... has increased our burden to the extent that there are no private schools available for our boy... The schools are so full of war workers' normal children that they have neither time nor room for someone who requires special attention... You can see what this does to us. We both feel and earnestly believe that you are going to help us solve our problem as well as make a useful, normal person of our son... God knows, we need your help..."
1/18/44 Father's letter to EC: "...We are now trying to get him in a boarding school, but if we do not succeed, he will be here at home on the morning of the reading... (1) What is the state of his mental condition? (2) Can we secure help in the form of a school or teacher that will bring him up to normal?... (3) His actions now are of a belligerent nature; he will not do anything we ask him to do. Is this a case of stubbornness or a case of putting it 'over' on his parents? How are we to overcome this so that his energies can be directed towards learning? (4) We have been advised that these things which he does, his negativeness and his unwillingness to comply with our requests or directions are to be ignored. That we are to let him do as he wants, with no reprimands from us. From this line of approach he seems to be becoming harder and harder to handle. (5) Overall, our desires as parents is to fulfill our obligations and bring him up to normal or nearly normal so that he shall be able to take his place in society. Please outline a general plan of action for us. We are at our wits end on this. (6) If medical or other therapeutic methods will help him, please advise us what to do, and whom to consult for such therapy. (7) What about the influence of his home and parents on him? Has this contributed to his condition, and would you advise change for him? These are our big problems. They are paramount to all else in our lives. The boy's life depends on it..."

REPORTS

4/03/50 Questionnaire sent. No reply.
10/23/52 There is no record in A.R.E. files regarding an order for a Radio Active Appliance. There is also no record of verbal or written contact on this case since 4/21/44.