Edgar Cayce Readings, 5305-1

Time and Place: Set bet. 3:30 to 4:30 A. M. Eastern War Time. ..., Tenn.

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, [5305].
In giving the interpretation of the conditions and disturbances here, many phases of human experience are to be considered. While these are conditions which present pathological disturbances, they are also disturbances from karmic conditions.
These, then, are things and conditions to be met by the individual entity itself in this experience, as well as by those responsible for this body's entrance into the earth. These are conditions which, by mental expression of ideals in the spiritual, may bring physical manifestations in the flesh; in the pathological conditions which also need corrections. These should work together.
During the period of gestation physically there were those combinations (or this is one of twins) such that there were presentations at the time of birth that brought pressures to bear upon portions of the structural body. These we will find in the areas of the upper dorsal, through the brachial and upper cervical areas.
Osteopathically, then, make these corrections.
And daily give a gentle massage of the left side of body, and the full or whole of the cerebrospinal system.
The osteopathic corrections should be about once each week until sixteen have been given. These will necessarily be very gentle.
But when massaging the body, use that period, by the mother, and father when practical, as the period of the meditation and suggestions to the body. This should be done as the body is about to and does go to sleep.
If these are followed through, we will see the normal developments gradually begin throughout, the use of the arm and the side or portion of body that apparently is not developing in the present.
Do that. Ready for questions.
(Q) Should anything be used in the massage?
(A) Cocoa butter.
We are through with this reading.
Two copies to the Mother (one for the osteopath - Please let us have the name and address of the one you choose.)
Copy to Ass'n file
Two for indexing

BACKGROUND

5/11/44 Letter from mother: "[340] probably wrote you that we have twins, a little boy and girl. We are so proud of them and it just broke our hearts when we recently discovered that the little boy received an injury at birth which, we have been told by a prominent brain specialist, will probably cause him to be afflicted both mentally and physically."
6/14/44 "We have been giving him osteopathic treatments for about a month in the hope that they would be of some benefit. However, the convulsions became more frequent and more severe. I seemed to have an intuition that the treatments were doing harm rather than good and discontinued them. The convulsions have ceased to come on so often and are less severe. He did have as many as 4 or 5 a day, but since I discontinued the treatments he has only 1 or 2, some days none at all and they are very light. I do not know if it was the strain of taking him on the city bus for the treatments or the treatments themselves, or either, that effected the number and severity of the attacks, but he is much better when he is kept quiet.
"[340] told me of your Study Group and suggested that we ask you to pray with us for him. My husband and I would like very much for you to help us in this, the greatest trouble we have ever had. We do so want our little boy to be normal mentally, even though he might be physically handicapped. 1. Why does he not use his right hand? 2. What can be done to correct this condition? 3. To promote the development of his brain? 4. Should osteopathic treatments be given?"

REPORTS

9/17/44 Letter from [5305]'s mother: "[5305] is slowly but steadily getting better. He still has a long way to go before being a perfectly normal baby, but he is so much better than we ever though he would be...he has had 10 adjustments and will have 6 more which will be completed about the last of October... He can say several words and we have taught him to do several little tricks, which show us that his brain is continuing to develop...the convulsions are much lighter and less frequent."
8/10/49 Report requested by GD from [5305]'s mother and from [340].
8/29/49 Address unknown. [340] unable to give any further information regarding the case.