Reading 1636-2

TEXT OF READING 1636-2 F 68

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Date: 11/9/1938 Sex: F Age: 68 ReadingID: 7722

This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 9th day of November, 1938, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [1636], Associate Member of the Ass”n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

[Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.]

Time of reading 11:35 to 11:45 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. …, N.Y.

1. GC: You will give the physical condition of this body at the present time, with suggestions for further corrective measures; answering the questions she has submitted, as I ask them:

2. EC: Yes, we have the body here, [1636].

3. As we find, while there are some conditions improved, we would say that in a general way and manner there is not a great deal AS YET that has been accomplished in the directions as have been indicated for the body.

4. Then, we would change somewhat the activities as well as the manners of applying those suggested forces for the body:

5. Begin with Eno Salt. Take this consistently, every morning and evening a teaspoonful in a glass of water for at least ten days. Then leave off for three or four days, and repeat again. Do this until we have produced a better condition in the eliminations, the removal of poisons from the system, the reduction of the disturbance in the equilibrium of the blood supply - or pressure, - and until it has so changed the alimentary canal as to produce a better condition throughout.

6. Also we find that with the manipulative forces there should be the more general ADJUSTMENT throughout the whole of the cerebrospinal system; not MERELY the corrections in specific centers but a relaxing of the muscular forces about the ganglia throughout those centers from which there is the activity of eliminations and of the assimilating forces of the body.

7. THEN we would use the lower form of the electrical vibration that will accord or attune the vibratory forces of the body to better coordinate with the general system, - or so that there is the same active vibratory force in each of the extremities of the body. And the inclinations for spots where cold areas are indicated over the abdomen as well as along portions of the cerebrospinal system may be gradually eliminated by same.

8. NOT the DEEP therapy but that which calls for more activity of coordinating the superficial and the deeper circulation.

9. These done, and as we find kept consistently, we should bring better forces and influences for this body.

10. Ready for questions.

11. (Q) What is it that depletes me so? (A) The toxic forces from lack of the eliminations throughout the system. As the activities call for drosses to be a part of the condition, they produce greater acidity. Hence the type of the Salt or salts indicated (fruit salts), that may eliminate those inclinations toward arthritic reactions; dissolving the disturbing forces, - if taken CONSISTENTLY as indicated.

12. (Q) What caused the three hemorrhages I had of the bowels last Thursday? (A) The reactions through strain from that eaten as a part of the diet. Hence as indicated, take the form of the electrical forces, the character of the treatments and adjustments, and the character of eliminants indicated.

13. (Q) What causes the sore mouth and throat? (A) This again is a toxic force, - hence as indicated, the character of properties needed for the body.

Do those.

14. We are through for the present.

Copy to Self ” ” Ass’n file

(See extra sheet of directions [which was enclosed] for Dr. Miller.)

Reports

Reports & Follow-up

R1. 12/22/38 Mrs. [1636]‘s ltr. to EC:

Thursday Morn

Dear Mr. Cayce:

I’ve been waiting & waiting thinking I’d have something good to write you, as Hugh Lynn said I should see some improvement in a few treatments after starting all over again, up to your last wishes. Now I have carried them out to the letter. I got fresh olive oil, Myrrh & Benzoin, & I’ve been mixing it each morn in the hot olive oil, using a teaspoonful of each. The maid has been rubbing it in very good. Also Dr. Miller has been using it.

But I’ve been so “bum” I can scarcely walk, it seems to be getting worse instead of better. So Dr. Miller said for me to come only once a a week, as the maid was using the hot oil on me I asked her to give me honest opinion, & she said I don’t think your muscles were ever fully developed. I think she realizes I’m not improving, & of course wants to put it way back to childhood. Of course that could be true. But my muscles are so stiff & sore I can scarcely move.

In every other way I seem to be perfectly well.

I’m sometimes tempted to change from Dr. Miller to Dr. Clark [D.O.] here in … I’m sure he would carry out your wishes, in giving the manipulations.

He brought me out once when my leg became drawn, ‘til I had to be helped up & down, & couldn’t put my foot to the floor. I think the Chiropractic treatment entirely too strenuous for me. I feel I have given it a very fair trial, don’t you? Or do you think I should keep on with Dr. Miller.

You see the weather has gotten so bad now. Mrs. […] can’t drive me in, & it takes everything out of me climbing the subway stairs, I can scarcely do it & fight the crowds. So that while the weather is bad I might talk with Dr. Clark & if he’s willing to cooperate with you, it will make it less expensive, & not so hard on me.

BUT I’LL DO AS YOU SAY. If I could see any change in my legs, I’d go on with the fight. But since I can’t, & I feel that Dr. Miller is discouraged herself. So now I’m leaving this up to you. I listened in to the Broadcast & think the last two Broadcast’s [WOR - Mysteries of the Mind] were an improvement over the first.

I do not feel they will ever find out just what it is. “God’s ways are past finding out” - If I didn’t think it was God’s own gift to YOU, I’d just call it plain spiritualism.

But what ever it is, what’s the difference; so you get the information & your patients get the results. I’m contented with that.

You can’t tell what it is, so you said, you are content with the gift, & I feel that’s the right way to be about it. Of course if they want to decipher, dissect, & find out what it is that’s their business. But I truly think no man will ever figure it out, & no man will ever learn to do your work. I think it very interesting & VERY UNUSUAL. But I never could solve the mystery.

I’ve had much experience along that line. I never questioned from whence it came. I was never afraid of it, I only thot of it, as a sort of revelation. Because it has revealed so many things to me, I couldn’t doubt. But I have the essence of simplicity, & trust without question.

I hope you have a merry Xmas. That I may hear from you soon.

R2. 12/29/38 EC’s ltr. to Mrs. [1636]:

Dear Mrs. [1636]

Yours of the 22nd just received - would change by all means if you can get your man there to cooperate. I am not at all pleased with what has been your experience. This I do not understand any better than do of how the work is done in the first place. If I use my material mind - or try and reason - any more than the experiences related on the radio will ever be explained - can’t be - it is something to be experienced not explained. Is like Truth - never needs justification - but Glorification, in our every day lives.

Now about your self - this must be helped in some way - you try out the Dr. there and keep up the other treatments as best you can and just as soon as possible will check up again - and see what the information has to say at this time. Will possibly be two weeks but soon as can will let you know. This is for me - but do hope the help will be for you, for you should get results - am sure.

Thank you for letting me know - and do hope you will soon be feeling a whole lot better.

With all good wishes and love from all here

Sincerely [signed] Edgar Cayce

R3. 12/31/38 EC asked Dr. Miller about Mrs. [1636]. See under 2010-1 Background.

R4. 1/4/39 Mrs. [1636]‘s ltr. to EC:

Dear Mr. Cayce:

When I wrote you last, I was feeling so miserable, & discouraged I couldn’t of anything else but complain.

I haven’t made any changes as yet, as to Doctors.

I’m still trying to get a “hunch”, or a lead as to which is the best.

I get the electrical treatment from Dr. Miller, & I get baked at Dr. Clark’s.

Of course I haven’t taken any treatment from Dr. Clark for three years or more; & he was using heat on my limbs, by placing them in a cylinder shaped concern, & the perspiration would just stream out from my limbs. But he considered that better than electricity, or dry heat, & said he could get it all out of my system if I’d continue as he didn’t think I had arthritis at all, & if I did, it was in a light form.

And Dr. Miller said the other day she didn’t think my muscles EVER DEVELOPED PROPERLY WHEN A CHILD. There had been a lack of muscle building food in childhood.

Of course, as a child I had everything to eat that grew on a farm. My dear old Mother was a wonderful cook & my father was an extravagant provider. So if I missed the vitimines [vitamins] that were muscle building it was due to over-cooking, as the old timers did believe in everything being WELL COOKED. And another thing the “VITAMINE FADE’ [FAD?] was not in STYLE THEN. And no doubt I was left out on that, & am getting the results of it now, IF THAT IS ALL TRUE.

Sometimes I think MORTAL MIND just has to change its tactic, to suit the mortal mind times. The doctors are continually changing their minds about results of their own concoction.

What was THE THING last year, this year, is all out.

I don’t say they are NOT TRYING to find out something that is for the good of all mankind, I’m the kind of man, that believes in the mortal. But really I think there are some that have realized there is no such thing as matter or mortal. In one of your letters you said, “Mortal man, & mind were all one & the same”. They are; to this extent. As a man thinketh so is he.” If we think mortal thots, we are just as mortal as we think.

If we begin to realized that God is a spirit, & everything He thot into existence is spiritually conceived. Then everything is a mental concept, & spiritual. It’s all the same sum & substance, Man & mind are one. Consciousness is not only the builder, but the BUILDING MATERIAL. No mystery then about a mental treatment reaching the body. If we give the mind the proper building material it constructs a better body - in my way of seeing. Yet, it sometimes seems, “the hardened sinner is the healthy sinner”, & how account for that. Now what got me on to this subject - is Dr. Miller saying my muscles were not properly developed from childhood. That is some Dr.’s decision when he failed to get to the bottom of some ailment he couldn’t find. Just had to find a place to put the effects of his failures.

Back to the neglect of childhood or some of his forefathers. I told her - “my teeth were not on edge, by my grandfather eating sour grapes”, that I had out grown that idea.

To me NOW! is the accepted time, & there is no other time but NOW. And NOW! I should have my freedom. Do you work mentally for your patients? I never heard you say, but I think you must, as you wish them to work for you. I realize the truth for you every morning, I start my day right. Of course I recognize & acknowledge the ONE MIND GOD, as Supreme Ruler over all lesser minds, That you are ONE WITH GOD. And no power or circumstances can defeat the purpose God has for you. I put all thots of fear, or death, out of my consciousness. I see you as LIFE IDEA, Mind, being manifesting God to all His ideas. I don’t see an old man fragile with age - It’s YOUTH ALWAYS, the perfect man.

Well Dear friend, I guess I’ve bored you long enough. Our maid rubs my legs each morn with the ointment you suggested. I heat the olive oil, in a glass container, & add the other, & use while hot. I can get it on very nicely that way. I haven’t been over to see Dr. Clark but I know he will try to conform to your dictations. He may laugh at me for believing in you, but he’s a good man & won’t censure me & will say - “All right we will do just everything possible to get this thing pushed off the map”. His daughter is a C.S. & he’s very agreeable to it.

But I want YOU to feel satisfied. I don’t want to quit Dr. Miller if you’d rather I’d continue. I can’t go this next Friday, so I think I’ll write her a letter that I’m laying off for awhile. Then if I don’t get along I can always go back.

We will be leaving in March any way - as my daughter & I always make a trip southward & end up on the farm & get home after Mothers Day in May.

Maybe we will be seeing you either going or coming - or maybe you’ll be out while we are at the farm. I’m glad you heard from [528] - when I think of her case, I always feel you’ll get it all figured out for me, that I must not be discouraged. I’m glad she is well & O.K., for she is a lovely girl, & has such a lovely Mother [865].

Wishing you a Happy, healthy, prosperous New Year - I’ll say By. By. Let me hear from you,

Love to all your Family [1636]

Did not hear Hugh Lynn last Mon. night, as I was out, didn’t get home ‘til after it was over. Am sorry to miss any of them. Will try to hear the next.

R5. 1/10/39 EC’s ltr. to Mrs. [1636]:

Dear Mrs. [1636] -

Thanks for yours of the 4th - do hope you are feeling much better. Don’t know but you are right waiting for the hunch as some would call it - but hope you have gotten the lead and are doing better now. Just feel you will be a lot better tho when you get away from the climate, and where it is a bit warmer and not so much dampness.

Think why you were given the rubs with oil were to supply you with mussel [muscle] building food. May take a little time - for you have possibly quit growing physically - one never does spiritually and mentally - and will have to be revived by the massage.

The Vitaman [Vitamin] fad - will be here for some time - all knew something of the sort existed - but hadn’t given it a name - may change its name in time but will mean the same thing.

Yes - body - mind - soul - are one but each has it attributes

• each has its place in human experience - they must coordinate - cooperate just as in the God-Head. God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. These are one, yet each with it’s function to perform in human experience.

Matter is nothing - save as we as individuals give it power over us. Matter - is a result of something, of a thinking, a use of something that is spiritual, and it is according to the purpose - the desire - for its use, as to whether we make it good or bad.

We are constantly trying to justify ourselves into this or that belief. Truth needs no justification - Only Glorification - by it’s use in HIS NAME, and that is Glory for all.

Today - Now - is all there is - for while mortals live by time - there is only relative time - for time also is but a manifestation of something else - Yes - of God - for terrestrially - Time - Space - and Patience are manifestations of God, and His Love and Mercy are shown in same - toward man.

You have just the idea - for your morning meditation - and can we come to the awareness of that thought in our very being we can as He said “move mountains.”

You be guided by your own conscience - but if you wear your self out making the trip - and can get as good or better right at you it would be unwise to make the trip.

Am still looking forward to having that talk with you - having time to at least get some of the things that are of interest to each of use thrashed out. Am sure you realize what I wish is for you to get results and not to satisfy any pet idea of mine - for of my self can do nothing know that - and it is according to one’s faith that any help comes - each of us may only be channels of blessings to our fellow man - and when we even wish our own pet ideas adhered to we do our neighbor harm.

Yes [528] is doing nicely - is carrying on - tho with a heavy heart - over a material happening in her life - and am sure such is a real burden to some - becomes heavier than we can bear alone. OH! would we learn to lean more on HIS arm.

Thank you again for your letters - they are most helpful to me - and just hope I don’t bore you. Hope you heard Hugh Lynn last evening - thought it very good - is at least opening the way for people to THINK on spiritual things will they but do so.

With all good wishes - please remember me to Mr. […] and Mrs. […].

Sincerely [signed] Edgar Cayce

R6. 1/13/39 Mrs. [1636]‘s ltr. to EC:

Friday Afternoon Snowing to beat the band

Dear Mr. Cayce

Well I went to see my old Dr. here this morn. & took a treatment. Dr. Miller said Monday when I was in, that she had a letter from you, & she seemed very willing, & very nice about it. And said if it made it easier for me, to go to this Dr. but she would like to check up on me in a month to see if I had improved any, so I told her I would come in for a check up.

Dr. Clark said my legs were much improved over what they were when I came in to him 3 years ago. I was glad to hear that if I can’t get up & down the steps. I know there is an improvement at times, then other times I can hardly get about. Nature of the disease I presume.

Dr. Clark said (when he read your reading) “My dear girl, that is the way I treated you 3 years ago. Now I’ll continue the treatment but I WON’T USE THE OINTMENT.” So I said “All right, I can use that myself.” And he said he understood my case, & was treating just as you had suggested.

The Osteopath certainly don’t have any use for Chiropractic, & he said he didn’t see how I had endured it. So I told him she didn’t break any bones. He said “You don’t need your bones cracked, or rough treatment. You need your nerves soothed.” So I’m going to try it out for a month, & see what she says with the check up.

She has so much to do, she has put in two more tables & has her place all partitioned off in little work rooms. I think she really has more to do than she can do justice to. Of course she just gives you a few cracks, & goes on & cracks the next one. She wouldn’t use the oil on me, said it spoiled her hands, her sense of touch on the machine. But the other girl did. She massaged in on.

Our Maid massaged me good when I came home this morn. You see we live close to this Dr. & after I come in the maid can do the work; I think no doubt that is just as good. My left hand is all swollen & inflamed to day I could hardly comb my hair. I surely don’t want it to get in my hands, for I can still play the piano for my own amusement. And if it gets in my hands I’ll be in a fix. My elbo [elbow] is quite upset also, in fact my whole arm. I’m going twice a week - Tues. & Frid. to Dr. Clark & see what can be done & I’m going to keep up the oil & also the Equalizer.

You know I don’t think Climate has anything to do with it. For I didn’t feel any better known in Florida, or any place we ever ramble.

We just get out & ramble because she like[s] to drive, & go different places. I think a change does anyone agood - just anything to change the mind - I can go to a good musical, or a good movie, & forget myself completely. That gives nature a chance to build herself up. So I think any kind of a change that is harmonious & restful is always good. That’s one reason I like to read everything that’s along the mental

• I get new food for that - it seems to be necessary for me. The Bible never gets old, I love it & sometimes I wonder why we read so much of other things, when it’s ALL right there. And if we would follow HIS teachings, we would not need anything else. To me it’s the REAL STAPLE of LIFE & the other literature is a sort of a side dish.

Give us the real staples of life & we could live; but we all enjoy the little “nic nacks”, side dishes. So, the Word of God is the real life giving principal, but I like to know the other fellow’s views on it, some times I accept it,

some times I put it aside, & think that is not for me - my digestion is not just right. It may be too rich, maybe not rich enough. No harm in that, it makes me better able to get the other fellow’s view point - better able to live agreeable with my fellow beings.

It’s nice to be able to see the whole work’s, & KNOW just ONE MIND WORKING. It’s sweet to contact the many different workers, & see where you can plant a seed, you let it fall

• maybe it grows, maybe another finds it, cultivates it, I never look back to see if it did or didn’t find lodgment. I just know good thots are never lost - & THOTS are things.

Well, well, here I go rambling on such a long letter & saying nothing after all. I listened in to Hugh Lynn’s broadcast the other night, I’ve only missed ONE. God bless them for their work. But I don’t think they are any nearer solving their problem - I don’t think anyone can ever tell just what it is - that’s the mystery. But if you listen to it, it will come to you when needed. I was always so sure of the truth, I never doubted it, or questioned from whence it came. In fact that’s all O.K. to me. It was too sacred to talk about it & when I went to talking it, bad results was my experience. So I closed the door on it all. I transferred my thots to the ONE power - & shut out the lesser. Maybe my growth has been slower - but none the less - SURE.

May God bless you all.

Sincerely [1636]

I enjoy your letters & don’t think I don’t.

R7. 1/27/39 Mrs. [1636]‘s ltr. to EC:

Dear Mr. Cayce:

Well I guess it’s time was writing you again.

I am very glad to say I am feeling better in the legs. Can’t go up & down stairs as yet, with freedom, as I hope to do. But I think I am walking better.

Of course I haven’t given myself a try out, since I quit going to N.Y. that is I haven’t so many steps to climb.

As soon as the ice & snow is gone I think I’ll try going over town, to see how I hold out on this walking business. I haven’t done any walking to amount to any thing since I stopped going in to Dr. Miller. I’m not saying this out of disrespect to Dr. Miller, & don’t take it that way. But I think Dr. Clark comes nearer carrying out your plans than Dr. Miller did. I don’t think Dr. Miller ever studied Osteopathy. At least she never gave me that kind of a treatment, not even after you asked her to change.

She continued with the Chiropractic work, only in a less strenuous way. She had a diploma hanging on her walls, of an Osteopath - but she didn’t practice it. Of that I’m sure.

However I’m not thinking the time or money was lost for she evidently did some good for Dr. Clark spoke of my legs being greatly improved since I went to him 3 years ago.

But I can see where in, he is trying to carry out your idea, all but the “rubbin” business & he lets me do that at home which is quite all right, as we live close to him.

I think they ALL hate to have any one tell them any thing differently than what they think they already know.

I feel that every one should have an open mind; & be willing to try other people’s ideas, & not be so COCK SURE they know it all. It’s true, we have to have faith in our selves, to a certain extent or we’d never get any place & I think we have to have faith in what we are doing to be a success. But we can’t forget there are others that may know a thing or two that might add to our storehouse of knowledge a great deal, & I don’t hesitate to say so, when the time & place seems ready for my say. Dr. Clark is a student of Dr. T. A. Still the founder of Osteopathy & the funny part of it is, Dr. Still got his information from a spiritualist, from a medium. She taught him how to work. But he didn’t like to admit it to any one. But he was very spiritual, himself.

So I find that Dr. Clark has a lot of it in him. But he says the disgusting part of it is there are so many faikers [fakers]. So many that resort to mechanical means to help them out to work on the weaker minds.

He says he has visited their camp up in N.Y. state, somewhere I forget the name of the place. But that he finds where ONE is genuine many are false. But I told him this morn, that we find that, in every walk of life that we can’t let that bother us. I had a long talk with him this morn. He is really a very busy man, but I got him started on the question & held him for some time. He wound up by saying “Mrs. [1636] you are a very unusual woman, very broad minded & see from every angle; & you respond to treatment just like a youth, or a person years younger than you are; I can’t think of you as being a woman of mature years. I can only think of you as youth.” So I think that was saying a lot of nice things, & I only hope I have the COME BACK, he seems to think I’m going to have.

Now in speaking of Dr. Miller asking me to come back in a month to let HER CHECK UP ON ME. She meant to check up on me with that machine she is crazy about. She LOVES & ADORES THAT MACHINE she has, so that’s what she wanted to test me out on. Wanted to see if I had gained any vitality, she claimed she put vitality in me with electricity. But really I seem to have more endurance now than I did. I DO SEEM TO BE BETTER, & I am so proud of it, so happy & so thankful, I just go thanking God, WITHIN MY SELF most every step. I don’t say it out loud, or they might think I WAS OFF - but I say it, just the same, & I’m sure HE hears me.

I listened to Hugh Lynn’s broadcast, Monday night.

Now don’t tell him this, or discourage him; but I can’t see that they are getting at the bottom of this, or giving an explanation that really explains it. Of course I may not understand just what it’s all about. I mean I may not understand their purpose. But I think God’s ways are past finding out.

If it’s of God - “nuf ced” - if it isn’t, still it’s a mystery. I don’t think they will ever solve. But I DO NOT WANT TO DISCOURAGE HUGH in any undertaking.

It’s an unseen force that no one can explain away. And only those who have experienced it can have an idea.

Well I think I’ve rambled long enough. I’m thankful I feel improved, I pray it may continue.

Good by & God bless you all, [1636]

Excuse the length of this letter. When I get to writing I forget to quit.

R8. 1/31/39 EC’s letter to [1636]:

Dear Mrs. [1636]:

Thank you for yours of the 27th - so glad to know you are on the right track and are feeling better. Am sure Dr. Clark is fine - seldom do you find an Osteopath that is not good - and a good one is not afraid of work - for that is what it takes for a good Osteopath. If the information is partial to any mode of treatment it’s Osteopathy; had the privilege of knowing Dr. T. A. Still during his life in fact had a treatment from him, and hear some of his story you referred to - but as I understand he received it himself. Not from a medium - have never met but have had a bit of correspondence with Dr. Hildreth [A. G. Hildreth] his brother in law - these are the older ones in Osteopathy Dr. Woodall [Percy Woodall, D.O.] who was one of the Dr.’s at the So. School of Osteopathy is a very good friend of mine known him for possibly 30 years or better - as all so Gravett [Wm. A. Gravett, D.O.] one of the Pres. of the Nat. Ass’n of Osteo - knew many of the first class of graduates. So [I] am thoroughly sold on Osteopathy.

Dr. Miller is good am sure - it may be she is so busy that she depends on instruments to do the work she might do - I don’t know. Do not know much about the machine she is so wrapped up in - tho have suggested its use a few times.

Hugh Lynn is doing a very good work I believe - don’t think he expects to determine just the source of the activity that produces the phenomena - but to get people not ashamed to express their opinion as many have been. Was very good last evening I thought - I liked the manner that both Dr. Warner [Lucien H. Warner, Ph.D.] and Hardwicke [Henry S. W. Hardwicke, M.D.] handled the discussion.

It is a force or influence that has to be experienced may never be explained except to say - as some one has said - “It is of that force we call GOD” and can more people be brought to that realization it will not have been in vain - believe we all need to realize HE is indeed closer than our hand. And will we but harken we may as they of old hear HIS voice with in our selves - and that I believe is the main purpose

• and whether we give it the name of - ghost - hunch - extra sense perception - intuition or what not we are speaking of the same thing.

Just hope you keep on the improve - and that when you try out your improvement to any extent hope you find you have gone even farther than you expected.

Let us hear when you ever find time - like your long letter appreciate them more than can tell you.

Thanking you and with all good wishes from all to you and yours.

Sincerely, Edgar Cayce

R9. 4/11/39 Mrs. [1636]‘s ltr. to EC:

Mrs. [1636] …, Mich.

Dear Mr. Cayce:

Well it’s been some time since I wrote you & I’ve been through a lot of suffering, it couldn’t be imagined. I think I told you Miss Miller always hurt my side so badly, I forbade her work on my side after I saw you at the Hotel. Also your son told her what to do. But I guess the work was already done for my appendix was so inflamed when I went to Dr. Clark he said it was in very bad condition. So he never worked only according to your instructions. But I had to have it out, & you know I think it was the severe treatment she gave me that brought it on. She said she was breaking up my adhesions, but I couldn’t stand her treatments any longer. They were more strenuous than I needed. I don’t see how your good spirit, or guide could have sent me to her.

I tried so faithfully to do as you wished, but I don’t think she did, & I DON’T THINK SHE WOULD. She has a head of her own, & she’s going to use it. I’m not saying this to knock on her. But I certainly received no benefit. For I’ve always been better at times & worse at times. So that’s the way I was while I was going to her. Since I’ve had this sick spell my legs have been very bad, in fact, I’m going to have to wear a brace on my right knee, can’t trust it, & it’s quite painful to try to walk. So am going to have the brace to support my knee so I can gain some strength. Can’t gain strength in bed, or sitting in a chair all the time. So I have to do something to get to walking. You see, after my appendix operation, I began having gall attacks & I kept that up, ‘til I had five (5) very hard attacks. I was so very low they had to feed me for days through the veins, not a drop of any thing went down my throat.

And they had to inject salt solution to keep my heart going - the gall attacks affected my heart action.

You know, I think if I had followed out your instructions my self, & had not gone to Miss Miller I might have gotten along better. I don’t feel that I needed any of the treatment she gave me, for I am not stiff - that is not my trouble. I didn’t need the chiropractic treatment at all.

Well I hope you won’t feel I’m knocking on Miss Miller. But I’m sincere in saying I don’t think she will ever carry out any IDEAS BUT HER OWN. Of course, it’s as your son says, one has to have confidence in themselves - still if she accepts your patience [patients], she should respect your wishes - You give her too much lead, or string as the saying goes.

Mrs. […] & Mr. […] left Monday for the farm, will be back by the 30th. I will have to wait another year I guess. Well good by.

Sincerely, [1636]

R10. 4/18/39 EC’s ltr. to Mrs. [1636]:

Dear Mrs. [1636]:

Rightly good to hear from you again - too bad that you have had to go through so much suffering - and possibly from just neglect, do hope tho you will soon be feeling fine again and

able to get around like you would like to. Too bad if you have to wear a brace for any length of time - but suppose if one gets accustomed to it they may come to depend entirely on same. Yes, it is quite frequent that after an apendicerial [appendicial] operation there comes trouble with gall duct - happens to be one of the things that I know full well by [my own personal] experience. Trust you will be able to get that going alright and have as little trouble may be expected from same. Too bad for any of us when we have to have this or that cut on - don’t think HE intended that we be carved on every now and then.

Am planning on being in N.Y. again next week for another talk at the McAlpin. Hope you will be able to get in would like to see you and talk over all this with you - it is to be on Wed. the 26th will be there Wed., Thurs., and Frid.

Haven’t been so well myself for last few days - just over did myself a bit - now will have to rest a bit.

Let me hear from you when ever you can.

With sincere regards and asking to be remembered to Mr. […] and Mrs. […]

Sincerely, [signed] Edgar Cayce

R11. 12/39 Mrs. [1636]‘s letter:

Dear Folks:

Well I’m still in the land of living, am improving slowly over what was last spring.

They said I’ll never be able to walk again without the brace.

But I discarded that in 3 weeks, & am walking better than I was walking when I got down last Feby.

Haven’t as much endurance as yet - but I’m getting stronger & hope by springtime to be going still better. Perhaps normal. Went down to the farm last Aug. & enjoyed the trip. Haven’t been into N.Y. as yet on train - drive in with my daughter some times.

Trust you are well & not working too much, that you have a wonderful Xmas.

Lots of love to you all your family, [1636]

R12. 12/22/39 EC’s ltr. to Mrs. [1636]:

Dear Mrs. [1636]:

Mighty glad to hear from you again - and to know you are feeling so much better - that is just fine. We think of you good people and speak of you often.

We are all pretty well here - keeping fairly busy - and hope doing some good here and there.

Please remember us to all - and let us hear from you when you find time. Just hope you have the very finest Christmas ever.

Sincerely, [signed] Edgar Cayce

Background

Background

B1. See 1636-1.

Mentioned Entities

Osteopathy, Hugh Lynn Cayce, Chiropractic, Intuition, Purpose, Olive Oil, Vibration, Acid-Alkaline Balance, Florida, Gertrude Cayce, Gladys Davis, Holy Spirit, Initiation, Massage Therapy, Meditation, Revelation (Book), Soul, Trial of Jesus, Virginia Beach

Source: The Complete Edgar Cayce Readings, A.R.E. CD-ROM (2006). Reading 1636-2, ReadingID 7722.