Reading 172-1

TEXT OF READING 172-1 F 37

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Date: 2/19/1929 Sex: F Age: 37 ReadingID: 675

This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 19th day of February, 1929, in accordance with request made by self, Mrs. [172], via Miss [778].

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

Time of Reading 7:15 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. …, N.Y. (Physical Suggestion)

1. EC: Yes, we have the body here, [172]. Now we find this body has many specific conditions to disturb it. These, however, are produced mainly from one existent condition and the results as are produced in the system from same. In times back, when the body was fifteen, the body had an accident wherein there was an injury to the coccyx - the end of the spine, or close to the end. This has thickened until there has been produced a variation in the effect as produced in the nerve system, through the lower digestive organs. This same period brought about, with this retraction, that condition wherein the stomach proper is tilted rather to the end, so that foods do not act properly with the system, or such a nature that scarcely does the body DESIRE food, for the fermentation that takes place has been of such a nature as to cause the body to be innately desirous of shielding self from its misery as is produced by such.

2. The other conditions as have come about are more or less varying, according to the conditions that arise at the time that the troubles are caused, and from these.

3. These, then, are the conditions to be met. Now these may be brought nearer to the normal condition. This would require NOT an operation, but it will require the usage of those conditions wherein the body would be consistently and persistently looked after in a manner as would be in keeping with changes from time to time. Then better send the body to Virginia Beach for the hospital Cayce Hospital].

4. Do that. We are through for the present.

Reports

Reports & Follow-up

R1. 2/25/29 She wrote: “The long, looked for report arrived and I wish to express my appreciation. While I cannot check up upon my age when I had the fall, the condition brought about in the coccyx is just as you have stated.

“If you were anyone else but Mr. Cayce I would be inclined to think you were courting business when you tell me to come to the hospital, but I know this is not so and I am very grateful that the great intelligence manifesting through you is ready to help me.

“I can’t come right away as I have to get my two elderly aunties used to my absence gradually and go only a short distance from home at first. What are the hospital rates?

“Looking forward to the time when I may know you and when I may be restored to a more healthy temple through which my soul may function, I remain”

Cordially yours, [172]

R2. 7/25/29 She obtained Ck. Physical Rdg. 172-2.

Background

Background

B1. 1/7/28 She requested a Physical Rdg., via her friend Miss [778].

B2. 1/26/29 She wrote: “Please tell me what foods I should eat and whether I should use them raw.”

Mentioned Entities

Virginia Beach, Cayce Hospital, Gertrude Cayce, Gladys Davis, Soul

Source: The Complete Edgar Cayce Readings, A.R.E. CD-ROM (2006). Reading 172-1, ReadingID 675.