Reading 1773-1

TEXT OF READING 1773-1 F 38 (Hebrew)

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Date: 12/30/1938 Sex: F Age: 38 ReadingID: 8038

This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 30th day of December, 1938, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [1773], new Associate Member of the Ass”n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Dr. Garrett”s article in August 1938, issue of Health Culture.

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

Time of Reading 3:35 to 3:45 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. …, Michigan.

1. 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 that may be submitted, as I ask them:

2. EC: Yes.

3. Now as we find, the conditions with this body are rather specific. And unless there are some corrections made, the condition will become much more serious.

4. These as we find are the effects of impingements in the structural portions of the system, thus causing the irritation between the cerebrospinal and sympathetic nervous systems; which upsets at times not only the emotional but the rationality of the whole reactions, as well as disturbing the functioning of the bodily forces.

5. As we find, with the birth of the child (the last), there was a straining of the pelvic bone, and an unbalancing. And this, with the unbalanced condition, has gradually produced through the sacro-ileac and through the nerve plexus in the end of the spine those pressures that are causing all of these disturbances with the conditions of the body.

6. Then, we would correct the condition in the whole of the cerebrospinal system; osteopathically; especially reducing those conditions in the coccyx area, and making for a balance in the pelvic area; coordinating the rest of the cerebrospinal system with same.

7. We would have sufficient of the low electrical forces from the Radio-Active Appliance to equalize the vibratory forces which have been upset throughout the system. Use this for thirty to forty minutes each day, and let this period be used as the period of meditation and prayer; preferably as the body rests in the afternoon. The attachments would be made to the extremities, in this manner:

8. 1st day - make the positive connection FIRST (the place coming from the red anode, you see), to the right wrist; the negative connection LAST (the plate coming from the black anode), to the left ankle.

9. 2nd day - the first would be to the left wrist, the last to the right ankle.

10. 3rd day - first to the left ankle, last to the right wrist.

11. 4th day - fist to the right ankle, last to the left wrist.

12. Thus a circle will have been made of the body. Then commence over again, alternating the attachments each day in this manner. Do this for three to four rounds of such applications, or series, then leave off for a week or ten days, then begin again.

13. Doing these, we will bring the near to normal forces for this body.

14. After there have been taken the adjustments for a month or six weeks, we would being then to take some regular exercise; as that to make for a balancing of the equilibrium of the structural body; such as:

15. Mornings upon arising, take for two minutes and exercise in this manner, - where the body, standing with the feet flat on the floor, gently rises to the toes, at the same time bringing the arms high above the head. Then bring these as far back as possible or practical, swinging both arms back. Then gradually bring them towards the front, then let down. Breathe IN as the body rises, and OUT as the body brings the hands to the front, slowly. Do this three or four times each morning (AFTER some of the adjustments have been made by the osteopath, as indicated). This is an excellent exercise for posture and for aiding in keeping this balance which will be set up by the general manipulations as combined with the osteopathic corrective forces.

16. In the matter of the diet, keep to those foods that are body and blood building.

17. Throughout the rest of the winter and early spring season, take the Codiron tablets. Take one with the morning meal, one with the evening meal.

18. Do these and we will bring the better forces for this body.

19. Ready for questions.

20. (Q) Who would you suggest to give the osteopathic treatments? (A) Such as Thompson. John R. Thompson, D.O.]

21. We are through with this Reading.

Copy to Self ” ” Ass’n file

(See extra sheet of directions [which was enclosed] for Osteopath

See article [which was enclosed] explaining theory of Radio-Active Appliance and where obtained.

Codiron is manufactured by The Lawrence Laboratories, Chicago, Ill. It sells for 1 a bottle of 60 tablets, 3 a bottle of 250 tablets.

At your convenience we would appreciate a history of your case to the time of obtaining the Reading. This is valuable for our files.)

Reports

Reports & Follow-up

R1. 1/3/39 EC’s ltr. to [1773]:

Dear Mrs. [1773]:

Do hope the delay in getting your reading did not work too great a hardship upon you, that you have found the information of interest and that with the application of the suggestion that you will get results - don’t put off having the suggestions carried out - will be easy for one making the examination to tell you whether the information is correct or not. Know can we be of a help in any way toward you understanding the suggestions please don’t hesitate to call on us - and be sure and let us hear from you. For to be of a service is our sincere desire - talk your reading over with Mrs. [1100] also am sure she will be glad to help if needs be.

Hoping to have been of a service

Sincerely, Edgar Cayce [signed]

R2. 1/17/38 [39?] Mrs. [1773]‘s letter to EC:

…, Mich.

Dear Mr. Cayce,

Thank you for your very kind letter of the 3rd.

The reading arrived on the 3rd. I immediately went to Dr. Thompson & have had seven treatments so far. Inasmuch as the reading did not state how often the treatments were to be given, he suggested three times a week for a couple of weeks and then a longer time between treatments. Do you think that all right?

I am taking the Codiron tablets as suggested.

The Radio Active appliance arrived on the 14th. I have used it each day since. If I find it impossible to use it in the P.M. [A.M.?] will it be all right to use it before retiring at night?

Mr. Cayce, how long do you think it will be before this disturbing state of mind gives way to calm and confidence.

The tantalizing thought that I might do something harmful to someone particularly my own family, constantly reoccurs to me. I argue with myself, how perfectly ridiculous it is, nevertheless it always come back. That particular chain of thought probably originated a couple months ago, or a little less, when I heard of a woman who became demented and tried to harm her own children.

I have mentioned this particular fear to no-one but somehow feel you would understand & advise me. If I could only completely forget it, I would be so thankful.

Mrs. [1100] and I had a very pleasant conversation on the telephone. She is so very encouraging and assures me to carry on and all will be all right.

Any further suggestions you may have for me will be appreciated.

Sincerely, Mrs. [1773]

R3. 1/23/39 EC’s letter to Mrs. [1773]:

Dear Mrs. [1773]

Thank you for yours of the 17th - wish I knew why one feels drawn closer to some people than others. Think I know just how you must feel at times about all of you - but think you are on the right track. Am sure you find Dr. Thompson a very lovely man and an excellent Dr. Did he find the unbalance as suggested in the structural portion of the body? Be sure and ask him this and let me know - am sure the period he has suggested is correct. Would keep up the cod-iron and the Appliance - and my I suggest this Mrs. [1773] when you are using the appliance and resting - use that period for your prayer and mediation. Read will say the 30th of Deut - or the 23 Psalm and meditate as to just what these mean in your own experience. Fill your mind with the promises of GOD and all that fear will soon disappear. Many such passages will help you to realize how close HE is to you and that you have no fear with HIM nigh.

Please don’t think me a nut on the subject of the Bible - but feel you will find it a very practical every day experience and that it applies to you now - in your daily life - and life will be much more beautiful. And to your usefulness to your family, your friends will be much better - the joy of living will be yours for HIS promises are yours.

Thanking you - and see and talk with Mrs. [1100] when ever you can have her introduce you to Mrs. [480], a very lovely young lady, a friend of ours - she has a new baby [1788] - am to give a life reading for him very soon - am sure you will love her.

With all good wishes - and please write at any time.

Sincerely, Edgar Cayce

R4. 2/2/39 Mrs. [1773]‘s letter to EC:

…, Mich.

Dear Mr. Cayce -

Thank you for your very kind letter of the 23rd.

I can’t answer your question as to whether Dr. Thompson found the unbalance as suggested in the reading. Dr. Thompson has been out of the city for two weeks and I am now informed that he will be gone for perhaps three months. He has an assistant taking care of his practice. I have had treatments from this new man.

I inquired of him if he had found any unbalance in the structural part of the body. He said he wouldn’t say so.

I am enclosing $10.00 for a check reading. Can you let me have it as soon as possible? There has been no improvement in my condition as yet. In fact I seem almost more disturbed than ever.

Have tried so hard to relax and meditate, as you suggested, but only become more tense and doubtful of everything.

Mr. Cayce, in that article by Dr. Garrett some time ago, he wrote something about the possibility of contacting the subconscious mind & replacing destructive negative thoughts with positive constructive thoughts. Is such a thing possible? I have wondered about this. What do you think about it?

I do hope that I am not imposing on you too much but somehow feel free to talk to you. Am so terribly anxious to be free from this under current of morbid thoughts & have normal reactions.

These are a few questions I would like to have answered in the reading -

Who is suggested to give the osteopathic treatments during Dr. Thompson’s absence and how often should I take the treatments.

Am I using the radio-active appliance correctly and is it all right to use it before retiring when it is inconvenient to use it in the P.M.

Have I entered my menopause?

Continuing the treatments as outlined in the reading, how long before I should have definite mental improvement?

Are the ductless glands affected? If you can give me the check reading before a letter could reach me just wire me collect and I will be here at the designated time. Otherwise I am enclosing an air-mail stamp for your reply.

Sincerely, Mrs. [1773]

R5. 2/4/39 Observe tomorrow afternoon three-thirty four-thirty at home Otherwise advise.

R6. 2/5/39 See 1773-2.

Background

Background

B1. 8/38 HEALTH CULTURE article by Dr. Thomas L. Garrett, Consulting Psychologist:

FEARS, COMPULSIONS AND ANXIETIES

“Hypnotic suggestion is the means by which such displacements are effected. The destructive thought, deeply rooted in the subconscious, makes the individual neurotic. The constructive thought, conveyed to the subconscious area by the hypnotist, disburdens the mind of this thought and takes it place as a component of the individual’s personality.”

By DR. THOMAS L. GARRETT [Author’s photograph on original]

In last month’s article I told the story of Phineas Quimby, the noted Portland healer who diagnosed human ailments through clairvoyant hypnosis. As I explained therein, Quimby threw his assistant in to a hypnotic trance and asked him what ailed this or that patient. The assistant, a farmhand who lacked even an elementary school education, astounded newspaper reporters and other callers at the Quimby clinic by describing each ailment in the language employed by the members of the medical profession.

THERE ALWAYS ARE SKEPTICS

It goes without saying, of course, that there are a number of persons who feel that the Quimby story should be taken with a grain of salt. We shall always have in our midst those who laugh at or condemn that which they do not understand. As Elbert Hubbard once said, “If a man is not up on a thing, he is usually down on it.”

And we always have with us those who, while admitting that a thing might have happened in the past, will argue that it could not happen again and that the man who made it possible was endowed with a “freak” power that will never devolve upon any other human in all the centuries to come. This, is fact, is the way that many persons feel about Quimby.

CLAIRVOYANT HYPNOSIS

What they do not know is that hundreds of hypnotists have been effecting similar results for many years. Quimby was given considerable publicity because he was a pioneer in this field and also because he was the healer of Mary Baker Eddy, who later founded Christian Science. These other practitioners go along from day to day diagnosing through clairvoyant hypnosis and performing other remarkable results without ever getting a line of publicity.

Now and then, however, a result is accomplished by this or that hypnotist which becomes first-page news, as happened a few weeks ago when the delivery of a baby was made painless through the use of hypnosis.

THE WORK OF EDGAR CAYCE

A remarkable man who shuns publicity, but whose results should be recorded on a sheet of deathless bronze, is Edgar Cayce, of Virginia Beach, Virginia. For more than a quarter of a century, Mr. Cayce has been diagnosing human ailments by throwing himself into a hypnotic trance. He is, of course, an adept at the art of self-hypnosis.

Moreover, his ability is even more amazing than that of the great Quimby, the Portland healer, worker through the subconscious mind of his hypnotized assistant, diagnosed the ailments of those who visited his clinic. Mr. Cayce does his diagnosing at a distance, “seeing,” with the “eyes” of his subconscious mind, the internal organs of persons who live hundreds or even thousands of miles away.

Learned physicians who have investigated Mr. Cayce’s method of diagnosing assert that he is the most remarkable human that they have ever met. Most of them cannot account for this strange faculty, but all of them, after a series of tests, agree that his findings are dependable.

In some instances, Mr. Cayce’s diagnoses indicate organic deficiencies. In others, the trouble has a psychic origin. In other words, there are cases where his subconscious mind, “seeing without eyes”, detects disorders which can be eliminated only by contacting the subconscious mind of the patient in question and displacing negative, destructive ideas which are positive and constructive.

It is an axiom of the physical realm that no two bodies can occupy the same space at the same time. When extended to the world of the unseen, this axiom requires no revision. No two thoughts can occupy the same space at the same time. And just as it is possible to displace one body with another body in the realm of physical things, it is possible to displace one thought with another thought in the realm of subconsciousness.

THE HARM FROM NEGATIVE THINKING

Hypnotic suggestion is the means by which such displacements are effected. The destructive thought, deeply rooted in the subconscious, makes the individual neurotic. The constructive thought, conveyed to the subconscious area by the hypnotist, disburdens the mind of this thought and takes its place as a component of the individual’s personality.

The abnormal conditions which are produced by undesirable thoughts are categorized as phobias, compulsions and anxiety neuroses. The phobia, which is an unreasonable fear, hampers the individual by making it impossible for him to perform certain acts or by making him apprehensive when he faces certain situations. The compulsion, which is an irresistible urge to do a certain thing, makes him a helpless robot whose behavior is akin to that of a inmate of bedlam. An anxiety neurosis causes a deep, irrational concern about things which normal persons either ignore completely or accept as trivialities.

PHOBIAS

Claustrophobia, which is quite prevalent, is the name given to the unreasonable fear of enclosed spaces. In many instances it is traceable to a childhood experience in which the patient in question was locked in a clothes closet for breaking some rule laid down by a stern parent. However, it has numerous other causes. In a case which came to my attention a few weeks ago the victim had once been cornered in a woodshed in a battle with a mad dog. In another case the patient was an ex-miner who had once been trapped in a shaft in a mine disaster. And only yesterday I heard of a case where the patient’s claustrophobia was traceable to his witnessing the exhumation of the body of a man who had been buried alive.

Hydrophobia is the psychological term used to describe the unreasonable fear of water, and thanataphobia is the name for the unreasonable fear of death. Brontephobia is the dread of lightning, agoraphobia is the fear of open spaces, and hypsophobia is the dread of heights.

The other phobias to which the mind of man is heir are all to numerous to mention. Suffice it to say, for the purposes of this brief study, that there are phobiacs who fear cats, phobiacs who fear smoke, and phobiacs who fear hypnosis.

COMPULSIONS

Any attempt to list the various compulsions which torture mankind would prove abortive. One man suffers an irresistible urge to kick cats, another just has to take a bath every hour, and still another finds it impossible to pass a fire alarm box without turning in an alarm. We could categorize these urges and many more, but our files would never be complete; year after year practising psychologists learn about compulsions which have never been catalogued. As for anxiety neuroses, they are positively indefinable and baffling. The chief trouble, of course, is that the patient burdened with feelings of anxiety does not know what he is anxious about. The agoraphobe fears open spaces, and the victim of a compulsion suffers an irresistible urge to do a certain thing; but the victim of an anxiety neurosis is afraid of something which he himself cannot name. Hence, the psychologist who attempts to disburden such patient of his feelings of anxiety finds himself in a position similar to that of a conchologist who is seeking a certain shell of which he has never been given a description.

PSYCHIATRY VS. HYPNOSIS

The only thing that makes the psychologist’s task easier than that of the conchologist referred to is the employment of hypnosis. If he were to psychoanalyze the patient he would have to ferret out the exact reason for the feeling of anxiety. In using hypnosis, however, all he has to do is to supplant such feelings with thoughts of confidence and composure.

As for phobias and compulsions, they too, can be scotched by hypnosis without any probing of the subconscious. Analysis can effect a catharsis in a phobiac only if the analyst can discover the origin of the fear, and it can relieve one of a compulsion only if the analyst can learn the origin of the urge in question. Hypnotic suggestion, however, like the immortal six hundred, asks not the reason why nor awaits a reply. It eliminates a phobia by simply displacing it with the positive thought that there is nothing to fear, and it disburdens a patient of a compulsion by assuring his subconsciousness that he is free of the tantalizing urge.

In my next article, entitled “Hypnosis in Practice,” I shall present the records of several actual cases in which hypnotists relieved patients of phobias, compulsions and feelings of anxiety.

B2. 8/22/38 EC’s letter to Dr. Thomas L. Garrett:

Dr. Thomas L. Garrett;- 829 Park Ave New York, N.Y.

Dear Dr. Garrett;-

Just a note of thanks for your sending me a copy of the Aug. Health Culture - also for the Article referring to the work here. Appreciate your treatment of the subject, and sincerely hope we may be able to be of a service some where along the line. For what ever gift I may have hope to be able to use it in aiding others relieve suffering humanity.

Thanking you and with all good wishes

Sincerely [signed] Edgar Cayce

B3. 11/28/38 Mrs. [1773]‘s letter to EC:

Mr. Edgar Cayce Virginia Beach, Va.

Dear Sir:

I read in a magazine [8/28 Health Culture article by Dr. Thomas L. Garrett - See Par. B1 above] about your wonderful work in relieving human ailments, even though many miles away.

I am 38 years old. The mother of 3 boys.

For over a year I have been miserable. I feel sure the underlying reason is a nervous condition that has resulted in FEAR. Fear, mostly for myself, I am ashamed to say. But I have tried - oh, so hard - to throw it off and be calm so that we could all be happier and I could be a better mother to my boys. They need me so. I don’t think of much but my physical condition.

If I could but have peace of mind and contentment, would not the physical conditions right themselves? The more I try, the worse it seems to get.

Could you - WOULD YOU - help me.

Sincerely Mrs. [1773]

Mentioned Entities

Subconscious Mind, Osteopathy, Clairvoyance, Healing, Meditation, Virginia Beach, Prayer, Chicago, Gertrude Cayce, Gladys Davis, Glands (Esoteric), John (Apostle), New York City, Photography (Atlantean), Psalms, Purpose, Records (Atlantean), Vibration, Virgin Mary

Source: The Complete Edgar Cayce Readings, A.R.E. CD-ROM (2006). Reading 1773-1, ReadingID 8038.