Reading 195-29

TEXT OF READING 195-29 M 42 (Realtor & Mfg. of Automotive

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Date: 5/28/1926 Sex: M Age: 42 ReadingID: 742

Parts) This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 W. 35th St., Virginia Beach, Va., this 28th day of May, 1926, in accordance with request made by Mr. [195].

[Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Dr. and Mrs. Thos. B. House and Thomas House, Jr.]

Time of Reading 5:00 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. …, Ohio.

1. GC: You will have in this room a printed report of Long Range Weather Forecast, dated January 15, 1926, by Herbert Janvrin Browne. You will answer the questions as I ask them relative to statements made in this report and the solar theory upon which this report is based.

2. EC: Yes, we have the report as printed here. There are many conditions given in same that are rather of the speculative nature than from sound reasoning. There may be expected many conditions to arise that will remind the people (who think) of conditions as have existed from period to period, age to age, and these in this report have been attempted to be related with the solar phases - the combinations rather of these and of conditions in the land and in the sea. Rather we would say that the emphasis be placed in the condition of density, or population, combined with the solar conditions to bring about certain changes in the sea and the currents therein, than that of the sun radiated on account of sun spots.

3. For, by actual experience there will be found that the greatest degree of heat in given places has been and may be reported when the larger sun spots show, or are in good position of being observed from earth’s aspect or view.

4. The changes will take place in the coming year - there will be found, when all these conditions are taken together, rather in THIS respect, that there will be for the next few years many changes of an exceptional nature in heat and cold. Not by radiation nor by the courses changed in the sea; for the heat is as the reflection from that created in the earth’s plane, rather than that administered. Only in the RELATIONS to each other would these be considered.

5. Ready for questions.

6. (Q) Is Herbert Janvrin Browne’s theory correct - whereby weather is forecasted several years in advance by measuring solar radiation and its action on the ocean currents? (A) Were these varied accounts considered of that information intimated here, these would be NOT correct. For this may be established as a theory: That thrown off will be returned. As the heat or cold in the various parts of the earth is radiated off, and correlated with reflection in the earth’s atmosphere, this in its action changes the currents or streams in the ocean; and the waters bring or carry the heat in a manner to the various shores, or bring cold or carry cold to the various shores.

7. (Q) Is H. J. Browne’s contention correct that the summer of 1927 in North America will be like winter? (A) Rather the winter of 1926 will be nearer like some summers, and the summer of 1927 will show many changes, as will be seen in ‘26 and ‘28. Not entirely correct, no.

8. (Q) What will be the effect on the growing wheat crop in North America? (A) This will produce in various sections according to the various conditions produced by these variations in climate. There may be expected that the excess of grain supply in the world will be short in ‘27, ‘28, ‘29 and ‘30 the shortest.

9. (Q) What will be the weather conditions in South America November and December 1926, and January 1927? (A) Near the NORMAL for the world’s conditions, see? That is, there will be the variations there as will be seen in the northern latitude - such as is seen in the European countries during May, June… [GD’s note: A mouse gnawed perhaps another month or two from the original paper here.]

10. (Q) Is Abbe Gabriel’s table and theories relative to lunar solar cycle correct? (A) Nearer correct than the radiation of solar conditions and their effect on the currents in sea.

11. (Q) Will this weather change be serious enough in North American country to ruin growing grain crops and endanger health of its people? (A) In various sections, yes; such as will be seen in Montana, Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and portions of Illinois and Wisconsin.

12. (Q) What could be done to diminish suffering and panics? (A) The conditions will be met in the manner in which the peoples meet the various conditions which of necessity arise.

13. (Q) Any other suggestions? (A) There may be many books written concerning these various conditions and their various phases. These are the questions which have been asked. We are through.

Reports

Reports & Follow-up

R1. 6/4/26 Mr. [195] wrote: “The two rdgs. arrived [195-29 and 195-30] - the weather forecast and result on wheat crop - also the dream rdg. Thanks. I couldn’t get very much out of weather forecast, but thank you for trying. I am sorry that the most important question was left out of this rdg. I had a question in my request asking at what dates the high and low on December wheat would occur.”

R2. 6/8/26 EC gave 195-31 answering the questions which were left out in rdgs. 195-29 and 195-30.

R3. 8/27/26 See 195-32 on weather forecast.

R4. 7/21/27 See 953-27, Par. 5-A in re weather conditions and scarcity of farm products.

R5. 1/19/34 See 3976-15 in re shifting of poles causing changes in weather.

R6. 4/61 A geologist’s comment on 195-29, Par. 6-A in EARTH CHANGES booklet:

It is perhaps noteworthy, therefore, that one of the leading theories of climatic change, the carbon dioxide theory, reads as follows: “The carbon dioxide theory states that, as the amount of carbon dioxide increases, the atmosphere becomes opaque over a larger frequency interval; the outgoing radiation is trapped more effectively near the earth’s surface and the temperature rises. The latest calculations show that if the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere should double, the surface temperature would rise 3.6 degrees C…” (Plass, 1956, p. 303)

R7. 6/11/71 GD’s note: See below 5/23/26 Dayton Ohio newspaper clipping of Herbert Janvrin Browne’s forecast, which EC did not receive until after 195-29 was given:

NO SUMMER FOR 1927, IS BROWNE FORECAST Disasters Fulfilling Predictions of This Expert, But Worst Is Yet To Come; Tornado Season Still Looms As Threat

SAVE THIS AND CHECK UP ON BROWNE Here are some of the amazing forecasts for 1927 given to NEA Service by Herbert Janvrin Browne of Washington, on which he stakes his professional reputation as a long range weather prophet: “A severe cold wave will start in the Northwest June 2, sweep across the Corn Belt as far south as the Ohio and Potomac and reach the Atlantic Seaboard by June 6. It will be accompanied by freezing temperatures and, over a considerable portion of this area, it will be accompanied by snow.

“The period from June 28 to July 2 will see heavy frosts in portions of this same area, while the week from July 7 to July 11 will represent a second very dangerous date. The two periods in conjunction, will carry severe frosts and probably killing frosts through the great northern grain areas.

“This will be a serious tornado year and one of the greatest hailstorm years ever known.”

BY RODNEY DUTCHER, NEA Service Writer WASHINGTON May 23 - Sometime next fall Mr. Herbert Janvrin Browne expects to be taking an advisable vacation in Tierra del Fuego.

Mr. Browne, the world champion long-distance weather forecaster, learns from history that the people have always turned on prophets of disaster, and he has been saying for the last four years that 1927 was going to be a humdinger of a disasterous year.

Nineteen twenty-seven and its sun spots have begun to do justice by Mr. Browne. There have been tornadoes, floods and crop-killing cold waves, all predicted by this Washington scientist.

But the worst is yet to come! No Summer!

For 1927, according to Browne’s careful calculations, “will be like 1816, historically known as a year without a summer.” Browne admits there will be some hot spells, but insists there will be killing frosts as late as July and then some early frosts, the combinations of which may almost produce a famine.

Said Browne, on April 26, last year: “There are numerous indications which tend to sustain the forecasts which for the past three years have been identified with my work, of a return in 1927 in the Northern Hemisphere, of a ‘year without a summer.’ There will be floods and droughts, dangerously late killing frosts in spring and even in midsummer and a return of frosts unseasonably early in late summer, to the destruction, or at least to the serious reduction of the great food crops of the world.”

Browne’s prediction seems to be running gruesomely true to forecast. Most importantly, the Mississippi floods, which he had also predicted when appearing before the House Committee on Agriculture Feb. 6, 1923. He then advised the congressmen that the government should store grain and other crops against a famine.

A Costly Frost - A cold wave from April 16 to 24-25, especially predicted by Browne on March 15, brought a frost which destroyed $20,000,000 worth of fruit and vegetables over the country, an almost historic frost. It reduced the prospective strawberry crop 35,000,000 quarts according to the Department of Agriculture, and the Virginia apple crop from 40 to 50 percent.

In Browne’s January 1 forecast, part of his Long-Range Weather Forecast Service for which hundreds of concerns pay real money, Browne said, “violent tornadoes will be one notable feature of the year.”

Three major tornadoes already have come, taking hundreds of lives and great damage, and the “tornado season” is still far off. The Rock Springs tornado of early April took a death toll of about 60 and some 300 lost their lives in the recent southwestern tornado.

How Browne knows al this is too long a story to be told here. His elaborate system of forecasting is based on the long time variation in the sun’s heat and its effect in producing changes in the surface temperatures of the oceans.

Sun Spots Cause It - “Every maximum sun spot period.” he says, “means violent fluctuations of solar heat. Radiation reaches the earth unevenly, increasing tendencies toward earthly disturbances. The ancient Chinese knew that large sun spot years were notable for earthquakes. With millions of tons of atmospheric pressure to the square foot of earth’s surface, an alteration of high and low pressure or weak spots in the earth’s crust pulls the trigger and sets off quakes.

This is only an example of my entire theory of causations. Causations are neglected in orthodox meteorological thought.”

Browne and the U.S. Weather Bureau have long been at swords’ points. The Weather Bureau says he can’t predict weather beyond four days at the very most. It admits that sun spots seem to cause slight weather changes, but takes every opportunity to discredit Browne and all but officially calls him a faker.

Browne replies that the bureau is in the hands of “an autocratic old fogy” armed with ancient intruments, who has propagandized the country against him. He accuses the bureau of pussyfooting, or costing the farmers $100,000,000 a year and of altering official weather reports to eliminate actual occurrences previously predicted by Browne. The Weather Bureau, he says, “has never forecast a severe weather condition more than 36 hours ahead.”

Time Will Tell - Whether Browne or the Weather Bureau is to be discredited may well depend on the weather’s actions and crop conditions for the rest of the year. Browne is perfectly willing to abide by this.

Meanwhile his clients are enthusiastic and he shows letters congratulating him on 85 to 100 per cent accuracy, including one from the Texas Wheat Growers Association terming his forecasts “remarkably right all along.” Browne claims to serve 75 per cent of all Washington and Oregon apple growers, many big vegetable and fruit growers, sportsmen, race promoters, convention committees and a great variety of other interests concerned with future weather.

Background

Background

B1. Previously he obtained various types of rdgs. On 11/4/25 he wrote, “Have been reading some long distance weather reports for 1926, and sometime soon I will want to make a rdg. on weather conditions affecting the world and North America in particular.”

B2. 11/18/25 He obtained 195-19, Par. 5-A—6-A in re weather conditions in 1926 affecting summer Wheat.

B3. 5/22/26 He submitted questions on Herbert Janvirin Browne’s weather forecast.

Mentioned Entities

Ohio, Prophets, Atlantic Ocean, China, Dayton Ohio, Dreams, Gertrude Cayce, Gladys Davis, South America, Texas, Virginia Beach

Source: The Complete Edgar Cayce Readings, A.R.E. CD-ROM (2006). Reading 195-29, ReadingID 742.