Reading 2985-1

TEXT OF READING 2985-1 F 45

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Date: 4/29/1943 Sex: F Age: 45 ReadingID: 10277

This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 29th day of April, 1943, in accordance with request made by the self - [2985], new Associate Member of the Ass”n for Research and Enlightenment, Inc., through her sister, Mrs. […], recommended by her friend Mrs. [1663].

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

Time of Reading 10:50 to 11:10 A. M. Eastern War Time. …, N.C.

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, as I ask them:

2. EC: Yes - we have the body here, [2985].

3. As we find, conditions are such that the body would be warned respecting some disturbances. And having corrections made in the present may prevent a great deal of disturbance later on that might become of a much more serious nature.

4. These, we find, have to do with the glandular system, and the effect that is being produced upon the organs of the body.

5. Then, these are the disturbances as we find them with this body, [2985] we are speaking of:

6. Owing to the posture of the body, oft, and some disturbances which arose at the time of conception - or birth, rather, - there are those subluxations that, with the posture, or remaining long on the feet, or walking an unusual length of time, produce a pressure that deflects from the sacral and lumbar areas to the glandular forces above the kidneys, AND to the activity of the liver itself. And these reflexly find a reflection in the organs of the pelvis.

7. Thus:

8. In the blood supply there is produced a tendency for non-eliminations through certain channels, as should be coordinated with the respiratory and perspiratory system, and the alimentary canal.

9. Also these produce pressures that give some deflection to the eyes at times, that cause not an uneasiness or pain but rather a heaviness, and a tendency for a film over same at times.

10. The reflexes to the organs in the pelvic area, and to the locomotories, tend to produce a slowing of the circulation from the extremities. The limbs become tired, aching, especially from knees down; heaviness through the thigh and the like.

11. A bit of nausea, headache, may be the result at times.

12. Without the correction of these, and with an unbalancing of the chemical forces, we may have a tendency towards arthritis or neuritis, and a great deal of disturbance through the periods of the change in the activities of the glandular forces.

13. These as we find, then, need correction.

14. First, - we would begin with the osteopathic adjustments. Have at least two each week until ten or twelve such adjustments have been taken; with special reference to the corrections needed in the sacral and lumbar, BY relaxation, and then corrections in the upper dorsal and through the cervical area.

15. Also take internally the compound known as TONICINE; this especially just before the time for the periods. This will not only stimulate better activity in relationships to coordinating the cerebrospinal and sympathetic systems, but add a glandular stimuli to the thyroid, to the glands in the assimilating areas, and those above or at the area of the kidneys.

16. In the diet, - keep away from too much of starches. In this period, especially, we would take much of the foods that act as clarifiers or purifiers to the blood supply; such as poke salad. We do not mean pork meat, but poke salad - the plant. Cook the very tender leaves, allow to come almost to a boil and pour off the first water, then put in fresh, clear, cold water, and cook a few minutes. This taken about twice each week for three to four weeks will make a great deal of change in these periods of irritation from the superficial circulation. If three to four stalks of the Irish Potato tops are put with the poke salad, it will be most beneficial.

17. Eat vegetables of all characters, but principally the leafy variety. Celery, lettuce and the like; radishes, carrots - these raw and cooked, - all of these would be well for the body.

18. Have a great deal of sea food, - fish, and the like, - this would be well.

19. Do these, and we will bring better conditions for this body.

20. Ready for questions.

21. (Q) What causes the spells of dizziness? (A) As just indicated, the disturbance of the circulation between liver and kidneys and heart, and the upsetting of the glandular forces - the clogging by pressures upon the body centers from which impulses between the sympathetic and cerebrospinal systems should react in the body.

Do those things indicated, and we will remove these disturbances.

22. (Q) Why have I been losing weight, and have so little resistance? (A) This lack of the ability of the assimilating forces, as indicated in the glandular reactions of kidneys and liver, especially; and the needs for purifying blood stream. And the impulses that will be received from the corrections indicated will bring back the normal forces of body weight.

23. We are through with this Reading.

Two copies to Self (one for sister, to be given to the Osteopath who makes the corrections - Let us have the name and address of the one you choose) Copy to Ass’n file

Reports

Reports & Follow-up

R1. 5/15/43 [2985]‘s letter to EC:

…, N.C.

Dear Mr. Cayce,

I received the copy of my reading and feel sure that it will be of great help. I do by all means wish to follow it up. Dr. T. Sherman Lewis [Lewis, Sherman T., D.O.] is the only OSTEOPATH in our little town. Dr. Wm. I. Gause [Gause, Wm. I., D.C.] is a chiropractor. Will you write Dr. Lewis instructions or do I carry him my reading? Please let me know. How shall I take Tonicine.

Please let me hear soon.

Sincerely [2985]

R2. 5/19/43 EC’s letter to [2985]:

Dear Mrs. [2985]

Thanks for yours of the 15th - yes, feel if you give the suggestions an honest try you will get the results promised. Go to the Osteopath - take your reading to him - if he questions it ask him to write me or any good osteopath in the state.

If there were no instructions as to how to take the Tonicine, Mrs. [2985], then take as is directed on the bottle by the makers of same.

Let us hear how you come along. Hoping to have been the means of help.

Sincerely [signed] Edgar Cayce

R3. 10/16/43 Sister’s letter: You will be glad to know that my sister, [2985], has greatly improved. She is a very busy woman but I got right behind her and insisted on her following your diagnosis.

I saw Mrs. [1663] the other day and she is radiating health and poise.

With all good wishes.

Sincerely yours,

R4. 11/1/43 You will be glad to know that my sister, [2985], continues to gain in health and stamina. I am very grateful for your diagnosis. I had hoped for her to have another reading in April but if you are so filled up, I am afraid we will have to pass that by.

With all good wishes.

Sincerely yours,

R5. 3/14/44 Sister’s letter: You will be glad to know that my sister, [2985], is still following your directions in her physical reading, and has greatly improved.

With best wishes,

Sincerely yours

R6. 7/11/44 Sister’s letter: I am writing my sister, [2985], in regard to a report on her reading. She is extremely busy and not very well. She is coming to see me shortly and we will probably go into it then. I will see that you get the report. She followed your directions carefully and improved very much under them but she is not in the physical condition that I would like to see her. She has kept up with the osteopath ever since you sent her to him.

With all good wishes.

Sincerely yours,

Enclosure

R7. 9/15/44 Sister’s letter requesting Life Reading:

You gave my sister, [2985], a physical reading some time ago, maybe two years. You will be glad to know that she followed your directions and her health is very much improved. I am deeply grateful.

Sincerely yours

R8. 5/12/80 GD’s note: Today Mrs. [2985]‘s daughter visited A.R.E. and read the complete file of her mother with the correspondence of both her mother and aunt with Mr. Cayce. She was thrilled with the information which was new to her, since they had not discussed any of it with her as a child. She made a copy and promised to write a human interest story about it which we could publish.

R9. 7/8/80 Mrs. [2985]‘s daughter’s letter to GD:

“You requested that I write a human interest story that you might publish. I had not gotten around to doing it; so, when my oldest son, Danny, came home this summer after graduating from pharmacy school, he offered to write it. This he has done and I am enclosing it in this letter. You may edit it or add to it in any way you see fit… If it is used, please let me know where and the date so I will be sure to read it.

“We look forward to seeing you soon.”

FOLLOWUP OF READING 2985-1

For years I had believed that my mother’s half-sister, Bayard Wootten, a Theosophist and photographer of Chapel Hill North Carolina, had had a life reading by Edgar Cayce. As she had been involved with many clairvoyants and left an enduring philosophical heritage with my family, I was most interested in learning of any reading for her by Mr. Cayce. I was also aware that he had given a physical reading during the early 1940’s for my mother, Celia Moulton Lively, a photographer of New Bern North Carolina. I was a child at the time and these matters were discussed only among the adults in my family.

On Mother’s Day, May 1980, my second son Steve and I drove to Virginia Beach and spent the evening in the home of Mrs. Rogers. The following morning we were unable to locate any reading for Mrs. Wootten. We were informed that “Gladys Davis Turner, Mr. Cayce’s secretary, may be able to help”. I am named after my mother Celia. Due to her truly incredible memory, Ms. Turner associated the names Bayard Wootten with Celia Lively, my mother. We obtained not only my mother’s reading but a series of letters dating from March 1943 to Oct. 1944 that touched the lives of my great-grandfather “Dad” Lively of McMinnville, Tenn., who had Edgar Cayce in his first photography class, included several old family acquaintances and gave insight into the physical debilitation leading to my mother’s death in 1975.

My half-aunt was concerned for my mother’s health after a clairvoyant friend, Hope Chamberlain, told her in 1943 that she was “grave about the abdominal conditions” she sensed regarding my mother. In point of fact, my mother’s debility leading to her death began in earnest with a perforation of the colon, not associated with carcinoma, leading to acute peritonitis in October of 1970 for which she underwent emergency surgery.

Mother followed the advice of Mr. Cayce for a couple of years after her reading [2985-1 of 4/29/43] and reversed the fatigue, nausea, vertigo and weight loss she had acquired prior to the reading. She was 45 at the time and some of the symptoms were undoubtedly related to menopause. Cayce found “a great deal of disturbance through the periods of the change in the activities of the glandular forces”. He recommended osteopathic adjustments for the posture, a proprietary medicine Tonicine, and, significantly in regard to later developments, an increase in food fiber content.

In the diet keep away from too much of starches…take much of the foods…such as poke salad… If three to four stalks of the Irish potato tops are put with the poke salad, it will be most beneficial. Eat vegetables of all characters, but principally the leafy variety. Celery, lettuce and the like; radishes, carrots - these raw and cooked, - all of these would be well for the body. [2985-1]

The reading was given April 29, 1943 and Mrs. Wootten wrote Mr. Cayce in September of 1944: “She followed your directions and her health is very much improved”.

Mrs. Wootten did not receive the life reading she wanted as by later correspondence of Fall 1944 he was too ill. Mr. Cayce’s advice to my mother may well have extended her life roughly 30 years. The rediscovery of this association was uplifting for me and my whole family.

[signed] Celia Lively Eudy

Background

Background

B1. 3/16/43 From sister […]: “I have a friend, […] who is decidedly clairvoyant. She read my sister’s [2985]‘s palm and was grave about the abdominal conditions she sensed. Every time I see her she wants to know if I have done anything about it.”

1. What causes, and what should be done to overcome, spells of dizziness?
2. How can I build more resistance, so as not to tire so easily?
3. Why have I been losing weight?

B2. 3/28/43 “I am well most of the time except I get tired easily before a 10 hr. day is over, and I get quite dizzy at times and feel for a few minutes that the earth is rising up to hit me in the face, and things whirl around and turn black. This only lasts for a short time and passes away. I have lost some weight, 7 lbs. since Jan. This may be due to a bad cold I had the last of Jan. I usually weigh 120 lbs. I wish to know, as Mrs. […] - my sister - does, how to control or stop, if possible, these spells.”

Mentioned Entities

Glands (Esoteric), Osteopathy, A.R.E. (Association for Research and Enlightenment), Clairvoyance, Gladys Davis, Virginia Beach, Chiropractic, Gertrude Cayce, Photography (Atlantean)

Source: The Complete Edgar Cayce Readings, A.R.E. CD-ROM (2006). Reading 2985-1, ReadingID 10277.