Reading 2991-2

TEXT OF READING 2991-2 M 15

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Date: 10/14/1943 Sex: M Age: 15 ReadingID: 10289

This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 14th day of October, 1943, in accordance with request made by the mother - Mrs. […], Associate Member of the Ass”n for Research and Enlightenment, Inc.

[Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. (Notes read to and transcribed by Jeanette Fitch.)]

Time of Reading 4:00 to 4:10 P. M. Eastern War Time. …, Conn.

1. GC: You will answer the questions regarding this body as I ask them:

2. EC: Yes, we have the body here; this we have had before.

3. There are great improvements in the general physical forces of the body. As we find, though, there should be kept occasionally those corrections that have been indicated; the Packs as well as the tonic. Yet the tonic should be prepared with sufficient alcohol in same as to preserve it. This will not only be better for the body, but it may be kept almost indefinitely. When the green herb is used, this will require nearly forty per cent. But if this is prepared by a regular druggist, that quantity may be used.

4. Ready for questions.

5. (Q) Are there any special instructions for the osteopath? (A) Do keep the area about the lacteal duct loosened more. The adhesions there have not been entirely broken up. As indicated, use more of the Oil Packs and then, not too deep, massage sufficiently - as well as keeping the corrections in the upper cervicals - to break up those lesions there; and we will not have further trouble with these spasmodic reactions.

6. (Q) Would active participation in sports be advisable? (A) If not taken too seriously or too strenuously in the beginning.

7. (Q) Is there any suggestion as to treatment for the eyes, either as to changing glasses or any other treatment? (A) The head and neck exercises will be sufficient, in combination with the osteopathic corrections through upper dorsal and throughout the cervical. But do not change glasses until these exercises have been taken consistently and regularly for at least three to six weeks.

8. (Q) Is it necessary to continue the strict diet given in the first reading, or may it be modified and to what extent? (A) Not altogether, but keep rather closely to the diet indicated.

9. (Q) To what extent may the diet be modified? (A) Just what the body will absorb, and not too much sweets. Never any preparations, as salads, carrying vinegar - unless wine vinegar is used.

10. (Q) Is his condition such as to bar him in the future from military service, etc., where physical examinations are required? (A) It would be for some little time. Possibly for from sixteen to eighteen months it would bar the body. If there are the improvements continuing during the next sixteen to eighteen months, then it will not bar.

11. (Q) Is the condition improved to such an extent that the danger of further convulsions is entirely eliminated? (A) No; not entirely eliminated. For, if there is a clogging in the upper portion of the jejunum, so as to cause a pressure there, we would find a convulsion would result. If there is such an activity under strain or stress as to cause the same character of contraction in the diaphragm area of the body, as to produce the same results from excitement or over tiredness and activity, it would bring on a convulsion. But when the lesions are entirely eliminated; as indicated, these reactions may be eradicated entirely from the body.

Keep up those things suggested.

12. We are through with this reading.

Copy to Mother ” ” Ass’n file

(10/14/43 GD’s note: Head and neck exercise: Sitting or standing erect, bend head forward three times, backward three times; to the right three times, to the left three times; circle to the right three times, to the left three times. Do this night and morning, consistently, regularly.)

Reports

Reports & Follow-up

R1. 3/30/46 Copy of report sent by mother to Dr. Henry George, III, covering [2991], at the request of Mrs. [2454]:

“This reading was given May 8, 1943, at the time the boy was fifteen years old.

“When he was twelve years old, he had a severe convulsion; another in November, 1942, and another in May, 1943. Physicians attributed the condition possibly to his age, with the possibility of his outgrowing it after he passed through puberty, and prescribed luminal to control the convulsions.

“The readings called for a Passion Flower fusion, osteopathic treatments, with castor oil packs, and a very strict diet. The instructions were followed, with noticeable improvement in the boy’s general condition, and no recurrence of the convulsions.

“In October, 1943, a check reading was obtained, as the series of osteopathic treatments mentioned had been completed, and it was desired that further instructions be given. This recommended continued osteopathic treatments, and a slight modification of the diet.

“Before the time mentioned of an additional eighteen months had expired, the osteopath had assured the boy that he felt sure there would be no danger of any recurrence of the convulsions. His general health was good, no further convulsions had occurred, and the osteopath could find no lesions in the back nor difficulty in the lacteal duct area.

“It might be interesting to note the question in the check reading as to the possible rejection of the boy from military service as the result of his condition. This boy, now eighteen years old, has just joined the navy and passed their physical examination.

“I think this case could be considered a complete cure.”

R2. 11/46 A.R.E. BULLETIN, Vol. XV No. 3

PSYCHIC FINDINGS IN EPILEPSY, By Henry George, III

On May 8, 1943, a fifteen year old boy lay quietly on a couch in his home. In appearance he was like any other lad of his age, but behind his brooding eyes was a problem that worried him and his family. Since the age of twelve he had been subject to the severe convulsions of epilepsy, that dread blighter of lives. Now as he lay quietly at ease his thoughts were in a hopeful, prayerful mood, for he was about to undergo a new experience, an experience enjoyed by only a few thousand people throughout the entire world. He was about to have a psychic examination by Edgar Cayce, the Virginia Beach mystic and clairvoyant and he hoped that out of these psychic findings a cure to his ill, a solution to his problem, might be found. His parents had been told that he had a form of epilepsy of unknown origin, that the disease might clear up when he passed through puberty or attained manhood, but at best there was no guarantee or promise for the future, and the best that medicine had to offer was luminal, a palliative, that might lessen the severity and frequency of the seizures, and delay the development of the epileptic personality, the problem of which is often more trying and difficult to cope with than the convulsions themselves.

Quietly the boy gave himself up to a feeling of peace while his dear ones near by prayed that he would be helped. In their communications with Mr. Cayce they had been informed to be quiet and to pray at the time of the reading, that prayer not for self but that the boy might better “do the Master’s service” would help the psychic examination.

At this same time in the office of the Association for Research and Enlightenment at Virginia Beach, Va., several hundred miles distant from the young epileptic was a small group of earnest people, consisting of Edgar Cayce, the reader who was to ask questions that the family had wanted answered, a secretary who was to take down the findings, and two witnesses. Edgar Cayce looked at his watch, it was 3:50 p.m., the boy in New England would be hoping and praying. He strolled into his study, undoing and removing his collar, loosening his cuff links and belt, while the others filed in after him and took chairs where they could watch him. He glanced around to see that all was in order, then with a wistfully sad look he lay down on a couch flat on his back, closed his eyes and for a few moments was lost in silent prayer, a prayer that he would be able to help the young supplicant. And then he seemed to be in a profound sleep, his extraordinary personality having projected itself into the unknown.

The findings in this case of epilepsy are recorded in the files of the Association for Research and Enlightenment. Edgar Cayce found a congestion in the lacteals, the intestinal lymphatics that carry chyle, a milk white fluid picked up during intestinal digestion from the jejunum and ileum and emptied into the mesenteric glands, the efferents of which end in the preaortic glands. He found that this lacteal duct involvement had upset the boy’s neuro osseous system resulting in vegetative nerve imbalance with vertebral segmental lesions, or imbalances in the upper cervical, the lumbar and the coccygeal areas, which in turn resulted in cerebrospinal storm.

After giving his findings so specifically and in such detail Edgar Cayce gave his suggestions just as specifically. The boy was to have a special diet that would not irritate the lacteals, he was to receive physical medicine consisting of osteopathic manipulations in the vertebral segmental levels indicated, and the use of castor oil packs over the lacteal region of the abdomen according to specific directions, and was to take an infusion made from the Passion Flower and the directions as to how this was to be made were very meticulous.

This boy followed the directions given him by a man who had never laid eyes on him. He followed the directions, and was subsequently discharged by his physician as being free of Epilepsy and later was inducted into the armed services of his country, a healthy man. [2991]

Were this all, this case would be of interest to all those interested in psychic phenomena, and to the healing arts, as a medical oddity. But this case, while of paramount importance to the erstwhile epileptic, may be of yet greater significance to those who never heard of Edgar Cayce and may never know that such a man existed, but who afflicted as was this boy, dare not drive a car, or swim, cannot sleep in a room by themselves, dread the mortification of a seizure in public, hesitate to marry or have children, and fear that this unexpected but ever present menace may cost them their jobs. These people by the thousands may yet try out for themselves the findings Edgar Cayce established.

Physicians from all schools of the healing arts have carried out the suggestions given by Edgar Cayce in the treatment of disease, and have been mystified by the findings and results. Accordingly those who have attended cases and have been interested in following it up, not just as an isolated case but in the effort to establish etiological factors as to the case of epilepsy, and many other diseases, have undertaken the task of abstracting and synthesizing the Cayce findings, or briefing this treatments and in so far as possible checking on the later results of the cases that received the readings and treatments.

In a series of 34 cases of epilepsy so studied and abstracted in which there were 17 cases of each sex represented, with an age range from five years to sixty-four years, four were of petite mal, two of each sex, one was petite mal resulting from a brain scar and 29 cases were grand mal or Jacksonian epilepsy.

It is of great significance that the findings of all these cases had certain conditions in common. For example, Edgar Cayce found involvement in the lacteals in all the cases except where a brain scar or tumor was the etiological factor. Likewise he found lesions in the cervical or neck segments in all these cases, and in the coccyx, adjacent to the chorda-equinus (the great sympathetic nerve plexus at the tip of the tail bone). Then he found lesions in the dorsal (thoracic) segments and lumbars next in frequency, while involvement of the cecum, pineal glands, ovaries and gall bladder were infrequent.

As in the findings so in the treatment, specific measures were repeated again and again. Manipulation and mobilization to free up lesions in the cervical and coccygeal areas were given. The use of the infusions of passion flower were given in approximately fifty per cent of the cases, while castor oil packs over the lacteals was almost a hundred per cent routine, while the use of Insulin shock, brain surgery, hysterectomies, the use of bromides and luminal or dilantin were most infrequently indicated.

The therapeutic significance of Edgar Cayce’s readings must now be taken in a general manner for many cases, whereas during his life time they were intended for specific cases. It is the hope of the Association and its affiliated group of physicians that these findings and indications may be utilized to help many suffers of this disease syndrome. They hope to give the public the psychic findings in the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy, and it is presumed by those who have treated cases under this method that the same help and relief that attended many of the psychic acquaintances of Edgar Cayce may heal a much vaster number in the years to come.

Edgar Cayce always contended that of himself he could do nothing, that the findings and directions as given through his readings came from a higher source, requiring the whole-hearted cooperation of the patient and his physician. The unique demands made by Mr. Cayce still hold for those who would be helped by his methods. All must seek with an open mind and a prayerful spirit.

R3. 12/23/51 Mrs. [2454]‘s letter: “I saw [2991], remember? Such a wonderful experience - now married, cashier in…perfect health, mental and physical.”

R4. 2/19/54 Mrs. [2454]‘s verbal report: “[2991] wet the bed from the time he was born, and was still wetting the bed when I first knew him at the age of 14. He seemed very flighty to me, and he had lots of skin eruptions, more than the average adolescent. The family doctor (cousin of the father) said he had epilepsy, and said nothing could be done for him but to give him belladonna, and in all probability the attacks would increase as he became older and would become true epilepsy. The parents, being Catholic, didn’t think much of getting or using a reading, but one afternoon he fell from his bike in front of the house and was taken to the hospital before the mother knew it, and they didn’t know whether the boy had been hit by a car or what. The hospital determined that it was a seizure, and in desperation the mother decided to ask me to ask Mr. Cayce for a reading. I believe the reading was followed as closely as it was humanly possible for it to be done correctly. He never had another attack. He then in due course went into the Navy. When he came out he married and has a daughter. He has now taken a position with the … Company. It’s my opinion that the suggestions given in the reading were followed over a period of about a year. He’s a different person now. All of his troubles cleared up, and he is now a happy, well adjusted young man.”

R5. 7/60 In Dr. W. N. Pahnke’s breakdown of 96 cases of epilepsy from the Edgar Cayce records, Case [2991] was classified in Group II.

Background

Background

B1. See 2991-1.

Mentioned Entities

Osteopathy, A.R.E. (Association for Research and Enlightenment), Glands (Esoteric), Prayer, Virginia Beach, Castor Oil, Healing, Clairvoyance, England, Gertrude Cayce, Gladys Davis, Jesus Christ, Massage Therapy, Physical Body

Source: The Complete Edgar Cayce Readings, A.R.E. CD-ROM (2006). Reading 2991-2, ReadingID 10289.