Reading 341-53

TEXT OF READING 341-53 M 36 (Soldier, Protestant)

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Date: 9/5/1943 Sex: M Age: 36 ReadingID: 2692

This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 5th day of September, 1943, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [341], Member of the Ass”n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

[Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Sgt. [341].]

Time of Reading 3:40 to 3:45 P. M. Eastern War Time.

1. GC: You will have before you the body and enquiring mind of [341], present in this room, and the efforts made in his behalf by [257] in connection with Gen. Moore of the War College and others. Considering the steps which have been taken and the situations existing, you will give advice and counsel regarding any further steps which may be taken either by [341] or [257].

2. EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, [341]; this we have had before, together with the conditions, the circumstances that surround the body at this time.

3. There is nothing that the body [341] can do, or should do, in the present. For these, of course, have passed beyond any special effort other than answering those questions in respect to service desired to be rendered.

4. As for [257], as indicated, Somerville [Gen. Brehon B. Somervell] should be the first approach, and then General Moore [Maj. Gen. Richard C. Moore]. This should be altogether on a personal basis of [257], and the friendship and those conditions existing in relationships to the various departments to which the body might be assigned as a favor to [257], because of the circumstances and conditions existing between [257] and Somerville or Moore. Either or both of these may be used in the efforts at this time.

5. Ready for questions.

6. (Q) Any advice for [341] regarding arranging for as early discharge as possible after fulfilling his obligations and duties? (A) As indicated in the present, very soon there are to be changes in the situations, see? For, to be sure, these are problems that are only handled by those higher up, or in authority. But it is dependent upon what branch of the service the changes may be wrought in his present position, and nothing done would be the earlier discharge. For, these will be, of course, in active service back of combat areas, and as soon as combat is over will be discharged. And these, as we find, with the present, would be in about eleven months. [Aug. 1944?] While that as may be of special service in offices may require a longer period of service but of a more general service, more specific service, and in positions - if desired to be used as positions after the peace conferences - or until the peace conferences.

7. (Q) Any further advice for [341] at this time regarding his activities and work in the army? (A) As indicated, these have been given heretofore. So far as the change is concerned, nothing should be done by the body itself, see? but may be by others.

As to the attitude - this the entity understands. It is that there is to be the constructive forces, ever, in every phase of the activity of the body. The morale, as well as the spiritual, as well as those activities that are to be optimistic ever.

8. We are through with this Reading.

Three copies to Self Copy to [257] ” ” Ass’n file

Reports

Reports & Follow-up

R1. 9/6/43 He learned that his application was turned down by the Officer Candidate Board at Fort Meade, Md. He felt this was due to his being needed by his superior officer in the 30th Special Service Company and no time for his replacement before overseas duty.

R2. 9/20/43 He sailed for England from N.Y. on the Queen Mary, according to his report later.

R3. See subsequent notations under 341-8 Reports.

R4. Article printed in the Virginia-Pilot, Thursday, Feb. 11, 1965:

CAYCE CHOSEN TOP CITIZEN

VIRGINIA BEACH - Hugh Lynn Cayce, 57, youth leader and managing director of the Association for Research and Enlightenment here has been named First Citizen of Virginia Beach for 1964. He was picked by a committee chosen by the Virginia Beach Junior Chamber of Commerce because of his over-all contribution to Virginia Beach in work both with human beings and in the field of the human mind.

Cayce is the son of the late Edgar Cayce, whose psychic gifts have been the subject of several books. The Association for Research and Enlightenment, with headquarters at 215 67th St., is mainly concerned with duplicating and indexing the more than 14 million words uttered by Edgar Cayce during trance states.

Hugh Cayce, who was born in Bowling Green, Ky., moved to Virginia Beach with his family in 1926. The 15th recipient of the award, he will be honored at a banquet Feb. 23 at the Black Angus Restaurant. J. F. Bryant Jr. is chairman of the Virginia Beach Jaycee committee.

Cayce is married to the former Sally Taylor of North Carolina. Their son, Charles Thomas Cayce, is doing graduate work in psychology at the University of Mississippi and another son, Greg, is a student at Virginia Beach High School.

In February 1964, Cayce’s Book, “Venture Inward,” a quest for spiritual and psychological insight based on the psychic discoveries of Edgar Cayce, was published by Harper & Row and has gone through five printings.

Cayce attended Washington and Lee University where he majored in psychology and English. In World War II, he helped organize the Virginia Beach Defense Service Committee with communitywide recreation facilities for service personnel and later served with the Army in England, Germany and Austria in a special service unit working with front line troops.

His 25 years of scouting included being scoutmaster of Virginia Beach Troop 60, and staff work on council camps. He was given the Silver Beaver Award from the Tidewater Council in 1959. He is an elder of the First Presbyterian Church and superintendent of its Sunday School.

A picture taken of Cayce some time ago showed him with the longest plane ticket ever sold at Virginia Beach. It was for one of his annual speaking tours he makes to colleges and to the more than 100 groups studying and experimenting with the work of his late father.

It was Hugh Lynn Cayce’s regret that he has none of his father’s psychic gifts. He grew up with his father’s work and early developed a deep and abiding interest in it.

The father, Edgar Cayce, was born in March 1877 in Kentucky and had the ability to go into a trance at will. He would then discourse at length on questions put to him. For many years most of the information requested related to physical ills. He died at Virginia Beach in January 1945.

Hugh Lynn Cayce has a brother, Edgar Evans Cayce, an electrical engineer with the Virginia Electric and Power Co.

R5. 4/20/82 HLC’s letter enclosed with letter of 4/23/82:

ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH AND ENLIGHTENMENT INCORPORATED

Atlantic Avenue at 67th Street P.O. Box 595 Virginia Beach, Virginia 23451

Office of the Cable:CAYCE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD Telephone:(804)428-3588

April 20, 1982

Dear Friend:

When they took out my left kidney in November 1980 they found that it was cancerous. Since then I have been having Cat Scans to determine if it had settled in other parts of the body. This March I had another Cat Scan and they found some spots in the liver and in the head. They punctured the liver to get the tissue to check exactly what kind of sarcoma it might be. The spots are very tiny. In fact, in taking the biopsies on the liver they had great difficulty, having to make five punctures before they could even get a hold of one or two cells. I have undergone ten radiation treatments for the spots in the head. As you know, it is much safer and reasonable to radiate the head than anywhere else in the body.

We have caught this whole thing very, very early. While the chances generally go up and down, depending upon the individual, I see no problem in handling this. I am sure that so much is tied up in attitudes about all of this. Isabelle Adriance did a wonderful job of recovering from cancer and is just as healthy as she can be. I will of course be following everything from the Edgar Cayce readings that seems to fit whatever type of cancer they come up with.

In many ways this offers a tremendous opportunity to try out suggestions from the readings. It has put me in touch with more doctors than I have run into in Virginia Beach in years and I will begin to share with them some of the reactions and responses when this can be handled. It may do a great deal of good, not only with me, but with the doctors and with our members around and about, because it will gradually get out, of course. I am not talking about it in public at all, but I am talking with close friends and staff.

Since the first Search for God group I have tried to live by the first affirmation: “Not my will but Thine, O Lord, be done in and through me. Let me ever be a channel of blessings, today, now, to those that I contact, in every way. Let my going in, my coming out, be in accord with that Thou would have me do, and as the call comes, here am I, send me - use me!” I feel that I have been working for Jesus for a number of years, using the A.R.E. as a vehicle, as a way of helping people in sharing what is important to me, a kind of unique and special kind of service. This may be a challenge for me to handle this for the effect on thousands of people who know me. Certainly my attitude should be good, and they say that is one of the real difficulties with many people because of the fear involved. Having just finished writing a book on fear I should be able to handle that aspect of it, too. But, more than that, I feel a very close personal relationship with Jesus. I believe, I know in fact, that he can heal me instantaneously if He wishes to. If that is the pattern, if that is best for what lies ahead. I am going to change my complete schedule, my work will be different and we will go from there.

Please pray for me.

Sincerely,

Hugh Lynn Cayce

HLC/nml

R6. 4/23/82 HLC’s letter to A.R.E./E.C.F. Boards:

ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH AND ENLIGHTENMENT INCORPORATED

Atlantic Avenue at 67th Street P.O. Box 595 Virginia Beach, Virginia 23451

Office of the Cable:CAYCE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD Telephone:(804)428-3588

April 23, 1982

MEMO TO: Members of A.R.E. & E.C.F. Board of Trustees FROM: Hugh Lynn Cayce, Chairman of the Board

The enclosed letter [See Par. R5 above] is very much the statement that I made at one of Charles Thomas’ Thursday lunch meetings for the staff. By no means all of the staff were there, but a good number so everyone here understands what is happening to me.

They need to know of course, but you need to know more of what I am planning now from this point on. A number of these things I will be working with between now and June and will be able to discuss them with you in more detail.

1. I have cancelled all lectures outside of Virginia Beach. I know you were concerned about my taxing myself too much and I appreciated it. I didn’t realize that I would be able to wipe it all out so quickly for you. I have done a lot of lecturing around the country and I have done a lot of traveling around the world so I think I have done my stint of that activity and I will just slow down. I will continue to speak here in Virginia Beach off and on during the summer.

2. I am working with a committee composed of Gladys, an Editor of the Virginian-Pilot and a young woman who is very interested in Edgar Cayce’s letters. Gladys is collecting Dad’s letters and we will be preparing a book on them. It is an exciting and most interesting project, and I think you will like the results.

3. I have dictated hours and hours of material on a biography that might appeal and give a background of history for the membership.

4. We are collecting a set of past writings that I did for the old “Searchlights” and a committee will go through this material and we may get a booklet out of it for the membership.

5. Harmon Bro is working with me on a book that we are calling PSYCHICS WE HAVE KNOWN. Between the two of us this should develop into a helpful and exciting book as we discuss psychics around the world that we have met and worked with.

Some we each knew individually, some we both knew.

6. Off the record, because it shouldn’t get back to him in any way, Harold Reilly has indicated to me that he will help us on the spa. I will move immediately to pin this down. I think we should offer to call it The Cayce-Reilly Health Spa. We have already made sketches from Reilly’s suggestions and will closely work with him in not only the design of the building, but with setting up an agreement with Betty Billings, who means a great deal to him, to handle a department in the spa that would deal with preparation of special diets coming directly from the Edgar Cayce readings. There is hardly a disease or problem that people have that Dad wasn’t very specific about the diet.

The Board will need to discuss whether we want to create a separate organization to run the spa or whether we want to put it directly under A.R.E. The non-profit status is important on taxes of course, and important to connect it closely with us, but it may be wiser to have it separate, we don’t know yet. There is much to be considered and discussed with lawyers and tax people and it is my hope to be able to prepare an outline for your discussion at this June meeting.

7. I will be exploring, in a preliminary fashion, Video filming for television. I will get some preliminary equipment and begin to experiment with some interpretation of fairy stories for children with kids dramatizing them. Also, I will do some lectures on group work that will be made available to groups around the country. This will be harder to do than my saying it, but since I expect to be here I will be getting the information together for discussion.

8. I shall be helping in any way I can with fund raising. Talking with people who are here, writing letters, etc. to work closely with Glenn in this aspect.

I will be spending less time in the office now, but I think I am going to find lots to do besides my talks for the conferees. I will have opportunities to spend time with each group that is here every week this summer and one way to do this is that I plan to eat lunches regularly at the Marshall’s.

Besides all of the above I plan on doing everything I can think of that will benefit the A.R.E. and of course continuing on my policy based on that Cooperation affirmation.

Please pray for me. I can use it all. I go to the healing group regularly on Wednesday and everybody and his brother is throwing in a prayer - I need yours.

With love to you all. HLC/nml

R7. 5/18/82 P.S. to E.C.F. Board in re HLC:

EDGAR CAYCE FOUNDATION

Atlantic Avenue at 67th Street P.O. Box 595 - Virginia Beach, Virginia 23451 (804)428-3588

May 18, 1982

MEMO TO: The E.C.F. Board of Trustees and Officers

FROM: Gladys Davis Turner, Secretary

RE: June 6, 1982

This is to remind you that the semi-annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Edgar Cayce Foundation will be held:

Sunday, June 6, 1982 from 4:00 to 6:00 P.M.

Place: Edgar Cayce Foundation office - Library Building

Unless we hear from you to the contrary we will expect you to be present for the meeting.

P.S. I visited Hugh Lynn in the hospital again yesterday, where he returned last Wed., May 12th, due to a bad reaction to the chemotherapy. He looks and feels good again, though weak, and says he expects to come home soon. He asks that we keep up the prayers - they’re working!

Love, Gladys

R8. Article printed in the Virginia-Pilot, July 4, 1982:

HUGH LYNN CAYCE DIES; NOTED PSYCHIC’S SON

VIRGINIA BEACH - Hugh Lynn Cayce, reknown lecturer, author, psychic research leader and board chairman of the Association of Research and Enlightenment here, has died at the age of 75.

Cayce was instrumental in the development and growth of the association, founded in 1931 by his father, noted psychic Edgar Cayce. The ARE now has about 40,000 members around the world.

Cayce’s death Sunday ended a bout with cancer, according to ARE spokeswoman Gladys Davis Turner.

Known for his kindness, intellect and energy, Cayce lectured throughout the world on such subjects as psychic research, dream analysis, meditation and personal spiritual development. He was instrumental in developing widespread recognition and acceptance of psychic phenomena and research.

Cayce was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Virginia Beach where he served as an elder, Sunday school superintendent and Scoutmaster of Troop 60.

Because of his active community role - he served as the city’s recreation director at the start of World War II and established recreation centers for servicemen here before going to war himself - Cayce was named the 1964 Virginia Beach First Citizen.

Cayce is survived by his wife, the former Sally Taylor of North Carolina; his brother, Edgar E. Cayce; two sons, Charles Thomas Cayce, a psychologist and president of ARE, and Greg Cayce, a real estate agent; and two grandchildren, all of Virginia Beach.

He was born in 1907 in Bowling Green, Ky., and spent most of his youth in Selma, Ala.

There Cayce had his first experience with his father’s psychic abilities as the result of an accident in the elder Cayce’s photographic studio. A tray of flash powder exploded in young Cayce’s face, and doctors feared he would be permanently blinded. However, his father, famed for his psychic “readings” while he was under self-induced hypnotic trance, successfully prescribed treatment for the boy and his sight was restored.

Cayce graduated from Motaine Park Preparatory School in Dayton, Ohio, in 1925, and later that year moved with his family to Virginia Beach. His father had envisioned Virginia Beach as the best place for establishing a healing and learning center based on his psychic gifts.

Hugh Lynn Cayce attended Norfolk Business College, and graduated from Washington and Lee University with a psychology major. He worked as a librarian at Atlantic College, the educational center founded by Edgar Cayce here. Both the college and the hospital Cayce founded in the 1920’s failed following the 1929 stock market crash.

He then served as business manager of the new Association for Research and Enlightenment.

He was responsible for adding the ARE’s three-story library located at the corner of 67th and Atlantic Avenue here. The facility houses more than 15,000 Edgar Cayce readings as well as a thorough collection of psychic research texts and related materials.

Cayce edited and authored many of the association’s publications for many years. One of his most widely-read booklets is “God’s Other Door,” a study of life after death based on his father’s readings. During the 1930’s he hosted a weekly Mutual Network radio program in New York called “Mysteries of the Mind.”

In 1964 Cayce received critical praise for his first book, “Venture Inward,” published by Harper & Row. He later published “The Other Limits of Edgar Cayce’s Power” with his brother, Edgar Evans Cayce, which explored both the successes and limits of their father’s work.

Cayce’s most recent book, “Faces of Fear,” reviewed the causes of both fear and anxiety in the content of Edgar Cayce’s readings.

Cayce felt that of all the subjects on which his father gave readings, health was the most important. He said Edgar was the “father of holism.”

“What Dad did was deal with the whole person. He was dealing with the effects of the mind and emotions on the body. Many ailments can be attributed to the mind, not the body. Hate, anger, frustration, stress - all these things can wear the body down and literally destroy tissue,” Hugh Lynn Cayce once said.

During a recent interview Cayce cited the importance of nature, referring to the spiritual joy he experienced during his daily two-mile walks along the oceanfront:

“When it’s deserted and quiet, as it is at times, you can feel pretty close to nature, to God, to creative energy. Those are things we should all seek to come back to.”

R9. 7/14/82 The Virginian-Pilot article written by Robert Smith:

HUGH LYNN CAYCE

When Edgar Cayce, the famous Virginia Beach clairvoyant, died in 1945, his Association for Research and Enlightenment almost expired with him. But then Hugh Lynn Cayce, his eldest son, returned from war service with General Patton’s command in Europe, determined to preserve his father’s work by encouraging research into the thousands of trance readings Edgar Cayce had given on such disparate topics as human health, future calamities and the nature of eternity.

Hugh Lynn Cayce built the A.R.E. into an international organization that will survive his own death last week at 75.

His life as author, lecturer, Presbyterian churchman and Boy Scout leader serve as benchmarks of his capacity for orthodox leadership, which was recognized in 1964 when he was named First Citizen of Virginia Beach.

Much of this work, however, was quite unorthodox, in meditation, dream analysis and metaphysics, which contributed to the human-potential movement in this country. It necessitated his sailing against winds of public doubt most of his life. In braving skepticism, he was never an exhibitionist and claimed no special psychic gifts. If he was something of a zealot of a New Age, he was also an inspiring, captivating human being of this age.

Like his father, he lived unpretentiously, was deeply devoted to his family and to helping young people even while globe- trotting as an untiring investigator of psychic phenomena.

For a man with such an unconventional legacy, Hugh Lynn’s formula for life was most conventional - love for one’s fellow man. His father’s clairvoyance, offering no higher vision, had confirmed that this was how life is to be lived.

R10. 7/83 A.R.E. Journal Article HUGH LYNN CAYCE AS A COUNSELOR, by Robert Grant:

IN RESPONSE TO A REQUEST MADE IN THE A.R.E. NEWS (MARCH, 1983) FOR ACCOUNTS OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCES WITH HUGH LYNN CAYCE, THE FOLLOWING WAS SENT IN BY ROBERT GRANT, WHO IS PRESENTLY STATIONED IN NORFOLK, VIRGINIA.

During a rather difficult period in my life, a period of transition, I had encountered Hugh Lynn Cayce only through his books, VENTURE INWARD and FACES OF FEAR. His knowledge and compassion for others I seemed to have felt. I longed to go to Virginia that I might have the opportunity to meet this man. Little did I know that the events of the following year would bring me to Virginia, and to meet and counsel with Hugh Lynn.

I arrived in Norfolk in July of 1981, my ideal being to work more closely with the A.R.E. and to get more involved as a student and eventually as a speaker. I was still going through quite a bit of inner “earth changes,” and it got to the point where I thought to seek professional help. Along with this thought came the idea to write Hugh Lynn. Maybe he could provide me with some information on books or his own personal insights to my situation.

I wrote a detailed letter, and I expected a response but not quite so quickly. Within three days I received a letter. It was handwritten and said, “Dear Bob, My secretary is in Egypt, hence this written note. Let’s talk. Set up an appointment next week on a day that would be convenient for you. Also here is my work and home telephone number. See you soon, Hugh Lynn.”

I was, needless to say, astounded. I set up an appointment, and it was a beginning for me, a real beginning of understanding. I saw him from November of 1981 until March of 1982. He was very informal and seemed to be very much on my “wavelength.” I was 20 at the time, and I thought that maybe there would be some difficulty in communication because of our ages. There was none. He shared his personal experiences, his insights and his studies with me. He showed me that my situation was karmic in nature and shed light upon a subject I never thought I would find any answers to. He made me laugh, he enabled me to see the lighter side and the humor of my situation. He taught me that a destructive force in the earth plane is one of guilt, that any act is never as harmful as the guilt that we tend to beat ourselves with.

Keeping in mind that “mind is the builder,” I asked, “Well, since thoughts are things, what does guilt build?” “FEAR!” he replied. And this was the beginning of tearing down some very old inhibiting walls I had built within myself. One of the gifts he gave to me was helping me to overcome fear, and I know that many others have also been helped by his insights concerning this emotion.

The seeds he planted within me will grow and blossom through and beyond this lifetime. During one of our last sessions together, I sincerely thanked him for the time he took with me to help me. He grinned at me and said, “Thank you for the opportunity!”

He did more than just counsel me; he became my friend. I am more than assured that in his service for others, he shed light on many lives, the lives of people who felt themselves somewhat unworthy. He taught me that this unworthiness is a myth, that we all are equal in the sight of God. And hearing it from him I began to feel that for the first time. I consider myself blessed for the opportunity to come to know and share my thoughts with such an enlightened and caring soul. Hugh Lynn Cayce is a sincere light to a changing world.

R11. 8/31/83 GD’s note: This was a dream Hugh Lynn had in March 1977 in the Virginia Beach General Hospital following a heart attack. When he “came to” in the hospital he recalled this vivid dream: He was surrounded by his parents and loved ones who had passed on, including all those who had been active in “the work”, both those who had passed on and all of those here on earth now active in it, including members of the staff, etc., all board members and those supporting the organization locally and throughout the world. They assured him that they were “with him”, that the work would go on. Morton Blumenthal spoke up saying, “Hugh Lynn, we are all with you; it’s like money in the bank - you can draw on it.” Hugh Lynn later told Morton’s brother Edwin about this dream, and he was pleased. [Edwin also passed on 1/23/80.]

R12 3/25/98 JT’s note: Herk Stokely, E.C.F. Volunteer, gave me the following report on his wife Lennie’s dream of Hugh Lynn Cayce on the night of July 3-4, 1982:

“I heard Hugh Lynn Cayce’s unmistakable voice. He sounded very amazed. All he said was “I didn’t think it would be like this!”

I awoke wondering why I had heard this. Later in the day I called my friend Kitty Brittell who was working on the ARE staff at the time. I told her about my dream and she was quiet for a while and then she said, “Did you know that Hugh Lynn died last night?” I replied that I certainly did not know that. To this time I can’t understand why I had that dream.

Kitty then told me about a dream she had sometime before, relating to when Hugh Lynn would die. In her dream she was told to monitor Hugh Lynn by the “hurricane lamp.” She didn’t know how to interpret that, at the time she had the dream. Later that summer there was a thunderstorm and the power was out. When she found out about Hugh Lynn’s death, she then saw that she had been using a hurricane lamp for light because of the power outage.”

Background

Background

B1. See 341-8 and 341-52.

Mentioned Entities

Hugh Lynn Cayce, Virginia Beach, A.R.E. (Association for Research and Enlightenment), Dreams, Gladys Davis, Atlantic Ocean, Clairvoyance, Edgar Evans Cayce, England, Healing, Jesus Christ, Meditation, Morton Blumenthal, Prayer, Thought Forms, Book of Job, Census of Quirinius, Dayton Ohio, Earth Changes, Egypt

Source: The Complete Edgar Cayce Readings, A.R.E. CD-ROM (2006). Reading 341-53, ReadingID 2692.