Reading 3997-1

TEXT OF READING 3997-1 M 19

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Date: 5/11/1928 Sex: M Age: 19 ReadingID: 11684

This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 11th day of May, 1928, in accordance with request made by his father, Mr. […], via Mrs. A. W. Gray.

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

Time of Reading Bryce Hospital, 10:10 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

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 the treatment for the cure and relief of the body.

2. EC: Yes, we have the body here.

3. Now, we find there are specific conditions as produce or bring about those reactions as are exhibited in the mental and physical conditions of this body. There was in the inception, and in presentation at the time of birth, that which produced a pressure on the 1st and 2nd cervicals, that has hindered the normal development of the nerve as especially has to do with the reactions of generation, or genitation in the body - the pineal gland. The pituitary gland has become enlarged from same. The pineal gland being formed, then, in two conditions that produce engorgement in same. Near the indentation or subluxation as produced, brings in the lower portion of same, or in the branches of same that act with the lyden [Leydig] gland, that causing the expansion of same in this region. Hence there has been the continued repression to the body in its development, until - reaching that cycle when the development of the genitory [genitive - generatory] gland and the activity of the lyden [Leydig] gland in the system - has brought about such depression and activity to the action of the imagination, or the activity of the gray matter in nerve reaction, until dementia is the result. Dementia in the act that the repressions are as magnified, and will eventually - without correction - bring the softening of cell tissue in brain itself. Hence we find there are periods when the body is not controlled by any reaction in self, nor is it CAPABLE of controlling reaction in self. While at others the body is sullen, melancholy, morose, and destruction is the ideas as are manifested as reactions from such conditions. Confinement will only add TO the mental aberrations; yet the conditions are such that this could NOT be handled without personal care and attention; though were corrections made of those conditions existent in the cervicals, and that added to system that would first subjugate or prevent those reactions through the glands’ forces, then builded properly through normal suggestion - and the proper accentuations given to the development of glands in the digestion, the diaction [diacele?], and the whole of the gland system builded nominally, we would bring - in the third cycle - a near normal reaction for this body, [3997].

4. Then, unless corrections are made - unless these may be given their proper incentive in the system to form normal reactions, we may expect a continued reaction; though at times bettered, then the general breaking down of the gray portion of nerve tissue, nerve cell matter, in the body.

5. Make corrections first. Then we would give those conditions necessary for meeting the needs of this body. Osteopathically should the corrections, or ONLY may the corrections, be made properly - though correction might be made nominally under that called chiropractic; yet the reactions to the glands from the pressure would intensify, unless proper adjustments are made in the cervicals and the proper manipulation in other stimulation from the lower dorsal and lower lumbar reaction to the glands, or the pineal gland proper - that brush end of the cerebro-spinal system. Stimulating the nerve reaction, subjugating the sympathetic reaction from this center in the last dorsal and the lower lumbars, see?

6. (Q) How many treatments would be necessary to make the correction? (A) Sixteen to twenty-eight.

7. (Q) What is the lyden [Leydig] gland and where located? (A) Lyden [Leydig] meaning sealed; that gland from which gestation takes place when a body is created through coition, or inception, through conception of two bodies meeting in creating a body. Located in and above the gland called genital glands, see? In the male, above the glands corresponding to testes. In the female, that above gland responding to testes in the male. Here in THIS particular case, near the size of a wren’s egg. Nominally should be about the size of a small pea.

8. We are through.

Reports

Reports & Follow-up

R1. 10/27/63 (Sunday) HOUSTON POST article:

THE PUZZLING PINEAL

WASHINGTON - It’s about the size of a pea. It sits smack between both halves of the brain. It has baffled scientists for centuries, and now it’s back in the research spotlight.

This enigmatic prima donna is the pineal gland - a tiny organ Descartes, the philosopher, mystically called “the seat of the soul.”

The shroud of mystery that has covered the pineal gland for so long is being lifted. The pineal is begging to be looked on now as a potent biochemical machine that seems to regulate the sex gland activity of males and females.

“It is, at least, now very certain, says Dr. Johannes A. Kappers of the Netherlands Central Institute for Brain Research, “that the mammalian pineal body, far from being a mere non-functional relic, is a veritable factory working at a high metabolic rate and producing a number of compounds of high functional importance.”

LIKE THE APPENDIX, the pineal was thought to be a vestige of man’s evolutionary past. But this explanation didn’t satisfy too many. The problem persisted: Something sitting in the middle and at the top of such and important organ as the brain just had to be important. The questions was, for what?

Adding to the mystery is the pineal’s reputation as a “third eye” in some cold-blooded animals such as lizards and the eel-like lamprey. It has light-receptive structures similar to those of the retina of the eye, and while the pineal in these animals probably doesn’t enable them to see, it does seem to help the animals adapt their bodily activity to light and darkness.

The pineal in these animals is impregnated with nerve endings directly connected to the brain. But in animals higher up the evolutionary ladder the pineal seems to have changed from an organ of cerebral nerve fibers to a hormone-secreting gland whose nerves originate from centers high in the neck.

“IT IS MOST intriguing that this gland is part of the brain and yet is not innervated by the brain,” says Dr. Kappers. Instead, running through the gland are some of the so-called autonomic nerves. This nerve system, acting like a switchboard, controls such involuntary biological actions as food digestion, heartbeat, eye blinking and sexual cycles.

Pineal investigators in this country and abroad are giving particular attention to the substance melatonin, produced exclusively in the pineal. In lower animals melatonin seems to influence skin pigmentation. But in mammals it seems to have a far different role.

According to Dr. Kappers, it apparently influences the part of the brain whose hormones regulate the growth and activity of the sex glands. This part of the brain is called the anterior pituitary gland.

MELATONIN given in high doses to young male rats suppresses the development of their semen reservoirs and retards body growth. Remove the melatonin-producing pineal and their sex glands swell.

These finding are corroborated by clinical findings which show that male humans whose pineals were completely destroyed by cancer developed mature gonads early in life.

In female rats, says Dr. Kapper, biochemical activity in the pineal is lowest around ovulation and highest during the period prior to the production of eggs. This is the so-called diestrous period, which corresponds to the menstrual period in humans. Highest pineal activity thus coincides with the sterile period in the females.

Researcher at the National Institute of Health have given melatonin extracts to rats and have decreased the length of their fertile period. The same researchers have evidence that light may influence pineal activity in mammals. They showed that the pineals produced lesser amounts of melatonin under prolonged bright light.

THERE ARE stories out of Sweden which if true would extend the “third eye” effect to human beings. These reports say that the menstrual cycle of women becomes disrupted during the constant light of summer.

The thinking among many pineal researchers, says Dr. Kappers, is that the pineal and the anterior pituitary co-operate in some way to regulate the sexual cycle of females and sexual development in both sexes.

The great German biochemist Otto Warburg prophetically called the pineal the chastity organ because of the depressive action on sexual growth. Other scientists are saying that its effects are more than just sexual, that the pineal also controls fluid balance in the body. The complete facts remain to be learned.

Background

Background

None.

Mentioned Entities

Glands (Esoteric), Soul, Alabama, Chiropractic, Germany, Gertrude Cayce, Gladys Davis, Texas, Virginia Beach

Source: The Complete Edgar Cayce Readings, A.R.E. CD-ROM (2006). Reading 3997-1, ReadingID 11684.