Reading 462-4

TEXT OF READING 462-4 M 49 (Dredge Captain, Protestant)

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Date: 12/5/1933 Sex: M Age: 49 ReadingID: 3366

This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 5th day of December, 1933, in accordance with request made by self - Capt. [462], Active Member of the Ass”n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

[Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mildred Davis and L. B. Cayce.]

On board the U.S. Time of Reading Dredge …, 3:35 to 3:55 P.M. Eastern Standard Time. Merrill and Stevens Shipyard, Jacksonville, Fla., or somewhere on the St. John’s River, not far from Jacksonville. (Questions)

1. EC: We have the body associations with the Dredge, but we don’t find them together!

2. Ready for questions.

3. (Q) Please outline the diet fully. (A) The diet, as we find, should be taken into consideration with the manner of adjustments that should be made in the physical body - and the properties that would be well to go with same. Hence it would be well were the diet outlined by one making the adjustments, as these changes should come with the corrections as they affect the body and its circulation.

For, there are elements that are lacking in the system; or there is an excess, as it might be termed, of elements that make for an unbalancing - and hence lacking in some directions; though, if these were all balanced, there might be little change necessary in the character or amount of elements for corrections. See?

There is, then, an excess of potash as related to elements that create in the blood supply and in the activity in the organs as to cause a tendency for sluggishness of activity through the alimentary canal, and low or cold activity of the organs of elimination; producing a thickening, or a temperature of a nature in other portions of the system. Lacking, then (in the present balance), of the iodines; not iodine of potassium, but tincture or atomic iodine.

4. (Q) What corrections or adjustments should be made? (A) From the manner of the activities of the system, and the attitude of the mental body, there is the sluggish activity through liver and the colon. Hence a low hepatic circulation.

The segments in the 8th, 9th and 10th dorsal show a tendency for settling close together, as do the activities of the muscles and the tendons about the sacral and coccyx region.

These subluxations are not as lesions, as yet, but are rather of the nature that produces - through these areas at times - a dull aching across the hips, through the right side - low down in the caecum area; at other times a heaviness and pain through the upper portion of the body, under the shoulder blades, and a tendency for the mental body to be easily aggravated - or nothing fits just exactly right; making for a lesion in the hypogastric and pneumogastric area, or 3rd and 4th cervical.

What areas, then, need adjustment?

In the 8th, 9th and 10th dorsal. Relaxations in the lumbar or sacral and coccyx area. Tautness and relaxation (not together, but at various adjustments or treatments) in the cervical area. These we would take, preferably, OSTEOPATHICALLY.

These may be aided materially by a CONTINUED and consistent use of the electrically driven vibrator, with the deep manipulation in the dorsal area indicated - and more of the flat or brush manipulation with same in sacral and coccyx area, and the cup manipulation in the cervical and neck area, using also the ball or bulb as a deep manipulation across the abdominal area - as with the caecum, going up and following the line of the colon across the body, which will aid in reducing the tendency for constipation and making for an activity that will relieve the conditions. But PREFERABLY, would we give, use at least once a week the osteopathic adjustments and deep treatment, and about three times a week the vibrator. Let the osteopath outline the diet for the body, but at least once each day - and preferably upon retiring take three to five drops of Atomidine in TWO GLASSES of water.

5. (Q) What can be done for constipation? (A) We have been trying to tell you! We would do that!

6. (Q) What causes the stiffness in the joints at times? (A) The tendency for inflammation in the blood that takes from the circulation the lymph supply. Hence the treatments and the properties given for correction.

7. (Q) Has Innerclean been harmful to this body? (A) At times it has. It tends to take too much of the lymph and emunctory circulation from the intestinal tract, or DRIES secretions without producing cleansing, taking away from the system the peristaltic movement or muscular contraction; which may be aided better by the producing of the activity with the expanding of the nerve and muscular forces through the manipulating and vibratory treatments.

8. (Q) What kind of tobacco, if any, should this body use? (A) Pure tobacco is always better than any concoction of the compilation of other things with same. If it’s to be used at all, use the Natural Leaf. Then you won’t use so much of it either!

9. (Q) What makes the heart beat faster after meals? (A) Conditions in areas indicated in spine, and the effect that the disturbed circulation has upon the respiratory system.

10. (Q) What causes the stiffness in the joints? (A) We have just given you that! We are through with this reading.

Copy to Miss [307] ” ” Ass’n file

Reports

Reports & Follow-up

R1. 12/5/33 GD’s ltr. to Miss [307]: “At the end of the rdg. we were told that EC was again straining himself and should not do any work until he is well. Will you please explain to Mrs. [404] that in his anxiousness to help, he gave the rdg. too soon - and consequently all the questions weren’t ans’d (though I feel the tr. part is clear enough). Please tell her to make new questions later.”

R2. 4/8/34 See 259-59, Par. 11-A personal message on lesson GOD AND HIS MANIFESTATIONS.

R3. 4/20/34 See 534-2, Par. 9-A explaining why it is necessary at times for a definite location in obtaining a rdg. and at others it is possible to get rdg. from “vibrations.”

R4. 7/15/34 See 262-67, Par. 20-A personal message on lesson DESIRE.

R5. 9/23/34 See 262-72, Par. 21-A personal message on lesson DESIRE.

R6. 1/20/35 See 262-77, Par. 25-A personal message on lesson DESTINY.

R7. 7/8/35 See rdg. 462-5, Mental-Spiritual on his life and work.

R8. 11/14/49 Capt. [462]‘s report on 462-4, while leading the discussion of SFG lesson at A.R.E. Group #1 meeting:

In connection with personality and its influence, you might be interested to hear of an experience I had some years ago. I had made an appointment with Edgar Cayce for a reading to be given on December 5, 1933. I told him I would be on board the U.S. Dredge …, Merrill and Stevens Shipyard, Jacksonville, Fla., or somewhere on the St. John’s River, not far from Jacksonville, between 3 and 4 o’clock on that afternoon. However, I had in the meantime forgotten all about the appointment and on the afternoon in question I was ashore, 20 miles from there, in the District Engineer’s office in Jacksonville.

Edgar Cayce in Virginia Beach went to sleep and the reading started:

“We have the body associations with the Dredge, but we don’t find them together!”

The reading continued, nevertheless, FROM THE INFLUENCES OF THE BODY LEFT IN THE ROOM!

No one had ever lived in that room but me. I took that Dredge out when it was new; I had been in that room from the time it came from the shipyard, and after operating here 4 years went to Jacksonville.

The reading was given on what was the matter with my back and what to do for it. Enough of me was left in that room that Edgar Cayce picked it up and gave the reading. He said in part.

The segments in the 8th, 9th and 10th dorsal show a tendency for settling close together, as do the activities of the muscles and the tendons about the sacral and coccyx region.

These subluxations are not as lesions, as yet, but are rather of the nature that produces - through these areas at times - a dull aching across the hips, through the right side - low down in the caecum area; at other times a heavi- ness and pain through the upper portion of the body, under the shoulder blades, and a tendency for the mental body to be easily aggravated - or nothing fits just exactly right; making for a lesion in the hypogastric and pneumogastric area, or 3rd and 4th cervical.

“What areas, then, need adjustment? In the 8th, 9th and 10th dorsal. Relaxations in the lumbar or sacral and coccyx area.”

When the reading arrived in the mail a few days later, I took it to Jacksonville - picked up a phone book looking for an osteopath, as I didn’t know one, and went down the line to the last one on the list - a Dr. Avis M. Withers in the Medical Arts Building. I went right down to her office and said, “I’d like you to give me an examination, but before you do so, I have a letter here I would like for you to read. I want you to read this with an open mind, no prejudice - just pick it up and read it. Don’t allow yourself to be influenced by what you read. Then check my body and see how close this comes to what you find according to your science of osteopathy.”

So she read it and said, “Well, I’ve never seen anything like this before.” I then lay on the table and she went down my spine and checked each vertebrae. Finally she said, “It is 100% - I find his description is exactly the condition existent.” In other words, she found the tautness particu- larly in the 8th, 9th, 10th dorsal; [“Several weeks prior to the rdg. fire broke out aboard my dredge. While running down a ladder on the way to the fire, I fell hard on the deck and bruised my spine. I was in pain and discomfort from it until the osteopathic corrections were made. I had not given Edgar Cayce the details of my injury when I requested the reading.”] it was very pronounced, so that there was no guesswork. Dr. Withers was flabbergasted when she realized that Edgar Cayce had given that diagnosis from Virginia Beach with me in Jacksonville (and 20 miles away from where I was supposed to be keeping the appointment for him to examine my body). She was actually knocked out - had never heard of anything like that.

I took a series of treatments from Dr. Withers and my physical condition was put in good shape, just as Edgar Cayce said it would be.

From that experience I am impressed with the fact that we do leave a part of ourselves in places we occupy, say over a period of months, or even days, as the case may be. I also have a better understanding of what is meant by we being our brother’s keeper, and that no man lives to himself, and that as a man thinketh so is he. It has shown me how much we are a part of everything when we come to a final analysis.

There was nothing in that room outwardly indicative of me. My clothes were in a steel locker on the side. There was nothing of me there except the bed I used to sleep on, and

• as a matter of fact - the bed had been changed that day
• yet the subconscious picked it up and could tell where the trouble was in the body that occupied that room, even though he had been gone from it since early morning. I usually got up at 5:30 in the morning and by 6:00 o’clock I was out of the ship - Edgar Cayce gave the reading at 3:30 that afternoon.

To tell you the truth, although it happened 16 years ago, I have never gotten over this particularly unique experience of mine.

Background

Background

B1. See 462-2 on 8/1/29, also 462-3, Par. 29-A—36-A, on 8/26/32.

B2. 11/20/33 Wife [404] submitted questions [via Miss [307], saying he would be on the Dredge at the times appointed, or “somewhere on the St. John’s River, not far from Jacksonville.”

Mentioned Entities

Florida, Osteopathy, John (Apostle), Mental Body, Virginia Beach, Atomidine, Electric Vibrator, Iodine, Vibration, A.R.E. (Association for Research and Enlightenment), Destiny, Gertrude Cayce, Gladys Davis, Physical Body, Search for God Study Groups, Subconscious Mind

Source: The Complete Edgar Cayce Readings, A.R.E. CD-ROM (2006). Reading 462-4, ReadingID 3366.