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Your Key to Good Health. Elaine Hruska
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isbn 9780876048498
Автор произведения Elaine Hruska
Жанр Эзотерика
Издательство Ingram
The language of the readings can be quite challenging. Rather than try to paraphrase, I felt it was better to quote the text verbatim. Oftentimes reading the quote several times may be required to grasp its meaning.
The readings were given for individuals, yet they carry a universality of content. With the physical readings, however, it is important that the information not be used for self-diagnosis or self-treatment. Any medical problems need the supervision and advice of a health care professional.
CHAPTER ONE
The Cayce Health Readings: A Brief Overview
Edgar Cayce, who lived from 1877 to 1945, was a remarkable individual. For most of his adult life he gave what are called “readings,” discourses for people who requested information on a variety of topics. He did all this in a sleeplike state; that is, he appeared to be asleep, yet could respond to questions posed to him, giving replies that far exceeded what he knew consciously. While the accuracy of this information is largely still being tested, the suggestions and recommendations—though given for a specific individual who asked for the reading—have proven helpful to many others with similar situations or complaints. Called the father of the modern-day holistic health movement in America because of the nature of his discourses, Cayce gave thousands of readings, more than fourteen thousand of which are housed in the A.R.E. Library in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and are available for study and inspection by the public. Of these readings, 9,541, or about 67 percent of the total, are categorized as physical readings, since they deal with the health concerns of those seeking guidance for their ailments. It’s fairly safe to state that, when the recipient of the reading followed through with the recommendations contained in it, the results were generally successful. Reports filed along with the reading attested to these outcomes; unfortunately, for a number of cases no follow-up information was forthcoming: the client did not communicate any results or did not return questionnaires. Some followed the suggestions in part or did not attempt the therapies at all. While such outcomes might be frustrating to those wishing proof of their validity, enough information exists to help confirm the accuracy of the diagnoses as well as the helpfulness of the recommended treatments.
FOLLOWING A HEALTH READING
What if an individual today who has a particular health concern would like to attempt a holistic approach as Cayce advocated? What could he or she do about following Cayce’s advice? Several options are open:
1.Read all the readings that cover your particular ailment. A listing of many different diseases and physical concerns are found in the Circulating File Index (medical section). These individual Files can be purchased or ordered on loan; they are small booklets that contain most of the readings on a particular ailment. Decide from this compilation which readings and/or treatments you’d like to follow.
2.Check out or purchase a Research Bulletin. Each one documents a disease along with a commentary, representative readings, and a statistical abstract classifying causes and treatments of the disease. While physical topics for these Bulletins are limited, they do offer the most often recommended remedies for each ailment along with a general overview of the problem.
3.Individual Research Protocols—binders of standardized health packages on nearly fifty specific illnesses—can be purchased through the A.R.E. These explain in layperson’s terms the process used in following the recommendations suggested in the readings for each ailment. You are also invited to participate in a research project on remedies that were recommended for that particular disease.
4.A suggestion offered by Gladys Davis Turner, Cayce’s longtime secretary, was to examine all of the readings specific to your condition. Then choose one reading that matches or resembles most closely your current physical condition, your particular symptoms, same sex, same age or close to your age, and so forth, and follow the suggestions Cayce gave for that person.
While medical terminology has changed since Cayce’s day and new designations of diseases have arisen, it may be more difficult to locate in the readings particular symptoms or conditions that are prevalent today. Yet, through ongoing study and research into the health readings, updates are continuously being made and noted, with the idea of being more serviceable to the individual seeker.
ORIGIN OF INFORMATION
An important question—especially when dealing with psychic readings—is, Where is the information coming from? When we take the time, energy—and money!—to seek answers beyond and outside of ourselves, it is imperative that we question the source of the information. A unique aspect of the body of Cayce’s material is the set of readings called the Work Readings, the 254 series, which was devoted to questions and comments on just what to do with or how to develop this material so that it would be beneficial and helpful to others. One such reading in this series described the seeker’s part in making the effort to obtain health information: “When an individual seeks for personal or bodily aid, it is part and parcel of that individual and [the information] is read by and through the real desire of the seeker.” (254-95) This places a degree of responsibility on the part of the recipient as to what is “the real desire,” what is the purpose for the request, why is one really asking for this reading. Then, according to this excerpt, the material that is forthcoming from the psychic who is dispensing the information will be colored by the recipient’s motives and desires. The resultant reading would need to be studied and analyzed with these purposes in mind.
While a number of sources were given for the body of Cayce’s readings—for example, for life readings the information was obtained from the Book of Life, or the Akashic Records, of that particular individual—the health information was fairly specific regarding the origin. As stated in the above excerpt, the information “is part and parcel of that individual” seeking. Does this mean that we do know the source or origin of our illness? That it is indeed a part of us already? Which part? If this information is stored within us, then we already know what has created our sickness—better even perhaps than any psychic—and we also know what route we need to take to return to better health. Another reading alludes to this same concept: “From any subconscious mind information may be obtained . . . as we see a mirror reflecting direct that which is before it.” (3744-3)
According to a number of sources, the subconscious mind is like a storehouse of memories that have been forgotten, where suppressed thoughts and ideas remain hidden, where knowledge not needed is held in abeyance, and maybe even details of former incarnations are shelved. Through the process of giving a reading, Cayce’s conscious mind was laid aside (as if he were asleep), and his subconscious mind became activated, attuning itself “with the purpose of the seeker” (294-202), to give the information based upon the suggestion offered at the beginning of the reading itself. Cayce, as the channel for this work, already prepared himself through prayer and meditation and by setting an ideal of service, and the ones requesting the reading were to “attune themselves to that promise which was made to this entity, Edgar Cayce.” (294-202)
The “promise” mentioned here refers to an event from Cayce’s boyhood, as recounted in several biographies. When he was about twelve years old, Edgar had an encounter with an angelic presence as he was reading his Bible. The angel asked him what he would like most of all, and he replied, “To be helpful to others, especially children when they are sick.” Evidently pleased with this selfless reply, the angel promised fulfillment of his wish. Those