William A. McGarey M.D. - Edgar Cayce on Healing Foods for Body, Mind, and Spirit

Edgar Cayce on Healing Foods for Body,
Mind, and Spirit

Revised Edition

William A. McGarey, M.D.

A.R.E. Press Virginia Beach Virginia

Copyright 1989, 2002 by William A. McGarey, M.D.

Revised Edition 7th Printing, December 2011

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Edgar Cayce on healing foods for body, mind, and spirit / William
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ISBN 0-87604-441-0

ISBN 13: 978-0-87604-441-4

1. Nutrition. 2. Cayce, Edgar, 1877-1945. Edgar Cayce readings. I. Cayce, Edgar, 1877-1945. II. Title.

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Disclaimer

The information in this book is not intended to replace medical advice. You should consult your physician regarding any general or specific physical symptoms. The author and publisher disclaim any responsibility for adverse effects resulting from information in this book.

This book is dedicated to two people who, aside from Edgar Cayce (the man who gave the readings), were most important in making this information from the readings available to the world as a whole:

Hugh Lynn CayceEdgars son
and
Gladys Davis TurnerEdgars secretary

They, like Edgar, have moved on to another dimension, but their reality and the good that they did does indeed live on.

Joe Dunn, a dear friend of mine for many years, urged me to rewrite this book, bringing it more up to date for those who are interested in the information that Edgar Cayce made available in his psychic readings over nearly half a century before he died. Joe was very helpful, working in the A.R.E. Press, but he also traveled on to that spiritual dimension before he could see this book published. I thank him deeply.

My wife, Dr. Peggy McGarey, was very patient with me as I struggled to finish what I had promised to do several years ago. Too many individuals to list in any form of an acknowledgment were helpful in their individual way and manner, for I spent many more years consuming foods that I did writing about or preparing them for others.

Needless to say, I had a lot of help, and for that I am sincerely appreciative.

In his psychic readings, Edgar Cayce saw each person as a unit of energy in the earth, a creation of Universal Forces which we call God, an entity who is distinct from every other being on the face of the earth, and who deserves to be treated as such. Thus, his suggestions were always a bit different for each seeker who came to him for help.

Cayce recognized each of us as eternal beings, created in a spiritual dimension in the image of the Creator, and then born over and over again into the earth in a pattern recognized as reincarnation.

Ones life purpose was often pointed out during the reading, even while Cayce was offering a diet to help the physical body recover a better state of health. But he recalled to mind frequently that God was indeed our Sourceand our life here on planet Earth is an opportunity to make headway back to that Source, which is our rightful destiny.

About two-thirds of the psychic readings that my grandfather, Edgar Cayce, gave during his lifetime were in response to individuals questions about health and healing. Most of the total of some 14,500 stenographically recorded discourses given in an unconscious trance state have been indexed by subject, including those on health-related subjects. Edgar Cayce died in 1945, but now we ask, how helpful today is that information, given for individuals years ago? The author of this book, William McGarey, has taken the lead in trying to answer that question related to the health ideas in the Edgar Cayce readings.

All of us are aware of how our diet can affect how we feel. We need only reflect on the effect of an alcoholic drink or a cup of coffee, or that feeling after a big Thanksgiving dinner. Our society is also becoming more aware of the more complex and longer-term effects of our diet. I recently read in Newsweek a cover article about the relationship of nutrition to levels of stress, and there are thousands of such articles. One only need watch our national best-seller lists to see a reflection of our concern about this aspect of our lives. There are dietary and nutrition principles in the Cayce readings that are now being confirmed as important general principles for many of us to consider.

Bill McGarey has been studying these principles in the Edgar Cayce readings for more than forty years. He has tested them with his thousands of patients. He uses them himself. He has compared them with current medical research. He is especially qualified to share them. I encourage you to have a look and try them for yourself.

Charles Thomas Cayce, Ph.D.

The purpose of this book is to add to the written literature another viewpoint of the wonders that can be found in your diet, the benefits that come about when you understand your body better, and the difficulties and roadblocks that may appear as you try to do just that and to make all of this as practical as possible.

Edgar Cayce left behind a legacy of psychic readings given from a state of extended consciousness. Two-thirds of these, resulting from individual requests, dealt with illnesses of the body and what might be done to correct them and restore the body back to a state of health.

As he looked at these bodies and the illnesses they were creating, Cayce talked about assimilations and eliminations, acid-alkaline balance, incoordinations, functions, relationships of one system or organ to another, and about disease resulting from disturbances in these kinds of physiological activities.

Throughout his suggestions on ways to correct these conditions, he spoke volumes about diet. He saw certain food combinations as helpful, some as harmful. His theme throughout the readings was keep the body and its functions balanced, often by using nutrition.

The Cayce concepts are found in the readings, piece by piece, not as a volume of information to be followed as factual data. Cayce liked to call this process, line upon line, precept upon precept. All of these ideas are more reasonably understood by the reader if one accepts the concept of reincarnation. We also need to add to that the idea that we are all created in the image of God, that we are here in the earth plane temporarily, over and over again from the spiritual domainour origin. And Cayce told us that our destinyall of usis to learn how to love God and love our fellow man, thus becoming awakened to our ability to be one with the Creative Forces of the Universe.