Sandra Duggan - Edgar Cayces Guide to Colon Care

Edgar Cayces

Guide to Colon Care

Edgar Cayces

Sandra Duggan RN

Copyright 1995

by Sandra Duggan

Originally published 2006 by Inner Vision Publishing Co.

1st Printing, A.R.E. Press, October 2014

Printed in the U.S.A.

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Edgar Cayce Readings 1971, 19932007
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The contents of this publication are intended for educational and informative use only. They are not to be considered directive nor as a guide to self-diagnosis or self-treatment. Before embarking on any therapeutic regimen, it is absolutely essential that you consult with and obtain the approval of your personal physician or health care provider.

Cover design by Christine Fulcher

DEDICATED
To
SAI BABA

Acknowledgments

With special thanks and deep appreciation to:

BARBARA

JAN

KAREN JANINE DAVIS
for her inspiration, friendship, and pre-chapter quotations

DORIS VAN AUKEN
for her patience, encouragement, and editorial assistance

For forty-three years, Edgar Cayce (1877-1945) provided clairvoyant, medical diagnoses and treatment suggestions for thousands of people who requested readings. His psychic source drew on a vast knowledge of herbs, nutrition, hydrotherapies (colonics, steam/fume baths, whirlpool baths, etc.), osteopathy, mechanical and electrical devices, and much more. Usually twice a day, he would lie down on a couch, go into a trance state, contact the unconscious mind of an individual and Universal Consciousness, and respond to the seekers questions. The response was then transcribed by Cayces secretary.

These readings are available to the public. Names have been replaced with numbers to preserve the privacy of the individuals who received the readings. For example, if a persons first reading is numbered (2056-1), the second reading will be (2056-2), and so on. Of the 14,256 readings given, almost 9,000 are on the topic of health.

The A.R.E., the Association for Research and Enlightenment, is a non-profit membership organization formed in 1931 to preserve and research the readings. The A.R.E. Library/Conference Center houses the largest collection of documented psychic information in the world. The A.R.E. offers such member benefits as a newsletter, a magazine titled Venture Inward, lessons for home study, and a lending library by mail. Study groups meet in private homes worldwide and apply the Cayce material for personal growth. Conferences and seminars are offered year round, and the Visitor Center has daily tours; free lectures on dreams, meditation, healing, and other topics; a movie on Cayces life; and audiovisuals and exhibits. The bookstore and the Cayce/ Reilly School of Massage are also open to the public.

The readings on colonics are indexed in the A.R.E. library under Intestines: colonics, in the card catalog. About 1350 readings were given on colonic irrigation, 500 on colon problems, 1000 on enemas, 10 on diarrhea, 300 on colitis, 175 on constipation and almost 2900 on laxatives. Cayce obviously had a great deal to say about the importance of colon health.

For twenty years, colonics, massage, and other hydrotherapies were available at the A.R.E. Therapy Department, which opened in 1966. As you may know, it was directed by Dr. Harold J. Reilly, D.Ph.T., D.S., a physiotherapist (one who uses physical and mechanical remedies, such as massage, hydrotherapy, electricity, heat, etc. in the treatment of disease) who also held degrees in naturopathy and chiropractic, and completed two years of osteopathy. He studied with John Harvey Kellogg, M.D., of Battle Creek, Michigan, and owned the Reilly Health Institute in Rockefeller Center, New York City.

In January of 1920, a woman came to see Reilly, saying that she had been specifically referred by Cayce, in a reading, to have massage and hydrotherapy with Dr. Reilly. Reilly had never heard of Edgar Cayce, and could not understand how Cayce knew not only his name, but also the therapies he offered in his practice. The two finally met in person two years later and developed a close, working partnership. Reilly himself had several readings from Cayce, and learned that he had spent many past lives as a healer, working with massage and hydrotherapy. Reilly continued to work with the guidance given in the readings long after Cayces death, for he fully believed in drugless therapies that allow the body to heal itself. Reilly was a good example of health and productivity and lived well into his nineties.

Dr. Reilly retired from his practice in 1966, became Director of the A.R.E. Therapy Department and donated all of his equipment: Dierker colonic machines, massage tables, a whirlpool bath, and two porcelain Sitz baths.

In 1986, the Therapy Department closed and the Cayce/Reilly School of Massotherapy was founded. It offers both a 225-hour and a 600-hour program teaching the Cayce-Reilly method of massage, hydrotherapy, Cayce remedies, sports massage, anatomy/physiology, and related body therapies. In May of 1995, the Therapy Department was reborn as the Health Services Department of the A.R.E., offering massage, hydrotherapy (including colonics), and related services.

The body of each entity is the temple of the living God. There He has promised to meet the entity. To live, to beand that activityunto the glory of the Creative Forces is the purpose of the entrance of each entity into material consciousness.

2981-1

My involvement with colon health and colon irrigation began the day I was interviewed for the position of Supervisor of the A.R.E. Therapy Department. Along with 250 other members who were also nurses, I had received a letter saying there was a position available. It just so happened that I was going to be passing through Virginia Beach and could conveniently stop by.

I had only recently learned about Edgar Cayce and, just prior to this, had been reading everything I could find on Egypt, dreams, and spiritual subjects. But my knowledge of holistic health was still in its infancy. When I learned that my prospective job was to administer colonic irrigations and supervise the massage therapists, I had no idea what was required. Not wanting to risk losing the opportunity for employment, it seemed wiser to ask, Whats a colonic? before things got more complicated. This was to become a very familiar question over the years, for many people have very little knowledge about colon health and colonics. Though this form of hydrotherapy is recognized as a highly beneficial approach to alternative health care not only by Edgar Cayce, but also by such varied holistic health care professionals as osteopaths, naturopaths, chiropractors, acupuncturists, massage therapists, and many others, the medical profession seems to be either unaware or misinformed about colon irrigation. At any rate, a colonic sounded simple enoughit was some sort of internal bath that used a professionally designed machine to give a high irrigation of the colon, or large intestine. My background as a nurse was helpful, but not really necessary for certification as a colon therapist.