Edgar Cayce - Edgar Cayce speaks of foods, beverages, and physical health

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This is a unique book in an age that has produced the atom bomb, exploration of outer space and photographs of chromosomal abnormalities, to mention but a few of our modern marvels. Indeed, when we find neurophysiologists reporting the biological activity of the brain in terms that describe neurons rapidly rotating and sending out streams of protoplasm as though they were searching for a purposeful directionthen, certainly, we may rest assured that these are memorable and unique times.

Why should an encyclopedia of information compiled from psychic readings given from an unconscious state be of interest and importance to us in the midst of all these wonderful happenings? An appropriate answer would necessarily relate the wonders of the present age in some manner with the nature, the scope and the validity of the information coming from that mind.

Information given by Edgar Cayce to individuals 40 years ago spoke of tubercle bacilli as being causative of some of the skin changes found in scleroderma. It has been within the last two years that rather interesting studies have been published by Cantwell in the medical literature demonstrating acid-fast bacilli in the skin of scleroderma patients. Cayce has been able, time and again, to see or describe conditions or functions in the human organism which pre-dated the scientific demonstration of what is then acknowledged to be fact.

Neuroscientists, for instance, find quite a gap between popular concepts that the brain is a static, precast organ, and the most recent findings at the University of California at San Diego. Dr. Robert Livingston reports their work there as showing that nerve endings move as though continually testing their compatibility with the surfaces of other cells, while the glial cells swarm over the neurons. The brain, as a matter of fact, continues to construct itself and modify its structure, sharply influenced by personal and cultural experiences and sensory input of all kinds. Decades before this information came to our attention through the medium of scientific research under highly sophisticated circumstances, Cayce lay down, and under a type of self-induced trance, gave the following information, startlingly similar:

The life of a brain cell is only according to the activity of a body physical and mental, and is multiplied according to the activities of same as related to the assimilation of resuscitating forces.

161-3, p. 1

Cayces ability to understand physical conditions of the body and to suggest means to bring the body back to a state of health has made his name and his work stand out with clarity in a world that recognizes more and more of the use of higher sense perceptionpsychic ability. His concepts of physiology and therapy are being studied by an ever-enlarging group of physicians for what they may hold of benefit to the medical profession. Clinical studies have been inaugurated to work out the methodology of therapy found in the Cayce readings and serious consideration is being given to specifics in treatment of various disease entities as they are recommended for individuals throughout these more than 14,000 readings.

This provides a bit of a background then, for a study of the data in the readings related to foods and their utilization in the body. These readings are fascinating in that they not only often state why and in what circumstances a food should be used, but there is also tossed in, for good measure, as it were, a gem of physiology or philosophy, making the reading of these selections an adventure in itself. There are those who will accept from these data only what has since been proved. These people will perhaps not find the same exhilaration from this compilation of material that he finds who looks with an open mind at the possibility that there might actually be a person such as Cayce who could seek and find accurate information from unconscious minds all over the world. The latter will look for realities not yet scientifically established, much as the prospector used to roam the mountains of the far West in search of gold.

Take yogurt for example. Yogurt was found several years ago only in health food stores, but now can be purchased at any good supermarket. Much has been claimed for this food. Cayce had this to say to a 43-year old woman who apparently was suffering from some sort of general debilitation:

Thus we may bring the abilities for strength and for purifying the circulatory forces, upon which depends the strength to resist physically the inroads of the infectious forces that disturb the locomotion as well as the pulmonary and the circulatory system and the strength through the depleting of the nerve energies of the body.

1542-1 F. 43 yrs.

2/23/38

Several functions are suggested as occurring within this particular body as the result of taking yogurt as part of her diet, few of which are even considered by the manufacturers of the food itself. One traces the effects of the yogurt from the alimentary canal through the blood stream and lymphatics to the neuromuscular and respiratory systems, affecting each as it passes. Little is given, of course, about what happens specifically, or the details of how these functions are affected. The nagging thought remains, of coursewhat if Cayce is right, even though he doesnt explain it?