perspective, each organ and function of the body is designed to operate in an optimal manner. That optimal manner creates a resonance, or a vibration, that maintains equilibrium, enabling the organ to function properly and work in connection with every other system in the body. When a physical function or one of the body’s organs is not working properly, there is a resultant discordant vibration that impacts the entire physical body. The readings suggest that not only does each system have its proper vibration but also that vibration can be used through various means in conjunction with other healing modalities to facilitate healing. Therefore, one aspect of Cayce’s approach to healing is to create the means whereby the body’s systems can return to their optimum vibration, and the body becomes a cooperative partner in the healing process.
As will be discussed later, health readings were given for every imaginable problem and disease afflicting individuals in the first half of the twentieth century. Depending upon the illness, Cayce recommended treatments including everything from surgery and medicine to exercise, a change in diet, osteopathic and chiropractic adjustments, physiotherapy, and a change of attitude. In fact, Cayce’s “medicine chest” frequently drew upon a variety of healthcare practitioners. Therefore, it is a mistake to assume that the readings only focused on homeopathic and naturopathic remedies, as depending on the condition, they also recommended various allopathic, pharmacological, and surgical approaches.
One example of a health reading from the Cayce files that has a great deal to do with the subject of vibrations concerns a middle-aged woman who made this request for help: “I have been in bad health for several years and having heard of some of your work am in great hope that you can tell me a cure for my trouble.” Although she was only thirty-seven-years old, the woman’s complaints included nausea, vertigo, a tingling, or “needle pricks,” in the extremities of her body, nerve strain, depression, cold feet, hot flashes, stiffness in the joints, and indigestion.
During the course of the reading, Cayce systematically examined and commented upon the functioning of each of the body’s major systems and organs, including the blood circulation and supply, the nervous system, brain, throat, heart, lungs, stomach, digestion, liver, pancreas, kidneys, elimination processes, and so forth. Overall, the reading suggested that the main cause of the woman’s multiple problems was toxemia–somehow toxins had accumulated within the physical body and these toxins were now being circulated throughout the bloodstream. The problem had essentially occurred because of improper diet, poor eliminations, nervous strain, improper digestion, and the resultant strain on various organs. Demonstrating how each of the body’s systems was interconnected as well as describing the interrelationship between vibrations and physical health, Cayce’s statements to the woman included the following:
. . . for, as we find, the body–each body–made up of vibratory force and of cellular conditions within the physical forces, that are as small worlds or universes within themselves, and the blood stream that which correlates the ability of each of these atomic forces to work in unison throughout the system.
This not a deficiency, but a lack of coordination between the nerve systems–which are as a unit, yet function one with each within itself–for remember, each organism, and each vibratory force as set in the body, is as of a unit within itself– and they are of the countless millions! See?
Now, to meet the needs of these conditions in this body, it becomes necessary, as we see, then, to create the correct vibration, and remove from the body these conditions in the normal way, without disturbing the equilibrium of the functioning of any organ above or below in its (the organ’s) normal condition . . . we would create that correct vibration that will bring about the normal forces to each portion, and especially stimulating the blood supply to that condition wherein it (the blood supply) may be kept nearer normal throughout, and at all times.
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Cayce’s course of treatment included a change of diet, improved eliminations, several therapies designed to help improve the woman’s digestive and assimilation processes, and a stimulation of the circulation through such things as massage. The reading also prescribed the use of a Cayce-recommended electrical appliance (which will be discussed in later chapters), designed to stimulate and assist the body in its return to proper functioning. By following the recommended course of treatment, the reading assured the woman that the condition could be “eliminated through the proper channels” and would result in the creation of “that proper vibration within the body.”
In addition to vibrations and health, the Cayce material provides a wealth of information on the topic of vibrations and consciousness. Essentially, this material suggests that as individuals raise their own consciousness and attune to higher levels of spirit and vibration, they can become channels for the one force and become co-creative partners with the divine in bringing spirit into the earth. Beginning in 1931, two types of group readings started taking place that explored this premise in greater detail. One was the study group readings, which were given to a group of individuals that called themselves Norfolk #1, and the other was the prayer group readings, which were given to the Glad Helpers Prayer Group. Both of these sets of materials continue to have a major impact upon the Cayce work even to this day, and both ultimately provide a series of tools for transforming personal consciousness and raising individual vibration.
As background information, it is important to point out one of the major premises contained in what might be called the Cayce cosmology. From the perspective of the Cayce readings, rather than being physical bodies that possess souls, each individual is ultimately a spiritual being, a soul, having a physical experience. Through life’s experiences and individual soul growth, each soul will ultimately reawaken to its divine source and acquire an awareness of its oneness with the rest of creation. The readings contend that this reawakening occurred in the life of Jesus and is perhaps best described as the universal Christ Consciousness: “the awareness within each soul, imprinted in pattern on the mind and waiting to be awakened by the will, of the soul’s oneness with God.” (5749-14) Rather than being connected to a particular religion, Cayce called Jesus the “elder brother” for all of humanity and stated that this Christ Consciousness is universal and is the destiny for every soul regardless of his or her religious beliefs. In fact, Cayce suggests that God desired to bring spirit into the earth and that each individual is destined to become an emissary of that spirit, ultimately raising the vibration of the earth and the third dimension to be in accord with divine will.
For example, in 1932, while giving a discourse on the subject of prayer, meditation, and vibration, Cayce told the Glad Helpers Prayer Group that as they raised their personal vibration through attunement and spiritual growth, they would experience a “closer walk” with God. This would also enable them to become channels of spiritual energy to others. In the language of the readings, the group was reminded that:
Vibration is, in its simple essence or word, raising the Christ Consciousness in self to such an extent as it may flow out of self to him thou would direct it to . . . What produces same? These are the vibrations to which a body has raised by its attunement of its whole being, its whole inner self, of a consciousness of that divine force that emanates in Life itself in this material plane.
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Echoing this same premise, on another occasion, a forty-five-year-old woman seeking mental and spiritual counsel from Edgar Cayce was encouraged with advice as to the ultimate purpose for which each soul enters into the earth:
The purpose of the entity in the earth, is that it may know itself, also to be itself, and yet at one with the Creative Forces, fulfilling those purposes for which the entity comes into the earth; accepting, believing, knowing then thy relationship to that Creative Force.
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