a series of readings given to the Norfolk #1 Study Group, Edgar Cayce described how the application of spiritual principles in the earth led to a growth in consciousness as well as a higher personal vibration. However, even group members might have been surprised in 1934 when a reading described how every location also possesses its own unique vibration, essentially created by the people and activities within the surrounding area. Cayce told those assembled: “This might be interesting to those who are compiling things. Each state, country, or town makes its own vibrations by or through the activities of those that comprise same . . .” (262-66) In other words, the collective thoughts and activities of a group of people in a location create an energetic vibration that is reflective of those very thoughts and activities. As unusual as this may sound to some, the feeling inside a church, synagogue, or mosque– even if you are the only individual present–is very different from the feeling inside a very different place, such as a post office, even if you are the only individual present. Somehow collective thought and activity help to energize a place with vibration. With this in mind, is it any wonder, then, that individuals sometimes feel out of sync with a particular location?–suggesting perhaps that the individual’s energetic vibration is somehow out of harmony with (or very different from) the collective whole.
In addition to vibrations being integrally connected to healing, consciousness, and locations, everything that is a part of the material world is also subject to vibrations and ultimately emanates vibrations all its own. On one occasion, Cayce told a thirty-four-year-old physicist:
For . . . everything in motion, everything that has taken on materiality as to become expressive in any kingdom in the material world, is by the vibrations that are the motions–or those positive and negative influences that make for that differentiation that man has called matter in its various stages of evolution into material things.
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Interestingly enough, the same individual was encouraged to use his first initial and his middle name, “J. Howard,” rather than his first name (John), as it apparently created a vibration more in keeping with the talents and abilities he was attempting to manifest in his life at that time. Therefore, names and words possess individual vibrations as well.
On one occasion, an individual who was very interested in the vibrational qualities of astronomy, numbers, metals, and stones obtained a reading and inquired as to how the vibrations of each might best be used to help him in his life. Much like the information on vibrations and consciousness, Cayce suggested that ultimately, each could best be used as a means of attuning to the divine. The individual’s advice included the following:
As these are but lights, but signs in thine experience, they are as but a candle that one stumbles not in the dark. But worship not the light of the candle; rather that to which it may guide thee in thy service. So, whether from the vibrations of numbers, of metals, of stones, these are merely to become the necessary influences to make thee in attune, one with the Creative Forces; just as the pitch of a song of praise is not the song nor the message therein, but is a helpmeet for those that would find strength in the service of the Lord. So, use them to attune self. How, ye ask? As ye apply, ye are given the next step.
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Other readings discussed the connection of vibrations with music, gems, colors, and so forth. Again, everything that is a part of the material world possesses a unique vibration.
More than simply discussing metaphysical and theoretical concepts related to vibrations, the readings also confirm the findings of science in describing how vibrations are used by the nervous system to relay information from the body’s sensory system to the brain. Each of the senses operates at a different vibration, and from Cayce’s perspective, the capacity of speech is the highest vibration among the five senses:
Each functioning organ of the sensory system reflects a different vibration to produce to the brain the functioning of that organ, that is the sense of taste, which is based both through the tongue and at the root of the tongue and is connected with the sensory organs and to the pneumogastric nerve, and to the brain three million times less than the vibration necessary to produce hearing or sight, that of speech being even three times greater than the sense of hearing or sight; that is the highest vibration we have in the body at all.
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In addition to the above topics and their interaction with vibrations, approximately two thousand readings recommended the use of one of several Cayce-prescribed appliances to facilitate healing, most frequently either a “radio-active” appliance or a wet cell appliance. Both will be discussed in greater detail, but essentially, each uses a gentle electrical current and vibration to help normalize, equalize, or even stimulate the body’s own vibratory rate, facilitating the body’s ability to heal and regenerate itself.
Taken together, the Cayce information on vibrations suggests that every particular of matter, every thought, and every impulse of the spirit is indeed connected to vibrations. Everything is vibration. With this in mind, the more we can come to understand the nature of vibrations and how they operate in the world in which we live, the more we will move beyond simply perceiving the shadows of reality– the visual effects of the vibrations around us. Instead, an exploration of vibrations can enable us to come to understand the nature of ourselves, the universe in which we live and, ultimately, even our connection to the divine.
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Vibrations and Healing
Now, to give the relief necessary to bring the body to its normal forces . . . we find each system in the system, that is, the spiritual and soul forces and the physical force in all bodies produce an individual vibration, but they must co-ordinate to keep balance in the physical force. See?
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The readings contend that virtually any health problem, illness, or disease has a negative impact upon the normal functioning of the body, and that negative impact also includes an alteration of the “perfect vibration or equalization” normally associated with the affected organ or system. With this in mind, a thirty-six-year-old teacher was informed: “Every individual entity is on certain vibrations. Every dis-ease or disease is creating in the body the opposite or noncoordinant vibration with the conditions in a body-mind and spirit of the individual.” (1861-12)
Since each organ and system has its corresponding healthy vibration, the Cayce approach to healing often included healing modalities designed to rebalance the body’s own vibratory energies. These methods were designed to help the body become a cooperative participant in the healing process. For example, an individual who had an intestinal infection was given a series of suggested treatments in order to overcome the condition, while being told: “We would take that into the system that will give the correct vibrations to those parts affected, see, and they will give the force and vibration necessary to produce the incentives of the warrior forces in the system to overcome the condition . . .” (1323-1)
Similarly, a child diagnosed with asthenia–a debilitating physical condition that is characterized by a lack of bodily strength–was given a series of recommended therapies and counseled that one of the medicinal formulas was specifically designed “to give the correct balance in the system and to produce the correct vibration necessary to overcome this condition . . .” (4303-1)
A woman with anemia, dermatitis, heart palpitations, headaches, and spinal and assimilation problems was informed that the origination of much of her
