the friendship he gave to you and me, and I hope we shall continue to enjoy His blessings together.”
A reading that specifically discussed how vibrations might be used to facilitate healing is the case of a forty-four-year-old woman with fibroid breast tumors. Edgar Cayce told her that by beginning a course of treatment immediately and by changing the vibration within her body, it would be possible to completely eradicate the tumors without surgery: “. . . as we find, if the vibrations are raised sufficiently these [tumors] may be dissipated, and–with the body kept in a constructive way and manner–eliminated entirely from the system.” (683-3)
Her recommended course of treatment included physiotherapy, massage, the use of one of the electrical appliances, and a change in diet. For several days she was encouraged to eat nothing but concord grapes as a means of helping to eliminate toxins from her system. Afterward, she was encouraged to refrain from eating red meat and instead to follow a diet consisting of fish or fowl but principally vegetables and nuts. When she asked if breast surgery would be necessary, Cayce replied that as long as the recommendations were followed, no surgery would be required; however, without following the recommendations, in all likelihood it would become a necessity.
Demonstrating how some of the health recommendations in the readings continue to be helpful long after Cayce’s death, forty years later a woman read about this case and used some of the recommended treatments as her own. She also incorporated the use of castor oil packs– flannel cloth saturated with castor oil–as the readings recommended these packs as a means of helping the body’s vibratory forces and enabling the elimination processes to absorb tumors. She reported her experience:
The story [of the forty-four-year-old woman with fibroid breast tumors] was very significant for me because I had an experience similar to that woman. I too had discovered a lump in my breast and was told to see a surgeon as soon as possible. My doctor told me he thought it was a cyst and not a tumor but in any event should be removed.
I had read where Castor Oil Packs on external cysts, warts and moles were beneficial but I hadn’t read where it was recommended for the breast. Well I applied the packs faithfully for about a week. I even fell asleep once with a pack on! Almost immediately the size of the lump decreased.
During this time I meditated daily. I say this only because I often miss a day or two and I know meditation has a healing effect on the body.
During the next month I continued the packs but only once every two days.
It is now two months later since finding the lump and it has disappeared. I returned to my doctor and after examining me found everything normal. He asked if I saw the surgeon and I replied, “no” . . . Whatever–the lump is gone and I feel the Castor Oil had a lot to do with it.
683-3 Reports
Other situations from the Cayce files that explore the topic of vibrations and healing include the following.
During a reading given to parents of a thirteen-year-old girl who suffered from cramps and menstrual irregularities resulting from a kidney infection, there was the confirmation given that each individual possesses a unique vibration. The parents were told that the medicines that had been recommended by the reading would work in concert with their daughter’s specific vibration: “There is a vibratory rate of each individual entity. All properties given as medicinal or active influences upon the circulation or the glandular system respond to those vibrations.” (2084-10)
A sixty-five-year-old woman was told that she possessed an innate talent with spiritual and magnetic healing and could, in fact, use that talent to help individuals heal with the vibrations from her hands. (5277-1)
One woman was told that the yogic breathing exercises she had learned could be very beneficial in improving her overall health as well as in enabling each organ of her body to function properly and give off the correct vibration. (283-1)
A fifty-one-year-old woman with a catarrh–an inflammation of the mucous membranes–was told that her condition had come about as an aftereffect of surgery for a partial hysterectomy. Cayce prescribed osteopathic manipulation, electrotherapy, and internal medications that the reading stated would assist “the vibratory forces.” She also suffered from general debilitation and backache. Cayce assured her that her health would return by following the recommended treatments. This is how he described her overall condition and prognosis:
. . . the mucus force, as has been described, has become clogged, as from the catarrhal condition produced in mucus portions of the system. Breaking up of these, through those properties as we have given, and the correction of impulses from nervous system, and the electrical vibration to change the effect of nerve and blood supply, will remove these conditions from the system.
5654-1
On another occasion, Cayce recommended a total hysterectomy to a woman who complained of mental problems and psychological aberrations that were causing her a great deal of concern. The reading suggested that it was apparently a hormonal problem that was traceable to her ancestry and heredity. After the surgery, the reading recommended deep massage and vibrational healing that would occur with osteopathic adjustments. The reading ended by stating, “To gain assistance for the body and ease and rest, and to rid it of the hallucinations, do as we have said.” (4285-1)
A twenty-five-year-old woman challenged with a number of problems, including what she called an “impure complexion,” was given a diet that Cayce claimed would help her eliminations through the intestinal tract and raise “the vibratory forces within the body.” A similar diet was recommended for many individuals who received readings for a variety of conditions:
Mornings–citrus fruit juices or cereals, but not both at the same meal. At other meals there may be taken, or included with the others at times, dried fruits or figs, combined with dates and raisins–these chopped very well together. And for this especial body, dates, figs (that are dried) cooked with a little corn meal (a very little sprinkled in), then this taken with milk, should be almost a spiritual food for the body; whether it’s taken one, two, three or four meals a day . . .
Noons–such as vegetable juices, or combined with a little meat juices and a combination of raw vegetables; but not ever any acetic acid or vinegar or the like with same–but oils, if olive oil or vegetable oils, may be used with same.
Evenings–vegetables that are of the leafy nature; fish, fowl or lamb preferably as the meats or their combinations. These of course are not to be all, but this is the general outline for the three meals for the body.
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To be sure, sometimes, in spite of Cayce’s recommendations, individuals were not always able or willing to carry out the necessary treatments to regain their health. A case in point is that of a forty-nine-year-old contractor who had apparently fractured his ribs and breastbone in an accident. Although the fracture had occurred sometime previously and the bones had healed with time, the man remained ill. His complaints included dizziness, pains in his abdomen, indigestion, and a burning throat. Sometimes the pains were so acute that he was forced to take a sedative. A reading was obtained in which Cayce traced all of the problems to the aftereffects of the original fracture. In fact, the reading suggested that some of the injured bone had caused an ongoing irritation in the body that had eventually caused problems with the digestive system and the transverse and descending colons. Because of the thickening of the body’s tissues, the blood supply had also been
