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A forty-two-year-old man asked Edgar Cayce, “How long should I live in this incarnation?” (866-1)

“To a hundred and fifty!” the sleeping prophet of Virginia Beach replied.

To other questioners, Cayce replied that if a person lived properly, ate wisely, didn’t worry too much, and kept an optimistic outlook on life, he could live to be 120 or 121 years of age.

To someone who asked, “Then also it is true [that] one may preserve youth?” Cayce answered, “One may preserve youth even as [it] is desired, will they pay the price as is necessary.”

“That is, one must consider the diet, as well as application of knowledge obtained from within?” the man continued, pressing for more details.

“To be sure,” Cayce replied. (900-465)

Cayce’s view of our potential longevity and youth is consistent with the natural laws of the universe as we find them in the animal kingdom. According to biologists, the life span of a species is from eight to ten times the age at which it is first capable of reproduction. Theoretically, then, humans should live to at least 120 to 150 years of age.

Scientists working on geriatrics and longevity in countries all over the world are saying that the average life span of a human being should be about 140 years. Cellular researchers believe that, since it is possible to keep certain cells alive indefinitely in an optimum nutritional environment, theoretically it could be possible for humans to live forever.

Dr. Augustus B. Kinzel, former president of the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, predicts that “man’s dream of never aging will become a fact and notable progress will be evident as early as 1980.”

Even a past president of the conservative American Medical Association, the late Dr. Edward L. Bortz, of Philadelphia’s Lankenau Hospital, speculated that there is no reason why, by the year 2000, we should not all be living to at least 100 years of age.

For as the Mind is the Builder—or “as a man thinketh so is he”—so does that mind, that body, that soul, expand to meet the needs of same. (564–1)

. . . all strength, all healing of every nature is the changing of the vibrations from within—the attuning of the divine within the living tissue of a body to Creative Energies. This alone is healing. Whether it is accomplished by the use of drugs, the knife or what not, it is the attuning of the atomic structure of the living cellular force to its spiritual heritage. (1967–1)

. . . there is within the grasp of man all that in nature that is the counterpart of that in the mental and spiritual realms and an antidote for every poison, for every ill in the individual experience, if there will but be applied nature, natural sources.

(2396-2)

... it is upon Health, not upon ill health that our sights should be fixed.

—Dr. Roger J. Williams

In fact, there are places in the world where men and women are presently alive, healthy, and capable of reproducing well past the century mark. —H.J.R.

The realm of the incurables has expanded alarmingly. So also has the ability of the medical profession to prolong life artificially. But it was not the Creator’s intention that Man should live by the aid of crutches or turn the planet into one vast hospital for the sick.

—Dr. Max Bircher-Benner

In fact, there are places in the world where men and women are presently alive, healthy, and capable of reproducing well past the century mark—notably Abkhazia, in the region of the Caucasus Mountains, in the Soviet Union; Vilcabamba, in Ecuador; and the land of the Hunzas, an independent state of Pakistan.

Later, in Chapter 15, we shall discuss the lifestyles of these remarkable people in some detail, as well as many facets of research into this fascinating subject and some of the Cayce-Reilly guides for your own personal use at home. For the moment, it suffices to point out that their lifestyle is consistent with the Cayce recipe for longevity and prolonged youthfulness.

Paradoxically, while science is working hard to present us with the gift of added years, people are suffering increasingly from chronic and degenerative diseases. Dr. Max Bircher-Benner, one of the great medical pioneers and champions of preventive medicine, said many years ago, “The realm of the incurables has expanded alarmingly. So also has the ability of the medical profession to prolong life artificially. But it was not the Creator’s intention that Man should live by the aid of crutches or turn the planet into one vast hospital for the sick.”¹

I corresponded with Dr. Bircher-Benner until his death in 1939 and we shared a common philosophy of health—particularly the importance of prevention in medicine. After all, few of us would choose to stay alive a few more years as invalids, a burden to ourselves and to our families. It is not enough to add more years to life. It is how much life you have left in those years that counts.

In this regard, modern medical science, despite its many impressive achievements in curtailing infections and treating disease, is not doing as well in preventing illness and keeping us well. It is health that we all want—not just better health care. Since we have renewed our friendship with the Chinese, we might emulate one of their old customs and pay doctors when we are well, instead of when we are sick.

Today, modern man and woman (and their children) are an endangered species. The health of the American people is undergoing a gradual deterioration. The need is for more and larger hospitals, more medical schools turning out more doctors, new drugs, and vast sums for research. In 1971, then-President Richard M. Nixon asked federal officials to draft a program that would make Americans the healthiest people in the world. The report revealed that although Americans spend more money for health care than any other nation, their aggregate health is worse than that of most other industrialized countries. We have more cancer, heart disease, diabetes, mental illness, arthritis, and birth defects than any other industrialized nation in the world. We rank fiftieth in total life expectancy. Americans are less healthy than they were twenty years ago and our life expectancy is going down. The president charged his then-Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Elliot L. Richardson (and former attorney general), with “finding out what is necessary to make this country healthier than any other country in the world.”

He had just to look around the country at the everyday life of its citizens. We are surrounded on all sides by stealthy enemies, all the more malignantly deceitful and dangerous because they tiptoe about in such attractive disguises and are so quiet. The eight deadliest of these in our modern lifestyle are hidden in the air we breathe; the water we drink; the methods of food production, shipping, processing, and marketing; the family kitchen, where the great American diet is planned and executed (no pun intended); the dependence on the family automobile, which has immobilized us into heart disease and other killing ailments when it doesn’t kill or maim us outright on the road, and its companion in crime, the TV set; the friendly neighborhood corner drugstore, which has turned us into a nation of pill-poppers and assisted our children into drug addiction; and the “job,” with its killing stresses of insecurity, competition, ruinous “coffee breaks,” and business lunches.

We do not have to succumb to these enemies. If we are willing to exert the effort and discipline to use them, protective measures are available to us. “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” in health as in all other aspects of life.

But now a medical man, Dr. Bircher-Benner, tells us, “My brothers, your life is on wrong lines. Try to recognize the dangers threatening your health and learn how to avoid them, before it is too late. Prevention is possible, provided you take it seriously; it will be effective if you are strong and determined.”²

After fifty-five years of treating the sick and recycling and building health, fitness, and vitality in thousands of individuals, I have learned that people take better care of their cars and their lawn mowers than they do of their bodies and their health. Over and over I have heard the lame excuse, “But I haven’t the time to exercise, to watch my diet, to do all the things you say I should do.”

I invariably reply, “You don’t have time to keep well, but you will find the time to be sick, won’t you?”

Less wax on the car and more peanut oil on the body should be the rule in households for a stronger, healthier population.

Although I am a physiotherapist, my specialization for over fifty-five years has been in treating and recycling the complete person: the one who reflects in his or her body and mind the impact of the external world upon him/her. I have said many times that the same blood that flows through the intestines flows through the brain; but I can reverse that and say that the blood that flows through the brain, where we worry and are anxious and afraid, flows through the intestines, where we suffer from tension.

Many men came to the Reilly Health Service in Rockefeller Center with the same complaint. “When I was in the military service, I was in wonderful shape. I felt fine all the time. Now I am out of shape and feel logy and toxic all the time. Can you put me back into the same fine shape I was in?”

In 1971, then-President Richard M. Nixon asked federal officials to draft a program that would make Americans the healthiest people in the world. The report revealed that although Americans spend more money for health care than any other nation, their aggregate health is worse than that of most other industrialized countries. —H.J.R.

I might have answered simply, “Yes, just take workouts in the gym, take an occasional steam bath along with a tonic spray and perhaps a massage, and you will be in the same good shape that regular living and regular exercise gave you when you were in the service.”

But we must remember the man in service did not have to worry about a raise in salary, the mood in which he might find his wife on returning home from work, the possibility of being fired, or the payment coming due on the mortgage. He did not have to make decisions; they were made for him. Therefore, he was able to relax, and the relaxation, along with the release from responsibility and tension, was partly responsible for the good physical condition in which he found himself.

Eight Enemies to Good Health

Our modern society and lifestyles hide enemies to health in the:

 air we breathe

 water we drink

 methods of modern food production

 family kitchen

 automobile

 television set

 corner drugstore

 stresses of our jobs

Less wax on the car and more peanut oil on the body should be the rule in households for a stronger, healthier population. —H.J.R.

The problem of putting these men into the same condition of “feeling good” is not simply one of improved nutrition and exercise. Also required is a psychological adjustment in the whole area of living—an adjustment that all people are forced to make if they are to participate in society as responsible citizens and if they are to maintain themselves and not be dependent upon other people or the state.

Everyone today, man or woman, lives as a soldier on an economic front of competition where one must constantly be on the alert to maintain security, keep the home and family, and put away something for the future.

The curious thing is that if it were not for your body, you wouldn’t have to make that adjustment. If it were not for your body, you wouldn’t have to conduct that lifelong fight!

If you had only a mind, and not a body, the world of economics would disappear. You wouldn’t need a house, or food to put in your body, or clothes to cover it, or cosmetics to disguise it, or an automobile in which to move it around. Marriage would not be necessary, because sex would not exist in the physical sense and would not result in children. It is the body that causes economics, marriage, politics, and war.

But a fact that has amazed me all my life is that the body, which causes these elements of struggle and pressure and work, is not only neglected but also misused and abused. It would seem that the ancient Greeks, who respected and even worshiped the body, were closer to a reasonable attitude toward daily living than we are. They at least recognized that the body is the focal point of life in the world.

It is the body that causes us to be here in this three-dimensional world. It is therefore the body that must be kept in harmony and in balance—healthy, in other words—so that through the body, the parts of us that are nonphysical, but that give us our greatest pleasures and make us human beings—that is, the mind and the spirit—can function well enough to reach their greatest potential.

In modern living, we concentrate on putting the body out of balance rather than in balance. We overburden it to the point of exhaustion in our efforts to make money and achieve success. Every misused, overworked, or neglected part of the body must be accounted for in the whole condition of the body itself.

If there is one thing that the readings of Edgar Cayce prove, it is that a human being cannot be broken into parts—each with a structure and a system of its own, capable of being understood and treated without regard to the other parts.

Edgar Cayce stated over and over again that everything we do and think is directly related to what we are as complete human beings; that what we eat has an influence on what we think; that what we think has an influence on what we eat; and that what we eat and think together influence what we do, how we feel, and what we look like. I quote an example from Case 288-38, which states,” . . . what we think and what we eat—combined together—make what we are, physically and mentally.”

In another reading (2528-2) Cayce says, “But when the law is coordinated, in spirit, in mind, and in body, the entity is capable of fulfilling the purpose for which it enters a material or physical experience.”

It has been my exceptional privilege to have known and worked with Edgar Cayce. Through him, we have access to the timeless wisdom that this great human being and psychic tapped from his “universal sources” of knowledge. I think that this wisdom was never needed so urgently as we need it today in the midst of the external and internal ecological chaos that humanity, science, and technology have wrought.

The purpose of this book is to teach you how to stay well by sharing with you the natural drugless therapies, mental attitudes, and spiritual attunement that Edgar Cayce prescribed in his over 14,000 readings for some 6,000 individuals. You must bear in mind that a majority of the people who sought help from Mr. Cayce and me were medical rejects—discouraged, disheartened souls who had tried everything that orthodox and unorthodox healing had to offer. In turning to Cayce, many were appealing to a court of last resort. Cayce was able to diagnose their troubles by slipping into a trance, although he almost never saw the subject, who might have been thousands of miles away. He then prescribed the therapies to help them. Many recovered in what seemed miracle cures. Others did not. Although the method was strange and psychic, there was nothing mysterious about the therapies—which included osteopathy, correction of nutrition, exercise, massage, hydrotherapy and electrotherapy, packs applied externally, remedies and formulae based on natural foods, herbs, and occasionally even chemical medicines and surgery. It required persistence and mental and spiritual attunement to achieve results, as Cayce often explained:

Then keep that attitude of constructive, creative forces within self. For all healing of every nature must arise within the self. For there is the ability within the physical body to re-create or reproduce itself, as well as the activities for assimilating that from which the re-creation is to be brought about. (1663-1)

For all healing, mental or material, is attuning each atom of the body, each reflex of the brain forces, to the awareness of the divine that lies within each atom, each cell of the body. (3384-2)

In the following reading (528-9) Cayce emphasizes the importance of persistence and consistency:

The Big Picture of Holistic Health

If there is one thing that the readings of Edgar Cayce prove, it is that a human being cannot be broken into parts—each with a structure and a system of its own, capable of being understood and treated without regard to the other parts.

Edgar Cayce stated over and over again that everything we do and think is directly related to what we are as complete human beings; that what we eat has an influence on what we think; that what we think has an influence on what we eat; and that what we eat and think together influence what we do, how we feel, and what we look like.

—H.J.R.

. . . what we think and what we eat—combined together—make what we are, physically and mentally. (288-38)

But when the law is coordinated, in spirit, in mind, and in body, the entity is capable of fulfilling the purpose for which it enters a material or physical experience. (2528-2)

. . . the body must not, should not, lose courage to carry on, but working in patience knowing that all healing, all help, must arise from constructive thinking, constructive application, and most and first of all constructive spiritual inspiration. Use [body] . . . disturbances as stepping-stones for higher and better and greater understanding.

For all healing, mental or material, is attuning each atom of the body, each reflex of the brain forces, to the awareness of the divine that lies within each atom, each cell of the body. (3384–2)

Over the last fifteen years of Edgar Cayce’s life (1930 to 1945) I worked with nearly 1,000 cases that he referred to me. There seemed to be a bewildering difference in the readings from individual to individual, even when their complaints fell under the same medical classification. (In this regard, as in so many others, Cayce was far ahead of his time in recognizing the biochemical individuality of each person, a subject we will take up in detail in later chapters.) At the time, I must confess I often did not understand some facets of the therapy. But as I applied the treatments in the sequence suggested by Cayce to thousands of patients in my forty-five years of clinical experience with them, I began to recognize the underlying philosophy and the principles involved. These principles are based on the basic structure and processes of the human body, mind, and spirit.

It soon became clear to me that no matter which of the therapies or combination of therapies he was prescribing, he was aiming at four basic goals: improvement and normalization of the functions of assimilation, elimination, circulation, and relaxation. With the restoration to normal balance of these four basics, the body then proceeds to heal itself of the disorders that manifest as symptoms of disease. In fact, both Cayce and I always dealt with causes, not symptoms, and therefore his readings seldom used medical labels. As a physiotherapist, I did not diagnose, but in clinical practice I found that a large percentage of the medical diagnoses with which patients arrived dealt with symptoms of a breakdown in bodily functions. In any case, no matter what the label, when the attitude of the patient was right and the treatments were followed with persistence and consistency so that the assimilation, elimination, circulation, and relaxation were once more normal, the results were full or partial recovery and many remarkable Cayce cures.

I like to make an acronym of the vital four goals mentioned above: when you do, you come up with the word CARE. In this book I will try to share with you the principles, methods, and detailed instructions for using the Cayce CARE home handbook to better health—for I have found this the key not only for healing the sick, but for building and maintaining a buoyant, energetic, and productive state of vibrant health capable of prolonging a youthful joie de vivre into the middle and golden years, free of disease. No matter what trials and tribulations life holds, one is better equipped to handle them in good health than in sickness.

To me, the Cayce readings are as alive today as when Cayce was living. In the years since he died (1945), I have continued to use many of the same therapies and remedies with repeated success. The main difference is that when Cayce was alive one could get definite suggestions for individuals. One could even find out by a series of questions the reasons why different suggestions for treatment were given to various people who seemed to have had the same disease. Often even the formula for a massage ointment was specific and detailed as to the amount and the timing, and in many cases he even predicted the results that one could expect. A distinctive characteristic of the Cayce work was that each human being received an individually orchestrated composition of therapies designed to restore the harmony of the body, mind, and spirit. At other times, he just sent patients to me and left it to me to decide what they needed.

We no longer have Cayce as a personal source of information. Now it remains for those who have had the experience, educational background, scientific training, and wisdom of correct interpretation to use the readings in the best possible manner to heal the sick and to make the knowledge available to those who are well so that they can maintain their health throughout life.

The Cayce therapies and remedies are timeless—reaching back into the past over the centuries and often projecting into the future, anticipating by many years discoveries of science and research to validate them. Cayce was tapping “universal sources of intelligence” and receiving from them the natural laws of the universe. The wisdom Cayce received recognized the God-given ability of the human body, mind, and spirit to heal themselves. This is why it works as well today as it did when Cayce was alive, if interpreted properly.

The infinite wisdom contained in the Cayce readings must be continually researched, applied, and explored for the possible remedies contained therein. There is still much to learn from them that we do not fully understand, that has yet to be used. But with study, experience, and the clinical research of some forty-five years, it has been possible for me to deduce from the advice he gave to individuals certain general principles that I have found, in clinical experience, can heal the sick and serve as a guide to better health for all.

I have selected those procedures, therapies, and remedies that are suitable for home use, provided you observe the parameters described for each one and you have consulted your own or a Cayce-oriented doctor for a diagnostic analysis. As Cayce himself said, his work would first teach individuals, then groups, and finally the masses. It is our hope that The Edgar Cayce Handbook for Health Through Drugless Therapy will teach the fundamentals of glowing health, youthfulness, weight control, disease prevention, sexual fertility and fulfillment, and a long, happy, productive life.

The Cayce therapies and remedies are timeless—reaching back into the past over the centuries and often projecting into the future, anticipating by many years discoveries of science and research to validate them. Cayce was tapping “universal sources of intelligence“ and receiving from them the natural laws of the universe.

—H.J.R.