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Each day, each situation, each relationship, each conversation, each thought in our heads is an opportunity to move closer to the Divine or away from it. As Cayce’s readings often point out to us, it is our free will that must be engaged, engaged with the help of the unseen forces that emanate from the Divine. The greatest gift given us for resurrection and enlightenment is the will to choose and the help of the unseen forces of the Divinity, our Creator, who loves us and seeks our conscious companionship.

It is not, as so many have portrayed it to be, a life of denial and joylessness. There is a deep, comforting joy that accompanies the daily dance between the dark and the light, between misgivings and Light-filled faith, between low energy and high vibrations. Love flows. Light comforts, guides, and strengthens us. Peace and contentment subdue the ups and downs, creating a stable sanctuary within us. Even so, life is not without its challenges and changes; that is the nature of this journey. There is no growth without change and no enlightenment without challenges to the present perspective.

The unseen forces have three major channels to our outer lives: intuition, dreams, and meditation. The first, intuition, is a knowing which comes from nowhere, yet we sense its rightness. Our dreams bring many impressions and images from within our mind and heart, occasionally from very deep levels within us. Our meditations raise the body’s vibrations and expand the mind to higher levels. Unseen forces may manifest in many ways, some spectacular and some so subtle that we often miss them, but all are vital to our spiritual development.

Here’s an example of how powerful the unseen forces can be. A mother asked Cayce to help her with her eleven-year-old boy. He was suffering from a debilitating pathological and emotional disorder that caused him to wet the bed every night for eleven years straight! This is Cayce’s response:

It is in the practice of peace within self, of love made manifest in self, that you make same manifest in your relationships to others. Not as a goody-goody individual, but as one good for something; bringing peace, joy, gladness, hope. When all about you seems disturbed, when all seems lost, know that He in His love, and in His patience, can turn such conditions into victorious joy, into gladness that makes the heart, the mind, the eyes, the body, the voice, joyous in living for the Christ’s [Messiah’s] sake.”

EC 3165–1

Cayce went on to explain to her that, in a past incarnation, the boy had been a dunker of witches in Massachusetts and that his soul carried much regret over this. The karmic effect was that he awoke each morning soaked by his own water—urine. Cayce suggested that the mother carry these forgiving and loving thoughts into her sleep state, meditating on them in her heart and mind as she fell asleep, for she had suffered this boy’s wrath in that same lifetime and needed to forgive him for it if she were to heal him.

Cayce also directed her to give her son a positive suggestion as he fell asleep. Interestingly, Cayce instructed her not to make any suggestion about his bladder control but about the opportunities of the life that now lay before him and that his hopes and aspirations be guided by God and God’s love for him.

She did apply Cayce’s guidance as she searched her heart, and meditated as she fell asleep, and the very first night that she gave a loving, positive suggestion to her son as he fell asleep, the boy did not wet the bed. After eleven years of consistent bedwetting, he never wet the bed again! The healing within each of them was complete. Joyous victory had been achieved through the deep, inner processes of the unseen forces emanating from the Divine influence within each of them. Cayce told this mother that her boy was her body, and as she healed and forgave herself (for whatever mistakes she had done with free will in past incarnations), so would that forgiveness heal him. Add to this that her voice—which Cayce instructed her to use with no doubt or fear in it—gave vibrations of forgiveness and hope to him. His body responded to his mother’s body, and both were healed.

Of the many teachings that came through Cayce’s attunement to the Universal Consciousness, those on understanding, seeking, and applying the unseen forces in our lives and relationships have to be among the most important, especially in these days of preparation for a new era of enlightenment and soul growth. The new era will be one in which evil cannot have its way freely. The book of Revelation expresses this by stating that it will be a thousand-year period when Satan is bound. There will be no evil, no temptation for the incarnate souls of that era. It is a golden age of enlightenment and soul growth. But this means that no souls can incarnate during this period unless they have subdued their darker inclinations and resolved the past-life memories that hold them down. All must be cleansed and released. Forgiveness and lovingkindness are the keys to preparing oneself for this coming age.