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For, all vibrations are part of the universal consciousness with each and every entity.

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The first mention of the term vibration in the Edgar Cayce material appears to have occurred on July 26, 1909, when Edgar Cayce was asked to give a reading by a father who was concerned about the health of his son. The child was twenty-one-months old and was suffering from dizzy spells and an infection in the knee that was creating problems with the boy’s right leg, causing the child to be weak and hesitant to take more than a few steps. The boy also had a difficult time sitting up straight. In spite of the fact that the boy’s parents had sought conventional medical help, the doctors had been unable to treat the child’s condition.

More than forty years later, the boy’s sister supplied the Edgar Cayce archives with her memory of her brother’s situation:

The doctors thought there was an infection in the knee joint, for he cried whenever he put any weight on his right leg and finally could not walk at all . . . it was becoming painful for him to sit up. His knee was badly swollen and inflamed and the doctors were planning to put his leg in a cast.

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Complicating the family’s situation at the time of the reading was the fact that the father was in Indiana on an extended business trip, while the mother, the son, and the couple’s other children were in Little Rock, Arkansas. When the boy’s father heard from his wife that their son’s condition had worsened, he immediately wrote to Edgar Cayce for a reading. In spite of the fact that Edgar Cayce was in Alabama at the time of the reading and the boy was in Arkansas, Cayce was somehow psychically able to provide a thorough description of the problem as well as a suggested course of treatment. More than one year later, the father would sign a sworn affidavit for a Boston research society, testifying to the efficacy of Cayce’s work. This is the content of that affidavit:

November 21, 1910

The following is my testimony regarding the illness of my child and the invaluable service Mr. Edgar Cayce rendered in affecting his cure.

On or about July 17th, 1909, our baby boy 21 months old was taken very sick with a high fever, temperature 103, for 24 hours a physician was summoned and baby continued worse beginning to jerk considerably, which continued several days. Even after fever subsided, and was unable to hold himself up. Previous to being sick he was a very stout and healthy child walking and running everywhere. Two weeks went by and he was still unable to sit or stand, although without fever. Appetite good, but when he would attempt to stand he would fall and cry. Physician attending him all the time. After the fever subsided the doctor assured me the worse was over, so I continued my work on the road. It was after my leaving home that they discovered that baby’s inability to walk. My wife became alarmed and wrote me the situation. I wrote Mr. Edgar Cayce at Bowling Green, Ky. [Cayce would be in Alabama at the time of the reading] and asked him to diagnose the case, giving him Mrs. Putman’s address in Little Rock Ark. He immediately sent her a diagnosis and a copy of same to me at Terre Haute, Ind.

At the time the above occurred my wife was visiting in Little Rock and on receiving Mr. Cayce’s diagnosis returned to Bowling Green, Ky. and placed baby under the care of Dr. T. W. Posey, osteopath. After reading diagnosis given by Mr. Cayce, Dr. Posey pronounced it true to his own. He treated the child nearly two months and dismissed him as cured. He is now three years old and in seeming perfect health. I take worlds of pleasure in making this sworn statement in behalf of Mr. Cayce, as it is very likely that our little boy would not be with us today in a bright, happy, healthy condition, both mentally and physically, had it not been through his assistance. I hope that his testimonial will aid some one else to find as much joy through his assistance as we have.

Respectfully, F. O. Putnam, 1600 Park Ave., Little Rock, Ark.

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21st day of Nov.

1910

[signed] E. R. Ratterres–Notary Public

The reading stated that the child’s condition had caused a breakdown of the functioning of his internal organs. As a result, he was experiencing nausea, an enlarged liver, an excess of bile, immobility, an overtaxing of the kidneys, and a problem with circulation. The bowels were also impacted with excess waste material, which was aggravating the situation. If left untreated, Cayce warned that the condition might lead to paralysis as well as a curvature of the spine. The suggested treatments included a stimulation of the child’s nervous system, especially through the use of “vibrations” resulting from osteopathic adjustments and manipulation and a stimulation of the child’s elimination processes. The reading would be the first time that the Cayce information tied vibrations into the subject of health and healing, but it would certainly not be the last. Between 1909 and 1944 more than one thousand readings would discuss the importance of vibrations in connection with health, healing, and the treatment of illness and disease.

From Cayce’s 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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Throughout 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.