Children Psychic Abilitied

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Commentary on
Psychic Abilities in Children
This file is designed to be useful especially to:

the parents of a child who has had one or more psychic experiences
a teacher or counselor who has heard about or worked with a psychic child
someone interested in learning more about psychic ability and who also loves children

It’s natural to wonder: “Just what is psychic ability, anyway?” This circulating file will help you get started answering that question. Part I gives an introduction to various kinds of psychic ability found in Edgar Cayce readings given for children. The first reading–5752-1–is one that Cayce gave for himself as a adult, to help him understand the nature of psychic ability. In this reading you’ll find that psychic ability is defined as a manifestation of the soul forces, working through the senses of the physical body. It points out that this ability is inherent in every individual, but it usually lies dormant.

The directing of soul energy in this way is allowed (or hindered) both by the individual and the environment. The energy comes through whatever physical senses have been “honored” and used without abuse throughout the soul’s and the body’s development. The growth of the ability depends to a great extent on the individual having many experiences of allowing it to be awakened. And it is likewise dependent on “feeding” the body, the mind, and the spirit with suitable input from the environment.

As you study this file, you may well notice how many times the readings emphasize focusing on creative, spiritual purposes by the parents, the child, and everyone in the environment surrounding the child. Cayce encouraged parents to live in a balanced, natural way, and to create a home environment that’s conducive to any child’s normal development.

In the second section of Part I, various types of psychic ability are addressed one-by-one. You’ll see references to the physical senses, plus emotions and intuition. The categories in this section are for convenience only. The areas often overlap and frequently an individual child shows several ways of receiving psychic information.

For example, a child who is visually oriented may see images of past lives and also observe disincarnate beings known earlier in the present life. More often, a child may begin by experiencing one type of psychic ability and then later expand into other ways of perceiving. For example, a child’s first psychic experiences may come in dreams, then spill over into waking visions.

In studying the various types of ability from the readings, look first for one or two that are similar to something that a child you know may have experienced. Make some comparisons between the experiences of the children in this section of the file and the same ability as experienced in a similar or slightly different way by the young person you know. Notice whether hearing is emphasized, or seeing, touch, feeling, or intuition. Then look at some of the other types of experiences in this section. There may be some here that the child you know could also be experiencing–even ones that you hadn’t thought of as being “psychic.”

Then look at your child’s experiences from another angle. Do they seem to come from sensitivity to the surrounding environment, or more often do they come from the child looking within? Are the experiences pleasant, or do they frighten the child? Cayce urged the parents of a very fearful 4-year-old girl (3162-1) to be especially patient and loving They were advised to tell her daily of Jesus’ love of children, as well as to use stories about peace and harmony. The parents needed to give their daughter many gentler, happier images with which to “feed” her dreams and visions.

Often Cayce’s counsel to young people with psychic ability was to strive for the highest purpose, and to not get caught up in the fascination of psychic phenomena. For example, in reading 1581-2, Cayce urged a 12-year-old boy not to concentrate his energy on seeing less-developed spirits in the “interbetween,” but to concentrate instead on a similar relationship with God, since the latter friendship would offer him limitless growth.

Cayce often told parents to be sure that they showed their child how to focus on the positive, helpful aspects of the environment. Some of the children who received readings were hypersensitive to their surroundings and needed to be guided into choosing helpful friends and a positive setting. Cayce told many parents that they needed to help their children study themselves–that is, to help their children learn to make comparisons and understand within themselves why some activities or experiences were better than others.

One additional readings research suggestion may prove useful to those who have access to the Cayce readings on CD-ROM or the complete readings in the Members Only section of the website. If a special characteristic or type of ability in this section interests you more than others, you may also want to study the entire reading (or several readings) for that particular child. Such an in-depth, case study approach will often give important insights about that particular child and the specific kind of abilities that he or she had.

Sometimes parents asked Edgar Cayce for very specific information about the development of their child’s psychic abilities. Cayce gave both uplifting encouragement and careful warnings about psychic training.

The foundation for all Cayce’s suggestions about psychic development is set out in reading 5752-2. You’ll find this reading at the beginning of Part II of this circulating file. Reading 5752-2 is the sequel to the one at the beginning of Part I and is a continuation of Cayce’s information about general psychic development. It’s very clear from these two readings that psychic experiences are spiritual forces manifesting through an individual mind and physical body. For the experiences to be positive, the physical and mental channels through which the experiences come must be attuned and open to the highest, best sources.

As someone who wants to help a child with psychic potential, there are specific things you can do. You can spend time carefully clarifying your spiritual ideal. You can take time regularly for your own meditation and prayer discipline. As you begin to grow spiritually yourself, then slowly day by day and month by month, you’ll find that you are better able to guide the child. In so doing you are truly helping him or her to be a channel through which the creative forces we call psychic abilities can flow.

The last section in the circulating file contains particular suggestions for parents. There are at least two ways to study this section. One is to approach it by age group. Using this method, you’ll start with an age group that includes children about the same age as the child with psychic potential. Once you find your child’s general age grouping, you can look over all the suggestions in that age category.

A second way to study the “Suggestions for Parents” is to look through all the age groups until you find personality characteristics that seems to fit your child. With this method, you can consider using with your child uggestions that were made for a child who had a similar personality or temperament. (Of course, with this second method you’ll also want to be alert to age-relevant ideas in the advice Cayce gave.)

One theme stands out in Cayce’s advice for psychic children. An enormous influence comes from the parents. Just as big is the impact of the child’s environment. Cayce suggested surrounding the child often with people who are open to psychic experiences, yet people who would not overemphasizing the child’s psychic talents. In addition, Cayce advocated a family lifestyle that includes a spiritual focus, a balanced approach to life, kind deeds done for other people, and opportunities for using creative energies through the arts.

As children reach age 11 or 12 and beyond, positive experiences with like-minded friends and accepting adults can help them set their own ideals, attune to their spiritual source, and understand themselves better. Although psychic ability often submerges during the teen years, sensitive adults can help their teenagers to understand themselves and to use their energies creatively. At some later date these young individuals may choose to let their creative energies flow again into the psychic senses. At that point they can choose of themselves how to best use the psychic abilities which Edgar Cayce said are “of the soul.”

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This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 8th day of June, 1932, in accordance with request made by those present.

P R E S E N T: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno; Mildred Davis and Hugh Lynn Cayce. Time of Reading: 11:10 A. M., Virginia Beach, Va.

1. GC: You will please outline fully the information which Edgar Cayce, present in this room, should give in lecture form on the subject “How to Develop Your Psychic Powers”, to be given during the Congress of the Ass’n for Research & Enlightenment during the week of June 27th.

2. EC: As in the approach to such a subject, well that we first define psychic phenomena and that through which same operates in the physical man, that we may know how or why such forces, or phenomena, might be developed in an individual.

3. When one develops their muscle and brawn for the ring, or for any activity of such nature, there are certain rules of living that must, or that have been found to be necessary for such an one to adhere to.

4. When a faculty of the body, as a pianist, or cornetist, or an artist, is to be developed, there are certain courses of development, certain training through which the body-physical, the body-mental, shall pass as TRAINING self for such an undertaking.

5. When one, then, is to develop a faculty, or a force, that is present–as any of these referred to, lying latent in one form or another in EVERY individual; so, then, do the psychic forces, the psychic faculties, lie dormant or active in every individual, and await only that awakening or arousing, or the developing under those environs that makes for the accentuation of same in the individual.

6. As the psychic forces are manifesting, or do manifest through the senses, or those portions of the physical being that are trained for acuteness, as is one that would be trained for art in the applying or the mixing rather of color, as one that gets the color, or the tone from the violin, or the like, these are percepts of faculties of the sensory organism, and are akin to the soul.

7. The psychic, then, is of the soul, and it operates through faculties of perception, whether hearing, seeing, feeling, or any portions of the sensory system; and those portions of the physical organism, as we know, that find their basis in the honored or dishonored portion of the physical organism–as those of the brain, those of the percepts that deal with glands that function with concept, conceptive thought, constructive thought–or destructive thought, dependent upon that it is fed upon. Much in the manner that a trained physical body may be raised to such power as to meet any antagonist, yet allowed to become unstable–through associations or derangements of the physical body, by the abusing of those laws that govern those portions of the system–is easily defeated, and loses that for which it has trained itself. This we see would follow throughout the whole length and breadth of a developing organism.

8. In psychic forces we find the subconscious mental forces as a means, or manner of expression. Subconscious, we know, also partakes both of that which is a physical dormant consciousness and of the spiritual, or that upon which the body has fed through its activity in a material plane, and is a portion then of the soul of the entity. Hence we find this development depends not only upon one of the experiences, though one experience may make for such an alteration that the activities of the soul, of the mental, of the physical, may be altered so as to be going in the opposite direction from that it had been going in the first premise.

9. So, the warnings are that these forces, these activities, are to have their criterion from which a premise may be made, and the judgment that is brought to a material condition may be seen as to HOW it may operate.

3. In giving an interpretation of the records as we find them here with this entity, it is rather hard to find words to indicate the unusualness of the entity’s abilities, and to choose which of those in the experience will have the greater bearing on the entity itself.

4. Much, to be sure, in the material plane, depends upon the opportunities, or the stress that is made in the early years of the entity’s experience–through these periods of the childhood, or the formative years.

5. As the entity talks of dreams, of experiences, of visions, encourage rather than discourage these. For, as will be seen, if the spiritualness of life is given expression, the entity may become a real force or power in this experience in the earth.

31. Train, then, those activities in that direction that the spirit of truth may pervade, may direct, may be the choice of the entity in its dealings with its fellow man. For as the periods of development in the years of activity come in a material sense, greater will be the urges from the unseen forces in the experiences of the entity; not only in the imaginative and the impulses from the emotions, but visions and dreams will be the channels through which much may come to the entity’s activities.

21. In the name Cleopatia, the entity gained throughout the sojourn in the earth, and made for those things, those experiences, that paved the way by the return of those of its own household to Rome for the carrying of the gospel of the Nazarene into that land. For while the entity remained among those that were persecuted by those that came into power, the family of same returning with the soldiery remembered what THIS entity had received through the blessings given by Him on the wayside. Those experiences of the entity as are the betterments, and the periods when consternation or distress of any nature arise, whether mental or physical in the present, the visions and dreams of those lessons given by Him as He spoke to the children in the childish UNDERSTANDING manner, and the lessons of the lamb and the lessons of the household pets that were given to those children there, have remained with the entity. And these may find expression when the entity even today visions these things, as they pertain to the activities of others. And the joy of such will bring much in the experience if they are applied in the artistic field of activity.

5. …The entity then was only a year to two years older than in the present experience, that finds the world such a turmoil for the entity in its dreams, its visions, its experiences in those periods when the body mind is active again to those fears about it…

7. Be patient. Do not scold. Do not speak harshly. Do not fret nor condemn the body-mind. But do tell it daily of the love that Jesus had for little children, of peace and harmony; never those stories such of the witch, never those as of fearfulness of any great punishment; but love, patience.

8. This do, and we will find a great, a wonderful soul, that has come again to bless many.

24. (Q) How can I recognize my daughter [2005]’s psychic ability when it makes itself evident?

(A) Not by overtaxing the body itself nor the body [2005],but these are NATURAL developments. Question the body as to its visions, experiences, feelings,–and especially as to its dreams. These as we find are the channels through which such manifestations make their first impressions; and these should be cultivated,–not by attempting to get the individual entity to expand so much as to draw upon its imagination, but let it know that there is an INTEREST in such, which will give the abilities of the entity to bring about greater activities,–just as the cultivating of any characteristic, or the spiritual, mental or material developments.

7. In Uranus will make, as will be seen, those periods in the entity’s development when there will be moods, temper will be expressed and manifest in its activities. Well that those visions, also those tendencies for visions of seeming exaggeration by the entity in such periods, be NOT curbed; rather made note OF, studied WITH the entity as its UNFOLDMENT in MENTAL developments shows in its activities.

11. From Venus also will be seen abilities not only in the field of music but in the field of imaginative influences as well, and visions may often be to the entity–in its early experiences in this sojourn–as realities to the developing mental influences of the entity. These should not be made sport of, nor contended against; rather used or heard in prayer, in the power of DIRECTING the developing mind into those channels that will make for rather the basis of the hopes, the fears, the beliefs and the activities of the body in such directions.

5. One where there should be definite periods when those upon whom the entity is dependent for the physical and the MENTAL development, the BODY conditions should have periods when each upon whom the body is dependent should reason with, counsel with, even as respecting those visions that come from the Uranian and the Venus and Mercurian forces, as WELL as the BROADNESS in those visions from an influence in Jupiter. These, then–as seen–make for those that will later be termed occult, or those forces in the body as INTUITIVE forces; for the body physical being covered in conception with that influence of occult forces, has had the caul or veil that has indicated its setting apart by those forces as develop in NATURAL means as one that will be blessed with those abilities for intuitive mental developments. Then, never break by crossing or by making fun of the IMAGINATIONS of THIS body. Rather make for that as will give a perfect physical and mental body FOR the forces to MANIFEST through; for through the experiences in the earth’s plane of the entity these are INNATE, and will be manifest to a high degree in this present experience. Beware of the mystic forces, or those of signs, for the entity. Rather let these

developments be of the mental and soul forces OF the entity, than by those movements either in numbers or in symbols, or signs…

5. For the entity, from its experience in the earth, is one who has great abilities; that may be turned into good or bad, dependent upon purposes for which the direction is chosen–and which the entity may apply as a gratifying of self or for becoming wholly an instrument for good.

6. From its own visions and experiences, the inclinations and tendencies in the present are for the entity to accept as fact that which is mentally experienced…

14. Keep the entity from that of self-confusion, self-domination; and build the desire to serve others–for that is the duty of each soul.

5. One that nominally will be waiting–and just waiting–for something to happen; and yet with an inner vision, as will be manifested in a great imagination–as it may be termed at times by others. While this should be tempered and trained, do not prevent the entity from giving expression to its experiences of a psychic nature.

6. For, the entity is indeed an Atlantean. And, as just indicated, there may be those suppressions or those unfoldments that may make or cause the use of those tenets and truths that were a part of the experience of many through those periods, that may bring the unusual usage of spiritual and mental laws in the experiences of those with whom the entity may come in contact.

9. In the influences of ennoblement, with those of Uranian with its prerogative of extremes, make for those conditions as must be met physically, as to ward against an overtaxing of the entity in its even NATURAL mental influences in those of Mercurian forces. In the present experience these come much as the test of the entity’s standing in a form of development through the things which the entity, mentally and physically, may undergo for a knowledge of the spirit of truth as makes manifest within self; for losing that hold of love’s influence in Venus’ experience, and with those of the particular development in the mental forces as of Mercurian–these, combined aright, may be made for an opening up of the entity’s abilities in STABILIZING influences of the nature as partakes of mysticism, occult forces, or of the arts as require the expansion of the imaginative forces of the entity; not only in its preparation for, but in the application of conditions as make for an ennobling of man’s influence, whether as to self, individuals, groups, classes, or masses.

(A) As indicated, the body imaginations at times react to that it attempts to read. Hence producing in mental reactions the spiritual import as indicated for this body should facilitate activities, bring better responses and reactions to the body.

38. (Q) What training should she have as a child to lay a better foundation for her life work?

(A) As given, let all be done in meekness, in sincerity and in truth. NEVER present that as an untruth to force an issue with the developing mind. Rather that in parable or in those things pertaining to the mysteries of the unseen forces, as tales to create for the entity the ability for vision and for magnifying of the inner urges for the unseen influence.

62. …ye will find not only more and more that the worthwhileness of life is in being able to see the little things are remembered but that creative forces GROW, while destructive forces deteriorate. Then, to be able to remember the sunset, to be able to remember a beautiful conversation, a beautiful deed done where hope and faith were created, to remember the smile of a babe, the blush of a rose, the harmony of a song–a bird’s call; THESE are creative. For if they are a part of thyself, they bring you closer and closer to God.

(A) Not always. Study first not that which is of the physical; for, as we have indicated, auras are both physical and spiritual influences. With the subjugation of the physical the spiritual shines forth. With the exercising of the forces of the physical only these supersede; but study as in self. Know by the feelings that PROMPT thee, as to what emanations and vibrations are created by the meditative forces, the prayer and supplication that He guide, as He has given; and His light will guide thee in understanding that auras are not as judgments, but that ye may know, even as He has given, “I will put into thy mouth and into thine heart those things thou shouldst say when it has needs be that YE are MY representatives in the earth.”

4. Colors–these become as means in which the entity may, for itself, determine much. But know as to what colors mean. For the entity is not only able and capable to receive the vibrations of individuals about the entity as to their colors but as to their vibrations. And these then make for a sensitiveness that is often disturbing to the entity.

5. This may be developed or it may be passed over. But those that are as symbols or signs or conditions that may be used constructively, use same; do not abuse same. For that which is good, to be sure, may be used to one’s own undoing.

6. Know that when there is felt, seen or experienced those vibrations of low, leaden or dark reds, these are as dangers; not only for self but self’s associations with individuals. This is not always to the entity, neither will it be found to be, compatible. For there will be oft, as has been in the experience, those individuals that mentally or materially the entity likes and likes the associations, yet there are resentments.

7. Then study those influences. And know when such arise in the experience that warnings are ahead, and govern the associations and the activities accordingly.

8. When there is felt that glow of orange, and the violet hues with the orange, know that these bespeak of sentimentality in the experience and are not always good; yet these in their proper relationships should be a portion of the experiences that make for a joy and an understanding; and it is indeed in such experiences–in which one may know what such vibrations and such colors mean–that the individuals may be trusted.

9. When these reach those stages as to where there is felt the lighter red, and those that turn to shades of green with the influences that make for shadings into white, then these trust, these hold to; for such individuals, such associations, may bring in the experience of the entity that which will make for spiritual enlightenment, a mental understanding, and the influences that would bring helpful influences in every experience.

29. Things then that have to do with the outdoors, with forest, with streams, with those things having to do especially with horticultural nature, will be of special interest to the entity.

30. And the little folk that inhabit many a dell will be a guiding force for the entity, if there is care taken WHEN it is in active influence during its early periods of development out of doors.

31. Plenty of sunshine, then, should ever be the experience for the entity. Not as one wild, no–but as one well-regulated, with a great deal of close communion with nature

16. Before this the entity was in the Scotch land. The entity began its activity as a prodigy, as one already versed in its associations with the unseen–or the elemental forces; the fairies and those of every form that do not give expression in a material way and are only seen by those who are attuned to the infinite.

21. …When there are questions as to the source from which the entity obtains its information, agree that it comes from the infinite. For, these are the developments

5. For the entity of its inner self is very psychic. Do not submerge, but rather encourage all such…

9. Thus those warnings should be: make the self, then, embrace opportunities with groups and others. Do apply self in the direction especially of art and music. For these will offer the channels, especially as has been indicated, through which not only the material success may be gained but the interpretation of the physical, the spiritual, the psychic. Don’t be afraid to acknowledge that ye see fairies as ye study, for you will nurture these experiences. Don’t be afraid to say that you see the gnomes which would hinder peoples at times. These may be a part of the background for many of the cards, for many of the various sketches which you would make.

25. (Q) Stewart Hoover who is in the spirit world,–is he the one who guides me and should I cultivate the relationship?

(A) This is not amiss, but best not for cultivation; else ye limit thyself and hinder Stewart Hoover in his real development. For, remember the Father, God, hath promised to meet thee in thy temple. Thy body is the temple of the living God. Thy body is as the shadow of the tabernacle, and He will meet thee in the holy of holies. Remember, as thy Master, thy Lord, thy Christ has given, “I stand at the door and knock, and if ye will open I will enter and abide with thee–I and

the Father.” This as ye conceive, this as ye understand, is the highest source of understanding, of knowledge. And it is the self that seeks this understanding, this comprehension–not at the expense of another, but in that manner in which ye may aid even those who are in the inter-between, who having not here gained the full concept are still in that position even as He gave in the parable, “If they hear not Moses and the prophets, they would not listen though one appeared from the dead.”

Hence these are as the greater openings for thyself. Think it not robbery to make thyself equal with God, for He is thy Father. Then approach Him in thy inner self as ye would thy earthly father, with that same conviction that He heareth and will answer thee,–and that THOU usest that understanding in thy relationships with thy fellow man!

38. (Q) Were the experiences I have had in which I have seen spirit forms, real or imaginary?

25. Thus we will find in the present experiences and those unfoldments in the early development of the entity, descriptions that will be quite fanciful–but will be a harkening of the entity to those tenets and truths which were a part of the experience there. [In Atlantis]

23. Also the entity heard the words of the teacher, the Master; and these especially then as indicated come to mean a great deal to the entity. Also if the entity is questioned, if there is given to the entity the experiences of the childhood of those nigh unto Him, it will be able to depict in its own, not imagination but in its own experience by turning into the mirror of life and seeing those forces, those experiences that were had by them. As an experience, ask “What do you suppose was served at that supper?” and find HOW many things that are not known in the men of today will be recalled by the entity!

24. In those things then keep the balance for the entity, that they do not become as mysteries, as strange tales, but rather as the LIVING Christ, as the living example for men and women. As a neighbor, as a brother, as a savior, show Him to THIS entity–in that light.

24. (Q) I have had flashes of past lives–a Norseman, a Spaniard about the time of Ponce de Leon–one of being on Columbus’ ship–a Roman soldier–an American Indian. Are these impressions from past incarnations? Please explain.

As just indicated, the body is Body, Mind, Soul. HEED these impressions. These are flashes at times of material experiences that have been an influence,–just as has been indicated as to how ye may develop to apply thy mind in thy studies, or in any endeavor that ye undertake,–these become a part of the real self. These are, in instances, material experiences as sojourns. For as has been indicated, not all of the dwellings in the earth have been given. For, as the illustration: Ye experienced much of the Indian experience through the Salem sojourn,–that is, by associations. The Ponce de Leon and the Spanish,–these ye will find, as ye interpret deeper, are one. And the flashes as from the Norseman–a real experience.

21. Hence, those influences through the mystical and occult forces weighed with the activity of the Christian principles in the mind and experience of the entity, will make for a PECULIAR activity of the entity in these relations in the present. Yet, if the entity will make a close study of the doings and activities of the early churches, there will arise within the experience the abilities to draw upon the imaginations (as termed by many) and come closer to the actual happenings to many during the experience, than much recorded without the text of the Scripture itself–and much that is written there.

22. If the entity will use such abilities in the experience as the balance-wheel, in the thought, purposes, desires and applications of self, they may be made the strongest bulwark of the entity during this sojourn.

5. Rather know, as indicated, those who approach this entity without the consideration of who she is and what she may mean to the world at this time bring on their OWN selves destructive influences; even as those who had the opportunity of having God in their presence and yet believed not.

6. For, as the entity here comes as a directing influence in the affairs of individuals, in the affairs of groups,–yea, of the nations of the world,–SOW the seeds of righteousness that fall from the lips of the entity, and leave the results with God.

4. For as we find this entity has more than once been among those who were gifted with what is sometimes called second sight, or the super-activity of the third eye. Whenever there is the opening, then, of the lyden (Leydig) center and the kundaline forces from along the pineal, we find that there are visions of things to come, of things that are happening…

7. Do not use such for gratifying, satisfying, or even encouraging the entity to use such. But do train the entity in the use of divine purpose, divine desire. For if the purpose and the desire is right, we may find that the entity may–as in the experience before this–use the activities for the benefit of his fellow man.

8. For in the use of the power that has been a portion of the entity’s consciousness there may come help to many.

7. Hence we will find unusual, characteristics in the care the entity takes of certain things about it, and in others as an extremist in his expression, in his words, in the contemplation of his activities.

8. But these need spiritual guidance,–not that the entity is to be PROMPTED. For the entity will do most of the prompting, if it is guided in those activities that are to be the formulated ideals of the developing mind.

9. Thus it should be trained in spiritual truths. Most of these the entity will give expression to, in the attempt to direct. And little may be told the entity of the stories of the Scripture that it cannot tell you more than you will tell the entity! But there should not be a forcing of the issue; rather let there be a NORMAL development.

13. …And there are the needs for the direction as to the intents, as to those conditions that may be as pronouncements of the entity from one period to another. As seen, it is inclined to be a part of the entity’s experience that it announces that it will do so and so, and when it is at such and such a place, then such and such other things may be accomplished. These are imaginative. These are intuitive. And these should be directed in such a way and manner that these do not become other than as stepping-stones for the development of the abilities of the entity–and not stumbling-stones to the entity’s best interest…

18.For not only patience but perseverance were a part of the entity’s experience. But also loneliness and determination were a part of the entity’s experience, that may be tempered.

19. And if these are tempered in those experiences in which the psychic or soul forces of the entity may develop, we will find great abilities, great activities of the entity throughout this sojourn.

4. …for, as is seen, these influences make for abilities that–with the activities in Uranus for the tendency of intuitive influences, and the visions and dreams of the body as it plays–may be used as the studies of that in which the environs of the body should be directed, for the better mental, spiritual and physical development; for with the adverse influences that are seen in Jupiter, it will be well in the body’s development that it be given that upon which it may rely in all stages and developments of the body, mind and spirit, for those periods will arise in the experience in the present when the body will choose rather to depend upon self and self’s abilities than upon others.

3. These conditions are rather of the unusual nature; or the body physically and mentally is supersensitive and the psychic forces are developing much faster than the bodily functionings. Or the body functionings are of such a nature that the sensitiveness of same precludes some activities through the nominal physical developments…

21. Let those of the readings or its developments in the assimilations be of the 23rd and 24th Psalm, the 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th chapters of John, the 2nd epistle of John, the 12th of Romans, the 13th of Corinthians. These become as part of the BODY-MIND, and its development physically, its development mentally will take on new life.

6. Now, with the physical and mental, with this particular body, there must be considered the development of the body. Now DO NOT infer that because the body is strange or different from others that it is an abnormal condition for this body! For other bodies it might be an abnormal condition. THIS body’s development is NOT an abnormal condition–for the body is PSYCHIC in a GREAT sense. Hence suggestions to the body–warnings to the body–haven’t the same effect upon this body as they would upon others. Corrections for misdemeanor or mental conditions within its body, or within its actions physically, do not impress–or DO impress (however the case may be) the body…

8. To meet the needs, then, would be to put the developing body under the care and influence of one knowing the proper way and manner to direct one so that each suggestion made to the physical developing body would be in full accord with that administered to the body for the physical correction, and for the physical and MENTAL DEVELOPMENT of the body!

…These would understand that NECESSARY for the proper DEVELOPMENTS for the physical conditions, as well as that psychic and psychological force as produced through the action of the mental, or the developing mind of this body (which is far beyond the normal).

27. Thus we will find hours in the present oft when music–that is of the nature that brings into association those forces of the celestial as well as the mental and spiritual–will be the greater channel in which the entity may enable, or be enabled, to give the expressions of those messages, those lessons that will be so much a help, and bring hope, in the minds of others.

21. From those experiences as the daughter of Andrew, we may find the entity harking to that which to the entity will be as the singing of the angels…

(A) As indicated; one who may hear, who may see–or that of clairaudience and clairvoyance.

(A) As just given, study first to know self and that which motivates the purposes of self; for in this will there be found in self not only the abilities to make for those associations but to be guided by those influences from the higher realms of activity through which the entity has passed in its developments in the earth plane. And then be guided by that which will be shown thee, even as the pattern in the mount. Understand self and the motivating forces in the body-mind, in the physical body; for these are the shadow of the spiritual things that may be shown thee–and as thou seest by the study of those things that have been left as the compilation of the experiences of the sage, the prophet, the peoples of old, and most of all that as HE gave thee. For the promise to thee was, “I will come and abide with thee.” And in thine experiences of the psychic or soul forces throughout thine sojourn, be satisfied with nothing save that He would give thee; and may ye hear first of all, “Peace–I am with thee. Be not afraid, it is I.” And He will GUIDE thee; for His promises are to those that keep His ways.

9. And, as has been indicated,–the voice as may be interpreted in music, especially as to those that take hold of the imaginative forces in pastoral scenes,–as the bleating of sheep, the mooing of cows, the lowing of oxen,–all of these become such an influence as to bring, as in the eventide in its stillness, the closer at-onement of the mental self to the dependence in the Creative Force.

10. Then, as these are made manifest in the activities of the entity in the present, greater and greater may be the abilities for those creative forces or influences that may arise in the experience to give expression to these very influences that will ever be a part of man’s experience in his search for God.

18. For, as the entity is sensitive to influences from without itself, it is also sensitive to the thoughts, even, of those with whom it comes in contact.

11. …becoming a healer in the latter experience through the laying on of hands, in song and in the chants as were made by the entity and its associates. In the present, with those directing influences, may the entity–in those of stringed instruments–bring AGAIN those of the shepherd song, again those of the mountain song, in rain, in sunshine, in the various activities in nature. Hence those directing influences will bring that awakening that will bring joy, harmony, peace, loving understanding, to self and many.

25. Hence may the entity in the present in its experience as a reader, as a teacher, as an elocutionist, as a dramatist, find means of expression to bring to others THEIR relationships to Creative Forces.

26. For these be the purposes of the experiences of souls and entities in an earthly sojourn.

5. Very interesting will be many of the experiences one might encounter with this entity in its sensitiveness to places.

11. Then the greater problem should ever be, for an entity that is susceptible to environ, as to what is the choice of the ideal…

31. …First that the self is “sensitive” to influences from without. The necessity of the training in putting its trust where it did in those fields of activity in that land about Bethsaida; for in Him is the light…

4. The visions and the dreams, the abilities to hear, see, feel environmental influences or forces–by the least of the elemental influences that record or sound upon the consciousness of the entity–are to be taken seriously…

16. We find from the Uranian activities the abilities as related to the occult; and these must be tempered in those directions that they come not from the outside influences. The influences from the outside are helpful, but are to be kept in their relationships with the Creative Forces…

19. For they come as influences through the urges that manifest physically in the emotions of the entity.

14. And as this entity is supersensitive as it were to vibrations, to environs, to conditions or surroundings, and to those who impel activity of the mental self, we find that the material sojourns will be inclined to have a greater PULLING power as it were towards activities in the entity’s experience.

4. Here we find unusual conditions, especially owing to the long periods of interims between material sojourns. And thus we will find one that oft appears to be lost in confusions of itself; being highly sensitive to those influences from without.

11. …Hence the tendency of the QUIETING effect the body has upon many an individual…

(A) The MOST is its ability to wield or yield an influence upon all with whom it comes in contact! THIS is a talent that may be used for weal or woe, to be sure.

30. It would be impossible for the entity to go even among a group of a thousand and not all be conscious that the entity had entered. Why?

31. As the colors, as the vibrations are a portion of the entity, they also radiate from the entity. Hence many, many, MANY are influenced by the entity even as during that experience when she called to those that had heard, had known, and made for the strengthening influences in even the older of the apostles, even in the younger, and even those that were aged.

32. For the entity brings into the experience of others a helpful, hopeful influence.

24. So in the present, in the experiences of this entity, there may be expected just as unusual expression; as those coming to the entity to receive the blessings from the handkerchief, the photograph even, or those things that the entity may touch or bless.

29. For there will gradually come the growth of the abilities within the entity’s experience to not only bring messages of hope and of light to others, but to bring aid–through the very laying on of hands–to those who are not only mentally but physically sick,–to those who are ill at ease, rather than the diseased, throughout the entity’s experience. In such a manner, with that tempering, with that training which has been indicated, may the entity be of the greater service.

13. In the unfoldments we will find psychic forces of unusual natures manifesting in the experience. Not only may the body learn, or teach, much pertaining to levitation, but also there are the abilities to translate much that has not been interpreted in the experiences of but few thus far in the material plane.

5. For the astrological aspects are such that there lies innate in the activities of the entity the URGES, yet these are so manifested that the emotions–or those senses–or that which may be called intuitive (which is rather the combination, or the reasoning FROM something that is developed within the individual entity from its associations of activities with ideals in varied consciousnesses–Get that!)–become to the entity as experiences. And if they are guided aright, in such measures, in such manners that they may become as a directing influence, we may have those forces manifesting wherein many peoples of many lands, of many tongues, of many associations, may be benefited by those lessons and truths that the entity may bring to others.

12. (Q) What special mental and spiritual training should be given during this period?

(A) This is the beginning of the awakening to the comparative emotions for the body, and these are well to be kept in that way to aid in giving full expression of the imaginative influences as well as the emotions of the body–that are aroused by the awareness of relationships as the body finds same, or entity finds same, in its development for COMPARISONS of this or that. For, as will be seen, there will be gradually–through these particular periods–the activities of the mind in such a manner as to show how the body-mind begins to expand by comparison, see?

6. For as we find, the material sojourns and the activities in these–especially in the one–if there are those associations in the mental forces and in the abilities of the entity through these very experiences for that relying upon its psychic intuitive forces–indicate that great changes may be wrought in not only associations but in the abilities of the entity to become more and more the leader; as is innate, but must be trained (materially) for its application in the experience.

39. …study first to know self and that which motivates the purposes of self; for in this will there be found in self not only the abilities to make for those associations but to be guided by those influences from the higher realms of activity through which the entity has passed in its developments in the earth plane. And then be guided by that which will be shown thee, even as the pattern in the mount. Understand self and the motivating forces in the body-mind, in the physical body; for these are the shadow of the spiritual things that may be shown thee–and as thou seest by the study of those things that have been left as the compilation of the experiences of the sage, the prophet, the peoples of old, and most of all that as HE gave thee…

8. …from each the entity may gain, in its moulding of itself’s experience in the present, a lesson–which is as experience to the ENTITY as a whole. Not by the influence of the whole of an experience, but as that correlated or paralleled with the experience of the inner man.

6. Hence we will find an individual that will oft be called an extremist; either very active or very dull or lazy; inclining to be in the position of over-enthusiasm about any association or activity, or not caring or paying much attention to same. Yet the abilities in the mental plane will tend to make for the mental understanding. As to whether this is expressed or not will depend upon the entity, as to whether the influences become active or subjugated by the entity. This will also make for those influences in which the entity will be naturally intuitive; knowing many conditions, many things, that may be asked or that the entity may seek, without knowing HOW it–the entity–obtains the information…

5. …Haniel [Halaliel? Or I Chr. 7:39 Haniel? Or some other?] is rather the guide for the entity, for he is the overlord lord–making for experiences in the entity as of one delicate in its choices, making for a disposition tending towards that of finesse, making the most of all the associations; making friendships easily and drawing upon the force and power from those associations in a manner and way that even the entity itself will not–until it has passed through the experiences of making itself at-one with the greater developing force–understand as to how this is done.

11. Also we find indicated the interest in things having to do with the beauties of nature; and the INTUITIVE feelings–as the entity oft gives expressions to self, and occasionally to others–as to KNOWING things WITHOUT being able to give a material or physical reason for same.

29. The name then was Eliajah. In the experience the entity gained throughout. And the interest will be found, in the unfolding years, in those things that are of the mysterious nature, the entity’s interest in telling stories, fairy tales, those experiences where the unusual happened.

30. And the intuitive forces that will be manifested in the present experience of this entity arise from those innate forces there.

3. A “sensitive”, and one able to apply self in such measures and manners as to draw from the very realm of INNER experience…

3. One, then, without respects the will’s application, that love and mystery will play a most important part in the experiences, in the manner in which the imaginative forces of the body may be awakened, in which those of constructive forces or destructive forces may be awakened to the possibilities as lie in the exercising of a mental force within self, respecting influences as come from without or from within. Oft will be the experience of the entity during its early period of experience in the earth’s plane of knowing, feeling, experiencing, that which to many will be considered rather vague, uncanny, unseemly. These will be as intuitive forces, when awakened by bonds of sympathy or of that awakening as comes with maternal, material, sexual, or changing loves’ influence. These GUIDED, these studied, these applied aright in the entity’s experience, may be made for developments–and while the body mental may be termed the EXCEPTIONAL in mental abilities, these should be guided in the proper channels and kept as of a UNIT of whole expression…

(A) By deep meditation, as she saw in that experience, as given by Him to all at the period; that to each there should be the turning within and the trusting wholly in the power of God.

42. …Yet much may be gained from the lessons innately and manifestedly as urges from the experience; particularly the innate urges for meditations that bring spiritual, inspirational activities in the experience of the entity.

10. The influences from the sojourns during the interims between the earthly sojourns are manifested in the deeper visions of the entity, only by and through deep meditation and through practice of the tenets of the ideals of the entity.

27. Hence miracles, as ye would term them, to the entity are the things of the day. And true, the entity has the insight into those influences, that the so-called miraculous is a natural law; if there is the living, the thinking, the praying one and the same.

20. In the abilities of the entity–these may become great, dependent upon the guiding of same, especially as to the abilities to gain from UNSEEN sources those lessons, those visions, those pictures for others that may bring an understanding to many. As a MANIFESTER of such will the entity gain most, will they be guided aright–for the service of, the UPLIFTING of, those the entity contacts, rather than for the GRATIFICATION of physical forces in the body.

33. In those activities as we have indicated, if there are the developments, the entity may become a real seer; one interpreting many of the mysteries of old, as well as the mysteries of the activity or influences of the unseen forces within the experience of individuals.

20. An unusual career may be had as a doctor. Educate, put then in the way of the entity those things that may have to do with every form of those activities spiritual, mental and material, that may be of a helpful force in bringing to those in the material plane the consciousness of health-giving force in the experience of those that suffer; knowing that He, the Son, healeth thy diseases, He enlighteneth thy mind, He encourageth those who seek after Him,–spiritually, mentally, materially.

10. As there are the understandings of those about the entity, who are responsible for its entrance into this present plane–the awakening of the consciousness of the spirit of truth, of the Christ within, is that necessary in each soul.

9. …all of these become such an influence as to bring, as in the eventide in its stillness, the closer at-one ment of the mental self to the dependence in the Creative Force.

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This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 9th day of June, 1932, in accordance with request made by those present.

Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mildred Davis and Hugh Lynn Cayce.

1. GC: You will please continue with the information which Edgar Cayce, present in this room, should give in lecture form on the subject “How to Develop Your Psychic Powers,” to be given during the Congress of the Ass’n for Research & Enlightenment during the week of June 27th.

2. EC: In the warnings, there are seen many may be gotten from that which might be given in the development of ANY faculty or attribute of the physical or mental body; for the developments of the psychic forces are the development of the SPIRITUAL body, which manifests in and through the physical or mental body.

3. Then, as [to] the question [of] how to develop the psychic forces in an individual body:

4. How may one train their children–SHOULD one train their children–in such directions? SHOULD one have their children become acquainted with their Maker, or their selves? Would one have themselves be on speaking terms with the cosmic forces, with those influences that magnify the spiritual life? When one answers such, SOME would term this something of blasphemy, were this considered from much of the old or the period of orthodox thinking, as it has been termed. Rather may it be said that [is the] thinking of those that would have others think as they think, others feel as they feel. God speaks rather to EVERYONE! Whosoever will may learn of Him.

5. As has been said, there should ever be the criterion, the measuring stick by which all such phenomena may be measured. Would many see the visions that were experienced by the men of old who walked close with God, they would be called extremists (as a mild term), devils, and those that walk with unseen forces; yet there should ever be held the will of the FATHER concerning the influences. Study as to how Hannah consecrated the life of her son to the service of Jehovah, how that [he was] under the influence of the law in every respect and tutored by one who was unable to (or did not, at least) tutor his own. What [was] the difference? The consecration of the body yet unborn! When would one begin, then, to teach or train their children? Many months even before there is the conception, that the influence is WHOLLY of the Giver of good and perfect gifts.

6. How develop the psychic forces? So live in body, in mind, that self may be a channel through which the Creative Forces MAY run. How is the current of life or of modern science used in the commercial world? By preparing a channel through which same may run into, or through, that necessary for the use in the material things. So with the body mentally, physically, spiritually, so make the body, the mind, the spiritual influences, a channel–and the NATURAL consequence will be the manifestations.

7. How best, then, to develop those latent forces in one NOW, those who have reached the years of maturity or responsibility in self? Let that mind be in you as was in Him who thought it not robbery to make Himself equal with God, yet took on Himself the burden of all that through His physical suffering, His privation in body, in mind, there might come the blessings to others. Not self, but others. He, or she, that may lose self, then, for others, may DEVELOP those faculties that will give the greater expression of psychic forces in their experience.

8. What shall I read? Wherewithal shall I be clothed? Where shall I dwell? What shall I eat? and the like, become the questions of many. He that taketh thought of such has ALREADY limited the powers that influence through those forces in life. The NATURAL things, as known and given, are the things that make for the better physical body in normal activity. NORMALCY, not extreme in any manner! and there will be shown thee day by day that which will be the necessary for thine OWN development. To some certain amount of exercise, certain amounts of rest, certain amounts of various characters of breathing, of purification, of prayer, of reading–as