Edgar Cayce on Health Research (Questions and Answers)

©Copyright 1998 by Deborah Seymour Taylor, USA
(Explore Issue: Volume 8, Number 4)

In your last column, you spoke of research currently underway at the Meridian Institute. Can you tell me more about Meridian?

The Meridian Institute, located in Virginia Beach, was founded in 1994 to conduct formal research on the Cayce health readings.

According to Meridian researcher, Carl Nelson, D.C., "Our intention is to validate the Cayce's concepts and offer them to the medical community as an organized system of knowledge." For the past two years, Meridian has styled their research programs after those developed at the A.R.E. Clinic in Phoenix. After the researchers developed treatment protocols for specic conditions mentioned in the readingsfor instance, psoriasis, epilepsy, migraine headaches, MS, Parkinson's Disease, asthma and chronic fatigueprograms were developed to offer these Cayce-oriented treatments to the general public. The initial program was offered to psoriasis sufferers. Participants came to Virginia Beach for an initial 10-day group experience aimed at teaching Cayce therapies and gathering clinical data. Meals were prepared and served according to the Cayce diet, massage, colonics and other Cayce therapies were provided by A.R.E.'s Health Services department, and medical and psychological examinations were conducted to gather baseline data. When participants returned home, it was with specic, detailed instructions on how to continue their treatment until the follow-up visit. After four to six months, participants returned for another group experience to assess their progress. Since then, Meridian has offered a number of similar programs. According to Dr. Nelson, "These in-house programs are helping us validate the Cayce's hypotheses. What's more, as each research program is completed and accumulated results are added back into the research pool, we are able to organize the information into a system of knowledge that, we believe, will potentially alter the current medical paradigm of how the body functions and the mechanisms of body/mind connection."

One of the more interesting ndings concerns the site of therapeutic intervention. The current medical paradigm suggests that the site of intervention for a disease is the disease organ itself. "What we're nding," explains Dr. Nelson, "is that this is not the case. In fact, often the site is distant and seemingly unrelated to the manifestation of the disease." Take psoriasis, a disease that is currently being treated as a skin manifestation. "What we have found, " said Nelson, "is that the site of origin is actually the upper section of the small intestine which has become subject to what is referred to as'Leaky Gut Syndrome.'" According to the readings, this thinning of the intestinal walls allows toxins to seep into the blood and lymphatics, which is then eliminated through the skin. Another example is epilepsy. Medical science treats epilepsy as a disease that originates in the brain. "Yet," says Nelson, "our research has validated the Cayce hypothesis that the origin of epileptic seizures is actually adhesions in the lymphatic ducts surrounding the intestine. When absorbed food encounters these strictures, caused by adhesions, they irritate these strictures causing spasmodic reactions. These are then referred by neurological pathways to the cerebral cortex, initiating a seizure."

As Meridian researchers continue their programs and analyze their ndings, they are also in the process of organizing data into what Dr. Nelson calls a "unique, stand-alone addition to the current understanding of the homeostatic process of health and illness."

The Cayce readings suggest the use of the Wet Cell for epilepsy. Can you tell me more about this appliance?

The Wet Cell was recommended in nearly 1000 Cayce readings for more than 150 different ailments including incoordination between the sympathetic and the cerebrospinal nervous system, mental disorders, arthritis, paralysis, deafness, Parkinson's Disease and Multiple Sclerosis. It is simply a wet cell battery that produces a small electrical current that, according to Cayce, could be used to stimulate the growth of nerve tissue and balance the glandular system.

Although it looks complex, it is not. The appliance itself is a large jar with positive and negative rods made of copper and nickel, immersed in an electrolyte soup of copper sulfate, su;phuric acid, zinc, charcoal and distilled water. The copper and nickel poles are tted with terminals to which are attached both a copper and a nickel plate. When you are ready to use the device, you t the nickel attachment around your waist like a belt, with the nickel cup snug against the lacteal ducts, located to the right of the navel. The lacteal ducts are lymphatic vessels that extend into the villa of the small intestine. The copper attachment is placed at one of various nerve centers along the spinal column, locations that vary according to the specic physical disorder, but most often involve the third cervical, ninth dorsal and/or the fourth lumbar. The impulse of the low electrical current is then sent directly to the center needing attention, working through the nervous system. In most cases, the appliance is used with a specic solution that supplies certain elements to the bodyelements which bypass digestion and are carried into the body through the electrical forces of the Wet Cell appliance. The most commonly recommended were gold chloride, spirits of camphor, silver nitrate and atomidine. u

About the Author

Deborah Seymour Taylor is a freelance writer and co-author of Angels: The Lifting of the Veil and The Angels Talk, a game and companion book recently published by Penquin Studio Book

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