Iodine: The Once-a-Century Element

© Copyright 2003 by Phil Thomas, USA
(Explore Issue: Volume 12, Number 5)

It occurred to me a moment ago, following twenty years as a natural health facilitator, that the real issue when addressing the health/illness question isn’t whether it can it be approached in a comprehensive manner, but rather if I can assist someone else in changing his belief system. Shoot, we’re all stuck in old and destructive patterns. You are, I am, and even Edgar Cayce was prone to stress, poor eating habits, and being an absentee father during his lifetime. So the question becomes, how do we get to the place where we can truly understand that there is a viable reason for wanting to help ourselves? Without that first step most people will never get to that place in their lives where there’s hope, and without hope we are destined to repeat the same destructive patterning both as individuals, and as a whole.

Fortunately, and at the risk of sounding like every other salesperson on the planet (which is about a third of the population) I may have come across something in the Cayce material which just might prove to be the light at the end of the tunnel. It is detoxified (electrically-charged) iodine, which Mr. Cayce referred to as Atomic Iodine, or Atomidine.

Now, those familiar with the Cayce readings no doubt have heard of Atomidine, and tens; perhaps hundreds of thousands of people have tried the so called Atomidine made available commercially by the A.R.E. and the health food store down the road in Virginia Beach. If you look at the label you’ll see it’s made from iodine-trichloride. Iodine-trichloride is one iodine bonded with three chlorine in a lab. This means that with every drop of iodine ingested you are also consuming three times as much chlorine. Chlorine is definitely not something you’d want to take internally, and certainly not something Mr. Cayce ever recommended. Nevertheless, countless people have subjected themselves to this ritualistic poisoning for more than three decades, believing that it must have come from the Cayce readings, since it is promoted that way. Honestly, this is just one example of many from the readings that has been compromised as a sacrament to the God of a quick buck. However, this single concept, in my mind at least, has the potential to change the world for the better more than any other I know of, either from within, or outside the Cayce material. Why is that? Hey, give me a break. I’m putting my neck on the proverbial chopping block for just explaining what iodine-trichloride is. Let’s just take a look at the history of iodine, along with Mr. Cayce’s contribution, and start with that. I think once you get an overview of where it has been, you’ll be able to see for yourself where it could be headed.