Emotions: The Spiritual Language of BodyMind

by Anya Wolfenden

"The more and more each is impelled by that which is intuitive, or the relying upon the soul force within, the greater, the farther, the deeper, the broader, the more constructive may be the result." [Edgar Cayce reading #792-2]

I've met a couple of individuals at health fairs who were disturbed by the name Edgar Cayce. One woman still asked questions about other displayed products; another walked away quickly to pray for my soul. I suspect that the same people who think Cayce's ability (to tap into a universal unconscious when people asked for help) was ungodly, believe that spiritually led prophets and healers acted from a place of holiness.

Let's look at this word holiness - the same root for holistic - being whole in body, mind and spirt - as above in the heavens so below on earth. There is no contradiction in the terms holy and holistic. Edgar Cayce recommended meditation and thankful prayer (not asking for something) as part of daily health. Both have since been proven invaluable to maintaining health. These practices enhance insight, one "end" of the broad seeing spectrum, the multidimensional stuff of the soul. In Cayce's life seeing beyond present-day assumptions, beyond what was known, helped people heal and paved the way for modern holistic medicine. Also, not that this defines whether one is acting out of spiritual goodness, but I don't know many people who read the Bible cover to cover each year of their lives as Edgar Cayce did.

Granted, some folks do idolize dogma and create self serving institutions of righteousness. One who idolizes an individual to the point that they give themselves over is abdicating responsibility for their relationship with G-d. It's inefficient, like playing the telephone game. If one is over influenced by a cult of personality, a cult of religion, an individual, it muffles the language one speaks with one's soul. No guru can do it for us. Looking up to someone for their wisdom works if a teacher guides you to experience your own interlocking puzzle piece of the universe.

Mr. Cayce suggested some very practical health information such as the importance of digestion. On a scientific level he spoke of the concentration of lymph nodes in the intestines (Peyer's Patch), the crucial importance of the endocrine glands for helping maintain balance in the nervous system. How eating too much starch disrupts the activities of the gall duct, pancreas and spleen. How a sluggish, toxic colon weakens lymphatic circulation and thus the immune system, and strains the heart by reducing the quality of the blood.

Modern research is hot on this research trail now, eighty years after Cayce related various diseases from epilepsy to migraines to autism to psoriasis to the abdominal brain or the "secondary brain" [reading 294-212]. He was before his time on this, precisely because he humbly put himself into a self induced hypnotic trance state and asked for help for people who needed it. He had a gift. He was not a woo woo guy. He gardened and fished and raised sons and didn't do well with money. He wasn't a doctor, he was a psychic diagnostician. But his work (14,000 readings, 9,000 of which were medical) still helps people today.

Often Cayce's readings recommended adding vibrations of gold, silver and iodine to the body through bioelectric devices called the Wet Cell or Radio-Active Appliance. He instructed the individual to attach the plates at "centers about the umbilicus" and specific vertebrae. The key was to link the central nervous system to the "solar plexus brain" [reading 2259-1] from where "the electronic and atomic vibratory radiations of a human body" were distributed throughout the whole body. Gold was specially important to the hormones secreted by the endocrine glands needed by cells (including nerve cells) to reproduce themselves.

To get the body paradigm in its full context (holistic) is especially helpful while we're floundering for complicated cures for cancer, neuralgias and debilitating immune attacking disease in microscopic territories. What came through Edgar Cayce from the world's healing traditions was the truth before medical science was able to discover it. I don't idolize him, I'm thankful that what he said is being proved today, because it makes health accessible in natural ways (inexpensive and without side effects). While drugs seek to block the body's response to disease, the holistic approach looks at what the body is trying to do to re-establish homeostasis. Reactionary treatment is by its nature antagonistic to the body, meaning it will create side effects as the body attempts to heal and counteract this foreign substance.

One of the doctors who is proving the power of vibration is the remarkable researcher Dr. Candace Pert who first discovered the opiate receptors on the cells in 1972. She has found that the high concentration of neurotransmitters in the secondary brain effect health and diseases like AIDS and depression. If you're interested, read her book, Molecules of Emotion and listen to her work at the upcoming Mid-Atlantic Medical Conference*. What's most exciting is when the ligands (amino acids including neurotransmitters) and their receptors acknowledge each other they vibrate like the same tune of music. Specific information is absorbed into the cell. The resulting cell activity can lead to physical changes, cell reproduction, even mood shifts (Pert says mood is the closest word scientists will use for emotion).

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It may be that good vibrations are the true future of medicine. This is huge. This is scientific validation for the healing power of prayer, emotional body work, homeopathy and vibrations of gold that help regenerate nerve cells. When Cayce said connect the central nervous system and the abdominal brain with bioelectric vibrations he was speaking the language of the cell. When progressive doctors link suppressed fear and anger to cancer, then recovery to love and laughter, that internal massage, they're on the right track. Emotions are the informational vibrations of body, mind and the soul.

"...attitudes oft influence the physical conditions of the body. No one can hate his neighbor and not have stomach or liver trouble. One cannot be jealous and allow anger of same and not have upset digestion or heart disorder." [Cayce reading 4021-1]
Think of this globally and we expand our understanding for love thy neighbor. We now know that stress emotions such as upset, frustration, rage, grief, pressure, illness, fear, resentment, cause the adrenal glands to release cortisol which strains the heart, elevates blood pressure and oxidizes cholesterol creating plaque on the arteries. What you feel in your gut - how you metabolize emotion - what you do with the food you eat effects your health.

All this miraculous interwoven chemistry must come from an intricately loving oneness of life. That's why I believe that holiness and holism are one and the same. Anyone who wants to call intuitive ability anti-G-d might want to look at it with emotional intelligence.

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*The Mid-Atlantic Medical Conference features Larry Dossey, MD, Barabara Dossey, PhD,RN, Candace Pert PhD, Raphael Kellman, MD, Fri, Nov 12 - Sun, Nov 14, 2004, call 804-358-7071 for info or see www.holistichealthconferences.com

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