Part IV: Longevity—Adding Life to Your Years
Acknowledgments
Completing this book has been a three-year project that would have been impossible without the dedicated help of many people who believe in and were inspired by the spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical wisdom in the Cayce readings.
The authors wish to use this opportunity to thank those who shared their personal experiences with us and the many friends and colleagues who have assisted us in our work.
We wish to acknowledge and thank the following for their very special help:
Hugh Lynn Cayce for his perceptive Foreword and reminiscences;
Gladys Davis Turner, Lucille Kahn, Hugh Lynn, Dr. Pat Reilly, and Dorothy Reilly for helping us reconstruct the history of Edgar Cayce and our family;
J. Everett Irion, Violet Shelley, and the editorial, library, and administrative staffs of the A.R.E. in Virginia Beach, Virginia;
Volunteers Rhoda Boyko, who assisted Mrs. Brod for two years in researching and typing the excerpts from the Cayce Medical Circulating Files; Rudolph Boyko, who helped his wife; Albert T. Brod, who did endless copying, checking, correcting, and reading; Andrew Grossman, who assisted with many chores;
Artist Jacqueline Mott, who added last-minute illustrations to those commissioned and executed by Ray Cullis;
And Doctors William A. McGarey, John Joseph Lalli, and Edith Wallace for reviewing the manuscript and for their helpful criticism and suggestions.
A special tribute to the significant leadership and courage in fighting for the consumer’s right to health and pollution-free air, water, and food of the following congressional committee and subcommittee chairmen and appreciation for the transcripts of their hearings:
Senators Richard S. Schweiker (R.-Pa.), Gaylord Nelson (D.-Wis.), William Proxmire (D.-Wis.), Philip A. Hart (D.-Mich.), and Congressman James J. Delaney (D.-N.Y.).
To Dr. Roger J. Williams, director of the Clayton Foundation Biochemical Institute of The University of Texas, our profound appreciation and respect for his great book, Nutrition Against Disease (New York, Pitman Publishing Co., 1971), from which we have quoted extensively.
We also wish to extend our thanks to the following:
E. M. Abrahamson and A. W. Pezet, Body, Mind and Sugar, New York, Pyramid Books, 1951;
Ted Burke, “Recipes for Rejuvenation,” Harper’s Bazaar, March 1973;
Cathryn Elwood, Feel Like a Million, New York, Pocket Books, 1965;
Frank Glenn and Arthur J. Okenaka, “Study of a 167-Year-Old-Man,” Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, July 1964;
Mrs. Edward Henderson, director of the American Geriatrics Society and editor of the Journal;
Josef P. Hrachovec, Keeping Young and Living Longer, Los Angeles, Calif., Sherbourne Press, 1972;
William A. McGarey, Edgar Cayce and the Palma Christi, Edgar Cayce Foundation and Medical Research Bulletins of the Edgar Cayce Foundation;
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., for its weight and longevity charts;
Proceedings of the Conference on Aging, sponsored by the Huxley Institute, New York, March 6, 1972;
Corinne H. Robinson, Normal and Therapeutic Nutrition, New York, Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1972;
Neil Solomon, The Truth About Weight Control, New York, Stein & Day, 1972;
Jess Stearn, Edgar Cayce—The Sleeping Prophet, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday & Co.; New York, Bantam Books, 1968;
C. M. Taylor and O. F. Pye, Foundations of Nutrition, New York, Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1966;
Renee Taylor, Hunza Health Secrets, New York, Award Books, 1969;
Carlson Wade, Magic Minerals: A Key to Better Health, New York, Parker Publishing Co., 1967;
Maurice Zolotow, Marilyn Monroe: A Biography, New York, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1960.
Foreword
This, then—that the spirit, the soul, the elements of the active forces, use those portions of the physical body as their temple during an earth’s experience.
(311-4)
Harold Reilly one of America’s outstanding physiotherapists, has helped more people make practical use of data in the Edgar Cayce physical readings than any man I know. One reason for this is the man himself, for Dr. Reilly is one of the most positive, energetic, and practical persons I have ever known. He inspires confidence; he obviously practices what he preaches. He is friendly, enthusiastic, and possesses a wonderful sense of humor. A conversation with Dr. Reilly persuades you, a treatment from him convinces you, that your body can do more than you ever expect from it. He inspires self-respect.
Another reason Dr. Reilly has been so successful in helping others use the Edgar Cayce readings is because his philosophy of health was already in alignment with the philosophy of health expressed in the readings when his name was first mentioned in these readings. Surprisingly, his name was mentioned several years before the two men met in person. This bond at the level of the mind, and yet at the level of the spirit, too, led hundreds of people to seek out Harold Reilly at both his institute in Rockefeller Center and his farm in New Jersey. They met him also in his books, The Secret of Better Health and Easy Does It, and later in the books of many others who wrote about him and his work with the Edgar Cayce readings—two of which were Thomas Sugrue’s There Is a River and Jess Stearn’s Edgar Cayce—The Sleeping Prophet.
Both Edgar Cayce and Harold Reilly were more concerned with keeping people well and finding causes of illness than in curing symptoms. In the readings the many suggestions dealing with exercise, diet, packs, and hydrotherapy are frequently treatments for which the individual him- or herself, rather than another person, must take the responsibility. Even the treatments that needed to be administered by another person—such as manipulation, colonics, packs, etc.—were therapies designed to help the body help itself. Here in The Edgar Cayce Handbook for Health Through Drugless Therapy, you will find encouragement and, more important, specific ways in which to help yourself regain physical, mental, and emotional stability and a new attitude toward living.
For, all healing comes from the One Source. And whether there is the application of foods, exercise, medicine, or even the knife—it is to bring [to] the consciousness of the forces within the body that aid in reproducing themselves—[which is] the awareness of Creative or God Forces. (2696-1)
Edgar Cayce talked about the importance of the apple diet, castor oil packs, fume baths with special oils for special ailments, specific types of massage, and a variety of valuable diets. But it was Harold Reilly who first began to help people put the treatments together. It was he who encouraged and, indeed, inspired them to follow through until they began to discover that they could get fantastic results at times.
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