The Essential Edgar Cayce by Mark Thurston Page B
Authors: Mark Thurston
Tags: General, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Body, Mind & Spirit, Religious, Parapsychology, Occultism, Telepathy, Mysticism, prophecy, Precognition, ESP (Clairvoyance
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mind: We have to make a choice, and we have to use our imaginations to relate the ideal to ourselves.
It probably comes as no surprise that aspiration is one of the ingredients. Just think about how people use the term ideal in everyday language. Usually, it has the flavor of aspiration; for example, the ideal home is something we can imagine as the best possible way of getting along with family members. The ideal job imagines a workplace where all our talents are utilized. Aspiration means something more than desire; there is an element of intuition to the process. We long for, or aspire to, something because in part we sense that it is really possible.
Trust is the second ingredient in Edgar Cayce’s psychology of ideals. A more subtle factor than aspiration, think about how you might aspire to something but not trust that it’s really alive in you, not trust that it’s possible for you. Without trust, you haven’t yet set a spiritual ideal.
Trust is not easy to swallow because most of us find trust very difficult. It requires a more challenging use of free will than does aspiration alone. Trust means a willingness to let go of fears and doubts. It means believing ultimately in forces beyond our conscious selves. You can’t set the universal Christ—or anything else—as your spiritual ideal until you let go and put your trust in it.
Here’s another, somewhat superficial example: When you turn on a light, you trust that electricity will be there to light up the room. When you turn on a faucet, you trust water will start flowing. In other words, you worry little about the availability of electricity and water. Now, a critic could say that you’re mindlessly taking it all for granted, that many people in the world don’t have such immediate access to these resources. But the point isn’t how fortunate we are; the point is to teach us about trust.
An authentic ideal is one you don’t have to think about or question. It has become so much a part of life that it’s a given. When you come up against a challenge, you know you can count on the ideal just as surely as you can count on electricity or water when you need them. Some days, your genuine ideal is almost invisible because it’s so much a part of how you view the world.
We live in an era vitally needing a renewed vision of the power of ideals. Not pie-in-the-sky idealism, which all too often fails to connect with real life. Today’s world needs respect—even reverence—for “setting an ideal for one’s own individual life.” Edgar Cayce offers a very effective way to hone in on how to do it and make it work. Aspiration is one key; courage to trust is the other.
THE READING
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THIS PSYCHIC READING, 357-13,
WAS GIVEN BY EDGAR CAYCE ON JUNE 11, 1942.
The conductor was Gertrude Cayce.
GC: You will have before you the body and inquiring mind of [357], at . . . Jewelry Co., . . . , Va., in regard to her health, her home life, her work, and her general welfare. You will give a mental and spiritual reading, with information, advice and guidance that will be helpful; answering the questions she has submitted, as I ask them:
EC: In giving an interpretation of the physical, mental and spiritual well-being of a body, in terms of a mental and spiritual reading—as we have so oft indicated, Mind is the Builder.
The mind uses its spiritual ideals to build upon. And the mind also uses the material desires as the destructive channels, or it is the interference by the material desires that prevents a body and a mind from keeping in perfect accord with its ideal.
Thus, these continue ever in the material plane to be as warriors one with another. Physical emergencies or physical conditions may oft be used as excuses, or as justifications for the body choosing to do this or that.
Ought these things so to be, according to thy ideal?
Then, the more important, the most important experience of this or any individual entity is to first know what is the
It probably comes as no surprise that aspiration is one of the ingredients. Just think about how people use the term ideal in everyday language. Usually, it has the flavor of aspiration; for example, the ideal home is something we can imagine as the best possible way of getting along with family members. The ideal job imagines a workplace where all our talents are utilized. Aspiration means something more than desire; there is an element of intuition to the process. We long for, or aspire to, something because in part we sense that it is really possible.
Trust is the second ingredient in Edgar Cayce’s psychology of ideals. A more subtle factor than aspiration, think about how you might aspire to something but not trust that it’s really alive in you, not trust that it’s possible for you. Without trust, you haven’t yet set a spiritual ideal.
Trust is not easy to swallow because most of us find trust very difficult. It requires a more challenging use of free will than does aspiration alone. Trust means a willingness to let go of fears and doubts. It means believing ultimately in forces beyond our conscious selves. You can’t set the universal Christ—or anything else—as your spiritual ideal until you let go and put your trust in it.
Here’s another, somewhat superficial example: When you turn on a light, you trust that electricity will be there to light up the room. When you turn on a faucet, you trust water will start flowing. In other words, you worry little about the availability of electricity and water. Now, a critic could say that you’re mindlessly taking it all for granted, that many people in the world don’t have such immediate access to these resources. But the point isn’t how fortunate we are; the point is to teach us about trust.
An authentic ideal is one you don’t have to think about or question. It has become so much a part of life that it’s a given. When you come up against a challenge, you know you can count on the ideal just as surely as you can count on electricity or water when you need them. Some days, your genuine ideal is almost invisible because it’s so much a part of how you view the world.
We live in an era vitally needing a renewed vision of the power of ideals. Not pie-in-the-sky idealism, which all too often fails to connect with real life. Today’s world needs respect—even reverence—for “setting an ideal for one’s own individual life.” Edgar Cayce offers a very effective way to hone in on how to do it and make it work. Aspiration is one key; courage to trust is the other.
THE READING
✜
THIS PSYCHIC READING, 357-13,
WAS GIVEN BY EDGAR CAYCE ON JUNE 11, 1942.
The conductor was Gertrude Cayce.
GC: You will have before you the body and inquiring mind of [357], at . . . Jewelry Co., . . . , Va., in regard to her health, her home life, her work, and her general welfare. You will give a mental and spiritual reading, with information, advice and guidance that will be helpful; answering the questions she has submitted, as I ask them:
EC: In giving an interpretation of the physical, mental and spiritual well-being of a body, in terms of a mental and spiritual reading—as we have so oft indicated, Mind is the Builder.
The mind uses its spiritual ideals to build upon. And the mind also uses the material desires as the destructive channels, or it is the interference by the material desires that prevents a body and a mind from keeping in perfect accord with its ideal.
Thus, these continue ever in the material plane to be as warriors one with another. Physical emergencies or physical conditions may oft be used as excuses, or as justifications for the body choosing to do this or that.
Ought these things so to be, according to thy ideal?
Then, the more important, the most important experience of this or any individual entity is to first know what is the
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