Healing, as it refers to the use of castor oil packs, has its alliance not only with the nature and functions of the body, but also needs to be understood in light of the fact that cas-tor oil is composed of atoms, gives off vibrations, and has a specific activity on the tissues where it is placed.
In my own experience, I have found that castor oil placed over any part of the human being;—or animal, for that mat-ter—will stimulate the lymphatics to work more normally and will bring about a degree of healing through the stimu-lation of the immune system. Cayce suggested that use of the packs can and will affect the Peyer's patches and have a direct effect on the autonomic nervous system. A patient once told me that the pack was more relaxing than any tran-quilizer she had ever used.
We now come to our final question to be considered:
9. What then is healing of the body?
At this time, we do not have enough information or re-search data to identify what healing really is or exactly how the castor oil pack brings healing to the body. However, I have found that simple treatments which interested indi-viduals perform often give more good information about the method of activity and the possibilities inherent within their use than even the most sophisticated researches.
One such event involved a baby squirrel. Dolly Wijas gave me this story: "A couple of years ago we were fortunate enough to become the foster parents of a newborn baby squirrel. He was so small his eyes didn't open until after we had him home for two weeks.
"I faithfully fed him with an eyedropper and canned puppy milk every two hours. We also had a ferret, and that's where the trouble started. Being the 'natural' enemy of the squirrel, she got into his box one day and almost killed him.
"He had puncture wounds everywhere. We thought he was dead because he was totally limp and cold to the touch.
Our vet, also a friend, said there was no hope. However, I had great faith in Edgar Cayce and decided it couldn't hurt to try castor oil wraps.
"I used an old piece of flannel, soaked it in castor oil, wrapped his body in it, and covered it with a heating pad.
After twenty-four hours, his body was warm again and he would take a few drops of milk. Within three days, he was well on his way to recovery, and my friend, the vet, could not believe it
"We kept him for about six months before he finally left on his own. It was a wonderful experience for our whole family—he taught us all a little more about love for nature and God's creatures."
This was healing from the castor oil and undoubtedly also from Dolly, who loved God's little creature enough to
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care for him. Is love a vibration? Castor oil certainly is. The oil also penetrates through the tissues where it is placed, so perhaps it brings about healing through the contact of a cleansing activity.
Another simple use, yet healing in its nature, came to me from another of our friends. She had broken her jawin a car accident and her jaw had to be wired shut. She couldn't get rid of food particles that stuck to parts of the braces. She became concerned about cavities and gum erosion. She told me, "I was new in the A.R.E. and had read about all the benefits of castor oil. I decided to try brushing my teeth with a drop or two of castor oil on my tooth brush.
"The effect was all I could have hoped for. My teeth felt clean and the soreness from the wires disappeared. The end result was no cavities and minimal gum erosion."
There are literally thousands of stories I have heard about how castor oil brings healing to the body.56 We may never know the whole story, but we must remember that this "oil that heals" was created by that Power which brought the entire universe into being and it was intended to be used to bring harmony and balance into the lives of individuals—
both human and animal. For He loves all these creatures which He also created.
It seems to me that turmoil in one's life situation which needs desperately to be cleaned up may often result in tur-moil in one's body where a cleansing should be going on, perhaps in the lower bowel or in one of the other organs that deals with elimination. I think we experience things more with symbolic portions of our bodies than we do with our so-called conscious minds. The real consciousness or awareness that we become involved with is most likely lo-cated in a specific area of the body. So cleansing of our lives might start with cleansing of the body, and this might be the only creative thing we can do.
Those individuals who are set in their ways will not often
respond well to the packs. Why? To those who will allow it, the oil brings peace to the body and to the consciousness.
This is a measure of grace. Those who are set in their ways cannot let go of their own wills long enough to sense that it is the will of God that they be healed through grace.
Those who are receptive in their basic nature will benefit most from the castor oil packs. Why? Because being recep-tive is being as the little child. The child has faith without knowing why and so accepts all things as being the will and graciousness of God acting in his or her life. Peace comes to the child, throughout the whole of the earth—his or her earth!
Impatience destroys good results in this therapy for it unleashes the destructive activity of the energies of the adre-nergic-sympathetic nervous system, overpowering the healing effect of the parasympathetic, as we know it.
Early conditions respond to this mode of therapy best, because the disturbed emotional patterns have not yet be-come solidified in the flesh. They have just left their fingerprints. Illnesses which require body change of a ma-jor degree—such as a fibroid or an ulcer or colitis of longstanding;—to complete a recovery process requires pa-tience and perseverance. The body has been seriously affected by those elements of consciousness which, for a long time, have acted detrimentally as a "normal" factor in the life pattern. These elements are not easily recognized and when found, are not easily moved out of one's pattern of awareness.
Healing may really be peace—a peace that comes to rest in the body, that is a reflection of the "peace that passeth understanding." We see it come to the body much as peace is allowed to come to the earth: a nation here and a nation there. When we find real peace in the earth, we may see a state of health having come to all bodies.
Part II
Case Studies
Introduction to Part II
I HAVE FOCUSED THUS FAR IN THIS VOLUME on castor oil packs and their use on the human body. We can see their use extending backward in time even toward ancient Egypt, where castor oil was used therapeutically. I have related these packs primarily with the field of healing, medicine, and parapsychology.
In studying their use as suggested by Edgar Cayce, we have discovered a man who could lie down and voluntarily enter a state of mind and body wherein his conscious mind was apparently not involved with what he was saying.
Cayce indicated that his entire autonomic nervous sys-tem was vitally active during this state and that the unconscious mind was that portion which was seeking out and reporting the information found. Often this informa-tion came from the unconscious mind of the other person involved—Cayce's client or patient. This condition directs us to the thought that we know already what is wrong with
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our bodies. We just can't reach down into that unconscious mind (or is it the autonomic nervous system?) and obtain the knowledge that we would like to have.
In bringing together all portions of my study, the inferences in the Cayce readings cannot be ignored. These inferences suggest that castor oil packs seemingly have a relationship with the nervous system, as well as with most of the other sys-tems of the body, in their role of aiding the body back to health.
This brings us to the inquiry I made some time ago of their use in the general practice of medicine and my analy-sis, considering the value that may proceed from this study of eighty-one individuals whose varying conditions of ill-ness were treated through the use of these packs.
These eighty-one cases are a random selection and rep-resent only a fraction of the instances where we have used castor oil packs as the only therapy or as a coordinate therapy for one condition or another of illness. Some of the cases mat have most impressed me with the therapeutic efficacy of this tool are not included. A continuing effort is being made, however, to collect more data
My object in reviewing these cases in conjunction with the other information that has been presented is fivefold. It is certainly not a conventional research project. Many fac-tors which are necessary for good, scientific research are not to be found here for a variety of reasons. What is to be found here, however, is information which is significant and case histories which are relevant to the purposes and objectives underlying this presentation.
My objectives are as follows:
1. To stimulate interest in this therapeutic regimen;
2. To show the exceptionally wide latitude of use that is possible with the castor oil packs;
3. To present and coordinate evidence that there is ac tual beneficial response in the human body to the application of these packs;
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4. To discuss theoretical considerations relative to the action of the packs on the body; and
5. To begin to explore the validity of a unique under standing of physiological functioning of the human body, which is found in the Edgar Cayce readings.
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