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Medicine in the 1940’s was not what it is today. Doctors gave Betty Taylor’s chronic condition little chance of improvement, and gave her just a few years more to live. Not content with such a sentence, Betty followed common sense steps, stayed regular with meditation, and sought everywhere for healing. She ventured to write for a health reading from the “Sleeping Prophet” Edgar Cayce. His staff were most kind and arranged for her to receive a reading and a subsequent explanation by post. Betty was instructed to stay at her Florida address the following Saturday morning from 11am-noon while Cayce went into trance and addressed her case. Easy enough —Betty seldom felt well enough to go out.
To be as receptive as possible, Betty sat for a meditation shortly before 11am. Using the pranayama and meditation methods she had been receiving from her teacher, Yogananda, through his correspondence Lessons, she began her usual spiritual routine and promptly went into a deep, uncharacteristic peace. She lost all sense of time or place. She came to feel wrapped in tangible comfort, seeming to soar through “planes of multi-colored light.” She entirely forgot the healthcare issues which had prompted her mid-day meditation, and gave herself over fully to the absorbing thought of Spirit. Her awareness finally returned to the room. She checked the clock only to find that it was past noon! Wonderful—surely she had been more receptive than she had ever dared hope she could be.
Eagerly she awaited the good news from Virginia Beach. She had read enough Cayce reports from to know just how it would open: “We have the body. We observe that the condition of… The root of the entity’s difficulties stems from… (etc.)” Thousands of people around the world had found instruction to complete cure from reports with that beginning.
Within a few days Betty was tearing open a thin envelope from Cayce’s institute. Imagine her disappointment to find inside only six words: “We do not find the body.” Over the weeks Betty puzzled about what went wrong (she had been right there the entire time) and about what to do — Cayce had been her last hope. Finally she came to suspect the experience was a message: after all, she had sought to be receptive to whatever was for her highest good. In following months she just kept up her meditation and sought to surrender to whatever was Divine Will, best she could sense it.
After three years of considerable struggle, Betty’s condition unexpectedly receded. She was finally feeling well enough to travel, and took the opportunity to make the long rail trip to Yogananda’s center in Los Angeles. She sought out his next scheduled talk. Although she had many questions which yearned for a private interview, Betty planned to begin by going to hear him speak, then letting her pilgrimage evolve from there. Remaining patiently in the wings after a spell-binding service, Betty found one of those rare moments when the master was alone. Tentatively introducing herself, she ventured to ask whether he might help her understand one strong and strange meditation experience she had had: “I went so deeply inside that I was soon only aware of moving through light until…”
The master didn’t need to hear her whole story. He smiled gently and explained, “You see, you needed the illness you had at that time. I had to take you to a higher level where they could not find you.”
What a difference it would make to our peace of mind if we could know and feel how much we are invisibly guided and protected, even while life seems to tear us apart. Perhaps we could learn from the example we display in material choices of life: we commonly surrender life and limb to surgeons who will make us gape and bleed and leave our bodies with scars — because we trust they will leave us ultimately in a healthier state.
I take pleasure in reviewing this woman’s experience to remind myself where I need to look for the best healing.
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