Translating Cayce into plain English is hard work, but I’ve found a diversion that offers the excitement of discovery: I use the numbers that stand for people to make lists that I cross reference. The process helps breathe life into the numbers in brackets; I begin to see how ordinary they are, and how little difference there is between their problems and ours.
The lists I cross reference are: Numbers cited; Attendee names; Other names cited; Reading number and subject; Subject and reading number; and Readings by year.
I have to look out, though. Just compiling these lists is time consuming, and the practice is compelling. It can become an end in itself and a convenient excuse for not doing the more relevant work of translating.
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