Scientific reasoning behind Edgar Cayce's breathing exercises
Hi Friends,
Breathing is something we all do for basically 24 hours a day. We can briefly control our breathing consciously, but after a while our minds flutter away to other activities and the body resumes breathing on its own.
Breathing facilitates the lungs exchange of carbon dioxide (CO2) for oxygen (O2).
Hyperventilation is when a person breaths too fast. The fundamental problem with breathing too fast is that the body loses more CO2 than is optimal. CO2 is important for balancing blood pH level, for example. While too much CO2 can suffocate us, too little CO2 is a problem too.
Besides just rapid, deep breathing, another type of hyperventilation is short, shallow breathing. Shallow breathing allows carbon dioxide to escape from the lungs, but prevents replacement oxygen (fresh air) from replacing stale air in the lower lungs.
Edgar Cayce recommended a variety of breathing exercises, to help people train their bodies to breathe better: https://www.edgarcayce.org/the-readings/meditation-and-prayer/breathing-exercises/
Another breathing exercise I do sometimes is ‘square breathing’: Inhale for 5 seconds, hold for 5 seconds, exhale for 5 seconds, hold for 5 seconds. Then repeat. This sort of deep, slow breathing prevents you from exhaling too much CO2.
The classic treatment for helping someone who is hyperventilating is putting a paper bag over their face. This allows them to recycle their exhaled carbon dioxide. Supplementing carbon dioxide opens the peripheral arteries - including in the brain - and boosts the metabolism.
If someone is hyperventilating because they’re having a heart attack, a paper bag won’t be very helpful. But for people who are chronic hyperventilators, any kind of breathing exercise can be helpful.
The hazards of supplemental oxygen
About a year and a half ago I got a message from a customer, after she deteriorated her lungs via a hyperbaric oxygen treatment. As told in the report I wrote up (included with all grounding coin/pendant orders), after her session in the high-pressure (hyperbaric) oxygen chamber, the customer woke up coughing up blood. She tested positive for ‘the supervirus’ and was taken to the hospital. I told her, “don’t let them ventilate you”. A short while later the doctors indeed told her that’s what they wanted to do. She said ‘no’, so they discharged her. I was relieved.
Medicine still knows that oxygen is toxic, but has mostly forgotten that oxygen can be made non-toxic by blending in 5% Carbon Dioxide. The term for this mixture is ‘Carbogen’.
I’ve only found one reading where Cayce was asked about what seemed like ‘Carbon Dioxide Therapy’, which would have been mainstream medicine at the time. His response to the question was that the person didn’t need to use CO2 therapeutically.
Fluid in Lungs Blocks Oxygen
When a person’s lungs are filled with fluid, waste CO2 can cross the fluid barrier. But the oxygen from the fresh air cannot cross the fluid barrier going in the opposite direction, resulting in low blood oxygen levels. Supplementing pure O2 might raise the blood oxygen levels a little bit, but it also accelerates the removal of carbon dioxide from the blood.
The Charred Oak Keg is another way to help the lungs function better. The lungs are supposed to be basically sterile, but sometimes bacteria can get out of control. Inhaling ethanol as an antiseptic gives the lungs a chance to clean themselves up. The apple and oak flavoring compounds help stimulate the lungs to repair themselves.
(I do have one charred oak keg (with a spigot) ready to go. It’s been hydrated already - you’ll need to add some sort of alcohol as soon as you receive it. Send me an email if you’re interested.)
Conclusion
In theory, oxygen is important. But it must be balanced with carbon dioxide, which is more than a waste product. When a person hyperventilates (or sits in a high pressure chamber of air that has more than 21% oxygen), they blow off too much carbon dioxide. Supplemental medical oxygen also accelerates the removal of CO2 from the blood, without similarly increasing the body’s use of oxygen. While a little supplemental oxygen might seem helpful, a good case can be made that pure oxygen accelerates deterioration.
For the last year and a half, all my coin orders have shipped with a brief report about medical hazards not covered by Edgar Cayce, because these problems hadn’t yet appeared when Cayce was giving the readings. Fortified Flour, Vaccines, Tylenol… What else do you think I should cover?
thanks,
James Knochel
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