(Sunday, July 26, 2026)
I have a few posts on this blog about my Edgar Cayce and Mayo Clinic doctor and nurse experiences, but I want to rewrite it all into one complete story. Taking my time to get it right and record the important details.
Four members of The Dreamsters Union, Peter, Patrick, Bonnie and I, attended the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) conference at Virginia Beach in 2013 (a second Virginia Beach event occurred in 2015). There were a few dream presentations, as I remember, at Edgar Cayce’s Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.). One of the founders of the IASD, who has since passed away, was a professor at Atlantic University, which is also connected to the A.R.E.
I had read about Cayce many years before traveling to Virginia Beach, so I was very excited to arrive at his hometown. Bonnie, Patrick and I made our first visit to the A.R.E. compound together. After Bonnie and I left the main historic building, Pat stayed many hours to do research on Cayce’s readings about treating a diagnosis of lymphoma. After chemotherapy, Patrick survived his lymphoma and has been cancer-free for many years.
Over the years, our dream group became surprised and frustrated about Patrick’s transition into the MAGA/MAHA world. He became anti-vax during the pandemic. In 2022, when covid was starting to wind down, the IASD held their conference in Tucson, Arizona. Pat arrived infected by the virus and hung out with a few of us in a vehicle and a restaurant. Thankfully neither Bonnie nor I got covid from Patrick. He was sick and isolated in his hotel room for days.
In the spring of 2024 I was detected with “probable” mild cognitive decline, yet the doctor at an Edina neurology clinic recommended I go to the Mayo in Rochester. It took me seven months to be approved for three days of examinations: PET, MRI, EKG, blood and cognition tests. In December of 2024, Rochester agreed with Edina: I have Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA), a rare form of dementia that can be fast or slow. And has no cure. I started to share my health information with family and friends and lots of people kept responding: “You are just fine.” But I am not.
When I told The Dreamsters Union about my PPA, Patrick reminded me that he followed Edgar Cayce’s Akashic Record readings for his cancer. He believes, perhaps as part of his MAHA convictions, that Cayce cured him. I don’t know enough about lymphoma to decide if that could be true, but my years of trust for Edgar (I call him Dr. Cayce) inspired me to find out if he had done readings on dementia.
I checked out his biography “There Is A River” from the library and read it cover-to-cover. In August of 2025 I found books published in the 1990s on the A.R.E. website that are downloadable PDFs about Cayce’s treatments for dementia (called senility back in the middle of the twentieth century): “Alzheimer’s Disease & the Dementias,” “Principles & Techniques of Nerve Regeneration,” “The Radial Appliance and Wet Cell Battery.”
Cayce’s recommendation for an electrical device was intriguing. He stated that it needed to be used early on, not once the disease becomes severe. Therefore I felt it was critical for me to try to find quickly what the current device might be and if it is offered by any local medical doctors. Every night I would ask Dr. Cayce for his help before I went to sleep.
I found a few local chiropractors who used electronics for pain management, but none of them responded to my email requests. I decided to begin electrical acupuncture at Jing River with Dr. Yu. He has an MD and a PhD in neurology from China. I could only afford his help twice a month, and Cayce said electrical treatment needed to be frequent. I kept having hope.
In the early winter of 2024 I joined a phase 1 study with the Mayo Clinic Alzheimer’s Research Center, trying a medication that ended up having no benefit at all for me. During the fall of 2025 I joined a monthly Zoom group from the Clinic. Participants have Alzheimer’s, epilepsy and various forms of cognitive decline. A member, a retired doctor named Steve who has epilepsy and AD, told us in January of 2026 that he uses the Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) tool four or five times a week. It helps. He said he was trained by Dr. Lundstrom from the Mayo neurology department.
That news absolutely freaked me out in a positive way. I found Dr. Lundstrom on the Mayo website and emailed him immediately. His friendly, quick reply let me know I needed permission from my neurologist before he could begin training me, so I contacted my neurologist, working with PPA for forty years, for his consent.
Denied! I was angry and wanted a new doctor. Fortunately I was transitioned from my retirement-ready doctor to a younger neurologist named Dr. Botha. It took five months to receive my first appointment, on June 22. When we met, I told Dr. Botha that I found out about Dr. Lundstrom’s Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation training during a Mayo dementia-patient Zoom session. He said they have already had conversations together about signing me up. Dr. Botha supports it completely. He says it is still an experiment, a study. They are unsure if the power needs to connect to the damaged part of the brain or to areas of the brain that may create new neurological pathways.
I told Dr. Botha about my participation in the Northwestern PPA research. He knows a great deal about it. The right decision to join, I feel. I mentioned that there is a patient who has worked with the Chicago study for 19 years, and he says because I am still at “mild” after my decline began seven years ago, I have the slowest version of semantic dementia. Copies of my Northwestern test results arrived on Saturday, July 25, and the scores are much higher than I expected. Even though words continue to diminish.
On my way to Rochester I was feeling that my Summer Solstice dream was about Edgar Cayce. I incubated him the evening prior to the Solstice (June 21). Now I truly believe he visited me during the “My Left Foot And My Right Hand” dream. Dr. Botha even looks a little bit like Cayce: a pleasant man with a round face and glasses.
I finally was able to meet Dr. Lundstrom on Tuesday, July 21, at St. Mary’s Hospital. What a fabulous day. He is brilliant (MD and PhD), fun, compassionate. And this astonishing synchronicity occurred on Wednesday, July 22: I happened to grab my iPhone when a brand new YouTube video, “BIONIC: AI, Brain Stimulation, and the Future of Neurotechnology” showed up on Google, not anything I had searched for. It was Dr. Lundstrom, part of the Mayo Bionic team, discussing tDCS and other brain research.
To end my story, I have used the tDSC five times at home. I do wonder how this electrical process is defined, as I haven’t yet had that explanation. But last night a brand new video from neurologist Dr. Perlmutter popped up, prior to the August 18 publication of his book “Brain Defenders: Harness the Power of Your Immune Cells to Protect Your Brain for Life.” His main discussion was about how MIT’s 40Hz light and sound device affects our brain’s microglia cells: M1 phenotype (pro-inflammatory and neurotoxic) and M2 phenotype (anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective). M1 is reduced and M2 is increased. tDCS does the same thing, at least according to AI.