Gold Sand Pack
By Elaine Hruska and Anne Hunt, Association for Research and Enlightenment, Inc. (A.R.E.)
While some people may simply enjoy lying on the sand to sunbathe, a number of sun worshippers prefer to lie in the sand, a treatment referred to in the Edgar Cayce readings as "sand packs."
Early on, shortly after moving to Virginia Beach, I learned that the sand was special: “The radiation from the gold and radium in the proportions that you find in Virginia Beach…is the better for the conditions of the body." Of course, it wasn’t the type of gold to attract a Forty-Niner’s gold rush as in California, but beneficial enough to entice participants to join A.R.E.’s own Sandman, Herbert Avrum Levine, to receive a proper sand pack. Many conferees throughout the years participated in this treatment as part of their overall conference experience.
The sands here contain a great deal of radium and gold, which properties are quite beneficial in such conditions. People get much help from just taking the sand baths on the seashore, to say nothing of other curative measures that might be added from here. The seashore here is quite a bit different from anywhere else in this respect; not that we have a sick colony, but a great many people from all over the country come here for their health as much as for a summer resort.
In fact, as a matter of record you will find that before the War (World War I) the Germans had obtained a permit to build a hospital at Virginia Beach and for this very reason, on account of the great amount of beneficial properties in the sands along the seashore here. So, there is a condition here that exists in very few places in the world. The streams in the oceans run away from the land. The Gulf Stream coming up from the Florida coast and the Arctic Stream coming down unite opposite the Chesapeake Bay and turn across the ocean. Deposits both from the north and south are among the sands on the seashore at Virginia Beach, and you don’t find such a condition anywhere else.
When asked if salt water was beneficial, Cayce answered that the “Sand that carries gold and radium and salt” was the most beneficial.
