Conscious Conception

• Alchemy of Conscious Conception
• Conception Prayer
• Significance and Benefits of Conscious Conception

Judy: If it is not conscious conception, then the parents are not welcoming the child. The door is closed on one side.There can be more support for the soul coming in if the parents are consciously welcoming, anticipating, desiring. It's a more nourishing reception. The child gets off to a better start. Right from the beginning, the soul is surrounded by wonderful nourishment instead of having to intrude and say, "Here, I am. Don't you want me?"

Ken: We prayed to be blessed with a great, highly-evolved soul. We wanted that person to be part of a long tradition of spiritual knowledge. With the birth of each of our children, I felt tremendous evolution -- their souls were more evolved than mine. They were little perfected beings from the beginning.

Judy: Our first son Timothy is totally charming. He has also been a challenge and taught me a lot of lessons. He's been a teacher not only by his example and wisdom, but also by being in situations with him where life is a teacher.

With our second child, I found a picture of a child that matched the image in my mind. I said, "Yes, I want a beautiful, glowing daughter who looks like this." Then I pinned the picture on the kitchen bulletin board.

My daughter Germaine displays softness, physical beauty, and spiritual radiance. Everything I had aspired for. I believe that this is more than just the case of parents' choosing a particular child. It is a three-way conception. The child seemed to be conceiving them as parents and triggering them to want parenthood. So we are talking about the baby's conception of a woman into motherhood and a man into fatherhood.

Conscious conception sounds like its under the parents' individual control, but nothing is. There were outside influences. Conscious conception is a receptive as well an assertive process. It's hard to say which comes first. Even though, it starts with a thought, yet, it's always a totality working in symphony - like one organism. It's hard to say whether all the signals are coming from the brain going to the body or whether the brain is receiving signals from the body. It is one of those things which is automatically working. All things are related.

Emily: Somebody once told me, "Whatever you think of at the time of conception is important." I felt, "God, life is so difficult. Wouldn't it make life simpler and easier, if God would incarnate and help create Heaven on Earth." So each time my husband and I conceived a child, I had one thought, "God incarnate. I prayed for God to come."

During conception, everything in my body came to a complete stop. Everything shut down. I experienced the deepest ecstatic state of transcendence in body as well as my mind.

In addition, heightened awareness became a constant feature throughout my pregnancies. No other change in life-style had occurred. When I am pregnant, I have had my best spiritual experiences. It is like standing at the doorway of Heaven. I am on Earth, but I am in the doorway. So I experience both sides. There is Heaven and there is Earth and it is constantly flowing through you.

My five-year-old son and thirteen-year-old daughter are living proof that my prayers to conceive children with the highest possible souls bore the desired fruit.

• Torkom Saraydarian -- "Conscious conception can be exercised in cases where parents want a child to continue their path of service and further it in great success after they pass away. It is often possible to have generations of scientists, musicians, lawyers, kings or teachers."

• Christiane Northrup, M.D. -- "Women have now reached a time in our planetary history when we must learn to procreate from our conscious choice, not just to fill up an empty space inside ourselves or to try to get a man."

• Murshida Vera Justin Corda -- "There is a great value in a woman's having control of when she has her children. Making that choice makes pregnancy a joy. It takes spiritual self-discipline. A woman who learns her natural ovulation cycle makes conscious an important part of her being. Instead of pregnancy happening to her, conscious pregnancy or birth control should be totally her choice."

• Contemporary mother (USA) -- "Conscious conception was ecstatic beyond my wildest hormonal dreams. . . . Why had I not been told this in all my public schooling and health hygiene classes?" (Jeanine Parvati Baker, Conscious Conception)

• Alice Willcocks (contemporary) -- "Many women find themselves pregnant without being aware of the magical moment of conception. To me, conscious conception is as important as conscious birth, or in other words being truly awake to the very secret of life itself. . . . Conscious Conception to me means being full awake to being used by God for a vehicle of His Love.

• Jeanine Parvati Baker (contemporary USA) -- At seventeen, I vowed, "I will never make love with a man whose child I will not willingly bear, should I inadvertently become pregnant." My story is a beacon for how women might be if they loved and appreciated their bodies and their creative capacities.

• Lawrence Vijay Girard -- "Make the power of your magnetic call so strong that great souls can't resist the warm embrace of God's love as it flows through you to them."

• Torkom Saraydarian -- "It is a glamor and illusion" to desire a child if you are unprepared to birth a high-level child. "Either bring in a masterpiece or prepare yourself for unending problems. The race of great beauty must start manifesting on earth." The secret criteria are: right intercourse with the right partner, right conditions during pregnancy and breast-feeding, and an increasing love between partners.

• Betty Laverdure (Ojibwe elder) -- "It was a privilege to have children, it was not a right. The elders, the women, they used to determine even who could have children. Had abortion medicines. And if somebody was abusing a child, they took that child, and the woman couldn't have children anymore. they determined that;. children are sacred. They are living treasures, gifts from the Great Spirit. You always treated them as if they didn't belong to you; they belonged to the Creator."

• Muria (India) -- It is not for a couple alone to decide whether or not to have children. Couples conceive when the community gives their blessing.

• Sri Lanka -- "Long life, endurance, gifted intelligence, life abilities, and death all originate at the moment of conception."

• Swami Satchidananda -- When God wants to bless you with a baby, you can't stop it. When He doesn't want to, why force Him? Wanting a baby before He gives it creates anxiety. Don't bother about wanting; if anything is given, take it. On the other hand, a gentle want is okay; it won't affect your mind very much. Just say, "Lord, I want it. If you agree with me, give it. If you don't agree with me, take you own time, but I would love to have one."