
Women must become conscious vessels. -- Christiane Northrup, M.D.
When during the course of the pregnancy is the fetus developed enough to house the soul? One theory compares the soul's entry to that a family building and moving into a new home. First, they choose an architectural style. Next an architect draws up a blueprint. Then the builder starts construction. In the whole process, the family does not perform the work. Others bring their desire into reality. At different stages, the family inspects the house and decides what they like and what must be changed. But they do not move into the house until it is ready.
Like that, the soul consults with cosmic counselors to discuss the opportunities for this lifetime. The soul agrees, "This is the body and family I want." Then inside the pregnant woman's womb, the body is created for the soul to enter and be sustained for a lifetime. The soul temporarily visits to check out his future home, but the fetus can only house the soul when its biological functions and organs are mature i.e., until it can survive without its mother.
Expectant mothers interviewed by Elizabeth Carman report a range of experiences concerning that special moment of the soul's entrance:
Jennie
The soul comes in when the mother starts feeling movement. I felt a definite kick during the first three to four months of each pregnancy. Then I communicated with them, "If you hear me, give me a kick." They always did. The soul comes and visits for a week or two. Then he is gone for awhile.
Mara
I believe that all things are possible as far as when the soul comes in. We're never limited to time and space. There may be situations where different souls try out the material and leave and someone else comes in. Why does there have to be a definite time? The body is a projection. Consciousness is responsible for manifesting everything.
I sensed the soul's presence from the earliest days of each pregnancy. One minute I was alone, and the next moment I was not. I did not feel their souls come and go. But, the fixity, the solidity of experience, changed from abstract to concrete as time went on. In the beginning, it seems definite, yet so big and diffuse. It's formless energy. And then after three to four months, there is interaction between myself and the baby. There is some localization of energy within the womb that is responding through me. I go through a change in emotions and feel the baby respond.
I pick up distinct things through my personality and my cravings. The physical constitution of the child changes my personality and bring about these cravings. It's some physical material there. In terms of consciousness, it's very diffuse for a long time. Maybe the soul hasn't localized yet because the structure isn't quite ready. And yet being sensitive, I notice different tendencies operating within me.
Joanna
In each of my five pregnancies, I felt the souls come and go during the first few months. Then, a stabilization took place within me at two months. I felt the energy of the soul. I was not alone. There was a pleasant sensation of them being with me.
An even greater stabilization suddenly took place at eight months. I felt, "They are home." They were absolutely in there, extremely solid. They moved in lock, stock, and packages and they never left. That is when they became babies. They were working on their little bodies full-time. They jumped when noises occurred in the environment. And when my hand pressed against my belly, they pushed out toward it.
The soul of my fourth child came in when I was asleep one night --around the seventh month. It happened during a dream in which I was also kind of awake. In the dream, there was a telephone call from Janet, a friend who passed away several years ago. When I heard Janet's voice, her loving presence surrounded me. That presence never left during the rest of the pregnancy. And it's still here. Right here. (Joanna nodded to her one-month-old daughter.)
I had been concerned that something was wrong with the baby. I felt miserable and physically uncomfortable with hives and anemia. But once her soul came in, I knew the baby was fine and I never had another thought that there was anything wrong with the baby. The uneasiness had been due to my awareness that the soul had not come in yet.
Tamara
Usually our attention, our thinking faculty, is normally located in our head. However, I noticed a distinct shift near the end of my first trimester. It seemed as if I had a second thinking faculty in my womb. There was some brain, some thinking, some awareness in the womb. It was like having two brains. After that initial awareness, that experience would come and go.
Penny
I witnessed my daughter's soul enter the womb when I was three and one-half months pregnant. It was specific. I saw her as she was in her last life and I knew she was entering. She was a male in her previous life.
I knew Mia's soul six weeks before pregnancy via a meditation vision. Her soul did not change after conception. But the soul can shift when it is transitioning out of those other realms.. That's why parents sometimes have difficulty naming a child until after birth. Even three months after a child is born, the soul can shift.
In the fourth month of my second pregnancy, I had a vision of Tommie's spirit when he came in. I saw him in the light-- white, gold, and then red. Then he entered the womb. Other beings brought him to me.
One soul entered about three and one-half months, the other at four months. From then on, I had so much energy. With each child, I saw my doctor who is a natural healer every week after I felt the soul come into the womb. My doctor said, "The soul of your child is in the womb now because you are carrying a double aura. I can see it." Their souls didn't leave after that. They stayed in the body.
Cathy
My son's soul was in and out of the womb throughout the entire pregnancy. I knew when he was gone just like we know when someone walks in and out of the room. There was more of a distance. He was in that realm where souls are before they are born. Then there were other times when I did not feel alone. When I was meditating, he would be there. It was a totally innocent awareness.
I continued to feel that he was there and not there even after his birth. It felt like he was off somewhere else when he was sleeping.
Maryam
I sensed my child's soul entering the womb in the third to fourth month of pregnancy. I have not told many people about it. I do not share mystical experiences. It was very real, as clear as talking to you in this room. It was not imagined.
It all happened on a gray, overcast morning while travelling to a golf course. I sat in the back of a mobile home van with some friends. The mobile home became illuminated, as if someone had gradually turned on the lights. I continued the conversation, not mentioning it to anyone. Then the van became flooded with brighter light. I glanced out the window to see whether the Sun had peeped out. I wondered, "Why is it getting lighter, even though the sky remains overcast and no one had turned on the interior lights?"
The light grew brighter. It was dazzling, golden light. I realized I was having an out of the ordinary experience. Anytime I enter into that kind of spiritual state, I feel awe and reverence for the Divine.
Next my attention was captured by an tickling sensation around the navel. Curious, I glanced down and saw a cloud of colors. Gold, blue, pink, rose, and soft, rainbow-like colored light composed a cloud-like formation within one foot around my navel.
Then the shimmering light that had filled the room began to swirl like a tornado. It formed a beautiful spiral pointing toward my body. As it entered my navel, I closed my eyes so I could feel it. I felt a "pop" as the light exploded upon coming into my body. There was an blissful feeling of refined static electricity.
All of the light that had been getting brighter in the environment was inside me now. My mind and body passed into a mystical ecstasy. There was an inner knowingness that my baby's soul had just entered my body.
My friends were not open to the subtle cloud of colors and continued their conversation. Maybe somebody liked me on the other side. Maybe someone thinks I'm special up there in Heaven. The blissfulness during that ten minute period was so powerful that it continued for days afterwards.
Judy
I was quietly meditating in the early evening. I was in the fourth month of my pregnancy, After five minutes, tremendous energy came in through the top of my head and flowed through my body out through my hands. I felt totally aligned. All was right in the world, everything fit and I was part of that in some cosmic way.
I thought, "What should I do with this energy?" An answer came: Give it out to the world and give part of it to the child within me. So I projected the light coming out of my hands to the world. Then I gave it to my child by putting my hands on my womb and letting it go inward. It was powerful and ecstatic.
This energy was the light of God coming in and flowing through me. It was the light that permeates all creation. The light that is in tune with God and what is right. Powerful energy poured through my body for fifteen minutes and connected the soul to me. Afterward part of the energy stayed with me. I felt totally connected.
I had felt the soul's presence around me for several months before this, however, a more profound connection had just been formed. The soul had come into its body within me.
Mary
My son's soul came into the womb during the third month. No longer was pregnancy just a cosmic event that I surrendered to. At a precise moment, the awareness dawned, "Oh, someone has come and someone is with me." From that point, I sensed who he was and I felt utterly secure -- like I'd been missing some part before and now fullness was complete.
After Peter, was born, this feeling did not diminish. There were waves of joy. There were four in the family now and a wholeness was created with four. And, this child is so special. We all knew it. He was a clear, powerful, special kind of intelligence who had not incarnated for eons of time. A great blessing for the family.
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