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Pregnancy Bibliography

  • Aivanhov, Master Omraam Mikhael, Education Begins Before Birth, Prosveta, Los Angeles; 1982.
  • Alland, Alexander, Jr., When the Spider Danced, Notes from an African Village, Anchor Press/Doubleday, Garden City, New York; 1975.
  • Anand, Anjali Devi and Sri Ananda,Yoga--For Easier Pregnancy and Natural Childbirth, Orient Paperbacks, Delhi, India; 1988.
  • Brain, Robert, Friends and Lovers, Basic Books, Inc., New York; 1976.
  • Briffault, Robert, The Mothers, A Study of the Origins of Sentiments and Institutions, Vol. II, Macmillan, New York; 1927.
  • Chalmers, Beverley, Ph.D., African Birth, Childbirth in Cultural Transition, Berev Publications, South Africa; 1990. Chamberlain, David, Ph. D., Babies Remember Birth, Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc., Los Angeles, Ca.; 1988.
  • Church, Dawson, Communing With the Spirit of Your Unborn Child,A Practical Guide to Intimate Communication with Your Unborn or Infant Child, Asian Publishing, San Leandro, CA.; 1988.
  • Coles, Robert, M.D., Children of Crisis, A Study of Courage and Fear, Little, Brown and Company, Boston; 1964, 1965, 1966 and 1967.
  • Corda, Murshida Vera Justin, Cradle of Heaven: Psychological and Spiritual Dimensions of Conception, Pregnancy, and Birth, Omega Press, Lebanon Springs, New York; 1987.
  • Coudris, Manuel David, Diary of an Unborn Child, A Baby Speaks from its Mother's Womb, Gateway Books, Bath, Germany; 1992.
  • Czaplicka, M. A., Aboriginal Siberia, A Study in Social Anthropology, Oxford University Press, London; 1914.
  • Dali, Salvador, translated by Haakon M. Chevalier, The Secret Life of Salvador Dali, Dial Press, New York; Second edition, 1961.
  • Dash, Vaidya Bhagwan, Embryology and Maternity in Ayurveda, Delhi Diari, New Delhi;1975.
  • Dunham, Carroll, Mamatoto, A Celebration of Birth, Penguin Books, New York; 1992.
  • Fischer, Ann, 'Reproduction inTruk,' Ethnology, Vol. 2, p. 526-540.
  • Forbes, Thomas Rogers, The Midwife and the Witch, Yale University Press, New Haven; 1966.
  • Gollancz, Sir Hermann, Pedagogics of the Talmud and that of Modern Times, A Comparative Study, Oxford University Press, London, 1924.
  • Granquist, Hilma, Ph.D., Birth and Childhood Among the Arabs, Studies in a Muhammadan Village in Palestine, Soderstrom & Co., Helsingfors, Finland; 1947.
  • Grigson, Sir Wilfrid, The Maria Gonds of Bastar, Oxford University Press; London; 1938.
  • Hadfield, Emma, Among the Natives of the Loyalty Group, Macmillan and Co., London; 1920.
  • Hahn, C. H. L., Vedder, H., Ph.D. and Fourie, L. The Native Tribes of South West Africa, Barnes & Noble, New York; 1928.
  • Hallett, Elisabeth Brutto, In the Newborn Year: Our Changing Awareness after Childbirth, The Book Publishing Company, Summertown, TN; 1990.
  • Hewat, Matthew L. , M.D. Bantu Folk Lore, Negro Universities Press, Westport, Connecticut;1970, Originally published in 1906.
  • Hogbin, Herbert Ian, Kinship and Marriage in a New Guinea Village, Athlone Press, University of London, London; 1963.
  • Hultkrantz, Ake, Conceptions of the Soul Among North American Indians, Caslon Press, Stockholm, Sweden; 1953.
  • Imperato, Pascal James, African Folk Medicine, Practices and Beliefs of the Bambara and other Peoples, York Press, Inc., Baltimore; 1977.
  • Jiyu-Kennett, Roshi and MacPhillamy, Daizui, Rev., The Book of Life, Shasta Abbey Press, Mt. Shasta, California; 1979.
  • Jones, Livingston, F., A Study of the Tlingets of Alaska, Fleming H. Revell Company, New York; 1914.
  • Jones, Rex L. and Jones, Shirley Kurz, The Himalayan Woman, Mayfield Publishing Company,Palo Alto, California; 1976.
  • Jung, C. G. and Kerenyi, C., Essays on a Science of Mythology, The Myth of the Divine Child and the Mysteries of Eleusis, Pantheon Books, New York; 1949.
  • Kamenskii, Archimandrite Anatolii, Tlingit Indians of Alaska, University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks; 1917.
  • Kay, Margarita Artschwager, R.N., Ph.D., Anthropology of Human Birth, F.A. Davis Company, Philadelphia; 1982.
  • Khan, Dede, Birth Stories of the Prophets, East-West Publications , London; 1978.
  • Koch-Sheras, Phyllis R., Hollier, E. Ann, Jones, Brooke, Dream On: A Dream Interpretation and Exploration Guide for Women, Prentice-Hall, Inc, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey; 1983.
  • Krause, Aurel, translated by Gunther, Erna, The Tlingit Indians, Results of a Trip to the Northwest Coast of America and the Bering Straits, University of Washington Press, Seattle; 1956. (Original edition of this work, entitled Die Tlinkit-Indianer, was published in Jena, 1885.
  • Krige, Eileen Jensen, The Social System of the Zulus, Longmans, Green and Co., London; 1936.
  • Lad, Vasant, Ayurveda: The Science of Self-Healing, Lotus Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico; 1984.
  • Leith-Ross, Sylvia, African Women, A Study of the Ibo of Nigeria, Frederick A. Praeger, New York; 1965.
  • Macfarlane, Aidan, The Psychology of Childbirth, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts; 1977.
  • Matthew L., M.D., Bantu Folk Lore, Negro Universities Press, Westport, Connecticut, 1970. Originally published by T. Maskew Miller, Cape Town; 1906.
  • McLaren, Angus, Reproductive Rituals: The Perception of Fertility in England from the Sixteenth Century to the Nineteenth Century, Methuen and Co., New York; 1984.
  • Meltzer, David, Ed., Birth, An Anthology of Ancient Texts, Songs, Prayers, and Stories, North Point Press, San Francisco, Ca.; 1981.
  • Montague, Ashley, Embryological Beliefs of Primitive Peoples, Ciba Symposia, Jan.-Feb. 1949.
  • Montague, Ashley, Embryology from Antiquity to the End of the Eighteenth Century,Ciba Symposia, Jan.-Feb. 1949.
  • Murphy, Yolanda and Murphy, Robert F., Women of the Forest, Columbia University Press, New York; 1985.
  • Newman, Erich, translated by Manheim, Ralph, The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype, Princetown University Press, Princeton, New Jersey; 1955.
  • Oliver, Douglas L, Ancient Tahitian Society, Volume I , Enthography, The University Press of Hawaii, Honolulu; 1974.
  • Parinaud, Andre, The Unspeakable Confessions of Salvador Dali, translated from French by Harold J. Saleurson, William Morrow & Co, New York; 1976.
  • Parvati, Jeannine, Prenatal Yoga and Natural Birth, Freestone Publishing Company, First Printing 1974, Seventh Printing 1978.
  • Priya, Jacqueline, Vincent, Birth Traditions, Element, Inc., Rockport, Maine; 1992.
  • Rajadhon, Phya Anuman, Life and Ritual in Old Siam, translated and edited by Geney, William, J., HRAF Press, New Haven; 1961, first published in Thai 1949.
  • Ray, Priyadaranjan, Gupta, Hirendranath and Roy, Mira, Susruta Samhita, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi; 1980.
  • Ray, Sondra, Ideal Birth, Celestial Arts, Berkeley, California; 1985.
  • Ritzenthaler, Robert and Pat, Cameroons Village, An Ethnography of the Bafut, North American Press, Milwaukee, Wis.;1962.
  • Rodd, Francis Rennell, People of the Veil, Being an Account of the Habits, Organization and History of the Wandering Tuareg Tribes which inhabit the Mountains of Air or Asben in the Central Sahara, Macmillan and Co., London; 1926.
  • Roscoe, John, The Banyankole,The Second Part of the Report of The Mackie Ethnological Expedition to Central Africa, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge; 1923
  • Roth, Harry Ling, Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo, Vol. I, Truslove and Hanson, London; 1896.
  • Salter, Joan, The Incarnating Child, Hawthorne Press, Gloucestershire, UK; 1987.
  • Saraydarian, Torkom, Sex, Family, and the Woman in Society, Aquarian Educational Group, Sedona, Arizona; 1987.
  • Saraydarian, Torkom, Woman--Torch of the Future, Aquarian Educational Group, Sedona, Arizona; 1980.
  • Satchidananda, Sri Swami, The Mother is the Baby's First Guru, Pregnancy, Infant Care, and Yoga, Satchidananda Ashram, Yogaville, Inc.; 1976.
  • Shandler, Nina, Yoga for Pregnancy and Birth, Schocken Books, New York; 1979
  • Sharma, Vaidyaraj Pandit Ramnarayan, Arogya Prakash (An Ayurvedic treatise on Indian System of Medicine, Baidyanath, India; 1983.
  • Schapera, I., Married Life in an African Tribe, Sheridan House, New York; 1941.
  • Skeat, Walter William, Malay Magic, An Introduction to the Folklore and Popular Religion of the Malay Peninsula, Macmillan, London, 1900.
  • Smith, W. Ramsay, M.D., D. Sc. ,F.R.S. (Edin.), Myths and Legends of the Australian Aboriginals, Farrar & Rinehart, New York. (old book--no date given)
  • Sorel, Nancy Caldwell, Ever Since Eve, Oxford University Press, New York; 1984.
  • Stoianovich, Traian, A Study in Balkan Civilization, Alfred A. Knopf, New York; 1967.
  • Standlee, Mary W., The Great Pulse, Japanese Midwifery and Obstetrics through the Ages, Kenkyusha, Tokyo; 1959.
  • Svoboda, Robert E., Prakruti, Your Ayurvedic Constitution, Geocom Limited, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1988.
  • Talbot, P. Amaury, The Peoples of Southern Nigeria, A Sketch of Their History, Ethnology and Languages, with an Abstract of the 1921 Census, Volume II, Oxford University Press, London; 1926.
  • Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall, The Harmless People, Vintage Books, New York; 1965.
  • Thomson, Basil, The Fijians, A Study of the Decay of Custom, William Heinemann, London; 1908.
  • Turnbull, Colin M., The Human Cycle, Simon and Schuster, New York; 1983.
  • Turnbull, Colin, The Mountain People, Simon and Schuster, New York; 1972.
  • Van der Donck, Adriaen, A Description of the New Netherlands, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse; 1968. (Originally published Amsterdam, 1656.)
  • Vanstone, James W., Point Hope, An Eskimo Village in Transition, University of Washington Press, Seattle; 1962.
  • Verny, Thomas, M.D., editor, Pre- and Perinatal Psychology, An Introduction, Human Sciences Press, Inc., New York; 1987.
  • Verny, Thomas, M.D. with Kelly, John, The Secret Life of the Unborn Child, Dell, New York; 1981.
  • Verny, Thomas, M.D., with Weintraub, Pamela, Nurturing the Unborn Child, A Nine-Month Program for Soothing, Stimulating, and Communicating with Your Baby, Dell, New York; 1991.
  • Wijesekera, Nandadeva, Ph.D, M.D., The People of Ceylon, Gunasena & Co. LTD.. Columbo, Ceylon; Second Edition, 1965, First Printed 1949.
  • Wigginton, Eliot, Foxfire 2, Anchor Press/Doubleday, Garden City, New York; 1973. Winterbottom, Thomas, M.D., An Account of the Native Africans in the Neighborhood of Sierra Leone, Frank Cass and company Limited, London; first edition 1803, second edition 1969.
  • Woods, Ralph L. and Greenhouse, Herbert B., Ed, The New World of Dreams, Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., New York; 1974.
  • Zohar, Danah, The Quantum Self, Human Nature and Consciousness Defined by the New Physics, William Morrow and Company, New York; 1990.

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When I was in my mother's womb, I was confined in a dark place, trapped in the entrails. The Holy Name was the basis of my existence so I repeated the Holy Name continuously even when I was in the womb.

--Sri Sri Thakur Anukulchandra