Towards Superconscious Pregnancy

This section deals with many questions, such as:

The old way of thinking takes the view that the most significant part of human life starts at birth, failing to recognize that the fetus is endowed with a consciousness of its own. So we figure age from the day of birth. In so doing we have neglected a stage of the individual's history which may be the most important for his subsequent development.

In sharp contrast, evidence suggests that children are fully conscious while yet in the womb. Besides reports from contemporary mothers and modern prenatal researchers, support for the human embryo's innate consciousness comes from a diversity of ancient traditions.

This is why the Chinese, Indian and Japanese peoples measured a child's life-span from conception and considered the child to be one-year-old when he took his first breath. They believed that our true birth as the time when our soul begins its sojourn in the mother's womb.

Blending reports of contemporary mothers, prenatal research and the wisdom of the ancients, Cosmic Cradle research on pregnancy falls into the following categories:

1. Biographies of the Unborn

A pregnant woman educates her child from the day of conception. Babies in the womb can learn the wrong things about violence, danger, fear, hate, rejection, as well as the right things about love, acceptance, trust and joy. This ability calls for changes in the experiences we provide for them in our technological approach to birth. If parents wait until birth to commence active parenting, that is too late. Early parenthood -- starting at conception -- is a reality.

In addition to contemporary reports of children in the prenatal state who see, hear, feel, and learn, this section includes accounts of prenatal consciousness from a diversity of cultures:

2. Prenatal Communications

This section shares the stories of two contemporary women interviewed by Elizabeth Carman: Sage who listened to the unborn child and Fran who did not. Fran smoked cigarettes. Her unborn child was obviously sensitive to how her nicotine habit was flooding the mother s bloodstream with poisons. Carbon monoxide, for example, produced by smoking injures the heart muscle and ties up precious red blood cells to carry poison instead of life-giving oxygen. The pre-born infant grows emotionally agitated (as measured by quickening of his heartbeat) each time his mother merely thinks of smoking a cigarette.

Dr Thomas Verny explains:

"The fetus is intellectually sophisticated enough to associate the experience of smoking with the unpleasant sensation it produces in him. This is caused by the drop in his oxygen supply (smoking lowers the oxygen content of the maternal blood passing the placenta), which is physiologically harmful to him. But possibly even more harmful are the psychological effects of maternal smoking. It thrusts him into a chronic state of uncertainty and fear. He never knows when the unpleasant physical sensation will reoccur or how painful it will be when it does, only that it will reoccur. And that's the kind of situation which does predispose toward a deep-seated, conditioned anxiety."

3. Maternal Thoughts/Emotions

Babies do not result from the pregnant woman's body alone. Fetal development is intimately dependent upon her psychological and environmental states.

Thoughts are powerful things. Unborn babies are aware of a mother's thoughts. It is as if a pregnant woman functions like a photographic camera and records intense emotions -- positive and negative -- on the fetus. This section explores the power, purity and role of a pregnant mother's thoughts.

4. Education Begins in the Womb

Medical research supports that the unborn baby is an active, feeling human being capable of learning, sensitive to his parent's feelings about him and capable of responding to love. The prenatal stage requires at least as much attention as postnatal development.

5. Unwanted in the Womb

Research has uncovered the lethal consequences of the mother's negative thoughts and proves how very early rejection became a template for life. These studies are significant considering that nearly half of the pregnancies in the U.S. are unplanned.

6. Soul Enters the Womb (1)

When is the fetal home ready for the soul? Stories from modern mothers interviewed by Elizabeth Carman who were sensitive to the soul's entrance into the womb.

7. Soul Enters the Womb (2)

When is the fetal home ready for the soul? Included here are cross cultural reports.

8. Two Hearts as One (1)

A pregnant woman carries two souls, two hearts, two sets of desires. Stories from modern mothers interviewed by Elizabeth Carman illustrate how pregnancy is an opportunity to experience two souls in one body.

9. Two Hearts as One (2)

Examples of how pregnant women around the globe experience the influence of the fetus during pregnancy and an explanation of pregnancy cravings from an enlightened tradition.

10. Children Born of Dreams (1)

Pregnancy is a time of heightened sensitivity because a woman stands at the door between the physical and spiritual world. Included here are pregnancy dreams of women interviewed by Elizabeth Carman.

11. Children Born of Dreams (2)

Women from a diversity of cultures report a vivid, unforgettable dream or vision confirming that they are pregnant.

12. Transformation

Pregnancy is a unique opportunity -- a chance for the pregnant woman to devote herself not only to her self-development, but also to the growth of the child taking form with her body. A woman's consciousness is the home for her growing child. For during those nine months, she can impress upon her child the actions, emotions, thoughts and creative urges which can contribute to the welfare of the child, family, nation and humanity. Pregnant women can uplift and transform humanity.

13. Journey from Despair to Bliss

The miraculous healing power of conception and pregnancy resulted in sweeping transformations taking Katarina from despair to joy. Interview by Elizabeth Carman.

14. Entering Physical Reality

Included here are pregnancy stories from women interviewed by Elizabeth Carman.

15. Conscious Womb Time

Is prenatal life pleasant, unpleasant, or a little of both? Individuals who have memories of womb-time relate a range of prenatal experiences.

One contemporary report comes four-year-old Dorothy. She and her mother were enjoying lunch in a restaurant one day when Dorothy suddenly said, "The last time I was a little girl, I had a different mommy!" Dorothy next began speaking in a foreign language.

Dorothy added, "But that wasn't the last time. Last time when I was four inches long and in your tummy, Daddy wasn't ready to marry you yet, so I went away. But then, I came back." Dorothy's mother became silent. Two years before she and her husband were married, she had an abortion because her husband was not ready to have a child. Besides she and her husband, only the doctor knew about the abortion.

16. Bibliography

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