Cross-Cultural Parallels

cosmic-cradle-michelangelo-pre-birth-spirits-God COSMIC CRADLE surveys hundreds of pre-conception stories – from ancient Himalayan caves and the wild Australian outback to contemporary Americana. We discover that the pre-conception pattern transcends time, space, and culture.

Reports are found throughout philosophical, anthropological, and religious literature. Key Findings and Evidence originate from:

18 Religious Traditions
25 Ancient and Modern Cultures
20 African Peoples
21 Additional Indigenous Peoples
53 Native North American Peoples
28 Australian Aborigine Peoples

Cosmic Cradle’s global research creates a bridge between cultures:

Jewish Kabbalah – When the child’s soul image descends over the couple’s nuptial bed, sexual intercourse leads to conception.
Australian Aborigines – Every baby must be dreamed by its father before it comes into the world.
Michelangelo (15th-16th century Italy) – Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel painting depicts God reaching his finger to touch Adam’s finger. God has his arm around Eve who has not been born yet. Behind Adam and Eve are the “unborn generations to be.”

William Butler Yeats (19th-20th century Ireland) – “It is said by those who ought to understand such things, that the good people, or the fairies, are some of the angels who were turned out of heaven, and who landed on their feet in this world, while the rest of their companions, who had more sin to sink them, went down farther to a worse place.” (“Fairy Tales of Ireland”)
Plotinus (3rd century Greece) – Each soul selects its body, parents, birthplace, and circumstances of life. Then, as if a herald were summoning it, “the soul comes down and goes into the appropriate body.”
Native American – Canadian Dakota medicine men favored Native American parents because they preferred Indian customs over those of the white culture.
African – Three heavenly children “deliberated” about whether human life might be better than heaven. The wise ones instructed: “Before you settle down on Earth, you must select your guardian.”
Sufism – Every soul is an angel before it touches the Earth.
Judeo-Christian Tradition: The biblical Jacob witnessed the ladder between Heaven and Earth… angels escort souls from and to Heaven via this stairway.
Reverend Thomas Traherne (17th century England) – “How like an angel came I down! How bright are all things here! When first among his works I did appear, Oh, how their glory did me crown!” (“Wonder”)

165 Cultures and Religions Reporting Pre-Conception Experiences

Religions (18)
Christianity Buddhism Gnosticism Hasidism Islam Judaism Harrannites Kabbalah Latter-Day Saints	Mithraism Manichaeism Shiism Sikhism Sufism Tibetan Buddhism Vedic Zen Buddhism Zoroastrianism

Ancient and modern cultures (25)
Belgium Burma Canada China England Egypt France Greece	Germany Hittites India Israel Italy Japan Korea Macedonia Persia	Peru Roman Empire Scandinavia Scotland Sri Lanka Thailand Viet Nam United States

Indigenous peoples of Africa (20)
Aro Asia Bangwan Baoule Bini Dagomba Edo	Ewe Ibo Igbo Ijaw Kalabari Ndokki Ngwa	Onitsha Samaras Semi-Bantu Sudanese Yoruba Zulu

Indigenous peoples of Asia, Europe (21)
Finno-Ugric peoples of Europe Kagaba of Columbia Karen of N. Thailand Sea Dayaks and Bataks of Borneo Ostyaks, Gilyaks, Koryaks, Yakuts, and Tungus of Siberia Nias, Toradja, Tontemboan, and Kols of Indonesia	Besisi of Selangan Osmanli of Turkey Filipinos Polynesians Semang Pygmies Nicaraguans Trobriand Islanders

Native North American peoples (53)
Akwa’ala Algonquin Athapascan Aztec Canadian Dakota Great Bear Lake Cherokee Chinook Chippewa Cocopa Dakota Sioux Delaware E. Dakota Fox	Hidatsa Hopi Huron Ingalik Iowan Iroquois Kimsquit Kwakiutl Lakota Lenape Maidu Mandan Maricopa Menominee	Miwok Mohave Montagnais Natchez Navajo Ojibwe Omaha Osage Oto Plains-Cree Pottawatomi Pueblo Salish	Saulteaux Shawnee Sioux Tacullies Teton Sioux Tlingit Winnebago Yakut Yokut Yuma Yuman Zuni

Australian Aborigine peoples (28)
Adnjamatana Arunta Bardi Broome District Euahlayi Forrest River	Gunwinggu Kambera Kimberly Koko-yalunyu Kuna Miwa Murngin	Murinbata Ngalia NorthernTerritory Nyul-Nyuls Ooldea Pela Pitjandjara Taib	Nimbalda Tiwi Unambal Ungarinyin Uriat Western Australia Worora