Here is a quote from a classic work on past life regressions by Dr Newton, taking a subject into deep hypnosis, who is describing what it is like as a soul, to enter a baby in the womb:
S. “Everything is blurred.. I’m sliding down.. down in a long dark tube.. a hollow feeling.. darkness. . then warmth.. Dr. N. “Where are you now ?” S: I’m aware of being inside my mother Dr. N. Who are you ? S: (chuckles) “I’m in a baby – I’m a baby”. Dr Newton then gives more general details based on many such cases: “”All my subjects tell me the transition of their souls from the spirit world to the mind of a baby is relatively more rapid than the passage back… as souls who enter babies, we come from a state of all-knowing and thus are mentally able to adjust more quickly to our surroundings than at the end of a physical life. Then too, we are given additional time for adaptation while in our mother’s womb. My subjects say that if they were to compare the moment of birth with that of death, the physical shock of being born is much greater. At some point prior to birth, the soul will carefully touch and join more fully with the impressionable and developing brain of a baby. When a soul decides to enter a baby, apparently that child has no free choice in accepting or rejecting the soul. At the moment of first entry, chronological time begins for the soul. Depending upon the inclinations of the particular soul involved, the connection may be early or late in the mother’s pregnancy. I have had cases where souls time their arrival at the last minute during delivery, but this is unusual. My findings indicate even those souls who join the baby early seem to do a lot of travelling outside the mother’s womb during her term” . In the case quoted before, the subject S proceeds to explain how, once inside the embryo, the soul then has to adjust towards the brain and mind of the embryonic child and says the following S: “Once I attach to a child it is necessary to bring my mind into a synchronisation with the brain. We have to get used to each other as partners.. I am in the mind of the child but separate too… I learn the brain wave patterns of the baby.. there is a melding, there is emptiness before my arrival which I fill to make the baby whole.. Dr N. Do you bring intellect ? S: We expand what is there.. we bring a comprehension of things.. a recognition of the truth of what the brain sees.. Dr N. Are you sure this child doesn’t think of you at first as an alien entity in her mind ? S: No, that’s why we unify with undeveloped minds. She recognises me as a friend.. a twin.. who is going to be part of her. Its as if the baby was waiting for me to come.”
The following quotation is from The Book of the Egg, by Dr Thomas Daffern (2020): "The idea of an intelligence underlying nature is in fact no longer seen as marginal – indeed, it has arguably been absolutely fundamental to the mainstream traditions of European (and other) philosophical traditions ever since the first Orphic, Pythagorean and Platonic schools got underway. One modern proponent who puts this all succinctly is David Fideler in his Restoring the Soul of the World: Our Living Bond with Nature’s Intelligence (2014) which studies the ancient idea that all of nature shares in a “world soul”. Fideler also ran the Phanes Press for many years. Jung also talks of the world soul in many important passages in his writings, including this: “To the Neoplatonist Plotinus, the World-Soul is the energy of the intellect. He compares the One, the primordial creative principle, with light, the intellect with the Sun and the world-soul with the Moon. Or again he compares the one with the Father and the intellect with the Son. The One, designated as Uranos, is transcendent, the Son (Kronis) has dominion over the visible world; and the world soul (Zeus) is subordinate to him. The one or the ousia of existence is totality, is described by Plotinus as hypostatic, as so are the three forms of emanation, thus we have “one being in three hypostases” As Drews has observed, this is also the formula for the Christian Trinity as laid down at the councils of Nicea and of Constantinople (Drews, Plotin. P 127). We might add that certain early Christian sects gave a maternal significance to the Holy Ghost (world soul or moon). According to Plotinus the world soul has a tendency towards separation and divisibility, the sine qua non of all change, creation and reproduction. It is an unending “all of life” and wholly energy; a living organism of ideas which only become effective and real in it. The intellect is the progenitor and father and what the intellect conceives the world soul brings to birth in reality. “What lies enclosed in the intellect comes to birth in the world soul, as Logos fills it with meaning and makes it drunken as if with nectar” (Plotinus Enneads 3.5.9). Nectar like Soma is the drink of fertility and immortality. The soul is fructified by the intellect; as the oversoul”, it is called the Heavenly Aphrodite, as the undersoul, the earthly Aphrodite. It knows the “pangs of birth” (Dews, p 121). It is not without reason that the dove of Aphrodite became the symbol of the Holy Ghost”. (Carl Jung, THE COLLECTED WORKS OF C. G. JUNG: Symbols of Transformation 5: 198)
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