Womb Memories Part 1
In the 25 years we have been counselling people, focusing on dissociative memories, some of the most insightful memories have been when a client goes back to a trauma in the womb. Early on we soon realised that the self-awareness of a baby in the first trimester was exactly the same as the third trimester. In other words, the baby’s ability to sense what is happening in her surroundings, including the emotional state of her mother and what is happening outside the womb is highly developed in the first trimester. In fact, what I share next may shock you. It appears that the ability to feel emotions and think is either present at conception or very soon after.
How can that be since the baby is little more than a single cell or group of cells? It is because thought and emotions are a product of the soul; mind, will and emotions. Our soul is non-physical. It is not made up of atoms. There are no physical structures necessary to ‘think’ or ‘feel emotions.’ Since God imparts the spirit and soul into that single cell at or soon after conception, it should not surprise us that clients recover detailed memories in the womb where they are highly lucid, emotional, and have uncanny spiritual insights into what is happening in their mother’s and future family’s life.
No, this is not transference or superimposing the current self-awareness of the client onto the baby in the womb event. When trying to connect with a past trauma where the person was known to have been unconscious, there is a complete absence of any self-awareness when trying to access any possible memories during the time of unconsciousness. Dissociative alters or ‘parts’ cannot be formed in a state of unconsciousness. Hence if the child in the womb was ‘unconscious’, there is no possibility of forming parts and consequently accessing a womb memory .
This is yet again another proof for the Christian worldview being the best description of reality compared to an evolutionary world view. In an evolutionary world view, the brain gives rise to thought and emotions. No brain, no thoughts. Complete unconsciousness.
In a Christian worldview, soul and spirit exist independent of the brain but operate predominantly through the brain. Aside from being the only adequate explanation for thought and feelings in the womb without brain structures, it also explains how people can have a fully self-aware, out-of-body experience, particularly when they are near death, often on an operating table, entirely independent of the brain.
Of course, it is the reason why Christians, and other religions, believe in life after death because “who” I fundamentally am – that is my spirit and soul – is independent of my brain. “I” leave when the body can no longer function.
It’s a no brainer!