Peaceful Birth, Peaceful Earth
Dr Clare Z
Much of the writing on this site are excerpts from my dissertation/book, The Child As Transformer of Consciousness.
Childhood suffering and disease with origins in the primal period surrounding birth, as well as trauma-related issues later in life, may be considered symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, a common disorder among modern children. Here is a description of PTSD from DSM-IV: “exposure to an extreme traumatic stressor, fear or helplessness [and a] threat to one’s physical integrity” (American Psychiatric Association 1994, 98).
My dissertation/book:
The Child as Transformer of Consciousness:
The True Significance of the Primal Period Around Birth.
One thing that I have learned during my relatively long life is that an answer to the well-being of humanity lies in the understanding of babies and children. Childhood trauma grows sociopaths and psychopaths. American culture continues to ignore this fact and treat newborns and young children inhumanely. In addition, because of our social standing in the world, we are influencing and doing untold damage to children everywhere, on a variety of levels. This culture's ignorant attitude towards the unborn child, violent hospital births, harm from circumcision, the treatment of newborns placed in toxic cribs in separate rooms rather than on the mother's body, exposed to unnatural milk formulas rather than mother's milk, too many unsafe vaccinations too early, and education focused on cognition, are all causes of sickness in body and soul.
Autism is an indicator of danger just as the canary in the coal mine was for miners, yet this warning is being all but ignored by too many. From my perspective, parents are not bonding well with their children. With each new generation of hospital births, the mother/child bond has become less likely and babies are more distressed. Half the culture, is on anti-depressants and pain pills. We have an unhappy population raising ever more unhappy children.
Yet there are those who survive much of the trauma. Others are born naturally in water, allowed to learn what they love, and are loved and respected by their parents. Nevertheless, the majority of people in this culture continue to abuse and demean children and then blame the children for their behaviors.
Several studies and theories that examine the role of perception, feelings, brain function, and states of consciousness in a child’s participatory relationship with the natural world and beyond are slowly finding their way into the public domain. Recent research reveals evidence that memories and perceptions may be, in part, field phenomena, and not necessarily located within the brain. This ongoing research may help counter the prevailing Western mainstream belief that developing brains are not capable of memory, and may expand our understanding of how young children know what they know and how they may see what may be otherwise unseen by adults.
Noting the symptoms of PTSD that affect the mother-child bond when an infant is circumcised, Ronald Goldman PhD states, “If certain behaviors, attitudes, fears, and beliefs are prevalent among circumcised men then they also affect those who are not circumcised, both male and female.” The delayed response associated with circumcised infants may manifest later in multiple forms such as aggression, depression, and sexual dysfunction. Given the escalation of prostate cancer in men who are at the age of the first generation of mass hospital births and circumcisions, correlates well with what has been understood by many who study birth trauma -- that trauma imprinted during the perinatal period may show up as dis-ease in the body later in life.
Dr Clare Z