murray@sbcs.UUCP (06/13/83)
Although your piece is written in slightly humoourous vein, I quite
agree with this guy, and so would Frederick Leboyer, who has been doing
natural birthing in France for many years now. He said, at a talk of
his I attended in London, that the reccomended Bachcommended Bach!
So too, would R>D>.D. Laingh, with whom I studied for some time
in London, and who has been writing and talking about our life in the
womb for the past several years. I highly recommend his recent books,
'Facts of Life' and 'The Voice of Experience', both of which contain
much of this material on what our world may be like before we are born.
Perhaps, in general, like a Garden of Eden, where all our needs are
met, we float in a spacy, watery world with sounds like waves rolling
onto the shore (ever noticed how soothing that sound is?) and a
rhythmic beat. I, for one, if I were given the choice, would certainly
not choose to have msome of the music that's going around today blasted
onto the exterior of this idyllic world - imagine having to endure
the sounds of Heavy Metal, for example!
Incidentally, there is an album available of sounds from the
womb - could be good to meditateaccompany meditation!
What seems extraordinary to me is people who deny the possibility
of the significance of this time for us. As we get older, we experience
each new year as somehow 'shorter' or less significant, whereas remember how
long it seemed when you were just a few years old. So how timelseeess muand
eternal the time in the womb must seem. Timeless ansd spacy - sounds like
some science fiction setting!
What are youtr thoughts on these matters?
Murray, Gordon, SUNY at Stony Brook, Comp. Sci. Dept.