are we as a couple? How can we further respect
and complement each other? How, in our daily
activities, can we enhance our reverence for life?
And as we hope, trust and surrender, our physical body organizes itself according our ways of
being. Nerves, glands, immune system adopt our
mood and convey harmony and health to each
organ.
According to esotericism, nature has entrusted
responsibilities to men and women, regarding a
baby’s arrival:
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Men, 100% responsibility at conception,
the father-to-be brings in the soul he and
his companion have attracted.
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Women, 100% responsibility during
pregnancy, the mother forms the baby’s
body.
Thus men are also invited to mind their physical
and spiritual health, as it all gets registered on
their sperm, and I invite you to ponder on this
teaching from Hinduism: gold is sunrays in a solid
state, sperm is sunlight made liquid.
To dedicate the energies of our lovemaking to the
forces of light ensures that lower entities do not
feed on them. A simple dedication makes all the
difference. I once read a Plato’s exhortation for
men to avoid being under the influence of alcohol
at the time of conception.
Also, the environment presiding lovemaking
impacts the conception’s quality. It is worth gathering a maximum of harmony: let there be no
clouds, no strong winds, no waning moon. Let it
be morning rather than afternoon or night so as
to better compose with the forces of light, and let
there be love!
In a woman’s womb cradled in a harmonious
atmosphere, the newly fertilized zygote presents
on its cell walls more receptors to growth factors
than in a tense and stressed womb. More growth
receptors is an excellent omen. In the medical
journal Biology of the Neonate, French neonatologist Jean-Pierre Relier wrote about this impact of
a mother’s psychoaffective quality at conception,
echoing the Vedas of long ago who taught that
conception is the most important moment of our
life.
Regarding our inner environment, even when a
sexual rapport seems a good way to wipe out the
remnants of a fight, let’s remember that the body
is still marred with the biochemistry of distress –
not so inviting to a great soul –, and that a state
of paroxysm is often conducive to ovulation.
From cell to baby in just nine months...
All of us have embarked on this journey which
brings us from the invisible to the visible as wrote
the Irish philosopher John O’Donohue in his marvelous book Beauty, The Invisible Embrace:
“There is no other way into the world except
through the body of the woman. Woman is the
portal to the universe. She is also the womb of
Being. Each person in the world commenced life
as a minuscule trace within the depths of the
mother whose womb is the space where that
trace expands and opens to assume human form.
In terms of one’s later identity and destiny abroad
in the world, this is the time of ultimate formation and influence. In human encounter, there is
nothing nearer than this; no two humans can ever
come closer than when one is forming inside the
other’s depth. Naturally the relationship is hugely
imbalanced: the one is a complete person, the
other is minuscule and is just beginning a journey
towards identity through absorbing life from the
mother. Yet within the night of her body, each is
helplessly open to the other. No man ever comes
nearer to a woman. No woman ever comes nearer
to a woman. This intricate nurturing and unfolding into identity takes place below the light in the
physical subconscious of her body. The mother
sees nothing. The whole journey is a hidden one.
It is the longest human journey from the invisible to the visible. From every inner pathway, the
labyrinth of her body brings a flow of life to form
and free this inner pilgrim. Imagine the incredible
events that are coming to form within the embryo;