In these weird times of persecution because you can (GOP/Red State life) I am not going to elaborate on any specifics about this experience I now share – I’ll keep it kind of anonymous to protect my family (wife & children). Of note, I do live in a Blue State, so I am not worried about legal peril while living here and the experience I had was now many years ago…
I don’t know about you, but I really believe in the eternity of spirit and the temporary status of the “house of flesh” – I like the explanation provided in the Pixar movie “Soul” as the spirit is an actual organized entity that chooses when/where & how to enter the “human” experience. I find another rule of physical life is “all/most previous spiritual knowledge/experience” is suppressed upon birth – you may have chosen the life, but spiritual awakening in the house of flesh must be relearned every time. For me, I have awakened my inner spirit and I perceive the seen and unseen as I continue along my life journey…
So, the experience I’ve had bringing children into the world has been amazing; here is the spiritual component and awareness I’ve had about it along the way:
When my wife and I decided we’d like to be parents and my wife went off her birth control, our first try resulted in our first born… during a love-making session, I felt a “spirit” presence that was anxious to enter the world and was almost distracting me (delaying orgasm!) and I had to unconsciously say “chill!” to the spirit so it really could enter life with us as parents/child situation. This only happened the first time – my other children arrived without such earnestness of spirit-before-birth awareness.
The miscarriage experience was different. Before our second son arrived, my wife miscarried at about 7 weeks. She had a spontaneous abortion at home and the preformed “body” was embryonic prior to fetal. This really was a spiritual experience because although saddened that this child would not arrive, we were not depressed or dissuaded from trying again. My wife informed her doctor, a note was added to her medical record (plus a conversation to make sure she was emotionally all right), and life went on. We held a ceremony and cremated the remains – freeing our thoughts / energy to honor the attempt at creating new life and try again. The thought that took shape was “the spirit” that wanted to come to us as a child found that the body being formed would not meet the needs of the life it wanted to live.
My wife conceived again after everything cleared away and our second son arrived. The new “body” that formed took shape to meet the needs required – this child went on to become a gymnast with rather remarkable strength and ability! The first body would not have accommodated this – thus it was discarded. The spiritual experience that surrounded this event for us did not require or engage “the state” or law/government in any way, shape, or form at all. As well it shouldn’t have.
My belief in “spirit” really has clarified a lot for me. I really do believe that the spirit that wants to come to the world WILL come to the world. The whole issue of abortion really is about control – can other folks dictate what a woman can do / be allowed to do in the childbearing process? I believe in the Roe v. Wade decision that it is a personal and spiritual matter that is PRIVATE between a woman and her doctor(s). The “state/nation” should NOT be involved. If a pregnancy is terminated for ANY reason – it does NOT block a spirit from coming to the world, it just changes the path available. This “freedom of choice” is also an essential element in the life journey – spirit & flesh components.
I share this story because I believe the collapse of the GOP/Red State ideology is going to happen. I see difficulty and strife immediately ahead, but I also see a happy ending and a betterment for the human condition when this gets resolved.
This whole “control” thing around miscarriage / abortion is a nice “hot button issue” for political discussion and leverage – the GOP has used this tragically but effectively. It needs to end and so do they. May this year of 2024 bring awakening, awareness, harmony and love via the USA elections when progressive Dems sweep into power and the GOP cult gets tossed on the ash heap of history. I hope this story, if anything, strengthens and awakens your spirit – let the KOSSACK light shine and let us usher MAGA folks out of our government and off the world stage…