I’ve done it. I’ve settled into that moist warm cave and my host is feeding and nurturing me into a human being. She doesn’t like it one bit and sometimes pounds the outside of this cave, her own abdomen, as if she’d like to kill me. But that doesn’t really bother me because Counselor has assured me everything is working out just as we planned.
Before I got into this place Counselor sent us all to a class on human development. All except Ruth, that is. She continued her work in Intake. So, we’ve been watching through this special window that Counselor made for us, the development of a new entity come into being. What an amazing process. It was from this window that we saw my host and her boyfriend do ‘it.’ I wanted at the time to yell down to her that it wasn’t just all fun and games. But of course I couldn’t get through the veil to do that.
The physical process the One has created certainly is awesome. And human beings have been fascinated with it as well, putting a lot of effort into observing and recording the minute details of human conception. When humans discovered DNA, their curiosity increased. It gave them an incentive to study further and further into the whole process of how humans come into being. I guess the One was responsible for putting that idea of curiosity into the minds of humans. I think the One has a sense of humor, too. How else to explain the many complications put into the make-up of Earth, let alone the whole Universe.
Anyway, just look at what the One did with the male production of spermatozoa! Spermatozoa come by the thousands! Truly! And each has 23 chromosomes, half the needed 46. Isn’t that clever? Makes it necessary to have a partner when a human is created. So, the class instructor—not Counselor, by the way—told us that some spermatozoa have an X sex chromosome, and others have a Y sex chromosome. That, of course, isn’t the end of the chromosome story. We’ll get to the rest later. And the instructor pointed out that even though spermatozoa look energetic and purposeful, some human scientists say they are not alive because they don’t have a mind. Other human scientists say they are alive. So the people on Earth get all excited about who is right and who is wrong, make it into a big issue, cause a lot of hard feelings and a lot of fighting. Even murders. Did the One really mean to make that possible? I don’t really ask that out loud, just hold it there to wonder about.
In any case, if spermatozoa do have a purpose, it’s to fuse with an ovum. All that energy, and only one reason to be. Well, that wasn’t a surprise. I laughed and snuck a look at Salvador. His orb had turned a peculiar pink. David’s orb, on the other hand, looked a bit sick.
Instructor went quickly on to the female part of this process. She explained how the ovum, or egg, also has 23 chromosomes, one of which is always a X sex chromosome, and is produced once a month. It felt strange being in a class like this, talking about the making of human bodies. Here we were, all light beings, all see-through bulbs with no substance, as humans think of substance. It seems that those Here may take human scientists more seriously than many humans on Earth do.
“So,” Instructor went on, “That means the spermatozoa must penetrate the skin of the ovum to complete what is called ‘conception.’ After that a new entity begins to form. The scientists call it a zygote.” Instructor reminded me of a teacher in a regular human grade-school classroom, standing beside her desk in front of a blackboard. Of course, that was pure imagination on my part, as Here is nothing like that.
“At first the zygote divides into two identical cells, then the two divide into four and so forth,” Instructor said. She waved her arms like a teacher might do. “This all takes place in the woman’s fallopian tube, you see.” She looked at us to make sure we were paying attention. We were. “Then it has to move down to the uterus, where it will attach itself to the uterine wall, a process that takes about ten Earth days.” Instructor brightened her colors, as if emphasizing what she was about to say.
“This is the point at which many religious groups say God implants a soul and is the defining event that makes this entity a human person,” Instructor noted. I waited for her to say something more about Soul and Consciousness, because I was wondering if they were the same thing. But she didn’t. Perhaps she was expecting us to figure that out on our own. In any case, I’m in this cave-womb and I still have communication with Counselor. It’s nothing like a phone, or even voice, it just happens. I’m able to be aware of Here and of the cave-womb. Counselor is in both, and is guiding my little trip back to Earth.
Instructor had a lot more to say about the process toward human life. She pointed out that the zygote, with its X sex chromosome donated from the egg and either an X or Y chromosome from the spermatozoon determines the sex of what will be the embryo. If the zygote ends of with XX chromosomes, it is female; if XY, it is male. Thus, it is the birth father’s spermatozoa that determines the sex of a child. This was an interesting point, since some human cultures blamed the woman for not having a male child. Another excuse for men to devalue women. Now why don’t they have these classes on Earth!
So the little zygote keeps dividing and implants itself in the inner wall of the uterus. That becomes the medical definition of pregnancy. This is when the woman’s urine will detect the hormones of what is called a blastocyst. You see, these human scientists have scrutinized very well and carefully identified each little step in the process of human development. Of course, as humans argue with one another as to when life begins, they’ve made it necessary to be very particular about it all. Personally, it all seems a lot of nonsense, since no life really dies, and that’s what the issue is about. Abortion! Humans have made it a dirty word. But if my host wants to abort me, I know there will be another womb that will accept me. So what’s the big deal? I’m eternal! As are all souls. The ONE knows.
What seems so strange to me is how some people can be so hateful and violent when it comes to an issue like abortion. Maybe there’s some karma involved when a woman purposely aborts, but she deals with that with the One. It’s nobody else’s business. That’s my attitude, anyway.
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