“[*Quotes/highlights:*] “In the womb there was a knowledge of one’s immortality, in the sense of past lives. We already live forever, are immortal; but healing the prenatal trauma makes us aware that we are.” []
[]“…it is only with birth, technically just prior to birth in the latest stage of gestation, that we come up with the idea of death. For it is in being confronted w that prenatal & perinatal pain that we forget our prenatal state of bliss…”[]
[] “…& contentment earlier in our womb experience where, also, we could still remember our past lives & our identity with Divinity & hence, in either case, our immortality.” []
“[*Chapter 52 text begins:*] “Allow me a little aside which will reveal more elements of this. Compare this Eden myth with its Tree of Life to the myth of the Holy Grail.”
“It is interesting that, in the Grail being shaped like a chalice or cup, it is also shaped like a placenta or tree & it is also, in being something we drink from, something that gives us nourishment, as the placenta did.”
“Additional understandings of *grail* are equally provocative. It is written: “The word *grail*, as it is earliest spelled, comes from Old French *grail* or *greal*, cognate with Old Provençal *grazal*…”
“”The most commonly accepted etymology derives it from Latin *gradalis* or *gradale* via an earlier form, *cratalis*, a derivative of *crater* or *cratus*, which was, in turn, borrowed fr Greek *krater* (*κρατήρ*, a large wine-mixing vessel).”
““Alternative suggestions include a derivative of *cratis*, a name for a type of woven basket….” With such etymological roots, note also its relation to the word, *cradle*.”
“Indeed, traditionally in Christianity, Mary the mother of Jesus is referred to as the “vessel of Christ.” She carried Jesus in her womb & was thus the container that enclosed & protected...she was the vessel for him.”
“You think there is nothing strange about that? However, think for a second why these items would not be predominantly cylindrical, square, or even conical, as would be the logical & practical shape for them.”
“For in making them curvy, *chuckle*, if you will, we overrule the steadiness & resistance to spillage which would come with the larger base of a more obvious cylindrical shape...or square or conical one, for that matter.”
“& if your response is that such curvular shapes are aesthetic, poetic flourishes, or that they have something to do with the comfort or practicality of holding the vessel & drinking from it,..”
“…then you have to concede the great extent to which our sentiments around aesthetics, poetry,& even comfort & practicality, are modeled on the feminine.”
“Additionally, regarding vessels as wombs, all of them are intended to contain nourishment, as the placenta was the source of nourishment for us as fetuses in the womb.”
“Still, I believe if we remember that women are the ones who can be mothers, it applies to all of us, as well. All of us—men & women—have at least traces of feelings that women are the source of nourishment & contain what we need.”
“Indeed, that feeling, if you will allow me the luxury of a tangent here, goes all the way back to our experience of sperm & egg. That is a Veil—surrounding conception, peri-conceptional—that is still ahead of us to explore.”
“It is Veil Seven, which is in the volume following this, *Dance of the Seven Veils III*. Yet I cannot resist providing a glance at how this all fits together—these more obvious Veils across reality & the subtler ones beneath & forming them.”
“The ovum, which is the feminine element, is thus the container, the material, the resources, & the “nourishment” out of which all the rest of us arises.”
“…[the massive egg cell] is, like the womb later on, the vessel (or cave or abode or container or home) that the sperm, the masculine element, enters so as to spark the entire process.”
“[The ovum] is container as well as “nourishment,” for an egg is thousands of times bigger than a sperm, by weight. So it is out of the egg’s physical constitution that the zygote, then blastocyst, is constructed.”
“As I like to say, “Sperm is the catalyst, but egg brings home the groceries.” There is more on that in my upcoming works & in *Falls from Grace* (2014) & some of my unpublished manuscripts.”
“Ascending again from the cellular to the level of birth & the womb, we see a parallel symbolism to the Holy Grail going on in Catholicism with its use of & understanding of the meaning of the holy chalice, as employed in its Mass.”
“In Catholicism’s primary worship service, called a *Mass*, there is great importance put upon a chalice. A chalice is nearly identical to a grail. They are depicted exactly the same—as an ornate cup, more accurately, goblet.”
“Indeed, the Holy Grail, as per its legend, was the chalice used by Jesus Christ at the Last Supper; & that chalice is the origin of the use of a chalice in the Mass.”
“& it is specifically said that it is a source of nourishment, just as was the blood received from the placenta (& mother) thru the umbilical cord when we were in the womb. The words, “Take & eat of me,...eat of my flesh...drink...
“[this holy chalice has several other prenatal indicators:] It is said to give eternal life...as in, “eat of my flesh, drink of my blood, & you shall live forever.””
“Second, in being a blood that nourishes, it is almost exactly a re-creation of that time in the womb when we depended on the placenta to provide all our nutrients, including oxygen, which came to us via its blood.”
“Do you see how this makes sense of so much that is otherwise odd...if not downright revolting...about some of our sacred ceremonies? Should our rituals & rites not be holy, wholesome, even Pollyannaish instead?”
“At least I considered it awfully strange, as a child, to be engaged in sacred worship that involved monstrous, cannibalistic, vampire- & werewolf-like components of drinking blood & eating flesh.”
“Along the same lines, it makes sense of the emphasis put on blood throughout Christian, especially Catholic, articulations...the “precious blood of Christ,” the Church of the Spilled Blood, the Trail of Blood, & so on.”
“That we need this blood parallels the prenatal as well. For, as I have laid out in detail in “The Prenatal Matrix of Human Events” part of *Wounded Deer & Centaurs*,.."
"...as well as in the Prologue of this work—specifically Ch 5 of *Dance of the Seven Veils I*—in the late stages of gestation we undergo a fetal malnutrition which is traumatic in that we feel suffocated & in need of nourishment...”
“…sustenance which we are not getting because of the blood flow being reduced because of the constriction of blood vessels leading into & out of the placenta.”
“This is so apparent that, indeed, the growth of the fetus slows down from what it had been throughout all the rest of gestation (see accompanying graph):”
“The prenate is not getting enough nourishment & oxygen to thrive & this actually inhibits our ability to keep growing. That we should still be growing is indicated by the fact that after birth…”
“…we then make up for the leveling out, caused by this starvation in the womb, & our growth begins retracing the same arc of development we had in the womb prior to that leveling off caused by starvation & suffocation. (See graph below.)”
“So, in the Catholic Mass we are actually saying that Christ is the good mother who will give us the blood, the nourishment, that we did not get at the time we needed it in the womb.”
“Hence, He/she/it will heal this trauma. & since, as I have been saying, connecting with & healing the prenatal trauma brings us back to a realization of our connection with Divinity, which we had in the womb,”
“…& therein there was a knowledge of one’s immortality, in the sense of past lives, then it makes sense that in Christ healing this wound of ours we would indeed live forever.”
“Remember, in *Genesis* it is written “the man is become as one of us, to know good & evil: & now, lest he put forth his hand, & take also of the tree of life, & eat, & live for ever.””
“Additionally, in killing mammalian planetmates—those with red blood—& eating their flesh, that is to say, meat, we have placed ourselves in the spot designated for the gods, the Divine, that of the determination of life & death.”
“It would also seem to indicate that we, like Jesus is said to have, can become “one with the Father,” that is, we are of one substance with God. Hence, we are potentially immortal.”
“Whereas it can be considered there is one God in this tradition, it would seem that it interfaces with us through multiple countenances, much as the images of the four-faced Buddha, the five-faced Shiva, & Janus, from Roman mythology.”
“The plurality of gods, indicated in *Genesis*, might also be referring to what we are learning about what exists in the No-Form State. We find that it is “populated” with No-Form configurations, No-Form “personalities.””
“We meet again with them in the afterlife; we might even have interactions with them during life. They are usually folks we know, often relatives, friends; though they might be religious or spiritual personalities or other guides or teachers.”
“Think, for this, of how many primal cultures have beliefs in the supernatural as conveyed through their ancestors, as in aboriginal societies; the grandfathers & grandmothers, of Native American culture;”
“& other family members & personages, from many cultures, who are said to be existing in a reality that exists beyond life & which interacts with life & our personal lives, in particular.”
“For more on this, see my work, *The Secret Life of Stones* (2016), especially Chapter 32; as well as Part Two of *Funny God* (2015), where I talk about the No-Form State, the coming together of heaven & Earth, & No-Form personalities.”
“Back again to the Holy Grail, we can go even further in connecting it with our time in the womb & the placenta, which is our interface with our mothers.”
“In his novel, created around the facts of our actual history, Brown states accurately how Christianity devolved from its original beliefs & understandings originating with Christ.”
“For Jesus espoused a rather distinctive “feminine” ethic of peace, love, compassion, mercy,& more. Whereas by the 4th Cent, Christianity had begun to rigidify, to become hierarchical & authoritarian,& to have*extremely patriarchal* elements.”
“These masculine ethics, along with the excision of the feminine, were codified at the First Council of Nicaea, in 325 CE, & its subsequent councils of that era.”
“Thus, hundreds of years after Jesus’s death, his embrace of the feminine ethic within us, with its compassion for all living things & its forgiveness, got changed into the opposite of what Christ modeled & taught.”
“In many ways, the patriarchy is our dragon. For it channels us into patriarchal notions—which are different from “matriarchal,” Goddess, or feminine ones—”
“—& punishes severely those who go against those rigid & conditional values of the male & who embrace the feminine values...the feminine values, which are more aligned with out earlier time in the womb.”
“So, the patriarchy is the dragon that must be slain. At this level of personal evolution, in proximity to this Veil of the pre/perinatal, the “damsel” is the BPM I bliss of the first 2 trimesters, which we need to try to recover, or “save.””
“What is tragically wrong in our tradition as it is now construed—corrupted over the 100s of yrs of patriarchal co-opting of the Christ-like feminine—is the way Christ, who in a sense would be the damsel, has been disfigured to be the dragon,”
“….[Christ has been disfigured to be the dragon,] the barrier to prenatal bliss, instead of the prenatal bliss itself. Thus, as many know, Christianity’s initial intent to realign us with the higher values…”
“…& help us to see the world & others thru the joy templates & Divinity “grid” of our earlier prenatal life has been perverted to be that which actually *keeps us* from realizing our blissful, original Self, as we experienced it in the womb.”
“Back to the Grail, however. The Holy Grail, further, brings us immortality in that, as it is said, it is “designed to provide happiness, eternal youth, & food in infinite abundance.””
“Well, compare the concept of having many lives & never truly dying, in other words, reincarnation, to the idea of “live forever” in *Genesis* & “eternal youth” in the myth of the Holy Grail.”
“This, thus, was added to the ongoing excision, over the era of those councils, of the feminine, along with the feminine ethic espoused by Christ, in the creation of the patriarchal ethic which was enshrined by those councils.”
“& those two are linked—feminine & reincarnation—in that within the vessel of our mothers, the womb, the Holy Grail, we indeed remembered our past lives...”
“Yes, you read that correctly. I said the Holy Grail is the womb. If only they’d a known, they could have ceased their looking in the world for that Grail & found it by looking within, far within, to thr memories of being in the womb.”
“Which is much like the parable told in the East of the person who traveled all over China looking for his donkey. & then in despair, one day, looking down he noticed he had been riding it all along.”
“Thus, at any rate, we encounter the “tree of life,” as well as the Holy Grail, in feeling through to our womb experience, re-membering or reconnecting with that experience.”
“Note that both the Tree of Life & the Holy Grail are said to bring that immortality. In the case of the Holy Grail, it is put that it brings “eternal youth,” which is the same as living forever.”
“This would be true in that thru reclaiming our prenatal state & bringing it into our lives, in integrating it, we reconnect with our prenatal bliss, our joy grids, our spiritual grids.”
“We begin to do that reclamation when we feel back to that time in the womb. & doing so, we discover, indeed, that we *are* immortal, that there is no death—as an ending of consciousness or personality or identity—that truly exists.”
“For it is only with birth, technically just prior to birth in the latest stage of gestation, that we come up with the idea of death. For it is in being confronted with that pre- & perinatal pain that we forget our prenatal state of bliss…”
“…& contentment earlier in our womb experience where, also, we could still remember our past lives & our identity with Divinity & hence, in either case, our immortality.”
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“…if we do not regain our truer & underlying humanity, & instead, coming forth as we normally do, we continue acting out of our pain grids, we are not going to have a ‘human’ experience…”
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“Which is that in feeling through our prenatal & perinatal pain & re-establishing our foundation within the joy grids of the early womb experience, we find ourselves, not just aware of our immortality,..”
“…but also smack up against a fount that seems to emanate all wisdom, all knowledge. That is the Tree of Life, of which it is said we would live forever.”
“A succinct way of defining the Tree of Life, then, is to say that it is the contents of the Unapproved & Hidden, which is our species unconscious...& beyond that All Knowledge.”
“[*Quotes/highlights:*] “The Garden is the womb, God is the mother, the serpent is birth pain, the apple is meat, & the Tree of Life is the placenta.” []
[*Quotes/highlights:*] “…cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life: thorns also & thistles shall it bring forth to thee;”