We are all in relationship, beginning long before we are born. We are connected with both Cosmic and biological realms, Cosmos and Mother.
Conception occurs via a relationship between sperm and egg. These emissaries from our ancestors exchange chemical and vibrational messages. Their interaction enables them to find each other and unite.
It seems that at conception a “third something” joins the union of sperm and egg, as a being arrives into a new life. There is a relationship between that being and the physical cells of sperm and egg, creating a unicellular organism, called a zygote.
The zygote interacts with an Intelligence which guides it in forming the embryo, developing into a foetus, and eventually birthing as a new baby into increasingly more obvious relationship with the family and the world. The relationship, however, exists before the family or the surrounding world are generally even aware that the new being has arrived.
On a vaster scale, the emerging being is also in relationship with its source. Little children ask, “Where did I come from?” They rarely receive a satisfying response from adults around them. Scientists struggle to answer the question. Even so, we sense on both a scientific and an intuitive level that we somehow come from the Cosmos.
A Deeper Truth
In Cosmogenesis, Brian Swimme writes, “There is a deeper truth. We are universe. The universe made us. In a most primordial way, we are cosmological beings” (p. 24).
Indigenous peoples around the world have described humans as coming from the stars, the waters of the sea, the lake, the river, whatever water was near them. They say we come from the mountain, the rock.
We are made from star dust. The minerals in our bodies are composed of stars fallen to earth.
The Breath of Life
In Craniosacral Biodynamics, we understand and perceive that a mysterious force we call The Breath of Life guides our formation in the womb and throughout life. It is the source of energetic fields we are suspended within.
The first obviously visible change in the form of the embryo is the appearance of a midline, called the primitive streak. It seems to be emulating an energetic torus-shaped field with an ever-arising midline. We sense this field in Biodynamic treatment sessions when the client’s system has resolved an issue and is reorganising. The midline of the field is an organising fulcrum guiding our formation originally in the embryo and then throughout life as we respond and recover from life conditions.
This is a relationship with an energetic field we experience as an original blueprint providing instructions. The field provides a pathway for a dynamic, ongoing relationship with the Cosmos.
The embryo, even as a conceptus, and perhaps from even before conception, is in liaison with Cosmos.
Prenatal Awareness
We are also from the beginning in relationship with the world we are arriving into, via our parents. Again, this relationship begins even before parents are usually aware of having a child. The baby, however, is aware. Every cells senses and responds to its environment. They intelligently withdraw and contract when in contact with toxicity and expand and grow when nourishment is available. Embryo cells develop in relation to the cells around them, as well as to the nutritive or toxic qualities of the fluids and energetic field of the mother.
Growing within a mother who is under-supported or who does not want to be pregnant is highly toxic for the embryo. Little ones are known to try to stay as small as possible to avoid being detected, and may continue this pattern throughout life. When a mother feels safe and supported, and has a desire to welcome new life through her body, the little one arriving within her can also experience safety and support. Thriving becomes possible.
Cell biologist Bruce Lipton has pointed out that cells can either be in a fear/protection state or a love/growth state. They can’t both protect and grow at the same time. The little one who depends on loving welcome for survival faces an immense double bind within a field of rejection. They need to grow to survive but they also need to protect.
Original Embryological Potential
Many embryos don’t survive the immense challenges of early life. If you are reading this, you have survived! What enabled you to do this? It may be that you arrived into a very welcoming, supportive family field. If you did not, something else supported you in developing and making it this far! I call this our “original embryological potential.”
We might consider it miraculous that a little, relatively simple unicellular organism can develop the complex body we have. This miracle is an expression of incredible potential, a manifestation of the Intelligence of the Breath of Life. You might consider it to be the Cosmos expressing through us.
The full expression of that potential may become occluded due to circumstances we meet in life. It does not disappear. It remains accessible. This requires being in relationship with it.
In our modern Western world, we learn that our thoughts and brains are more important than our body sensations. We pay attention to our bodies primarily if they hurt. We might train them to perform in prescribed ways, like in sports or dance. This often leads to injuries because we aren’t actually listening the body.
Listening and Love in the Stillness
Accessing our potential in my experience requires slowing down and listening, allowing ourselves to receive the messages from our inherent Intelligence. In many meditative practices we settle into relative stillness, which enables us to open to information we miss when we speed along through life. Stillness can return us to our original potential, including our original relationship with the Cosmos.
Where we have been missing loving welcome, there is the possibility of discovering it, or perhaps more accurately uncovering it, through settling together in a safe relational field with a trusted other, such as in therapy.
It is never too late to welcome the little one that we were. It is always possible to pause and remember a vaster reality, to remember that we are not separate from the stars, the Cosmos that forms us.
Thank you for this potent reminder.