From: carljones50@yahoo.com   
      
   I've noticed that pregnant women often identify with images of the Great   
   Mother -  pendulous breasts over huge belly. This has a practical dimension:   
   the mother can identify with the creative power of nature rather than an   
   image of being ruined and fat.   
      
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    I've also noticed that not only are pregnant women close to their own   
   unconscious processes; but they appear to be connected to the deepest levels   
   of the collective unconscious. We are  becoming increasingly aware that   
   pregnancy and  birth can precipitate transcendent, ecstatic emotional   
   states. The pregnant woman  may transcend the ordinary, familiar sense of   
   self to achieve an extraordinary understanding of  being one with the   
   cosmos.   
      
    Pregnancy commonly awakens a transpersonal awareness or “peak experience.”.   
   For example, Maria, a mother of two in Louisville, Kentucky, reports. “There   
   were times, during both my pregnancies, when I felt at one with all   
   creation. It was a profoundly spiritual experience.”   
      
    Taking part in the miracle of creation seems to link the expectant mother   
   more closely with the creative life force in the universe. She is somehow   
   intimately conjoined with the root of all being, the intrinsic source of   
   life beyond appearances. Perhaps we all have roots connecting us to all   
   life, with all conscious  beings. But the pregnant woman seems to be closer   
   to those roots.   
      
    Carl   
      
    carljones50@yahoo.com   
      
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