16.5
Human birth
 
 
"How was I made?"
  
 
"Where did I come from?"
  
  As we outlined, answers to the questions "what am I made of?" and "how do I function?" provide a level of detail to our physical body. In our society, those that are traditionally seen to possess the greatest knowledge to these questions are those that hold the degree of medical practitioners. In traditional indigenous communities the same position would be one known as the "witch doctor or medicine man".  
  However, questions "what am I made of?" and "how do I function?" are not the only two physical questions that human beings ask about themselves and "what makes me human?". At a very early age, children often begin to ask the questions "how was I made?", or "where did I come from?"  
  Just like the nursery rhythm answer "Sugar and spice and all things nice", western society has traditionally offered many simplified answers as well as detailed answers to these questions- both in terms of species and in terms of our own personal physical development. In modern society, our first examples of birth and answers to the questions "how was I made?" and "where did I come from?" appear in story books about "storks" and "alligators" and other metaphors.  
  Whatever metaphors are used, pregnant women have a special and mystical aura about them in our lives. There is something complete and special about a women giving birth- something safe and inviting. Prior to the general breakdown of social morality in most western countries, pregnant women were given much greater respect. Some of the earliest human civilized relics of Europe are of a pregnant female fertility goddess.  
16.5.1 The mystery of human birth and development  
  Human birth is a strange and mysterious event. Human beings do not begin developing one heart as a perfect miniature replica. It is as if the body evolves through several "generations" of specialized organs until the foetus finally settles down to look vaguely more human.  
  For different periods of the development of a human being, we look for all the world like- a bacterium initially, then any multi-cellular organism, then a species, then an animal, then a vertebrate animal, then a primate, then a human.  
  Mystery still surrounds each of these critical initial stages- the birth of our brain, the birth of our heart, the birth of our spine, the birth of our other organs and then the beginning of each of these organs to function.  
16.5.2 The importance of understanding the purpose of and function of the sequence of human birth  
  One of the great hopes of genetic science is the development of cures for human disease and malfunction. Yet cloning has already proven to be a difficult taskmaster. The genetic modification and engineering of human DNA, particularly the synthesis of a fully functioning human with completely tailored growth characteristics is still a fair way off. The reason is not just the interpretation of code sequence, but the way the program runs.  
  For instance, genetic defects in the organs of the human body, that then result in physical deformities at birth, don't simply appear when a baby is born- they evolve as malformations during the life learning and life growing process.  
  Therefore, in understanding better "why" the heart, lungs, brain and other key tissue centres undergo the transformation process they do, we might better understand where in the birth cycle we may address early on the potential for evolving malformations in birth, apart from eliminating code generated defects.  
16.5.3 The psychological and physical understanding of the human birth cycle  
  Yet there is even more power associated with understanding the full implications of "how was I made?" and "where did I come from?" when considering the psychological implications.  
  We are a product of not just our environment, but come to be born, by a live screening of the movie called LIFE ON EARTH- in action within the womb of our mother. We not only represent all life, but have already lives a period of our own existence, our own experience, our own touchstone with every other living things and every level of CORPUS.  
  We know what life is like being a bacterium. We have lived life as a bacterium, we share an inherited memory of what life is like for a bacterium, we are part of the bacteria family.  
  Similarly, there is a part of our cellular memory that knows what it is like to be a fish, or a dog, or a cat, or another primate. We have been at the same point they were in their cellular evolution and then gone past that- advanced genetically past that point.  
  Retouching this cellular memory is vitally important for several reasons- most importantly for a state of healthy well being. because we live in a cellular universe, this touchstone helps us, reminds us what it is like to be a bacteria, how bacteria behave, how they communicate, how they resolve issues. All of these processes are the basis of our immune system and our homeostasis- state of physical equilibrium.  
     
 
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