The Child as Transformer of Consciousness

Conventional science basically ignores the significance of the primal period surrounding birth and its life-long imprinting even while influencing childbirth practices and developmental theories. It emphasizes genetic determinism and disregards research that the environment, including childbirth and nurturing practices, may actually activate gene expression. In addition, the knowledge that young children are capable of deeply intuitive, psychic, and spiritual experiences continues to be dismissed or ignored. I challenge this limited and mechanistic view of the capabilities of fetuses, newborns, and young children and describe participatory dynamics that are natural to them. This study attempts to show how it is possible that children's feelings of neglect and fear, or feelings of nurturance and love, activate powerful collective field dynamics and influence consciousness. While invasive and violating practices surrounding birth may result in negative consequences for human consciousness and the natural world, appropriate responses to the whole child may shift humanity's present regressive evolutionary trajectory to a positive transformation of consciousness.