Thanks Helen,
Sounds like one not to be missed in the lit review.
Cheers
Felicity
At 01:13 PM 08/10/1999 +1000, you wrote:
>Dear Felicity,
>A comprehensive looking book (I have only skimmed through it) is "Conscious
>Conception" by Jeannine Parvati Baker and Frederick Baker.1988. Freestone
>Publishing Company, Monroe, Utah or North Atlantic Books, Berkeley,
>California.
>It looks about as alternative/spiritual as you can get.
>Richard Gossinger says of the book " This book returns our attention to
>basics because we have become exiled from our own bodies and emotions, and
>even from our own intellects. It gives the reader an opportunity to imagine
>fertility, conception, embryogenesis, and birth as imtimate and sacred
>phenomena; sexuality, courtship, and family are a part of the same round
>dance of being. Children become not as an accident of passion or a product
>of family planning but as an aspect of the same nature in which we are
>already immersed, another dimension of our own sexuality and love....."
>It contains a lot of hertory of conception and methods of divination, some
>beautiful stories and poetry. I hope it helps.
>Helen McDonald
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