Mythology of CS (from the womb to hell and back to the world)
Since becoming interested in the subject, the delivery has gone from being basically an active expression of women to be a medical procedure whereby the baby is removed. When I had my first child, the birth rate through the abdomen did not exceed 10%. A final nineties, the cesarean rate ranged between 20 and 40%, depending on whether the hospital performs teaching or not. If a teaching hospital, the cesarean rate is usually higher. What are we teaching?
My initial reaction to see how he stole the birth families to give to the experts was the anger, indignation, and anger that led me to want to do something about the epidemic of caesarean sections. Mixed with these feelings was my belief that everything on this earth is for the growth of the soul, everything, including Caesarean sections. In my desire to change the way things were done, I was letting the problem continue alike. No one, least of a culture, he likes to change from outside. I do not like anything that someone tries to change, and doctors do not like that I intend to change obstetrics. In fact, I think the only person who likes to be changed is the baby has a dirty diaper.
No, before I intend to change anyone, is a question we should ask ourselves. The question is that can be served there is an epidemic of caesarean sections? Caesarean section serves the soul of the world follows. The mothers that makes them a cesarean automatically start a mythic journey. To explain this myth, or the transpersonal dimension of caesarean section, I will tell an old story. In fact it is a story of ancient Babylon. When I heard this legend, then relate it with the experience psychological women who have had a caesarean. Hear the story of Inanna's descent into Hell reminds us of the emotional dynamics of women who have had a caesarean. We understand from a broader perspective and can change the world through the journey undertaken by women in childbirth, is the easy way or hard, and see the road to recovery. The most fascinating thing is how the myth allows us to broaden our understanding and that this perspective continues to grow. In the light of the myth of Inanna, we can transform the cesarean section epidemic of a purely misogynist another opportunity for women to deepen their soul and become healers.
Inanna asked to leave the world descend into hell. Each time it passes through a door in his descent should make an offering. In the first doors off his external objects: jewelry, crown, veil, choker. As it descends loses her dress, her stockings, her underwear, removes all. Should go even further to descend into the depths. It then starts the skin, muscles, viscera, until only their bones that are hung in the farthest corner of hell. Here Inanna, Queen of Heaven reduced to a bag of bones at the bottom of hell. This story holds a central mystery: only when the Queen of Death gives birth in hell Inanna is allowed to start their return journey. It gets your guts, your muscles, your skin. Then dress your new body with her clothes, her dress, her necklace, her veil, her crown and jewels. When it does emerge from hell with a spiritually renewed body and radiant for traveling to the depths. Now is truly the Queen of Heaven, for he has met and gone beyond hell.
When a mother is convinced or forced to undergo a cesarean section becomes a sacrificial offering as Inanna, should drop below the egoic consciousness to the place where the mundane world gives way to the soul. He is a victim in the original sense of the word, sacrificing himself for the sake of your child. At least that's the story I have many mothers who have had C-sections, whether true or not (C-section that saved the lives of their babies). The mother offered her body, mind and soul to the priest / physician at the altar of obstetrics if this can help your baby. Anesthesia alter their level of consciousness, his soul will travel through the subconscious. Will be stripped naked, their skin, muscles, viscera are manipulated to give birth by caesarean section. Once you wake up you can claim a new spiritual body, once it is clear that there namiciento integrated and understood that he served his soul that his son was born by caesarean section.
When mothers who are asking "what good is the c-section?" remain without answers, we have the real opportunity to cure the epidemic. But we are trying to change the system from outside. My impression is that when mothers stop seeing themselves as victims and begin to look like anadoras, or shamans, fewer caesarean sections in the community. If, however, still feel hurt, guilty, ashamed of their birth experience, be less effective in changing the way our culture gives birth.
When a mother has been opened begins to feel that their cesarean was a spiritual journey and to explore the deeper aspects of healing releases an enormous amount of psychic energy. Repress or deny the trauma requires a lot of energy but once the experience is integrated (ie, felt, expressed and released) all the energy you once used to defend is released for creative action. A mother who feels blessed, even if she never have voluntarily requested the "blessing" of cesarean section or go through it again, is more effective to educate others, that a mother who feels guilty and hurt. When Inanna emerge, radiant makes his journey into the darkness.
share this myth of the descent of Inanna unusual because it is an archetype of mother, which has faced
Death in Childbirth and emerged unscathed. Mothers who give birth naturally know that feeling of fighting with death for the soul of the baby must be born, the mothers who have cesarean know something of the shadow of the soul that once he becomes aware of a midwife will and guide for all women in childbirth. When a woman gives birth consciously often exclaims, "I know I can do anything." In that glorious moment, she defends her right to membership by birth to new species of evolution, the Homo-Divinus of humans who own their own experience. When the female half of humanity remember this, I can not imagine how will the world. If we are not abusing mothers in our most essential moment of creativity, and if even if the cesarean is necessary surgery mother lives as a journey of the soul, it will reach equilibrium. Without victims, not oppressors. Without oppressors, not victims. In the story of Inanna is clear that she chose to go down to hell, in the same way that mothers accept their fate at birth: not victimize the Goddess in this millennium.
This is how I see the mothers are all different faces of the Goddess. Inanna's face has greeted me with increasing frequency in many births in the last few generations. Has a strong face, strong, and the signs of his suffering and joy are reflected around his eyes and his lips. Speaks passionately, like lava flowing his message beyond words and sound of her voice is pure warmth. It never ceases to perceive, it captures the ideas from here and there to feed the future. With its trip knows the darkness, is accustomed to the nuances, shadows and gloom, a key to see beyond. Inanna's face always invites me to go deeper, to go further. She illuminates the most difficult passages, and teaches us passing through each of the best. Face to face with Inanna, I see mothers in the world, almost always giving birth naturally, because the cesarean no longer serve the world. This helps us go to hell and back, to clear the way to the next generations so that the birth may illuminate new and old faces of the Goddess.
Dedicated to Janice, extraordinary healer. January 10, 1997
Copyright © Jeannine Parvati Baker
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