Birth to a Sethie

[Deb]

"...the shock of birth is far greater than the shock of death."

—TECS1 ESP Class Session, January 14, 1969

Lol.

[Sena]

"...the shock of birth is far greater than the shock of death."

Deb, the psychiatrist Stanislav Grof would agree with this:

http://www.primal-page.com/grof.htm

BPM II: - Antagonism with Mother. (Contractions in a Closed Uterine System.)
This matrix is related to the first clinical stage of the delivery. This episode belongs perhaps to the worst experiences a human being can have.The fetuses both mechanically and chemically alienated from the mother with no possibility of immediate escape which may be later manifested as feelings of being trapped, of being hopelessly caught and overwhelmed.