It provides the closest approximation to the experience of being sheltered in the warmth and loving ness of God. After the child is born, the arms, hearts and fond gazes of the parents have to sustain the effect of the sweet, loving embrace of the uterus. The parents must let the child know that God also lives in their hearts, their arms and their gazes for what else has the child known but that, and she will miss it and long to return to it in heaven with God, if it is not found and experienced on the living plane. These metaphors and images have clinical application, for if the client's experience of the uterus in her original history has been foul, and the arms and hearts of the parents rejecting, the client longs to go home again to where things were right and good tasting. In her emotional center, she knows she is not in the right place.
Souls know what it is they have experienced and what is their birthright.
Children who have had illness at an early age, one month to six months, and who have had to be separated from their home and placed in hospitals, have a rather stereotypic response to this circumstance. It is as if they have come close to death, and by implication, God, and have become, consequently, that much less connected to and invested in earth and living. They seem to be less interested in the real world and seem to be somewhat far away and longing for some other place that seems more ultimately and legitimately real than they find themselves on earth. Such children, when they have become adults and have not yet overcome the effects of this early trauma, tend to be dreamers, fantasizers of other worlds, pray-ers to God. They are fascinated with other worldly topics, alienated from ordinary experience, and show other such signs of cathexis to something and someone other than ordinary, living people and places.