described, this is a universal motif in the mythologies of the hero's journey (Campbell 1968).Reliving the fully developed first stage of biological birth when the uterus is contracting, but the cervix is not yet open (BPM II.), is one of the worst experiences a human being can have. We feel caught in a monstrous claustrophobic nightmare, are suffering agonizing emotional and physical pain, and have a sense of utter helplessness and hopelessness. Our feelings of loneliness, guilt, absurdity of life, and existential despair can reach metaphysical proportions. We lose connection with linear time and are convinced that this situation will never end and that there is absolutely no way out. There is no doubt in our mind that what is happening to us is what the religions refer to as Hell - unbearable emotional and physical torment without any hope for redemption. This can actually be accompanied by archetypal images of devils and infernal landscapes from different cultures.When we are facing the dismal situation of no exit in the clutches of uterine contractions, we can experientially connect with sequences from the collective unconscious that involve people, animals, and even mythological beings who are in a similar painful and hopeless predicament. We identify with prisoners in dungeons, inmates of concentration camps or insane asylums, and with animals caught in traps. We might experience the intolerable tortures of sinners in hell or of Sisyphus rolling his boulder up the mountain in the deepest pit of Hades.Our pain can become the agony of Christ asking God why He has abandoned him. It seems to us that we are facing the prospect of eternal damnation. This state of darkness and abysmal despair is known from the spiritual literature as the Dark Night of the Soul. From a broader perspective, in spite of the feelings of utter hopelessness that it entails, this state is an important stage of spiritual opening. If it is experienced to its full depth, it can have an immensely purging and liberating effect on those who experience it.(...from "Birth Trauma and Its Relation to Mental Illsness, Suicide and Ecstasy)The phenomenology of BPM II in LSD sessions as well as clinical symptomatolgy in the post-session intervals dominated by this matrix shows most of the essential features of depression: general motor inhibition, agonizing mental pain and suffering, anxiety, overwhelming feelings of guilt and inadequacy, absolute lack of zest, selectively negative perception of the world and one's own life, black and white perception of the world without colors, and feelings of an unbearable and inescapable life situation with no hope of any solution.Also the physical manifestations of depression are in agreement with this concept: feelings of oppression and constriction, loss of appetite and rejection of food, retention of urine and feces, inhibition of libido, headaches, cardiac distress, subjective breathing difficulties and various physical complaints interpreted occasionally in a hypochondriacal way. The suicidal ideation of this condition has typically the form of a wish not to exist, to fall into a deep sleep, forget everything, and not to awake the next day.The COEX systems related to BPM