Preparing for the Miraculous

162 eleven talksfrom the Arya we find what Eldredge and Gould wouldcall “punctuated equilibrium” in 1972; the discussion of lifein plants and a rather developed mind in higher animals;the statement that species, including the human, cannotevolve beyond themselves by their own effort; the confirmationthat there have existed civilizations of which notrace is found today, and that peoples considered primitivea century ago were actually retrograde populations fromformer times; the standpoint that in evolution there is a design,defined by an Intelligence and worked out by It. Etc.And all this ordered within a coherent system, valid beforethe positivist theories of evolution (Lamarck, Darwin, deVries, Neo-Darwinism) were fashioned, and equally validafter those theories have been seriously questioned and willwithin a not too distant future become history.Vroeger toen ik groot was! (Before, when I was big) is a remarkablelittle book by the Dutch author Joanna Klink (1990),with spontaneous reminiscences by small children about thetime before they entered their mother’s womb and duringtheir stay in it. They remember their choice of the mother, themoment they entered her womb, and the surrounding circumstancesbefore and during the pregnancy. What is strikinghere is that everything these children said agrees completelywith what the Mother has told on the same subjects. For example,the soul chooses the physical mother and watchesover the fetus, even when not yet definitively joining with it;the moment of the definitive union differs in each case andmay even take place after birth. The being that is to be bornis aware of all that goes on around the mother as it is of itsown world. “An unborn apparently perceives, with his vividawareness, much more than we think,” writes Klink. And:“Children do not believe in death, they still know better.”They also mention quite spontaneously the “silver thread”which connects the subtle with the gross material body, andwhich, when cut, results in separation (death).