All of this was very interesting to me and I wanted to find out how such influences worked. How it that our development in the womb already starts off in a certain direction, even though we are not yet able to make a conscious choice in the matter? After all, a person can only make a choice when he has become conscious. If you are not yet a conscious being, everything just comes at you and you have no defense against it. Through the umbilical cord, for example, you could be getting adrenaline from your mother when she is afraid or tense, or frightened by something. Or other types of input: the mother might not give in to the demands that pregnancy has on her daily functioning, wanting to put on a brave face and work until the end. Or perhaps she sees her pregnancy as just another aspect of her normal life, ignoring the hormonal, emotional and physical changes that come with pregnancy because she finds her social life more important.

All of these and other forms of input have, in my opinion, a significant influence on the rest of your life. In the womb, you are subjected to all kinds of input without any defenses against them. There has been relatively little research done on this topic.

Of the research that is currently being done into the influence of such input on a fetus, the question arises whether this is done out of interest, out of a healthy curiosity, or as an experiment to determine the influence of the outside world. Is it a useful and healthy research? Or is this research – as often happens – colored by the pathology, the development disorder, or the researcher?

In a study in the United States (J.C.Pierce The Magical Child), a particular music was played repeatedly for fetuses in the womb. After birth, when the same music was played for the babies, they appeared to recognize it. Personally, I am not a fan of this type of research since I find it to be a lot like the tests that Pavlov carried out with dogs. Each time before giving them food, he rang a bell and after some time the dogs would begin to salivate as a reflex to the sound of the bell. A natural reaction is taken away and, in its place, an unnatural signal is made to call up an automatic reaction of recognition. What effect will this have for children who are already conditioned, who are already trained from the time they are fetuses?