Once birth has taken place, the union of spirit and flesh has been fully solidified into a partnership. The immortal soul then becomes the seat of perception for the developing human ego. The soul brings a spiritual force which is the heritage of infinite consciousness. Although I have said souls can be confined by a human in trauma, they are never trapped. Besides leaving at the moment of death, souls may also come and go when the body is sleeping, in deep meditation, or under an anesthetic in surgery. The soul's absences are much longer in cases of severe brain damage and coma.
Case 29 continues by explaining the creative beauty of a soul joining with a new human being. This coupling of an intelligent life force before birth brings us full circle from the death scene described in Case 1.
Dr. N: Well, I'm glad you arrive safe and sound in your new body. Tell me, how old is the baby?
S: Five months have passed (since conception).
Dr. N: Is this your usual arrival time as far as the maturation of a child?
S: In my lives ... I have arrived at different times ... depending on the baby, the mother, and my life-to-be.
Dr. N: As a soul, are you in distress if the baby is aborted from the mother's womb for any reason before full term?
S: We know if a baby is going to full term or not. Not being born comes as no surprise to us. We may be around to just comfort the child.
Dr. N: Well, if the child does not go to term, is your life assignment as a soul aborted as well?
S: No, there never was a full life assignment as far as that child was concerned.
Dr. N: Might some babies who are aborted never have souls?
S: That depends on how far along they are. The ones who die very early often don't need us.
Note: This issue was as hotly debated in the past as it is today. During the thirteenth century, the Christian church found it necessary to establish guidelines for the existence of souls with regard to an aborted fetus. St. Thomas Aquinas and other medieval theologians arbitrarily decided en- soulment took place forty days after conception.
Dr. N: Assuming a baby is going to full term, do you know about the convergence habits of other souls with these children?
S: (offhandedly) Oh, some float around more than others, going in and out of the baby until birth because they get bored.
Dr. N: What do you usually do?
S: I'm average, I guess. Actually, I don't spend a long time at any one stretch with babies because it can get pretty dull.
Dr. N: All right, let's take this current situation inside your mother and allow some time to pass. What do you do when you are not with the unborn baby?
S: (laughs with delight) You want the truth? I'll tell you. Me-I play! It's a fine time to leave and purely goof off ... when the baby is less active. I have fun with my friends who are doing the same thing. We bounce around Earth to visit with each other ... and go to interesting places ... where we have once lived together in former lives.
Dr. N: Don't you and these other souls feel leaving the unborn baby for long periods is shirking the responsibilities of your assignment on Earth?
S: (defensively) Oh, lighten up! Who said anything about long periods? I don't do that! Anyway, our tough exercises haven't begun yet.
Dr. N: When you leave the baby for a while, what astral plane are you on in relation to Earth?
S: We are still on the Earth plane ... and we try not to get too distracted, either. A lot of our fooling around is in the neighborhood of the baby. I don't want you to get the idea there is nothing for us to do with unborn babies.
Dr. N: Oh ...?
S: (continues) I'm busy with this new mind, even though it's not fully ready.
Dr. N: Why don't we talk more about that? When your soul enters a baby to remain with this new body for a lifetime, give me the scope of this undertaking.
S: (takes a deep sigh) Once I attach to a child it is necessary to bring my mind into synchronization with the brain. We have to get used to each other as partners.
Dr. N: This is what other people tell me, but do you and the baby have an affinity for each other right away?
S: Well ... I am in the mind of the child but separate, too. I go slowly at first.
Dr. N: Okay, why don't you explain what you do with the mind of the baby.
S: It's delicate and can't be hurried. I start with a gentle probe ... defining connections ... gaps ... every mind is different.
Dr. N: Is there any conflict within the child against you?
S: (softly) Ah ... there is a slight resistance in the beginning ... not full acceptance while I trace the passages ... that's usual ... until there is familiarization (stops for a moment and laughs quietly). I keep bumping into myself!
Dr. N: As you integrate with the baby, when does it become receptive to the force of your identity as a soul?
S: I'm disturbed by your word "force." We never force ourselves when entering an unborn baby. My tracing is done carefully.
Dr. N: Did it take you many lives to learn to trace a human brain?
S: Uh ... a while ... new souls are assisted with their tracing.
Dr. N: Since you represent pure energy, are you tracing electrical brain connections such as neurotransmitters, nerve cells, and the like?
S: (pause) Well, something like that ... I disrupt nothing, though ...while I learn the brain wave patterns of the baby.
Dr. N: Are you referring to the thought-regulation circuitry of the mind?
S: How this person translates signals. Its capacity. No two children are the same.
Dr. N: Be completely frank with me. Isn't your soul taking over this mind and subjugating it to your will?
S: You don't understand. It's a melding. There is an ... emptiness before my arrival which I fill to make the baby whole.
Dr. N: Do you bring intellect?
S: We expand what is there.
Dr. N: Could you be more specific about what your soul actually provides the human body?
S: We bring a ... comprehension of things ... a recognition of the truth of what the brain sees.
Dr. N: Are you sure this child doesn't think of you at first as an alien entity in her mind?
S: No, that's why we unify with undeveloped minds. She recognizes me as a friend ... a twin ... who is going to be part of her. It's as if the baby was waiting for me to come.
Dr. N: Do you think a higher power prepares the baby for you?
S: I don't know, it would seem so.
Dr. N: Is your work at unification completed before birth?
S: Not really, but at birth we have started to complement each other.
Dr. N: So, the unification process does take some time?
S: Sure, while we adjust to each other. And, like I told you, I leave the unborn baby at intervals.
Dr. N: But what about those souls who join babies at the last minute before birth?
S: Humph! That's their style, not mine. They have to start their work in the crib.
Dr. N: How far along in age is the body by the time your soul stops leaving the child altogether?
S: At about five or six years of age. Usually we get fully operational when the child starts school. Children under this age can be left to their own devices a lot.
Dr. N: Don't you have a duty to always be with your body?
S: If things get bad in a physical way-then I'm back inside like a shot.
Dr. N: How would you know this if you were off fooling around with other souls?
S: Every brain has a wave pattern-it's like a fingerprint. We know immediately if the baby assigned to us is in trouble.
Dr. N: So, you are watching the baby assigned to you all the timeboth inside and out-during the early stages of growth?
S: (with pride) Oh yes, and I watch the parents. They might be having squabbles around the baby which sets up disturbing vibrations.