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...primordial darkness extending back from birth to conception and still further back to such matters as "memory" of life on other planets (TIME, Dec. 22). Now a serious British psychiatrist, who conducts much analysis under hypnosis, seriously claims to have dredged his patients' memories back to the womb. And though Dr. Denys E. R. Kelsey's report and conclusions seem fantastic to the layman, London's reputable Journal of Mental Science prints them with a straight face. His three case histories...
...this point, she said: "I used to be part of a 'oneness,', and now I am separated." Dr. Kelsey told her that as he counted ten she would find herself back at the "oneness . . ." As he reached ten, she said ("quite calmly and positively"): "This is the womb. There is something beating in me and through me-my mother's heart. I can't see-and it feels as if I've got no mouth." He asked her in what position she found herself. She answered, "Curled up," and she "immediately assumed the fetal position...
...bachelor of 25 suffered from two obsessions: he could not don a garment which had to be pulled on over his head, and could not work successfully with his hands. He, too, recalled unpleasant experiences in the womb. His mother told Dr. Kelsey about his birth: the head had been delivered with only a midwife present, and then his shoulders caused an obstruction. "Hence the infant remained, with just his head born, for an hour or so until the doctor arrived." Though the mother insisted that she had never told the patient about this, he re-enacted his birth difficulties...
...captains England's ship tonight Steer it serenely to the ports of light! And spew through peaceful commerce and aplomb More issue from Britain's yet resourceful womb...
...Diamond had discovered, when Mrs. Kupferstein went to him a couple of years ago complaining of inability to conceive, that she had double reproductive organs, including two wombs. Minor surgery helped Mrs. Kupferstein to conceive, but Dr. Diamond expected that this would occur in only one womb, which would then crowd the other and make it inoperative. To his surprise, X rays of two developing fetuses showed that conception had occurred in both at about the same time...