Cosmic Citizen
Personhood, Bodyhood and the Right to Not Be Aborted
Part 10
Personhood vs. Bodyhood
What is life? What is personhood? Why is the embryonic person in the womb, not entitled to the same inalienable rights as those who manage to survive those nine, often difficult months? Recently, the cowardly Supreme Court refused to hear arguments in favor of fetal rights.
U.S. Supreme Court rebuffs fetal personhood appeal
Oct 11 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to decide whether fetuses are entitled to constitutional rights in light of its June ruling overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that had legalized abortion nationwide, steering clear for now of another front in America's culture wars.
Personhood is not derived from man-made laws. It is also not derived from the interpretation of the ideas and writings of men, however noble, who lived during a time of great national turmoil. We do not need a Constitutional Amendment to tell us that we are persons. Our personhood and human being-ness did not spring from a document, regardless of how sacred it might be to some. Other people in other parts of the world are not deprived of personhood because they do not have the US Constitution as their guide. Besides, our human being-ness is not a static event dependent on that singular moment of conception. The physical body, from its beginnings as a fetus to birth and beyond, is the result of a series of mystical events that began long before we were deposited into the womb of a mother.
No one confers personhood on the fetus. They have always been an individual person and will continue to be an individual person eternally. We are all unique expressions of cosmic energy, what Eckhart Tolle, renowned spiritual teacher, refers to as the "divine essence" within the body. It is our nature to be conscious persons, and it is our birthright to have our personhood recognized, respected, and accepted by everyone.
What we generally perceive is only the outward dress, i.e., the body inhabited by the eternal life force, and that often leads us to confuse the body with the person within. Even though we may not be entirely aware of the living being within the body, it is unmistakable that when the person "dies", something has "left" the body. What has left is the person, the life force.
Different world cultures have designated this person by different names. She is called the soul, or spirit, nephesh in Hebrew and psuche in Greek. In Sanskrit, she is the atma, an indestructible, eternally-existing spark of Divine energy, and in Druidry, and Zoroastrianism, she is also recognized as immortal.
To us "modern" humans, the beliefs and teachings of our ancestors may seem like childish myths. However, upon serious study, it becomes clear that those who lived long ago in the shadow of the Giza Pyramid and Stonehenge, or along the banks of the Saraswati River in India, were anything but intellectual slouches. Unlike today’s population, they lived in harmony with natural phenomena and subtle cosmic laws. They understood the cycles of nature, could read the heavens, and carefully recorded the movements of celestial bodies. The Dogon of Mali, Africa, who, evidence suggests, may have been the teachers of the ancient Egyptians, knew the location of the constellation Sirius B thousands of years before Western man could see it with his newly-minted telescope. How can this be explained by our modern, Western paradigm?
A great deal of knowledge and wisdom resides in the literature ancient seers left behind:
Then Hermes (Egyptian scribe to the gods) desired to know why men should be deprived of immortality for the sin of ignorance alone. The Great Dragon answered: To the ignorant the body is supreme and they are incapable of realizing the immortality that is within them. Knowing only the body which is subject to death, they believe in death because they worship that substance which is the cause and reality of death. (The Life and Teachings of Thoth Hermes Trismegistus)
Egyptian representation of Thoth Hermes Trismegistus
Personhood is as different from bodyhood as the driver of a car is different from his car. It is the eternal person who develops a body in the womb. Ancient cultures have described the body as a temple for the indwelling, individul. In fact, in Christian theology, the Apostle Paul offers this admonition:
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
Abortion destroys this body temple. Even though the indestructible life force is not destroyed via abortion, the process is nevertheless an act of supreme violence. It robs the individual of his birthright to inhabit the physical body that has been divinely selected for him through the agency of the forces of nature.
The "personhood" of the individual soul, or atma, is undeniable, and even the US Constitution concedes that we are persons (See 14th Amendment—Part Six). Justice Blackmun, in his Roe interpretation, did not deny this fact. He only sought to put a post-birth start date on when it begins—for legal reasons.
"Bodyhood", in contrast, refers to the vulnerable, temporal, destructible, physical body. More specifically, it refers to a person’s preoccupation with, and attachment to, his temporal, destructible body, ignoring his existential dilemma: how did he get into a situation where unwanted things such as old age, disease, death, and rebirth are inflicted upon him? As persons, we are embodied, or, said another way, incarnated. A suit made of fragile flesh and bones, etc., clothes the immortal spark within. The distinction between personhood and bodyhood is intuitively perceived—the person is separate from his body and any of its parts.
We are not our hands, legs, eyes, head, or any of our internal organs. One never says "I, the head," "I, the legs," or "I, the heart." Instead, we speak in the possessive case: "my head," "my legs," "my heart," indicating possession of the body and its parts. The body, made of meat (carne), is separate and distinct from the immortal, individual self residing within it. None of this derives from any religion or other faith-based belief systems. These are axiomatic truths, easily understood by thoughtful reflection.
The external body may exhibit certain characteristics such as race, color, and gender, but we are not our race, color, or gender. These are merely temporary characteristics that depend upon the type of womb into which we are injected, and which will be stripped away, at death. What is the use of being proud of these temporary qualities of race and gender, sometimes fighting over them, never pausing to consider the real person and his or her soul-level, changeless nature?
We may carve out our biological sex organs, saturate our bodies with hormone blockers and opposite-sex hormones, endure a course of heroic, expensive surgeries to change our external features, and declare ourselves members of the opposite sex. Wonderful! However, what cannot be denied is the fact that although the physical, external body has undergone a radical transformation, the person inside has not changed. Clearly, we are not our sex organs, for they can be "swapped out" at anytime, as the current mad rush to spay and neuter our children demonstrates (See Parts Seven & Eight). This is further evidence of the fact that we are not these physical bodies. Hormones determined by a cosmic chemistry we hardly understand, and over which we have no control, saturate every cell, dictating the development of our bodily form and our other unique physical characteristics.
The quarrels generated over nationality, race, religion, and gender are a testimony to our ignorance of who and what we really are. They speak to our preoccupation with external, bodily characteristics. By this mis-identification, we become enamored of the body, mistaking it for the authentic self. When body consciousness predominates, we fall victim to negative emotions such as anger, fear, and greed, thereby losing touch with the true self, the eternal person, and all his inherent power.
The psychopaths and misanthropes who have seized the levers of global power, use fear, that most debilitating of frequencies against the masses. Intentionally exploiting their fears, allows them to control the unsuspecting population, and drive them in the direction of their psychopathic agenda. When people are devoid of knowledge of the real self, the eternal person, they can be unwittingly exploited and recruited into participating in their own demise, supporting acts of violence against themselves and others.
Abortion, for example, is a terrifying act of violence that crushes the fledgling body of the person in the womb, repudiating his cosmic significance. Although his material form is destroyed and his unrecognized birthright snatched away, he, the atma, or spirit, lives on. He will naturally seek another body through which to express his personhood. By their actions, however, the body snatchers will have implicated themselves in the violent, psychic, and karmic reactions that will be played out and satisfied in some future scenario. The violent act will be recorded in the consciousness of those involved, and the trauma will not be forgotten. Eventually, the act of injustice will be righted, according to the laws of our magnetic universe, which perpetually seeks balance, settling all scores.
Philosophers and great minds, throughout the ages, have tried to instill in us a respect for the truths of "do unto others" and "what goes around comes around." Sadly, ancient wisdom and knowledge seem to have been discarded in the madness and confusion of our current culture. Those who manage our modern legal system are seemingly incapable of appreciating the subtle, mystical movement of the invisible person sheltering within the womb. The fetal body is that person’s vehicle for its passage into the visible world to accomplish his or her mission. That journey should not be interrupted. What if society understood the karmic "as-you-sow" implications of abortion? What if every pregnancy was respected as a cosmic visitation, instead of an inconvenience?
The question of life and personhood, and when they begin, is neither religious, nor legal. It is cosmic, existential, primordial, and transcendental, beyond the purview of mundane arguments and the conclusions of recently-created, earth-bound, earth-centric, or race-centric religions. Moreover, it is a question that requires a thoughtful, scientific answer.
Some material bodies spring from eggs, some from fermentation, some from cell division, and some from seeds planted in the ground. When does life begin for the amoeba that splits off from the parent amoeba? When does life begin for the chicken in the egg: after the egg is fertilized or only after the chick finally breaks free from its shell? Is not the dormant life force already present in the seed that requires only a little water to begin sprouting?
Seedling emerging from its Earth "womb"
Life does not begin at conception in the womb, egg, seed, or any other procreative medium. It is already present, and, in the case of human beings, the mixing of a sperm cell with an egg, the formation of the single-cell zygote, is only a secondary step on the way to securing a new, fully-developed body. The physical body is a vehicle custom-built around the person freshly conceived. The womb is like a "factory," where unseen forces fashion and sculpt the new form, according to a cosmic blueprint, beginning with only a few cells.
For conception to have taken place, the life-force must have been present in the ether, but invisible to our physical eyes conditioned to see only gross matter. In chickens, it enters an egg/"factory" at the time of fertilization, and the amniotic fluid there begins to emulsify around it, nourishing the new, developing body into the chick that will emerge several weeks later.
Chicken emerging from its shell "womb"
In humans, the life force is deposited, in the form of a sperm cell, in the womb/"factory" of a mother, entering one of the eggs lodged there, specially prepared to receive it.
When sperm cells are introduced into the human female, they automatically "swim" in the fluid mix of the parents' bodies towards the waiting egg. We speak of the sperm cells "swimming," but that is not correct. What is actually "swimming" (for its life) if that is the best way to describe the action of the sperm cell, is the person, or soul, utilizing the special and unique sperm cell body, specifically designed for that upstream journey. Only the strongest will survive this mad dash to the ovum. Finding refuge there, the sperm cell body, received from her father, will be absorbed into the ovum, and a new body, supplied by her mother, will form around her.
The life force entering the womb will also cause major changes to take place in the body of the female host. However, this period is a moment of extreme vulnerability for the person in development, for she is totally helpless and defenseless. It is also a moment of complete trust and dependence on the host/mother, who holds the fate of this living being in the depths of her own body and the palms of her hands.
Over the next 9 months, irresistible natural forces will begin to clothe her with the muscles, sinews, bones, etc. of the particular body she is destined to possess. Finally, with the air of parturition propelling her downward through the birth canal, aided by the mother’s labor contractions, she emerges through the "sweet spot," the cosmically-aligned vesica piscis, the sacred geometry of the vulva. She is now visible to the world.
The vesica piscis. Source
If the life force, i.e., the person, is already present in the sperm cell, how did she get there? Where did she come from? When did this life force begin? Does this life force have a beginning, or an end, for that matter? The body, being temporary by design, is subject to death. She, the life force, the living being, is not.
Although invisible to our eyes, she was already present before conception, waiting for the opportunity to get a body. Sometimes, those who possess a greater sensitivity to subtle phenomena may perceive the person in her subtle, or ghostly, form. Yes, ghosts are real, and nothing of which to be afraid. They are persons clothed in their subtle, ethereal form consisting of mind, intellect, and ego, waiting for a chance to obtain a physical body. A more detailed discussion of this topic will be presented in a future essay.
Anti-lifers see the Catholic Church and Christian teachings, in general, as being responsible for fueling the Right-to-Life movement and have desecrated churches in their anti-life rage. (1) (2) (3)
They won a major victory in 1973, but now they are in a battle, not only against the Supreme Court and State Legislators, but also against the church, pushing upstream against the general, historical momentum of a belief in the sacredness of life and the imperative of protecting the unborn. That is a tough battle, but their fight is much greater than this. It is a violent attempt to frustrate and disrupt one of the most primordial, sublime, irresistible, and benevolent forces of nature—the same cosmic force that brought them, so elegantly, into the visible world of matter.
Sadly, the members of the death cult of fetal body snatchers appear to understand nothing of the karmic consequences or their war against the cosmic life process. This series of essays is an appeal to their intelligence, if not to their heart, for what they are doing is not in their best long-term self interest. They cannot see that their rage against the fetus and those seeking to defend it will result in a savage and relentless attack on their own, helpless embryonic body in a future womb. Sometime, somewhere, they will be forced to experience the feticidal world they seek to create, at the business end of a cold, unfeeling, and unforgiving Sopher clamp.
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