Raising Generation Pax: Peace Begins with How We Parent…From the Very Beginning - Conscious Conception as a Quantum Collaboration

Conscious Conception as a Quantum Collaboration

You think because you understand one you must also understand two, because one and one make two.

But you must also understand “and.”

– Rumi

We tap into a powerful dimension of human development when we broaden our perception of what happens in the “simple” process of fertilization of the egg by the sperm. Consider the implications of findings in quantum physics, cell biology, and epigenetics, such as non-local mindmatter interactions, and the effects of “directed intention” on microbes, human cells, and biochemical reactions in the body.

Einstein and his colleagues founded modern physics on the principle that the “simple” act of observation changes the nature of a physical system, leading them, as Dean Radin puts it, “to think deeply about the strangely privileged role of human consciousness.” Many scientists have since prodded at the brittle edges of the Cartesian paradigm, seeking to understand the role consciousness plays in our physical world. Cleve Backster’s research demonstrating the responsiveness of cells of all kinds (human, plant, bacteria) to human thoughts and intentions is of particular relevance, as well as Masaru Emoto’s research on the effect of intention on the organization of water’s molecular structure.

Let us consider some brave new implications for human development at its very beginning—conception— of thought as an organizing principle. Ancient Vedic literature refers to the importance of conception as a moment that both captures and reflects the nature of the consciousness of the parents, and lays that portrait down as a gossamer watermark upon the new being, intangible, yet a lifelong, fundamental organizing principle, underlying everything else—including DNA.

What an opportunity we have at conception to offer a new physical being thoughts and intention that invite harmonized, healthy organization and growth! This isn’t mere hypothesis: neonatologist Jean-Pierre Relier highlights embryological research on very early cellular distribution of IGF (intrauterine growth hormone) receptors that demonstrates the importance of emotional stability in each of the parents at the time of conception for healthiest development of the embryo and placenta.

In a Cartesian framework, the size of something is related to its importance and significance, and there is the tendency to think, “How could anything have a lasting impact so very early, when there is just one or two or twelve cells?” But recalling chaos theory’s “sensitive dependence on initial conditions,” doesn’t it make sense that a very positive, or very negative, environmental message would bear the most pervasive influence upon a tiny, emerging system, considering that each cell division will replicate that cell’s “knowledge” again and again?