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This fascinating exploration of pre-birth consciousness—with over 200 real-life case studies—reveals we do make decisions about the families and circumstances into which we’re born.

An affirming and inspirational read for parents and grandparents, regression therapists and spiritual counselors, and anyone interested in near-death experiences.

Where was your soul before you were born? If your soul is immortal, did it have a “life” prior to birth? Did you choose your life and parents? Is reincarnation real? Elizabeth and Neil Carman, the authors of Cosmic Cradle, address these questions through interviews with adults and children who report pre-birth experiences (PBEs) not based on regression, hypnosis, or drugs. Instead, interviewees recall their pre-birth existence completely sober and awake.

In contrast to near-death experiences (NDEs), which have been well documented to show us what the soul experiences after death, PBEs throw light upon our lives before birth. People with NDEs sense that they “return home” when their spirits cross to the other side. What is the nature of this place we “return” to? PBEs suggest that we come from the same place we return to: we come from the Light and return to the Light. The same eternal "you" progresses through life before life, human life, and life after death.

This new edition of Cosmic Cradle explores your soul’s journey into your mother’s womb—where your soul comes from, the origin and purpose of your life, and the process by which you entered an earthly body. In pre-birth communications, parents meet a soul seeking to cross over from the heavenly realm to human birth. Persons with pre-birth memories recall existence in a luminous world before birth, in which they preview the upcoming life with a Divine Planner, and recall how they journeyed to their mothers’ wombs.

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ISBN-13:	9781583945704
Publisher:	North Atlantic Books
Publication date:	04/16/2013
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	392
Sales rank:	1,062,456
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Elizabeth Carman and Neil Carman have spent more than 45 years studying and practicing ways of helping the Earth to be a healthier, happier place. Combined, their efforts have spanned into the realms of social work and environmental protection. In the 1970s, Elizabeth Carman worked with minority families and did social service work in adoption and foster care. She later spent years teaching inner development courses and meditation. Prebirth research began in 1989 when she conducted interviews with mothers who were more in touch with their intuition. In 2002, Elizabeth received an honorary PhD for her research published in Cosmic Cradle: Souls Waiting in the Wings for Birth.

Neil Carman's love of nature led him to obtain advanced degrees including a doctorate in the biological sciences. After a research position opened his eyes to global pollution, he was led to pursue an environmental career. He taught in the biological sciences and also created a new university course on the growing evidence of how meditation techniques unfold our consciousness beyond what is generally recognized.

Foreword Bernie S. Siegel xv

Introduction: Amnesia of Our Spiritual Origins xvii

Pre-Birth Memories xix

Cross-Cultural Parallels xxi

Paradigm Shifts xxiii

Cosmic Cradle Overview x

Part 1 Pre-Birth Memory 1

1 Children as Messengers 3

Indicator Signs: Real or Imaginary? 4

Two-Year-Old Philosopher in Love with Heaven 5

"Mommy, Why Are People Afraid to Die?" 10

My Most Treasured Memory 11

Reborn Straight from Tibet 12

I Saw the Snow before I Was Born 14

Ty's Transmission 15

Snippets of Children's Pre-Birth Memories 19

The Azure Palace: A Story for Children 22

2 Memories of the Cosmic Cradle 23

Soul Born in Response to Collective Call for Help 24

Falling to Earth from the Pure Light 28

Memory of Unlimited Possibilities 32

Tethered to Divine Love 34

3 "I Was in Your Tummy Twice" 39

One Soul, Two Bodies 39

Confirmation of Pre-Birth and Rebirth Memories 47

A Mother's Validation of Rebirth 50

4 Scanning Soul Plans: Contemporary Pre-Birth Memories 51

Earth: A Place Set Up to Heal the Mind 51

Sex at High Noon 58

Snippets: Souls Watching Pre-Birth Movies 61

5 Welcome to Planet Earth 65

Path of Earthly Thorns, Smell of Roses 66

Forgiving My Mother's Abuse 75

Learning Lessons in One Life or Three Lives? 80

Guide: "Are You Absolutely Certain?" 86

Deja Vu: Dysfunctional Family, Abuse, Cancer, NDEs 88

6 Shirley Temple and the Blue Bird 93

What Happened to My Baby, Mary Ellen? 94

Soul Has 360-Degree Vision without a Body 98

Love Overcomes Trauma at Birth 102

Reluctant Sojourner Recalls Light at Birth 104

We Are All Beams of Light 105

Reluctance to Exit the Bliss: Parallels to Near-Death Experiences 107

7 Our Soul as a Tiny Spaceship 110

A Soul Googles Earth Seeking Rebirth 114

Phoenix Rising from the Ashes 116

What Sort of Rebirth Do You Want? 117

Soul Reborn from Tibet 119

The Human Body Is an Ultimate Gift 125

8 I Saw All My Costumes 132

Awakening in Childhood 133

Movies in Heaven 135

Eleven Past Lives and the Interlives 137

Modern Mystic 140

A Projectile of Light 142

Part 2 Pre-Birth Communications 147

9 Souls Waiting in the Wings for Birth 149

Hovering at Heaven's Door 150

Rebirth under the Right Star Dance 152

Rebirth of an Advanced Soul 153

Golden Messages from an Unborn Child 155

Meeting My Daughter in the Cosmic Void 156

Soul Heals Marriage 156

Meeting My Son's Soul over Chesapeake Bay 158

Radical Eggs and Miracle Pregnancie s 159

Brotherhood Takes Nine Years 161

Cherubim on Pink Clouds 162

10 Soul as a Sphere of Light 165

Thousands of Soul Bubbles of Light 166

Soul as a Blue Orb 168

Struck by a Beam of Light 169

Mother and Daughter Skydiving to Earth 170

Soul's Fiery Light 171

11 Cosmic Conception 175

Ecstatic Explosions during Conception 177

Pillar of White Light during Lovemaking 178

Celestial Visitors in the Bedroom 179

London Odyssey: "Let's Make Love" 180

Serendipitous Mystical Conception 182

Cosmic Conception in the South Pacific 186

Lovers Struck by Cupid's Arrow 188

Spiritual Sex to Conceive Children 190

When Does the Soul Enter the Fetus? 190

12 Miscarriages and Stillbirths in the Light of Pre-Birth Plans 194

Pregnancy as a Roller Coaster 195

A Knock on the Door from Twins 196

Spiritual Lessons in the Loss of a Baby 198

Message of the Bumblebee 200

Miscarriages in the Light of a Greater Wholeness 205

13 Conversations with Unborn Children 206

A Mystical Mother's Journey 207

Mother-Child: Relationship of Oneness 212

A Visit from My Unborn Grandson 217

Prenatal Communication with a Battered Teen 218

Part 3 Pre-Birth Wisdom Down Through History 223

14 Spirit-Children Down Under 225

Messages from the Psychic Dream World 227

Rebirth Down Under 229

Conception Parallels to the Baoulé in Africa 230

The Great Mother's Maternity Ward 231

Numbakulla's Spirit-Children 233

Eluding Motherhood 234

When Things Fall Apart: Lost Visions 234

Knowing from a Distance 236

15 Lodge of the Great Manitou 238

Children Descend from the Cosmic Abode 238

String of Babies: Myth of the San Joaquin Basin 241

Indigenous American Seers 242

Memories of Embryonic Life and Pre-Birth 247

Pre-Birth Memories of a Winnebago Shaman 248

16 The Cosmic Designer 252

You Get the Body of Your Choice 253

Soul Groups 258

Island of Perpetual Youth 259

Er's Tour of the Land of Cosmic Contracts 260

Insights into the Cosmic Designer 264

Tweedledee Teaches Alice 265

17 Travelers from the Light 271

Plato, Father of Western Philosophy 271

Treasury of Souls, the Chamber of Creation 272

Christianity and the Soul 273

The Precosmic Spiritual Universe - Father Origen 275

Homesick Traveler 276

Gnosticism: We Have Come from the Light 277

"We Lived with the Lord" 278

Pre-Birth Existence: Cross-Cultural References 279

Return to the Source: The Goal of Life 282

18 Journey from Forgetting to Remembering 287

Four Ways of Descent into the Womb 288

The Greatest Mystery: Descent and Incarnation 288

Prenatal Life According to India's Scriptures 292

Lailah, Midwife of Souls 295

Hymn of the Pearl 296

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 298

Sleeping Memory of Immortality 299

Future Pre-Birth Choices 301

Notes 304

Bibliography 324

Index 340

Acknowledgments 353

About the Authors 355

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"Cosmic Cradle is such an enjoyable read and not just a dry esoteric or academic study. It is a beautifully crafted book with an almost universal appeal. Mothers will love it, fathers will be engrossed by it and grandparents will wonder at the cyclic patterns described by these young children."
—Peter J. Morris, alternative blogger, writer, researcher

“Cosmic Cradle is a must-read for everyone who has forgotten the life of their soul before birth. A penetrating and insightful inquiry into one of the greatest mysteries of existence—where we come from, who we are, why we are here, and why we forget.”
—Joan Borysenko, PhD, author of Seven Paths to God and Minding the Body, Mending the Mind

“Modern research into the nature of consciousness is revealing a consistent picture: consciousness is nonlocal or infinite in space and time. It is not confined to the brain, the body, or the present, as many have believed. Cosmic Cradle puts a human face on this research. This fascinating book will bring comfort to anyone concerned about our origins and destiny—and who isn’t?”
—Larry Dossey, MD, author of The One Mind, Reinventing Medicine, and Healing Words

“Cosmic Cradle gives me chills of recognition. This book is the truth. And I found it both an affirmation and huge inspiration.”
—Christiane Northrup, MD, author of The Wisdom of Menopause and Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom

“I love the concept of Cosmic Cradle. It relates most completely to the unequivocal reality of reincarnation, an essential understanding of life. Pre-birth memories and memories of previous incarnations continue to help us understand our complex Cosmos.”
—C. Norman Shealy, MD, PhD, author of Energy Medicine

“Cosmic Cradle is a stunning achievement, comprehensive in scope, spiritually illuminating! In one stroke the authors have succeeded in lifting out of obscurity a world literature—ignored during the recent era of scientific materialism—representing virtually all cultures and religions from ancient to contemporary times.… This work of encyclopedic proportions is the rare fruit of forty years of passionate and scholarly exploration of human consciousness, the neglected stepchild of twentieth-century psychology. Elizabeth and Neil Carman have thrown open a golden door.”
—David B. Chamberlain, PhD, author of Windows to the Womb: Revealing the Conscious Baby from Conception to Birth and The Mind of Your Newborn Baby

“Cosmic Cradle gives us a wider lens through which to view the questions every child asks—where did I come from and how did I get here? Cosmic Cradle is fruitful reading for couples planning to have a child, for parents, and family life educators. Thank you Elizabeth and Neil Carman for compiling this tome!”
—Jeannine Parvati Baker, coauthor of Conscious Conception: Elemental Journey through the Labyrinth of Sexuality and author of Hygieia: A Woman’s Herbal and Prenatal Yoga and Natural Childbirth

“An extraordinary research work, yielding a quasi-encyclopedic treasury of evidence for the soul’s preexistence. Cosmic Cradle makes it clear that pre-birth communication has been known and recorded throughout history and across cultures worldwide.”
—Elisabeth Hallett, author of Stories of the Unborn Soul and Soul Trek: Meeting Our Children on the Way to Birth

“Cosmic Cradle points out that the individual must search for the fulfillment of his own truth and depend upon that for his illumination. Cosmic Cradle is marvelous, a rare privilege, a tremendous teaching.… It opened new vistas and new horizons. It is a work of illumination. Thank you for the great opportunity to expand my consciousness.”
—Murshida Vera Justin Corda, PhD, founder of New Age Sufi Schools, author of Cradle in Heaven and Holistic Child Guidance

“Cosmic Cradle offers an extraordinary collection of stories shared by families who experienced pre-birth memories and communication from both the parent’s and the baby’s points of view. Their portrayals of the incarnation process from spirit to human realms are supported in the book by the timeless understandings nearly every culture has had—that we are conscious spiritual beings coming into human life with purpose and design. We are at a tipping point in Western thought, moving from Newtonian views into a consciousness-based understanding of our core spiritual nature. Cosmic Cradle inspires us forward into the new, yet ancient wisdom of that core nature at the beginning of life.”
—Wendy Anne McCarty, PhD, RN, author of Welcoming Consciousness: Supporting Babies’ Wholeness from the Beginning of Life

“Cosmic Cradle is a global mind transformer. Not only is it a masterpiece in how it is written with such clarity, interest, and organization, but the scope of its contents is pointedly destined to change our ideas about life. The evidence is stacked up too high in this book to dismiss its message of the soul’s immortality.”
—Susan Herzberger, author of On Becoming Enlightened

“I was amazed at the breadth and depth of the information which this book contains. It elevated my understanding of the subject to an entirely new level, and revolutionized my ideas, not only about the consciousness level of the in-utero baby but the extent to which mother and child can communicate and interact.”
—John W. Sloat, host of www.beyondreligion.com and author of A Handbook for Heretics

"Beauty, poetry, clarity: authentic convincing research."
—Reverend Lucille M. Rosen, PhD, director of Healing Process Workshops, New York

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