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Marta Staszak's avatar

Absolutely fascinating! I was familiar with a bit of the research (admittedly not much) ant this blew my mind, thank you so much! Just proves how little we know about our lives and bodies. So appreciate this landed in my mailbox ☺️

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Ekoh's avatar

I just happened to read this today and it reminded me of Joseph Chilton Pearce’s book, “The Biology of Transcendence”, a wonderfully interesting book. I read it years ago and I kept my copy.

I recall him describing a process between an infant from birth to six months and his/her mother needing to entrain the baby’s prefrontal cortex with the mother’s heart to develop empathy in the developing baby. Mothers in many cultures wore their infants on them as they worked or did their daily activities.

What modern society has done is to disrupt that connection between mothers and their babies, and mothers are now expected (demanded, in many circumstances) to leave the baby with a caretaker that is not even part of the baby’s family. Entrainment also happens in the womb.

With that information and my observations, I see a big shift in society that seems to support the lack of this connection with a degradation in family bonding. Add to that is a decay of cultural connections.

This is a fascinating article and I am glad that I found and read it. Thanks for publishing it.

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