“The Anlage of All Fear”
Photograph by John Diamond, M.D.
Let’s consider that the baby in the womb has, at some level, a sense of awareness of about seven months – some five thousand hours, that’s some three hundred thousand minutes!
And how many of those minutes is the amygdala at peace – and how many in a state of alarm?
That’s where the work of our civilization must start, for there is the anlage of all future fear – including the birth still to come, and the inevitable traumas of the first year, all the time of primal trauma.
A society of peace must start there – in the womb.
