A healing path (7) New beginnings

After the ritual is over you will feel a sense of awakening and new life, which may take a few months to come to your awareness.  My own experience was that, almost at once in 2002 I plunged into the womb twin research project, and within four years I had created the first Womb Twin book, Untwinned. 

Within ten years I had created the Womb Twin organisation and published four more books.  I look back now and wonder how I had lived for so over fifty years achieving almost nothing!

But it is not always so clear-cut. There may be  more work to do.  There are three reasons why the awakening may not come.

1. The Dream of the Womb is not yet clearly recreated.

If major changes do not come, or do not last, or seem less profound than they should be, there may be more in the Dream than you thought. This story illustrates what can happen.

Twins get to know each other in the womb - developing a sense of self?

I  found this article today:

Twins are social, even in the womb.

The twin within (1) parasitic twin-a fetus in fetu

When identical twins are formed, one twin begins to develop inside the other, either partially or totally. This is probably the most dramatic example of twinning and  stories of parasitic twins or the fetus in fetu are often to be found in the media.

Here is a study of parasitic twins that has been sensationalised as far as possible:




Here is a good example of how a fetus  in fetu can be made into a good story:



This is a medical anomaly requiring surgical intervention

Yet this is also a sad story of a twin that is not a whole living twin, and therefore the dominant twin will feel a sense of somehow losing out from the twin-twin relationship and also the burden of carrying the weaker twin everywhere with them.

It is important that parents who have consented to have the parasitic twin or the fetus in fetu removed surgically, should bear in mind that the sole survivor, relieved on the physical burden, may still be carrying a psychological burden, a feeling that they have a duty to their twin that is is some way being avoided. Parents should simply bear this in mind and consider the possibility that this psychological effect can be healed, but first it must be acknowledged and understood for what it is.

Surgery is not the end of the story- twinning is a prenatal experience, the effect of which will remain for life, hard-wired into the brain of the survivor.

The threat of the Womb Twin hypothesis

 The Womb Twin Hypothesis states:

Womb twin survivors spend their lives re-enacting the life and death of their womb twin. Nothing is more important than that, even life itself. Once the real pre-birth scene, which is being constantly re-enacted, is made clear, then the re-enactment tends to diminish or cease altogether, greatly to the benefit of the individual.  [more]

The main reason why no one wants to know about the Womb Twin project, or indeed any project involving fetal awareness and womb memories, is that it is far too threating to most mental health professionals.

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The very idea that we may remember the womb is deeply unsettling to some people.  To believe it would be to "open Pandoras box", to quote Peter Hepper. 

Hepper is a psychology professor in Belfast who has worked with fetal awareness and learning for many years, has published extensively on the subject.

( Just one example : McCorry, N. K. and Hepper, P. G. (2007), Fetal habituation performance: Gestational age and sex effects. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 25: 277–292. )

Professor Hepper  knows only too well that his ideas are far too threatening to the received wisdom of most Freudian-trained psychologists, who claim that any memory or impression dating from before the age of three years or so, is a "false memory".  This was  because Freud put so much focus on incest or child sexual abuse,  and not on the nature of memory per se.

Meanwhile, report after report comes out to prove that fetal memory exists.

We remember the womb, and womb twin survivors remember their twin. It is as simple as that, but 90% of the population refuses to believe it - but then 90% of the population are not womb twin survivors, so perhaps it is not so surprising.