婴儿并不是一张白纸

此段摘自《灵魂永生》第十三章“转世、梦境，以及自身隐藏的男女特征”

组成胎儿的原子有它们自己那一类的意识。那是一种变化无常的、有知觉的意识——独立于物质之外，却按其自身的能力与程度形成了物质。因此，胎儿有自己的意识，那是由组成胎儿的原子所形成的一种简单的组合意识。在任何转世人格进入胎儿之前，这种意识就已存在。任何物质中都存在着物质自身的意识，不论是胎儿、岩石，还是草叶、铁钉。

转世人格按照自己的爱好、愿望与个性进入新的胎儿，并携带着一些与生俱来的防护措施。但是并没有规定说，转世人格必须在什么时候接管为它准备的新形体，入胎可以是在受孕时、胎儿成长初期，甚或出生的那一刻。

这个过程是渐进且因人而异的，并且由此人多生的经验来决定，尤其取决于情感的特性——不一定来自前一生，而是由许多过往人生共同导致的现有的情绪张力。

有各种不同的入胎方式可以采用。如果父母与未来的孩子之间有很深的关系，如果他极其渴望重聚，那么这个人格可能在受孕时便入胎了。不过，即使是这种情况，大部分的自我知觉仍继续在转世之间的层面运作。

最初，在这些情况下，子宫里的状态就像是在梦中一样，人格精神的焦点仍旧集中在转生之间的存在里。情况逐渐地颠倒过来，直到想清晰地将精神集中于转生之间变得越来越困难。

在这种受孕时就入胎的情形，几乎无一例外的，父母与孩子之间有很深的前世渊源，或者有一种持续而无法摆脱的回返尘世的欲望——若非为了一个特定目的，就是因为转世人格目前仍着迷于尘世的生活。这未必有害。这人格可能只是觉得自己很喜欢人世生活，目前是“心向尘寰”的，并且觉得尘世的氛围是可供自己能力成长的沃土。

有些人格在受孕时被吸引入胎，是由于一个看起来不太值得的动机——例如贪婪，或是一个无法摆脱的欲望，而这欲望部分生自悬而未决的问题。其他那些从未全心投入尘世生活的人格，可能要拖延一段时间才会完全入胎，甚至入胎后还一直与身体保持距离。在生死天平的另一端，死亡前，有些人同样把精神焦点从物质世界移开，对身体的意识不管不顾。其他人则与肉体一起等待最后时刻的到来。无论如何，在婴儿的襁褓时期，人格的焦点并没有稳定地集中在身体内。

The atoms that compose the fetus have their own kind of consciousness. The volatile awareness-consciousnesses that exist independently of matter, form matter according to their ability and degree. The fetus, therefore, has its own consciousness, the simple component consciousness made up of the atoms that compose it. This exists before any reincarnating personality enters it. The consciousness of matter is present in any matter - a fetus, a rock, a blade of grass, a nail. 

The reincarnating personality enters the new fetus according to its own inclinations, desires, and characteristics, with some built-in safeguards. However there is no rule, then, saying that the reincarnating personality must take over the new form prepared for it either at the point of conception, in the very earliest months of the fetus's growth, or even at the point of birth. 

The process is gradual, individual and determined by experience in other lives. It is particularly dependent upon emotional characteristics - not necessarily of the last incarnated self, but the emotional tensions present as a result of a group of past existences. 

Various methods of entry are adopted. If there is a strong relationship between the parents and the child-to-be, then the personality may enter at the point of conception if he is extremely anxious to rejoin them. Even here, however, large portions of self-awareness continue to operate in the between-life dimension. 

In the beginning, the womb state under these conditions is a dreamlike one, with the personality still focused mainly in the between-life existence. Gradually the situation reverses, until it becomes more difficult to retain clear concentration in the between-life situation. 

In these circumstances, when the personality attaches itself at conception, there is almost without exception strong past-life connections between parents and child, or there is an unceasing and almost obsessional desire to return to the earthly situation - either for a specific purpose, or because the reincarnating personality is presently ob-sessed with earthly existence. This is not necessarily detrimental. The personality can simply realize that it takes to physical experience well, is presently earth-oriented, and finds earthly atmosphere a rich dimension for the growth of its own abilities. 

Some personalities are drawn to enter at conception as a result of seemingly less worthy motives - greed, for example, or an obsessional desire that is partially composed of unresolved problems. Other personalities who never completely take to earthly existence may hold off full entry for some time, and even then always remain at a certain distance from the body. At the other end of the scale, before death the same applies, where some individuals remove their focus from physical life, leaving the body consciousness alone. Others stay with the body until the last moment. In the early days of infancy, there is not a steady focus of the personality in the body in any case. 

——摘自《灵魂永生》（Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul）

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