Xu Shan: Memories of Prenatal Period:
The discovery of a Spiritual and Cultural Prototype of Human Beings Published

Xu Shan: Memories of Prenatal Period: The discovery of a Spiritual and Cultural Prototype of Human Beings (Chinese edition, 2002, New Star Publishing House, Seoul, Kerea)

Xu Shan
(1)Professor, Dept. of Chinese, Suzhou University, Suzhou 215006, P.R.China. M.A. 1987, Nanjing Teachers' Univ; Ph.D. 2002, Shanghai Teachers' University.

(2)Blog: http://blog.sina.com.cn/m/xu_shan

(3)Works:
1.Thunder-God Worship: The Origin of Chinese Culture, Shanghai Joint Publishing House, Shanghai, 1992;
2. The Origin of Chinese Language, Sichuan People's Publishing House, Sichuan, 1998;
3. Xu Shan's Selected Papers on Chinese Language, New Star Publishing House, Seoul, 2002;
4.Memories of Prenatal Period: The discovery of a Spiritual and Cultural Prototype of Human Beings, New Star Publishing House, Seoul,2002;
5. Research Papers on Chinese Ancient Characters, Chinese Literature and History Publishing House, 2003;
6. Xu Shan's 1000 Short Poems, Cozy House Publisher, New York,2004;
7. An Analysis of the Structure and Words of The Book of Changes, China Bookstore, 2005.

Abstract
The affairs the author had experienced in a week's time after Jan. 29, 1996, impelled an important turn in the author's thought. With the study of stories (A huge Dinosaur lays eggs, etc.) and dreams narrated by my daughter (6 years old, born on Jan. 25, 1990) as well as the author's self-hypnosis, it has been made clear that the starting point of human beings' spirit originates from memories of prenatal period, of which the strong marks and influence left in personal history and mankind's culture can be observed. To take memories of prenatal period as a new angle to survey extensively the history of human beings and the creations of our mankind's souls, a lot of hard-to-understand riddles have been deciphered. The discovery of memories of prenatal period turns over a new leaf in the field of life sciences, and makes an important step in the fields of psychology, religion, dream culture, literature study, and traditional culture and ideology.

Contents
Preface
We want to reopen the story of the beginning of life. I want to know what I am and why I am so. Fortunately an opportunity has come at last.

1. A Huge Dinosaur Lays Eggs
Everyone seems to be unable to recall his own things in a period of time after birth, not to mention birth itself. The story "A Huge Dinosaur Lays Eggs" on January 29, 1996 and the subsequent dreams narrated by my daughter S (6 years old) as well as the author's self-hypnosis show that we do not forget memories of prenatal period related with personal life that begins at the instant parents' sperm and egg have been united, which will reveal in a particular mental state.

2. The Properties of Memories of Prenatal Period
The beginning of life is the first experience of death. The survival way of fetus depends on mother. When individual life begins, its sense organs start to work and store in memory. Umbilical cord trauma brings about the greatest mystery in one's life. The corresponding psychological feelings at five stages during prenatal period. The wishes to return to mother's body and the operating features of entering memories of prenatal period.

3. The Reappeared Forms of the Spiritual Prototype of Memories of Prenatal Period
Everyone comes from prenatal period, and memories of prenatal period are sure to reappear in varying degrees at the different stages of life. Many important phenomenon of human culture, which people are still puzzled about, have been vanished with the help of a spiritual prototype of memories of prenatal period.

(1)An Exile from the Garden of Eden
The theme and structure that Adam and Eve expelled from the Garden of Eden in Genesis of Bible are based on memories of prenatal period. The Christian concept of original sin is derived from the logical explanation of umbilical cord trauma in memories of prenatal period, and moreover, reaches the rational height, which is unique in human culture, of criticizing human nature itself, that is, people have their evil sides.

(2)Nirvana
Nirvana, the highest realm of Buddhism, can be arrived at through meditation and self-enlightenment, the process of which is that first of all, one returns to memories of prenatal period, and when it is finished, all of one's memories are cleared away. The void that has been seen with eyes closed at this moment (we name it as "void memory") is nirvana. The rational core of nirvana is to wipe out completely the psychological bed of fear by void memory associated with memories of prenatal period, and to re-lay one's psychological cornerstone. The outlook of transmigration is a misunderstanding of the deformed phenomenon in the returning-style memories of prenatal period.

(3)In the Face of Death
Tibetan Buddhism's famous work The Tibetan Book of the Dead has been re-interpreted, the theoretical basis of which is nirvana and transmigration. The process of dealing with death is an art.

(4)Near Death Experiences
The psychological process of returning to memories of prenatal period in near-death experiences is that the tunnel is a necessary threshold into mother's body with quiet and joyful feeling in it.

(5)So-called Previous Existence
When returning to memories of prenatal period in hypnosis, one's own memories of prenatal period is misunderstood as other's things, that is, so-called non-self present existence but self-linking previous one.

(6)The Phenomenon of Qu Yuan
As a unique human tragedy, suicide is a trap of memories of prenatal period in a sense of primitive killing which one falls into at a low ebb of negative psychology, and at last one is defeated by inner fear.

(7)Peach-blossom Springs
The prototype of Tao Yuanming's Peach-blossom Springs is a happy memory of placenta in memories of prenatal period. The physical -psychological features in the motivation of his retiring from political life.

(8)The Words of Pop Songs
"Mom" theme evokes a complex about returning to mother's body. "Happiness and misery", the bipolar feelings of love theme, are the easiest to activate a complex of parents, and then raise the "life and death" experience in memories of prenatal period.

(9)Mandala
Circle is called as mandala in Sanskrit. The mandala seen with eyes closed marks an entrance onto memories of prenatal period. The traces of mandala in my early poems.

(10)An Analysis of My Daughter's Other Dreams
The other features of wishes to return to mother's body in children's souls as well as dreams are pointed out by an analysis of my daughter A's 12 dream cases from August 1996 to September 1997.

(11)A Reanalysis of Some Dreams in The Interpretation of Dreams
Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams is a classic for dream study. Freud held that children's dreams were simple, and meanwhile he was unable to obtain the overt examples of children's memories of prenatal period; therefore his theory of dream was impossible to touch memories of prenatal period as human's psychological bottom, and some dreams could not be accurately analyzed. Using the framework of memories of prenatal period after the new study of 10 dream cases in The Interpretation of Dreams, the relationship between memories of prenatal period and dreams has been clarified so that Freud's deficiency has been made up.

(12)Jung's Collective Unconscious
Jung's abstruse concept of collective unconscious can be replaced by a clear one of memories of prenatal period that everyone has. An analysis of Jung's dream at the age of three or four ,of which he had been thinking hard all his life, shows that memories of prenatal period has an important influence upon the psychological development of human being.

(13)The Initiating Experiments of Memories of Prenatal Period
Returning to memories of prenatal period should go through the threshold of visual image like a cave or a tunnel. The details of the psychological activities during returning to memories of prenatal period were observed after the "cave-or-tunnel" experiments I had designed to trigger off memories of prenatal period.

4. An Analysis of Classical Taoist and Confucian Works as Two Mainstays in Chinese Traditional Culture
With the psychological perspective of memories of prenatal period and interrelated void memory, the four books, Lao Tzu, The Analects of Confucius, Chuang Tzu and Mencius, are reviewed that the purport of China's traditional culture is to advocate kindheartedness, freedom of humanity and peaceful, tranquil society, with which to contend with all kinds of fear.

(1) Lao Tzu
The experience of fear in reality. Taoism, and memories of prenatal period and void memory. Taoism and God. Non-action and non-contention.

(2) The Analects of Confucius
The ideological core of Confucius is humanity and ceremony. Humanity is the ultimate affirmation and expectation of human beings. Confucian outlook on God. Confucian view on history. Confucian self-cultivation. The golden mean as an orientation of value in contradiction and opposition.

(3) Chuang Tzu
The goblet statement, important statement and fable. An analysis of 7 chapters of inner articles, chapter by chapter and section by section. With the features of memories of prenatal period, Chuang Tzu guided the individual, interpersonal relations, and relations between human and nature in order to achieve the mankind well-being of personal freedom and peaceful society.

(4) Mencius
Mencius' anxiety and happiness. Mencius' view on human nature. His historical view. Preserving the vast breathe. Grasping the mean and adaptable in tactics.

5. The Resistance to Fear
Fear accompanies birth, but people wish to live on the principle of happiness.

(1)The Threefold Origins of Fear
memories of prenatal period, the unfavorable nature and the interpersonal survival competition. Our attitude.

(2)Parental Responsibilities
The sacred bounden duty of parents to the next generation. Parent's own physical and mental health influences the next generation. Good prenatal and postnatal care, and early family education.

(3)Free People
An individual life is essentially free. People must think, choose and survive independently. Two major footholds of the free people in modern society are democracy and science.

Afterword
The discovery of memories of prenatal period as an origin of human's spirit, turns over a new leaf in the field of life sciences, and declares that the book, namely human itself, can completely understood at the ultimate level. We should thank mother. We should thank the universe. The creation and practice of a formula "Freedom = Love".

Appendix
(1) The sketch maps, which my daughter S drew in a total of 4 pieces on the morning of February 1, 1996, show the story of a pipe narrated by my daughter S.

(2) The sketch maps, which my daughter S drew in a total of 15 pieces on the morning of September 21, 1997, show the story of a fearful huge monster narrated by my daughter S.

(3) The record of questions and answers on dream between my daughter S and I ,(on the evening of October 24, 1998; the morning of October 25, 1998; the noon of October 25, 1998; in a total of three times) and my daughter S' free talks on the topic of dream.

My daughter S' answers and free talks at the age of eight years and 9 months, show a cognitive level of children at that age ,and help us grasp fully the features of children's psychology.

Freud talked about the bliss of the womb as the source of
many of the same things, as did others before Freud.
While no doubt true to some degree, remember that a single theory that explains everything actually explains nothing.

I remember a sociology professor trying to illustrate this point.
While discussing the cause of the French Revolution, he quickly dispensed with the theory that the revolt was due to the peasants being unhappy. The peasants are always unhappy.

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