Hi George-
I've been getting the same thing from people with whom I do regression work.  In fact, according to several different people, it's more of a bother to be born than to die.

It kinda put me to thinking - For the living, the problem is to keep from dying. For the dead, the problem is to keep from coming back to life. I wonder if there's a "happy medium" there - aside from Juditha, that is

d

My reflections are of..
Pain, being so very cold, fear, extremely bright light, overwhelming noise, sensation of touch. I personally remember nothing spritually at the point of birth. In my head it keep comming as "Here we go again".
Joe

Joe

Boris-
I suggest that you look at some of the material by Stanislav Grof for a very good summary of the feelings. His initial work was done with LSD, but due to legal (and practical) issues, now he is using "holotropic breathwork" - which is the long expression for hyperventilation.

In regressions, what I have gotten is almost exclusively complaints about being stuck in the birth canal,  numbness and inability to move due to Mom's childbirth drugs, objections to drunk MDs with brutal forceps and so on. Once in a while a regression passes through a birth, and may be expressed as "seeking the light" (at the end of the birth canal tunnel), and very often there are remarks about it being cold, uncaring or even abusive. One man was premature, "I've just arrived and they're putting me into a box." Another recalls circumcision (as do I, incidently, and it was not fun) "I just got here and they're doing THIS to me."

A woman who had come to watch a friend's therapy for some kind of trivial phobia wanted to "see what it was like", so I did a five minute regression - She had complained about pain in her shoulder and wanted to know why it was there, as there were nomedical reasons. She abruptly shouted, "Oh that Son of a B!tch!"  She said that the MD was careless and pulled her out of the birth canal too roughly, dislocating her sholder. She was infuriated, but as a neonate she had no way to deal with it, so she just kept the resentment (and the pain to which it was anchored)  in the back of her mind. After chewing out the MD she felt better and the pain totally vanished, never to return.

d

I fear death. I enjoy being me, and I would rather that not end. I enjoy the one-to-one intimacy, and sense of connection, that I share with my fiance. I would be a bit disheartened to see that come to an end.  

At the same time, I really want to meet BB. He/It seems like a lot of fun. (If you want to know who BB is, pick up Robert Monroe's "Far Journeys").