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PRENATAL CULTURE. 



Susceptibility to 

 Impressions, 



Prenatal 

 Individuality. 



Periods of 



Greatest 



Susceptibility. 



Only Repeated 



jstions 

 tual. 



The susceptibility of persons to telepathic sug- 

 gestions is as variable as life itself. Some are 

 all but imperturbable, so fixed and established in 

 character, or so completely controlled from within 

 that all outside influences seem lost upon them. 

 Others seem to have no definite character form; 

 they correspond perfectly to their environments 

 and are easily controlled by suggestions. 



Even during embryonic development there 

 seems to be a vast difference in the strength and 

 persistency of the individuality. In some, the 

 fixed hereditary traits of the parents are so pro- 

 nounced in the embryo that the little one seem- 

 ingly refuses to respond to any transient states in 

 the mother's mind, no matter how strong or ab- 

 normal ; it seems to develop after a fixed plan 

 and will not respond to maternal impressions. 

 Others seemingly respond to every maternal im- 

 pression and are, therefore, molded in character 

 by the mother's transient states. Again the de- 

 gree of susceptibility is greatest just at the 

 time when a function or faculty is forming ; there- 

 fore, a mental emotion in the mother, that at one 

 time might prove highly potential in forming, or 

 deforming the nature, at another might not affect 

 it in the least. 



It is doubtful if abnormalities, or any marked 

 change, is ever brought about by a single sug- 

 gestion from an abnormal emotion. The first 

 impression made upon mother and child may be 

 the result of a single instantaneous fright or 

 shock, but it is the continued repetition of the 

 image in the objective and subjective mind of 

 the mother that causes it to take definite form 



