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Summary: Queen Jin's Handbook of Pregnancy
Review: A soft-spoken scholar, poet, and popular professor, Seligson has been fascinated with the ancient birth traditions of Asia. His last book, Oriental Birth Dreams (1990), was published in both English and Korean.
... Queen Jin's Handbook of Pregnancy, published in January, is a cultural treasure illuminating a high tradition of pregnancy and birth dating back to the 12th century B.C.Paradoxically, the illumination is needed as much in Asia as in the West. The timing of this book is surely auspicious as Western obstetrics, yet in its infancy, threatens to engulf all previous visions of pregnancy in cultures past and present everywhere in the world.
Based on three decades of living and teaching in Asia, and powerfully motivated by the adventure of two pregnancies with Young Im, his Korean wife, Seligson takes us on an enchanting journey through time where voices of Oriental men and women speak to us of their daily lives and ideals for pregnancy and birth. Young Im and her ancestors teach us by their meditations and prayers, their letters, dreams (and dream interpretations), their foods, drinks and herbal formulas, their use of music and color, and in poems and proverbs.
Seligson tells how he fell in love with the idea of nurturing, with his wife, a healthy and compassionate child inspired by the example and rules of Queen Jin-- a woman of towering influence in China, Japan, and Korea for over 3,000 years. Her explosive contribution, Embryonic Education, is a remarkably prescient set of guidelines for royals and aristocrats, for their servants, and eventually for the rest of humanity generation after generation. Her credibility was secured by the birth of her son, the sage-king Wan who wrote the enduring classic I-Ching.
... The stage is therefore set--after fourteen centuries of widespread indifference--for the convergence of intuitive wisdom from the East and scientific verification from the West allowing a full appreciation of the sentient nature of babies in the womb. I hope that Queen Jin's Handbook of Pregnancy will assist with this convergence of East and West which bodes well for the parents and babies of our future world.
Reviewed by David B. Chamberlain, Ph.D. , for the Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health, Volume 16(3), Spring 2002Book Review for the Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health, Volume 16(3), Spring 2002
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Summary: A Must Read for any woman considering having children
Review: As a practicioner of Oriental medicine and specializing in fertility issues for American couples, I have this book in my clinic and recommend it to all my patients. Even in the busy, career oriented lives of my patients, they seem to immediately connect with this book of ancient wisdom surrounding the issue of conception. Since they are all experiencing infertility, this wonderfully written book offers up an entirely new perspective and insights into arenas that we in the West tend to overlook. The author, Seligson, has no idea of how helpful this book has been to hundreds of women with infertility and an behalf of all my patients, we thank him for taking the time to write it.
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Summary: A Must Read for any woman considering having children
Review: As a practicioner of Oriental medicine and specializing in fertility issues for American couples, I have this book in my clinic and recommend it to all my patients. Even in the busy, career oriented lives of my patients, they seem to immediately connect with this book of ancient wisdom surrounding the issue of conception. Since they are all experiencing infertility, this wonderfully written book offers up an entirely new perspective and insights into arenas that we in the West tend to overlook. The author, Seligson, has no idea of how helpful this book has been to hundreds of women with infertility and an behalf of all my patients, we thank him for taking the time to write it.
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Summary: A Warm Companion & Gentle Counsel during Pregnancy
Review: I recommend Queen Jin's Handbook of Pregnancy to any thoughtful mother (and would-be parents) who value the "emotional intelligence" of the miracles that are babies. The author Jeremy Seligson will lead you on an unpressured tour of personal discovery and illuminating insights into Asian thinking about procreation, pregnancy and the wider circle of natural energies around us. It is much more than a technical manual of pregnancy and child birth.
The Handbook provides information about Chinese and other Asian traditions of birth dreams, child birth and "embryonic education" we never hear about in the West. Modern mothers need to slow down and live with this volume. Please allow yourselves to relax and open to the "new" knowledge that Queen Jin provides. The author has assimilated this very old wisdom about conception, communication with life in the womb and the birth process through his own person during years of marriage and family life in East Asia. The chapters and anecdotes are a series of spiritual offerings that add up to wise and affable guidebook on how to commune more sensitively with our unborn children to whom we owe all the love we can muster.
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Summary: A Warm Companion & Gentle Counsel during Pregnancy
Review: I recommend Queen Jin's Handbook of Pregnancy to any thoughtful mother (and would-be parents) who value the "emotional intelligence" of the miracles that are babies. The author Jeremy Seligson will lead you on an unpressured tour of personal discovery and illuminating insights into Asian thinking about procreation, pregnancy and the wider circle of natural energies around us. It is much more than a technical manual of pregnancy and child birth.
The Handbook provides information about Chinese and other Asian traditions of birth dreams, child birth and "embryonic education" we never hear about in the West. Modern mothers need to slow down and live with this volume. Please allow yourselves to relax and open to the "new" knowledge that Queen Jin provides. The author has assimilated this very old wisdom about conception, communication with life in the womb and the birth process through his own person during years of marriage and family life in East Asia. The chapters and anecdotes are a series of spiritual offerings that add up to wise and affable guidebook on how to commune more sensitively with our unborn children to whom we owe all the love we can muster.
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Summary: Misleading Title
Review: This is definitely not a handbook.
It is a haphazard collection of the author's poetry and short anecdotes about his life in Asia. Do not buy this book unless you like poetry. The title is a misnomer; there isn't any useful information (from Queen Jin or otherwise) presented.
Rating:
Summary: Misleading Title
Review: This is definitely not a handbook.
It is a haphazard collection of the author's poetry and short anecdotes about his life in Asia. Do not buy this book unless you like poetry. The title is a misnomer; there isn't any useful information (from Queen Jin or otherwise) presented.
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