The Womb of Consciousness...

Just as the human embryo is nourished and kept alive in complete dependence upon the mother inside whose body it is carried,

its consciousness being in dreamless slumber like a hibernating animal,

so the human adult is in reality just as dependent for his own existence on the Overself.

His spiritual yearnings are a kind of nostalgia for the direct, free, unimpeded-by-the-ego consciousness of that dependence, which is blessfully similar to the embryo's.

The womb is a great symbol in several ways.



— Notebooks Category 17: The Religious Urge >
Chapter 1: Origin, Purpose of Religions > # 9
Paul Brunton