*Essassani Childbirth and Early Years* Q: I'd like to know some information about the procreation process for your species. You have some kind of intercourse as you've told us... and the cell is there and then the physical being is there and... B: The physical process is, again, as you would say, practically identical to your own, with the exception for the most part of what you term to be the gestation period. Q: How long is that? B: Seven months. Q: At what point does the consciousness enter the body? B: The same as your own - just prior to birth. Q: However, the agreement between the parents and the conscious being coming into the body is made prior to the physicality? B: Yes. Q: What would be the average weight of a child being born? B: In your terminology, approximately, five to six pounds. Q: So, say you are on your spacecraft, and you have sex on your spacecraft and the child is conceived, do they go back to the planet to have the child? B: It can occur upon the craft, there are facilities for such. Recognize, in this way, that many individuals are on the craft for quite long periods of time. They may not, in this way, return to what you term to be their home planet for many of your years. Q: So they could have... the child would be conceived, the child would be in gestation, and actually come out physically from the other being on the spacecraft? B: It has happened many times. Q: Ok, do you have doctors that facilitate that, or is basically the process pretty easy at this point? B: It is, as you say, relatively smooth. In this way, almost what you term to be anyone can assist. Q: Is the father usually present at the birth? B: More often than not. Q: Is it a ritual like ours is? B: Not really, except in the constant mental communication with the consciousness during the process. Q: Ok, so you don't give out cigars then, right? B: No, thank you. (Laughter) Q: Do your women breast-feed the babies? B: Yes. Q: Do you use bottles like we do? B: No. Q: When the child is born, do they have immediate vocabulary skills or is there a process like ours where they can learn to make all the sounds that are in the vocabulary? B: Understand that with our civilization, that which you call language is, even for myself, a remnant idea. They do not communicate vocally at all. Q: Telepathically? B: Yes. Q: So then you don't even... they're already developed as soon as they're born - so obviously the consciousness is there and you're aware of that and therefore it can be... B: It does express itself in a certain methodology according to the newness of the physical body. In a sense you would perceive it to be in like manner as your own children, thus, they manipulate the language in a more simplistic fashion. You will find that the ability for the communication, once in the physical form, will be somewhat limited. They will require some time to expand that concept, but it usually will not take, in your terms, any longer than three of your physical years. Q: Do they have to develop motor skills or do they already have... B: Some, yes. Q: Can they walk immediately? B: No. Q: So they have to crawl? B: Yes. Q: How many years does it take them to become mature? B: What is your definition? Q: Like twenty years from birth, for becoming an adult. B: Now understand that your own cycle, that which you call, in this way, adolescence and your word puberty, in your own cycle will be approximately twelve to thirteen years, not twenty. In ours, you will find in this way it is somewhat similar, approximately eleven years of age -- that which you call the beginning of adolescence. Though there will be, again, from three years onward, the ability to communicate, for the most part, as any being in our civilization would be able to, mentally. Q: Are the telepathic skills not fully developed from birth to three years old, or are they fully capable in that respect? B: To some degree, although again, the communications will be, for the most part, not diversified. Do you understand that term? Q: I understand the term, but I don't know how you're implying it. B: Understand that the being, who is newly born, will still be, for the most part, used to non-physical existence. And in this way the majority of the telepathic communication will come in whole concepts without direct reference, still, to some degree, for the society into which the being has been born. It will be somewhat in the same manner as your infants -- making sounds which have no basis in your particular language, yet you understand that there is communication; you understand the intent, for the most part, of the sounds. Q: Would this communication of the telepathic nature... would the concepts be not as translatable to physicality because they are closer to the non- physical? B: Yes. Q: Ok. B: They are still homogenous, in a sense; not diversified into the specific reality into which they have been born. Q: Sort of analogous to the dream state not being fully translatable into our reality? B: Yes, very good. It will be abstract, to a great degree, until it receives the entire codification of the entire mass consciousness and assimilates its own consciousness therein. Thus forming and using the archetypes present in our own consciousness, to relate to our specific civilization. Q: Is that why our babies born here also don't communicate with specific words? Its not that their speech skills are not developed... B: Up to the period of time you call three of your years, in terms of any civilization that reproduces in a similar manner to you, in this way you will find that it will be quite similar from civilization to civilization. The infants from one to three years will almost all be the same. Q: Ok. On this planet we've termed the child's inability to speak as just lack of skill, lack of development, whereas I'm seeing here that it is not so much that, as the fact that they are thinking in undiversified terms. B: Yes. The skills and development that you are speaking of are the skills and development regarding the specific reality they have projected themselves into. It is in that way a matter of skill and development, but not in the intrinsic sense of not being able to conceive of concepts at all. Q: Right. Q: They simply don't find yet the translation mechanism to be fully functional. Q: Right. Well, I'm thinking that if they were instantaneously able to communicate in a diversified way, as you said, their ability to develop their speech skills would be much faster, I would think. B: Do you mean in your civilization? Q: Yes. B: Yes, in a sense. Q: All right, thank you very much. B: Thank you.