Movie Description:
Our ancestors revered the sacred link between the fertility of the woman and the fertility of Mother Earth, but todaywe havelost this connection. Afterdiscovering instances of rampant censorship in modern American books on childbirth, Dr.Leo Sharashkin sets out on a quest to reclaim the ancient truthabout this key life experience. Drawingon his personal experiences of assistingat the births of his many children, his apprenticeship with prominent midwives,and his remarkable mastery of scientificknowledge in the fieldsas diverse as biology and linguistics, history and psychology, gardening and obstetrics,Dr. Leo was able to reconstructthe mystery of the Eternal Cycle, and the central place of our thought in it. He now starts to put forth simple practicalsuggestions for making the birth the life-changing, transformative experiencefor the entire family and, indeed, for our whole planet.
