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The infant being placed immediately in the mother's arms at birth, and from then on carried constantly in arms or otherwise in contact with someone, usually the mother, and allowed to observe (or nurse, or sleep) while the carrier goes about his or her business — until the infant begins creeping, then crawling on his/her own impulse, usually at six to eight months; Co-sleeping in the parents' bed, in constant physical contact, until leaving of their own volition (often about two years); Breastfeeding "on cue" — nursing in response to the child's body's signals; Having caregivers immediately respond to body signals (squirming, crying, etc.), without judgment, displeasure, or invalidation of the child's needs, yet showing no undue concern nor making the child the constant center of attention; Sensing (and fulfilling) elders' expectations that he or she is innately social and cooperative and has strong self-preservation instincts, and that he or she is welcome and worthy. She suggests that when certain evolutionary expectations are not met as infants and toddlers, compensation for these needs will be sought, by alternate means, throughout life — resulting in many forms of mental and social disorders. End of Wikipedia Quote I have found Liedloff's The Continuum Concept back in the 1980s and it has impressed me more than any book I had read before on human psychology and psychosomatic wholeness except the writings of Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Reich and Françoise Dolto. I felt Liedloff's book was on the same level of importance as these writings, lucidly aware, intelligent, holistic, plainly honest and firm in intent - and wistful. My admiration for the author was such that I put her on the level of my private Pantheon of geniuses, alongside Freud, Reich, Dolto, and others. My study Eight Dynamic Patterns of Living goes in the direction of Liedloff's research and can be seen as a logical prolongation of it. And it was, as Liedloff's book, inspired by long-term research on tribal cultures. Later only was I reading some of the resources that had helped to forge Liedloff's conceptual insights, and her strong emphasis on holistic parenting, in accordance with the wistful parenting concept of most native cultures. These resources, I have meticulously analyzed and reported them in a number of my research papers, in both English and German language. The main authors to mention here for this background research are James W. Prescott, Ashley Montagu, Michel Odent and Frederick Leboyer. Their research insights cannot be underestimated while these authors surely are marginalized and underrepresented in today's USA-driven global scientific worldview - as they do not fit in the hero paradigm's residual worldview, and defy the joyful Reich of global consumer culture. Nobody has better described the endless trauma of modern consumer culture for the healthy growth of infants and its deprivatory and reductionist childcare paradigm than Jean Liedloff. And the bad reviews this book received on amazon.com can serve as a good example of hero culture's preservation instinct. Some of these people may not know why they have such a high aggression level against this research, and must compulsively search for reasons to tear it down in the gutter. They may ignore why they so violently oppose it. But to the lucid person the reasons are clear. The schizophrenic wants to kill the person that most loves him - as Wilhelm Reich explained so well in his research report The Schizophrenic Split. And by extrapolation, the hero culture is the terminator robot that will attack and attempt to destroy anybody who dares to question the validity of its reductionist life paradigm. This is simply so, a psychological mechanism. We all resist change on a deep level, while we may easily agree with superficial and cosmetic change. A culture may instinctively know what she is suffering from but for the very reason of this intuitive knowledge resist the change that is best for it. Before both the French and Russian Revolutions, many noble aristocrats intuited the change that will occur and, flexibly intelligent, prepared for the change to come. For example, Leo Tolstoy, the famous writer, who was a very high member of Russian Nobility, had freed all his souls from slavery before the revolutions ever broke out. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure
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