SIR: Scientists’ latest attempt to create a human being through Ectolife, which is an artificial womb in a stationary facility, propelled by advanced technology, is food for thought.
Scientists say that they are replicating the ‘exact conditions’ that are prevalent in a woman’s womb during pregnancy in EctoLife. They remark that it will help solve problems associated with pregnancy and childbirth as well as infertility, among others.
Once they fertilise an egg in their laboratory, the embryo therefrom is then put in this artificial womb called EctoLife to continue its growth. And at ‘full term,’ according to them, with a push of the button the baby is delivered from the artificial womb to the parents to take home.
‘This is fantastic,’ I can imagine many people exclaiming while many others, I sense, are already fantasising about it.
Although no baby has come out of EctoLife as yet, scientists and other experts in related fields are optimistic that it could become a reality in some ten years’ time. They assert that they have been able to ‘crack’ the later stages of pregnancy in that they are able to nurture premature babies (who stayed only 20 weeks in their mothers’ belly) in an incubator where they continue to grow to maturity before they are taken home by their mothers alive and well.
They would also say they have been able to figure out the beginning in that they are able to create an embryo from where a baby develops, in their labs, through In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF). So, what remains for them to figure out, according to the experts, is about the first 20 weeks, from the time the embryo is formed. Pregnancy lasts for about 40 weeks. And for them the complete solution is this EctoLife, artificial womb powered by latest technological innovations. It is notches higher than the incubator in their inventions.
One must commend scientists and others for the efforts they have been making over the years to invent, develop things that help facilitate life here on earth. And they shall continue to make steady progress in this respect, as evidenced in technological and other technical advances. In fact, there shall be no end to such advances and discoveries for the ingredients for them are already at hand. The foundation for them had been set.
Now what these scientists have been excelling at, and will continue to, relates to inanimate things which also include artificial intelligence. They cannot step beyond the bounds of what is earthly, physical, because their brain is limited to earthly issues only.
With regard to the human being, the origin of whose core lies beyond this earth, what scientists have been focusing on over centuries is the physical body only. The best of the world’s scientists cannot create a human being. What they can create, or rather develop, is a physical body without life.
The human being comprises the physical body and the soul/spirit within which is what animates the physical body, gives it life. When the spirit within the body leaves it which we call death, the body decays because it is of matter while the spirit journeys to the higher realms above, spiritual realm, heaven.
In the first four months of pregnancy, what a woman carries in her womb is a developing physical body. And in the middle of pregnancy the spirit/soul incarnates (enters) into the physical body. This is when the woman feels the twitches (first movement) of the baby. As soon as the spirit/soul enters the little body, it simultaneously animates it; the blood within the baby begins to circulate. Note that at death the blood stops circulating because that which animated the body, that is the spirit/soul, has left it.
Now it is only the special radiation of a woman (let us call it a kind of ‘power’ imbued her by the Almighty GOD) that enables her to attract a spirit/soul into a growing body in her womb. Therefore, even if a man has reproductive organs, he cannot produce a baby because he is not imbued with that special radiation needed for attracting a spirit/soul into it. And that is why in the case of IVF, for it to achieve the desired goal, scientists have to put into a woman’s womb, the little physical body they have formed in a lab, for a human spirit/soul to be able to incarnate into it and hence birth a human being.
So, in the case of this latest development of an artificial womb called EctoLife, a human spirit/soul cannot possibly enter into the little physical body that is developing there because there is a missing link, the natural radiating process within a woman that can form a ‘bridge’ that enables a human spirit/soul to incarnate into it, thereby animating it and bringing it to life.
Note that in the case of premature babies that are nurtured in an incubator, incarnation had already occurred, these are hence already human beings.
To conclude, what the advanced scientists with advanced technology are forming and developing is a lifeless physical body in which a human spirit cannot incarnate. This can only happen with a woman, in a woman’s womb, with her special radiation for attraction. They are only creating human-like models, not a full-blooded human being.
•Victoria Ngozi Ikeano,
victoriangozii@gmail.com