Question about Silent Birth?

Question

So this isn't meant to be offensive, it was just something my friends and I were wondering about.

What happens if a woman screams during a silent birth in Scientology?

Answer 1

One of the fundamentals of Scientology is that when a person undergoes a painful experience a permanent record is made in his mind.  Like an unconscious memory.  That memory can be replayed and affect you in the future.

For example, if a child is attacked by a dog, in the future when they see a dog they can experience an uncontrollable fear - the same fear they originally felt.  They can even feel pain where they were bitten.

Take anyone who has broken a bone or something and you will find that in the future, many of them are getting pains and circulation shut-downs (arthritis) where they had their injury.  We call this re-stimulation of those earlier incidents.

Back in the early days of Scientology, it was pointed out that you should be quiet around anyone who is injured.  That would tend to reduce the confusion being recorded by the person. And in the future, your voice wouldn't serve to re-stimulate that injury.

Scientologist mothers don't particularly want their voice to be present in any of their children's painful incidents because they believe that the sound of their voice could restimulate these painful incidents and affect their children adversely.  If you watch carefully you can see adverse reactions of some children and teenagers to their mother's voice which tend to support this idea.

But having said all that, later discoveries in Scientology tended to discount the importance of this effect somewhat even though we definitely do try and keep the environment of a person in pain as quiet and calm as possible.

Meanwhile, there is no rule about screaming during childbirth and I can assure you, many do.

The answer to your question about what happens if a woman screams during a silent birth in Scientology is pretty simple.  The husband goes all white and shaky and prays for a speedy delivery.