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Birth with Dr. R.D. Laing
Television (Full Length) – 1977
A newborn baby isn’t a lump of stuff that hasn’t yet started to feel, or that will perhaps start to feel three of four months after birth ... a newborn baby is a fully-sensured [sic] baby with all its sense channels open.– RD Laing
How would you like to be born? What is the first sample of the world you’d like to have? The white smell of antiseptics and instruments? The first contact with human beings a rubber glove?– RD Laing
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