Secrets of Life Before Birth: The Adventures of Oy and Spex and the Whomus' Monologues

By Daniel Faustin MD

In "Secrets of Life Before Birth: The Adventures of Oy and Spex and the Whomus' Monologues," Dr. Faustin creates scenarios and conversations that lead the reader to the frontiers of imagination and science. This novel covers the beginning of our human experience as well as the quest for optimal health and longevity. "Secrets of Life Before Birth" follows the conception and birth of Whomus, but it could be anyone's story. The highly specialized, unicellular precursors of a human being can be followed as either the Oy sisters or the Spex siblings, who are living and maturing in their respective habitats, speaking with one another, and pondering their roles in this process. The latter part of this presentation invites the reader to listen to the fetal being on her experience in solitude through this 300-day journey, at different stages of development until the time of her birth to the outer world. This is followed by her first interactions with her inner circle of humans as she begins this new chapter and continues her participation in the continuum of life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Dec 1, 2023
• ISBN: 9798350919424

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SECRETS OF LIFE BEFORE BIRTH

The adventures of Oy and Spex and the Whomus’ monologues

©2023 Daniel Faustin, MD

All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

print ISBN: 979-8-35091-941-7

ebook ISBN: 979-8-35091-942-4

Contents

Foreword

Chapter I. The Life of Oy in the Plant, The Oy Sisters

Chapter II. The Selected Oy, Chosen By Nature.

Chapter III. The Life of Spex in the Factory, The Spex Siblings

Chapter IV. Brothers And Sisters

Chapter V. The Sudden Release and Expedition of the Spex Prototypes Across the Garden of Uter

Chapter VI. THE UNLIKELY MEETING OF OY AND SIS-SPEX AND THE TRANSFORMATIVE EVENT OF CONCEPTION

Chapter VII. The Whomus’ Monologues

POSTFACE

Available publications about Whomus by Daniel Faustin MD

LIST OF BOOKS ABOUT WHOMUS By the same author.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Foreword

Secrets of Life Before Birth: The Adventures of Oy and Spex and The Whomus’ Monologues introduces to the reader a new facet of the story of Whomus through the verbalized interactions of a multitude of these microscopic unicellular entities involved in the continuum of life, as well as the voice of Whomus herself in the present scenario. In the prior short novel on the same subject, "The Perillous Journey of Whomus in The Garden of Uter, The Dawn of Life," I undertook the task of creating actors whose interactions were narrated as if they possessed a certain degree of awareness of their immediate environments. But the story was told by an observer, the author, who shared his personal intuition, creativity, and experience with the reader.

Keeping with the concept of multiple anatomic spaces where the protagonists are living and interacting, as presented in the first novel, the structural landmarks of organs involved in human reproduction were designated as geographical locations with their biologic identities converted into imaginary sites such as the Plant instead of the ovary, the Factory instead of the testis, Oy to replace the ovum and Spex instead of the spermatozoon. The lives of Oy and Spex unfold in two separate human bodies depicted in the story as vast geographic locations enclosing the Plant, the Factory, and the Garden of Uter within them, for one or more decades and possibly miles, countries, or continents apart until the social forces in nature bring their human carriers together. And so, the distinctly separate journeys of Oy and Spex intersected when a load of Spex prototypes was suddenly released into the Love Canal, a physical location not too far from the origin and the path of Oy when she is free to travel, a very brief and episodic event when it happens.

In this current publication, the protagonists take turns to express themselves about their own daily experiences on their way to becoming the main and only actors to be elevated at that time to a transformed state of being within the human life’s experience. In "Secrets of Life Before Birth: The Adventures of Oy and Spex and The Whomus Monologues," the actors take us on a series of circumvoluted journeys and make us experience their minute-by-minute endearing life scenarios in distinct and tortuous paths within their original habitats. Now, we can witness their interactions with one another translated into imaginary dialogues among Spex siblings on one hand and Oy sisters on the other; two journeys that may eventually culminate in the climactic moment of the meeting of the chosen Oy and one member of the Spex family in achieving the phenomenon of ovulation. In the Whomus’ monologues, the verbal rendition of Whomus’ inner voice presents the reader with the provocative notion of her progressive awareness of her immediate environment and the forces leading to the spectacular birth of a healthy fetus, becoming an infant, into the outer world. These actors’ captivating testimonies, their translated interactions, and expressed wishes would further emphasize how much their competitive journeys to becoming the successful precursors of a Whomus prototype are complex, unpredictable, and vital to the health of the adult individual they will contribute to and of their future progenies.

The purpose of the story of Whomus lies in the author’s desire to invite the reader to look into the mirror of ages and appreciate the unique and transformative process leading to his or her creation. One may find it difficult to apprehend the concept and process of human creation from the first day of the human experience millions of years ago, but science enables us today to understand the phenomenon of conception from parental gametes and the potential for repeating this biologic process in perpetuity. The focus may well be not on the frailty of the perishable human body, but on its power of giving and sharing that transcends its own reality and opens the gate to many more lives it has helped conceive and shelter until their maturity sets in.

As you read and listen to the stories of Spex and Oy and take note of the secrets revealed by these actors’ interactions, during their individual journeys leading to the miraculous conception of Whomus, as you hear the voice of Whomus herself sharing her innocence and her apprehension about her experience of this early stage of life, it is hoped that you will continue to form your personal understanding of these processes. And so, you may be empowered to contribute to making the living environment of your inner circle or the larger human society as safe and enriching as possible for those of all ages you may encounter during your lifetime. In addition, the Whomus’ monologue is a call for our attention to her experience during life in solitude in the Garden of Uter and an invitation to all involved to remain vigilant and proactive in ensuring her safe transfer from her temporary habitat in the Garden of Uter to the outer world.

In Summary

The author presents an updated version of the story of Whomus’ life in The Garden of Uter in the form of verbal communication among the initial actors. There is a long process of maturation of those precursors, in their respective environments, often miles apart, until some fortuitous or planned circumstances of nature cause their paths to cross. This creative presentation of life events before the birth of an infant aims at informing the reader while allowing the story to be told by the actors themselves.

I.

Chapter I

The Life of Oy in the Plant,

The Oy Sisters

Introduction

It is well known in human biology that within our bodies there are cells that are born, grow, mature, fulfill their functions for a predetermined time, and then vanish. Some of them don’t die, but they multiply and transform to accomplish a higher mission in the continuity of life. Such are very specialized cells in our reproductive systems. In this creative presentation of the biological events preceding the life of Whomus in the Garden of Uter, the actors express their feelings in monologues or dialogue-like expressions that may take place in human biology as physical or biochemical interactions which are presented in this story as conversations among peers or in this case just microscopic beings sharing their habitats. In this book, the multitude of Oy sisters in and out of the Plant and the Spex siblings, brothers, and sisters, from The Factory, come alive expressing themselves and communicating their experiences with one another translated as dialogues or verbal exchanges among members of a large family.

At the end of their successful experience, a selected Oy and a selected Spex will no longer exist independently. But they will have united and become indivisible by combining their identities into one subject, Whomus, the youngest stage of a human being, who will undergo a series of cell divisions and transformations. This union of the Whomus’ precursors is the phenomenon of conception that occurs on the path of Oy toward the Garden of Uter. In the current scenario, before and at birth, she will talk to the world through a series of monologues about her unique experience in the