Don't Take It Lying Down

A Guidebook for Women in the New Era
Dr Kaalii Cargill


Reclaiming power,choice and control in fertility management

There are women who practise birth control through a mindbody process. In the tradition of ancient women's mysteries, these women control conception through a process of internal regulation, without using drugs, synthetic hormones, or physical devices, and without abstaining at any time during the fertility cycle.

This method involves an internal mindbody process that allows us to choose whether or not to conceive, regardless of the time in the menstrual cycle, unprotected sex, or any other factors which normally affect reproduction. The result is true reproductive autonomy, a reclaiming of deep inner wisdom and power. It is a practical experience of what can happen when we look beyond the prevailing beliefs about mind and matter, and question the underlying attitudes to the life-givng power of the feminine.

Reproductive technology has given us birth control methods that claim to offer control and autonomy. Many women do not, however, experience modern birth control methods as empowering. On the contrary, they speak of feeling controlled and without choice.

The mindbody approach to birth control returns choice and control in a simple, accessible form, and is a safe, inexpensive, empowering alternative for women across the world. The only problem is that it is an idea so foreign to us these days that most modern women cannot even imagine doing it. I have written the book,  Don't Take It Lying Down: A Guidebook for Women in the New Era, to make mindbody birth control more accessible. As well as describing how it is done, I also write about how it came to be a forgotten practice and what we need to do to reclaim it. Even if you decide not to change the way you practice birth control, this book can change the way you walk in the world.