THE REPARENTING BLUEPRINT: CO-CREATING A WORLD WHERE THE HUMAN RACE FALLS IN LOVE WITH ITSELF
Publisher: Bowker
Paperback:
ISBN 10: 0578603985
ISBN 13: 978-0578603988
World peace. Utopia. Paradise on earth. Think of the world in these terms and you’re laughed at as a dreamer. Maybe it’s time for us to have the last laugh. Maybe this ideal is not a dream at all but a living reality within our grasp. We’ve just going about it the wrong way. We’ve been focusing on changing the world by appealing to those with a love of power, when we should be turning to our fellow humans to summon up the power of love.
If your childhood was wracked with abuse, would it be surprising if you grew up to be a career criminal? If the childhood of our species were wracked with catastrophic violence, wouldn't it explain why history is a dossier of crimes against humanity? Ancient calamities recorded in myth and legend, geology and archeology left a doomsday imprint on humankind. To erase it will take a dispensation of love. We need havens of reparenting to break the cycle of intergenerational abuse. And we need reparenting havens to break the cycle of cosmic violence enshrined in our legal system and penal system, our police force and armed forces.
This is the gist of The Reparenting Blueprint. For ages we’ve been organized to compete and fight. We’re only now globalizing a culture of love and mutual aid. We think our greatest accomplishment is conquering space - not creating a safe space for love to conquer all. We imagine our highest goal is building billion-dollar corporations - not billion-people cooperatives. The best part is we don’t rely on traditional power structures to realign our priorities. We draw on our inborn instincts for altruism and compassion. We mine our prosocial capacity for empathy and trust. Guided by the infallible blueprint within us, we model for each the Good Parents we were born to have. And as we apply the easy-to-follow formula for releasing emotional detritus from the past and laying the groundwork for a love-centric future, we discover what a no-brainer it is to be all heart.
If that was all this book offered, it would be worth the admission price. But it goes on to offer a roadmap for transforming the world by transforming ourselves. Rallies, marches, demonstrations have never really cut it. It’s not that the brotherhood of man is an impractical idea. It’s that humanity as an armed camp is so much more useful and advantageous to the powers that be. As a unified, loving species, we could have everything we have ever dreamed of having. For the powers that be, it is the kiss of death, melting the barriers of privilege and wealth that set them apart from the rest of mankind.
In a world bristling with hostility, the received wisdom is to build bigger, smarter bombs. The premise of this book is that we ourselves are ticking time bombs that need to be defused. The solution is not to upgrade nuclear silos. It is to co-create reparenting sanctuaries which function as bomb disposal sites for releasing our pain without harming ourselves or anyone else.
The repressive hand and oppressive heel is not just there to keep us down. It is there to keep love from lifting us up to where we belong. To overcome the deep state we deepen our emotional connections with each other. We don’t need to get their attention. We just need to get our attention. We don’t need to speak truth to power. We need to speak truth to each other. We don’t need to voice our opposition to evil. We need to give voice to the good in us. In the end, it’s not about changing the minds of the psychopaths that rule over us, but of coming together to get in touch with the changeless verities of our hearts and minds.
There is the world of brute power and blind greed that is created for us. And there is the world of peace and brotherhood we create for ourselves. Never let it be said we don’t know how to get from one to the other. This book shows us the way.