The Reparenting Revolution: From A Power-Based To A Love-Based Society
Publisher: Neville Raymond
Paperback:
ISBN 10: 0692194002
ISBN 13: 978-0692194003
Where did the human race go wrong? How does a species that dreams of the brotherhood of man wind up being obsessed with competition and carnage? Science conclusively proves our humanity is rooted in the biology of unconditional love. Why then does religion hark back to gods that demand blood sacrifice and torturous initiations? Why is civilization still held hostage by governments whose stock in trade is punishment and war?
The Reparenting Revolution provides us with a cosmic perspective from which to answer these questions. It draws on the psychology of childhood trauma to explore the impact of earth-shattering catastrophes on the childhood of the human race. As only a handful of desolate survivors were left to pick up the pieces, they framed these heavenly catastrophes as the destructive anger of gods, inflicted on an errant race in retaliation for its sins. They thereby imprinted future generations with an unforgettable object lesson that came straight from the gods. The children of humanity can only be changed for the better by being almost battered to death. As doomsday survivors became de facto progenitors of the human race, they recycled the punitive judgments of gods via the punitive judgments of men. They fathered a power structure in both its sacred and secular form that prevailed down the ages as a glorified model of child abuse. Force and violence were marshaled to keep order in society, much as they were marshaled for generations to keep order in the home. And it is just now dawning on us that the only way to break out of these institutionalized cycles of abuse is by sharing our birthright of unconditional love with each other.The audience for this book is anyone who ever wondered about the nature of evil, and why society is shaped by the cliquish demands of power instead of being organized to meet the universal need for love - parents and teachers, high school and college students, armchair philosophers, political activists, rabbis, priests, psychologists, anthropologists, and students of history and religion.
There is our trauma as individuals - and then there is our trauma as a species. The Reparenting Revolution is the first to synthesize the two to ignite a revolutionary new understanding of past and present. To say this book breaks new ground is an understatement. It opens the floodgates to a whole universe of breakthroughs in cosmology, religion, mythology, history, psychology, parenting and politics. Like 'On the Origin of Species', it is likely to spawn a entire cottage industry of scholarship intent on fleshing out the untold missing links between the celestial cataclysms that messed up the world in the past and the disastrous mess our world is presently in.