In the last webinar the topic of self-worth, self-esteem and parenting came up and collective unconscious sent me this book.
Having seen great reviews on amazon I decided to read and it is indeed a great book about understanding the role of trauma and how it is passed onto a baby through female psyche. The author clearly lays out the role of female psyche in the development of an adult and in the violence seen throughout history borrowing from the works of Jung, Jungian psychologists and Freud.
It is a known thing in spirituality that the first level of trauma happens when the soul separates itself from Source or God but the author shows how the trauma is passed onto a foetus in the mother’s womb and in first few years after birth even before a baby learns to speak.
The topics discussed validated the realisations that came to me many many years ago that ego is a feminine construct, inflicting pain and violence is a feminine trait which exists in both the genders, and also that women (barring very spiritually advanced) bear children for selfish reasons to be the universe for a baby and experience a kind of love which can’t be found elsewhere.
Dragon Mother: A New Look at the Female Psyche by Michael Tsarion
Now this book will probably offend feminists who believe all the evil things in the world are done by men but this book will help to understand how such men became so violent, the roots of trauma and the vicious cycle of pain from mother to a child (boy or girl).
The book is a medium to heavy read (gets heavy in the last chapters) considering the concepts and terms discussed.
Lastly, every guy at least should read this book to integrate his shadow and become the man he wants.
…to secure oneself properly in the solar world and embody the masculine polarity, one must fearlessly confront repressed emotions. This occurs only after one makes an unbiased study of the female psyche, given that it is the ultimate root of the pathological tendencies that impede development during the lunar and solar phases.