The Genesis of Genocide

About the Book

FROM the jumping-off point that humans are born good, The Genesis of Genocide plumbs the depth of evil. Braced by unconditional love as the basis of wholeness, author Neville Raymond heaves the lid off the mystery of irrational hatred and violence.

Discover the fascinating answers to these perennial questions on man's inhumanity to man:
Why does an accomplished people -or an honor student -suddenly go off on a rampage?
If Hitler was an abused child, why don't more abused children turn into Hitlers?
Is free will a viable concept or a license for scapegoating?

The Genesis of Genocide tackles Hitler from a holistic perspective, an unabashedly pro-human stance. Beginning with the clean slate of childhood innocence, it shows why Anne Frank grew up to believe that humans are good at heart, while Adolf Hitler turned into a byword of heartless evil. The book does not just refrain from demonizing the Nazis -it also lays the burden of responsibility of their crimes on a Judeo-Christian legacy and the misparenting tradition it deifies.

Key topics include:

• Why Golgotha, the site of the Crucifixion, is the Auschwitz of the ancient world
• Why the founding father of Judaism is the patron saint of the Nazi defendants at Nuremberg
• How the Chosen Mystique set up Jews to be recurring targets of persecution

Wide-ranging in its historical grasp, yet as timely as today's headlines, this book reinvents our view of the Holocaust. Here is an open-minded investigation into the astonishing cultural links that made the Holocaust an unavoidable outcome of our cultural and religious past. And here, at last, is a heart-centered hammer for breaking the cultural cycle of abuse, and ensuring that another Holocaust – or a rash of little ones – does not have to be an unavoidable part of our future.

About the Author

NEVILLE Raymond was born in Calcutta, India, and attended a British-style boarding school in Naini Tal, at the foothills of the Himalayas. Growing up surrounded by mass poverty and starvation, he has long been intrigued by the tragedy of human suffering.

Raymond immigrated to the United States with his family as a teenager, and enrolled in Hollywood High School in Los Angeles.

After going on to receive a degree in English literature from U.C.L.A, he pursued graduate studies in the history of religion and ideas. It was then that he chose to more fully explore the most egregious example of man's inhumanity to man: the Holocaust. To his profound intellectual understanding of the subject, he added an emotional, humanistic element.

The result is The Genesis of Genocide -the fruit of some two decades of research, and the first of an intended three-volume series on where the human race has gone wrong. To those who find his work iconoclastic, Raymond replies that he would rather slaughter a herd of sacred cows than sacrifice the life of a single child.

He has appeared on numerous radio shows discussing the crux of his book -the innate goodness of the human species.

Raymond is now at work on his next book that will shed new light onto conventional therapy practices. Entitled The Reparenting Revolution, it is scheduled to be completed by the middle of 2002.