Pacific Book Review

How The Rational Mind Repressed The Emotional Mind
Into Submission Once We Got The Spoken Word

By: Chet Shupe
Spiritual Freedom Press
Book Review by Pacific Book Review

In How the Rational Mind Repressed the Emotional Mind into Submission Once We Got the Spoken Word, Chet Shupe offers a provocative and deeply contemplative exploration of what it means to be human in a world governed by rules, contracts, and prescribed truths. With intellectual courage and philosophical depth, Shupe examines how the rise of language and rational systems may have quietly displaced emotional intelligence—the very force that once guided human connection, morality, and belonging.

Blending evolutionary insight with cultural critique, the book challenges readers to reconsider long-held assumptions about civilization, progress, and personal responsibility. Shupe’s writing is reflective and unflinching, yet grounded in compassion for the human condition. Rather than assigning blame, he frames humanity’s predicament as an innocent misunderstanding—one with profound emotional and spiritual consequences.

The essays unfold with a quiet urgency, inviting readers to look beneath social norms and institutional authority to rediscover the wisdom embedded in feeling. Themes of shame, trust, Eden, and community are explored not as abstract concepts, but as lived experiences that shape modern life in subtle and often painful ways.

This is a book for readers who appreciate big questions and are willing to sit with them. It does not offer quick answers or comforting conclusions, but instead opens a space for genuine reflection—asking whether healing, both personal and collective, begins not with better systems, but with restored trust in our own humanity.

Insightful, challenging, and ultimately humane, Shupe’s work will resonate with readers drawn to philosophy, psychology, spirituality, and the search for deeper meaning in an increasingly regulated world.

— Pacific Book Review