The View of the Shrew
A Glimpse Inside My New Book
Dear friends,
Over the past two years, many of you have followed my work here on Shrew Views—reading, questioning, challenging, and thinking critically alongside me. It’s been a space for honest conversation in a time when truth often feels like a scarce resource.
Today, I’m excited to share that I’ve turned this ongoing journey into something bigger.
Coming June 30, is my new book: The View of the Shrew: Unmasking the Truth in a Confused World 2022–2024!!
This isn’t just a collection of my most resonant essays from this Substack during 2022 to 2024. It’s a fully re-edited, curated anthology that weaves together the threads of what we’ve all experienced—emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually.
All of the articles in the book were pulled from the “paid” archive, so for most of you, they are articles you have not read. For my paid subscribers, they are an in-print version of your favourites!
Before and after each article, I have added a little “modern commentary” which is all original and new!
Inside, I tackle:
The psychological fallout of Covid mandates
The rise of globalist ideology
The subtle march toward technocratic control
The suppression of dissent and soul
Transhumanism, conformity, and mass psychosis
But it’s not all doom. This book is a wake-up call, yes—but also a beacon for anyone still willing to think critically, ask better questions, and resist the narrative that truth is relative.
If you’ve ever read one of my essays and thought, “I wish more people were reading this,” — this book is for them, too.
Sneak Peek: Chapter Snapshot
Here’s a quick preview from one of the included essays, Impervious to Suffering:
"There is no better word for this than indoctrination: people are being taught what is right and wrong, and being taught what the punishment is for being wrong. It is much like training a dog, but not with positive reinforcement (although there is a lot of that going on as well) but with negative reinforcement. Needless to say this negative punishment starts out mildly. And this is the thing I figured out—people don’t know yet what the real punishment is going to be for wrongdoing, and for straying away from the desires of the agenda."
How to Get It First
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Thank you for walking this path with me. This book was written for those of us who still believe that the soul matters, truth matters—and silence is not an option.
With clarity,
Todd Hayen
Shrew Views
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Hello Todd,
New here. But not new to the ideas. I began writing as a commenter on digital platforms many years ago -- attempting to act as a canary-in-the-coalmine -- which was not always heard. Since reading a Holocaust memoir as a girl, I had never stopped asking how/why the 60+ million Germans of the 1930s had gone collectively mad and bad under Hitler. Very few persons of the post-war era ever seemed interested in either the question or the answer.
I grew up and studied formally, I observed and experienced life.....and years prior to COVID-mania I realized that the West is in a SHADOW POSSESSION. Not just the Shadow appearing here and there, but the group Shadow taking over. It is a very particular situation.
That is the Jungian term, of course. The other term for this phenomenon is Totalitarianism -- which is not solely political; it is a specific human dynamic found in many spheres.
Someone this week directed me to your Substack since you were writing on my theme. I hope to have a book published late this year as well.
I know of course that Mattias Desmet did his podcasts on one of the terms used -- Mass Formation -- but I found that it was too little, and this aspect had already been covered by Gustave Le Bon in 1895. It was more a glossary presentation than an explanation of the principles involved. Mattias has presented no real overall explanations of the phenomenon....he even turns a blind eye to vital aspects. Which I have told him.
At any rate, Carl Jung himself did not initially recognize the Shadow Possession of 1930s Nazism. Therefore I think I have done quite well in recognizing it as the principle here in the WOKE West.
I look forward to reading your work beyond the most recent article, which is what I have seen to date.