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Riane Eisler is one of the most important scholars, thinkers, and visionaries of our lifetime. Her monumental body of work, which includes the well-known book The Chalice and the Blade (1987), provides us a view into the prehistoric reality of our species (which is, in many respects, far more advanced and far more civilized than much of more recent historic times), and provides us visionary way-showing, articulating what’s possible (and necessary) as we evolve beyond the “dominator” patterns that have precipitated the existential polycrisis of the Anthropocene, and heal the pathological root causes of dominator systems.

Having gazed deep into the mists of yore by examining the archeological record (pre-historic Eurasian, African, and Mediterranean cultures; notably Ҫatalhӧyük, Minoan Crete, and ancient China), Riane has plumbed the depths of our shared cultural heritage as well as the depths of our collective psyche – what Jung calls the collective unconscious – and has revealed for us a far more hopeful and compelling story of what lies at the root of human nature and what’s possible as we go forward along our shared evolutionary journey. Unlike the “dominator societies” we find pervasive throughout the more recent millennia of recorded “history,” which, she tells us are “trauma factories,” we “have an alternative… but we have to change our paradigm.”

In this special podcast interview, Riane shares the four cornerstone issues with us, which she also wrote about in an essay written exclusively for our forthcoming book: Our Biggest Deal: Pathways to Planetary Prosperity. In her essay, titled “Toward a Caring and Partnership Economy: Beyond Capitalism and Socialism,” Eisler describes the historic underpinnings of our dysfunctional systems and their more balanced alternatives, which (thankfully) are to be found in the indigenous and pre-historic cultural roots of our shared ancestries.

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Among Eisler’s many impactful publications are: "The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future" (1987), "The Partnership Way: New Tools for Living and Learning, Healing Our Families, and Our World" (1990), "Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myth, and the Politics of the Body" (1995), "The Power of Partnership: Seven Relationships That Will Change Your Life" (2002), "The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating Caring Economics" (2007), and "Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future" (2019).

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ABOUT DR. RIANE EISLER

Dr. Riane Eisler, JD, PhD (hon) is internationally known for her groundbreaking contributions as a systems scientist, futurist, attorney, and cultural historian. She is the author of The Chalice and the Blade (now in its 57th U.S. printing and 30 foreign editions), The Real Wealth of Nations (hailed by Nobel Peace Laureate Desmond Tutu as “a template for the better world we have been so urgently seeking”), and Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future (co-authored with anthropologist Douglas Fry, Oxford University Press). Eisler is President of the Center for Partnership Systems and Editor in Chief of the online Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies (published by the University of Minnesota). She is a childhood survivor of the Nazi occupation of Europe, and has influenced thousands of scholars, activists, and policy makers working to eradicate the scourge of authoritarianism from our cultural fabric.