#29 | Awakening From The Trance Of Domination - Riane Eisler (The Chalice and the Blade)
“We need new language, because the old language keeps us trapped.”
My guest today is Dr. Riane Eisler, a social systems scientist, cultural historian, and author whose research, writing, and speaking has made an enormous impact on the cultural landscape.
I first encountered her work through the book The Chalice and the Blade, where she first articulated her cultural transformation theory of history, which includes the lens of dominator versus partnership society.
In the decades since, she’s written numerous other books including Sacred Pleasure, and most recently Nurturing our Humanity. Dr. Eisler is president of the Center for Partnership Studies (CPS), as well as given keynotes at the United Nations General Assembly, the US Department of State, along with corporations and universities offering applications of the partnership model introduced in her work.
In our conversation today, we cover the foundations of her cultural transformation theory, along with her own childhood experience of fleeing Nazi Germany. We look at the limitations of language that have so far prevented the depth of cultural change we urgently need, and how sharing a new mythology of partnerism may yet regenerate a more humane and environmentally sustainable world.
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SHOW NOTES
Growing up as a child refugee
Writing Chalice and The Blade
Cultural evolution from a gender holistic perspective
Dominator versus Partnership models of society
Interconnections and mutually supporting relationships
Waking up from domination
The role of attractors in liminal times
A partnerism alternative
What happened to the sacred union?
Sacred pleasure
We mistook rebellion for reconstruction
Adam and Eve
The art of bull leaping
A new mythology of partnerism
