Finally, and most significantly, she provides new scripts for living, proving that a better future is possible, and is in fact rooted in the drama of our past. She then traces the roots of the global shift to patriarchy, showing that was and the "war of the sexes" are neither divinely nor biologically ordained. Drawing evidence from literature, art, sociology, archeology, politics, and economics, she eloquently reconstructs a prehistoric culture based on partnership rather than domination. |a Riane Eisler reads this new, accessible adaptation of her ground-breaking classic The Chalice and the Blade, in which she combined original theory with noted scholarship to tell a new story of our cultural origins.
|a 1 online resource (1 audio file (3hr., 02 min.)) : |b digital. Read The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future-Updated With a New Epilogue by Eisler, Riane, lexile & reading level:, (ISBN: 9780062046307). |a The chalice and the blade : |b our history, our future |h / |c Riane Eisler. |a Eisler, Riane Tennenhaus, |e author, |e narrator. |a 1577318781 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 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.|a 9781577318781 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
In our conversation today, we cover the foundations of her cultural transformation theory, along with her own childhood experience of fleeing Nazi Germany. 205-239 Includes index Introduction : the chalice and the blade - Journey into a lost world : the beginnings of civilization - Messages from the past : the worls of the goddess - The essential difference : Crete - Dark order out of chaos : from the chalice to the blade - Memories of a lost age : the legacy of the goddess - Reality stood on its head : part I - Reality. 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. The Chalice and the Blade The phenomenal bestseller, with more than 500000 copies sold worldwide, now with a new epilogue from the author-The Chalice and. The Chalice and the Blade is one of those magnificent key books that can transform us and initiate fundamental changes in the.
Some books are like revelations, they open the spirit to unimaginable possibilities. The most important book since Darwin’s Origin of Species. In the decades since, she’s written numerous other books including Sacred Pleasure, and most recently Nurturing our Humanity. &0183 &32 Eisler uses the symbols of chalice and blade to stand for two competing sets of values and models of society. The Chalice and the Blade may be the most significant work published in all our lifetimes.
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. Speaker: Riane Eisler is a social systems scientist, c. It went on to become part of the body of wonderlore that 'informs' Dan Brown 's The Da Vinci Code. Description: 'The Chalice and the Blade' and it's recent popularity in Spanish speaking countries. Riane Eisler, a social systems scientist, cultural historian, and author whose research, writing, and speaking has made an enormous impact on the cultural landscape. The Chalice and the Blade ( ISBN 0062502875) is a 1987 book by Riane Eisler that purports to explain the origin of ' patriarchy ' as the result of Bronze Age era military campaigns in Eastern Europe.