Season 2 Episode 42: with Riane Eisler
“I still have hope. But hope I have more than hope. I mean, I have evidence that it is possible. And that I think it's grounded. We can build the foundations for this new, very old system”
As a holocaust survivor, Riane has witnessed both enormous violence, but also spiritual courage. It’s not the courage that we are thought to think of, but the courage to stand up against injustice under love. Her experiences led her to ask questions that we are all asking today: does it have to be this way? Especially when we have such an enormous capacity for caring, consciousness, and creativity. Through her experience, humans were told that we are bad and that we must be rigidly controlled from the top; to instill a fear of God. We have not been told what to build to move to a more caring, sensitive, sustainable, and equitable place. Riane developed new categories through observation and research and what became clear is that for millennia, in our prehistory, humans’ cultural direction is in the direction of the configuration of the partnership system, such as gender partnership and gender equity which are important pillars and components of that partnership system. For Riane, we are now in a time of reclamation and a tipping point, but the issue is which way will it tip?
Riane Eisler, JD, PhD(h), is the recipient of many honors, such as the Distinguished Peace Leadership Award earlier given to the Dalai Lama, and internationally known for her groundbreaking contributions as a systems scientist, futurist, and cultural historian. She is author of many books, including The Chalice and the Blade, now in its 57th US printing and 27 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, Oxford University Press, 2019, co-authored with Douglas P. Fry.
Eisler’s innovative whole-systems research offers new perspectives and practical tools for constructing a less violent, more egalitarian, gender-balanced, and sustainable future. Eisler is President of the Center for Partnership Systems, which provides practical applications of her work, and Editor in Chief of the online Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies published at the University of Minnesota. She keynotes conferences worldwide, has taught at many universities, has written hundreds of articles and contributions to both scholarly and popular books, pioneered the application of human rights standards to women and children, has addressed the UN General Assembly, and consults to businesses and governments on the partnership model introduced by her work. For more information, see www.rianeeisler.com and www.centerforpartnership.org.
What we discuss:
03:30 – Introducing Riane
04:38 – The Time of the Feminine for Riane
07:43 – The Framework of Domination Systems
13:35 – Shame of the Feminine and Extractive Earth Culture
19:22 – Rian’s Healing Journey
25:44 – The Value System for a New Economic Model
34:28 – The Awakening
41:49 – The Four Cornerstones
45:13 – Keystone of The Partnership Society
50:24 – A Woman’s Worth
54:42 – Being in Partnership
1:04:12 – Riane in Behalf of the Divine Mother
1:07:02 – Courses on The Four Cornerstones
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To learn more from Riane, visit:
www.rianeeisler.com
www.centerforpartnership.org
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