Where Did the Patriarchy Come From? (Riane Eisler, PhD)
Our guest today is Dr. Riane Eisler, social systems scientist, cultural historian, futurist, attorney and internationally bestselling author of many notable classics, including Sacred Pleasure and The Chalice and the Blade, which I read recently and LOVED\u2014while it came out in the \u201880s, it is incredibly prescient\u2014prophetic really\u2014and more relevant than ever. In it, and all of her books, Riane explores the ways in which hierarchies of dominance\u2014which are NOT our natural state\u2014inform how we live now. \u201cWhat we\u2019ve been told is simply a false story of our past, of our present, and most importantly today, the possibilities for our future,\u201d she explains. Dr. Eisler joins me today to discuss her newest work, Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future. In the book, Eisler implores us to awaken to the notion that injustice, inequality, violence, and domination do not tell the full story of human possibility. \u201cWe humans were really wired more for partnership than for domination,\u201d she says. Guided by the ethos of partnership, Dr. Eisler\u2019s work challenges each of us to play a role in the construction of a more equitable, more sustainable, and less violent world through investment in human infrastructure and a dedication to raising future generations by different scripts and constructs than those given to us. People\u2019s minds can be changed, she reminds us, but a change in consciousness starts with the knowledge that there are different, better, possibilities.\xa0\xa0\n\nEPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:\n\nExploring caring economics, human infrastructure, and the alienation of caring labor (Approx. 5:09)\n\nThe partnership model and the fight against sticky myths of domination (Approx. 11:00)\n\nReplumbing our dysfunctional operating system (Approx. 29:35)\n\n\nMORE FROM RIANE EISLER:\nRiane's Website\nNurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future\nThe Chalice & The Blade: Our History, Our Future\nThe Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics\nThe Power of Partnership: Sevens Relationships That Will Change Your Life\nBreaking Out of the Domination Trance: Building Foundations for a Safe, Equitable, Caring World\n\nRIANE\u2019S PICKS:\nMy Octopus Teacher - Netflix, 2020\nGrandfather's Garden: Some Bedtime Stories for Little and Big Folk - David Loye\n\nDIG DEEPER\nMore on Partnership Systems and the Partnerism Movement\nCourses in Partnership - Changing Our Story, Changing Our Lives\nSexual Dimorphism in European Upper Paleolithic Cave Art - Dean Snow, Society for American Archaeology, 2013\xa0\nA World Without Women: The Christian Clerical Culture of Western Science - David Noble, 2013\n \nTo learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy\n \n Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices