New Thoughts for a New World

Subject: New Thoughts for a New World

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Happy September Friend,

One of my elders once said to me, “You need some judgment. Without it you’d step over a cliff.” 😉

But she also pointed out (as we know) that when they bring harm to you and others, it’s time to let them go.

In my experience, in order to release judgments with greater ease, it’s wise to replace them with something new and more healing.

Recently, I interviewed Dr. Riane Eisler, who you may know as the bestselling author of the groundbreaking book, The Chalice and The Blade. She shared with me her experience (at 6 years old) and that of her family at the beginning of World War II, when the Nazi’s took over her native Vienna.

The discrimination of being an “other” that she experienced first in Vienna, and later as a refugee in Cuba and the United States—along with the devaluation she felt as a women—catalyzed her to explore a fundamental question.

Are patterns of prejudice, cruelty, and violence inevitable. Are they human nature? Or is there something else at work?

Given Riane’s history, it would be reasonable to expect she might feel bitter about being judged and mistreated as an “other,” but she turned the challenges of her youth into a gift and legacy for all of us.

In her most recent book, Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives and Future, Riane takes her research even further. She challenges views about our evolution as being domination-based and expands our understanding of our natural and sociological history as including nurturing, partnership orientations.

In doing so...

... she show us how we can live into our greater potential on the scale of Domination and Partnership.

Her work reminds me of Buckminisister Fuller’s famous quote:

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Riane’s question led her to an understanding of life beyond aggression, abuse and polarities.

And she provides a framework for how to we can lift ourselves beyond strongman rule into a more sustainable partnership model.

The more divisive and judgmental the world becomes, the more we need Riane’s roadmap out of abusive, domination-based thinking and into new systems based on caring, nurturing and love.

Be sure to watch our conversation on YouTube (see below).

Holding you in my heart and songs,

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Watch Misa's Interview with Bestselling Author, Riane Eisler

If you are tired of the judgements and abuses in the world today, this is the interview to watch.

In her interview with Misa, Dr. Riane Eisler talks about:

Her childhood experience that catalyzed her inquiry into Domination and Partnership models
Inherent limits of a Domination model
Debunking the theory that evolution is based on survival, aggression, selfishness and reproduction alone
Negates the belief that women are sinful and dangerous to men
Her 4 cornerstones of change necessary for developing a partnership model

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