Riane Eisler's Most Thought-Provoking Interviews

Riane Eisler is as articulate on video as she is on paper. We invite you to watch some of her best interview segments and soundbites below:

"Global transformation, specifically the question of “transformation from what to what”. The answer requires stepping out of conventional categories like religious vs secular, left vs right, categories I call “weapons of mass distraction". Why? They fragment our consciousness."

"Warfare is, at the most, 5,000-10,000 years old. For most of our human adventure on earth we did not live in domination oriented societies. Modern history is a strong movement towards partnership systems, punctured by periodic regressions like the one we are seeing today."

"An old strand of trees doesn't make it into GDP until it is dead, until it has been chopped down. GDP not only puts negatives in as positives, it fails to give any value whatsoever to work of caring for people, volunteer community, or caring for our natural life support systems."

"I also saw something else, something that I call spiritual courage. It’s not courage the way we're taught, you know, have the courage to kill the dragon, slay the enemy, right? But the courage to stand up against injustice out of love & that's the courage my mother displayed."

"If we are to build a more equitable, sustainable & caring world, we have to pay much more attention to the foundations on which politics and economics rest. Unless we shift these foundations, we'll continue to have regressions."

We also invite you to check out the Center for Partnership Systems' Youtube channel where you can watch all of Riane Eisler's interviews, keynotes, and more.

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