August 6, 2019
In her radio interview for REALTalk on Voice of Vashon, Riane Eisler spoke with Susan McCabe about Eisler’s new book, Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future, co-written with Douglas Fry.
The book opens with a call for a new urgency to create a more just and humane world. Research presented in Nurturing Our Humanity contradicts the notion that humans are innately violent and selfish; Eisler sees humanity as gradually moving from a domination culture to one of partnership. Eisler comments, ?The new biocultural partnership-domination lens shows that there is no opposition between the ?nature and nurture? arguments of human development?they are interconnected and work together through gene expression; shaped by the kind of cultural environment we create. Unlike conventional social categories such as right/left, religious/secular, Eastern/Western, the partnership-domination lens no longer excludes or marginalizes the majority of humanity: women and children. And that?s huge!?
Our true nature leads to compassion, collaboration, and partnership.
When children experience trauma or neglect their brains do not properly develop. ?It?s a question of developing our enormous capacity for caring, for consciousness, and for creativity?. Eisler?s almost 40 years of research into social systems and cultural evolution confirm that we can build a partnership world. ?To do this?we have to learn to think in different ways, and to focus on interventions that are foundational so we don?t keep having these regressions?.
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Order Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future through Oxford University Press and receive a 30% discount with code ASPROMP8.
Order the book or e-book on Amazon.
Listen to Eisler?s 2017 REALTalk interview: Women & Money.
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