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Based on the research that brought international recognition to Riane Eisler's groundbreaking work The Chalice and the Blade, but addressing the world as it is today, The Power of Partnership offers inspiration and guidance for moving to the better lives we yearn for. It is a self-help book that recognizes that the self can't be helped in isolation.
Eisler offers us a new lens, a new paradigm, for seeing the world and living in it. The Partnership Model, which emphasizes mutual respect and a fundamental awareness of the sacredness of all life, creates a sold foundation for families, businesses, communities, and the world. In contrast, the suffocating paradigm that has guided much of recorded history -- what Eisler calls the Domination Model -- has led individuals and groups, acting out of fear, to oppress women, wage war, terrorize, and subjugate others. Using these simple yet far-reaching models, Eisler shows how political and personal relationships based on domination inevitably result in misery and violence, while those founded on partnership foster respect, love, and an explosion of creativity.
Nothing can vanquish anxiety like clarity, which is what Riane Eisler delivers abundantly in The Power of Partnership. Read it and you'll come away with a new understanding of how the world works, (and why it so often works atrociously). Even more important, you'll feel better about it (because you'll feel less helpless about it) -- and in a world that seems to be going mad we can all use some of that!
~ Daniel Quinn, author of Ishmael
The Power of Partnership is the right medicine for virtually everything that ails our society and planet right now. . . a brilliantly accessible plan for transforming ourselves and our world.
~ Christiane Northrup, M.D., author, Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom
If the Osama bin Ladens of this world were required to read this book and absorb its message, the human race would surge onto the fast track toward love and creativity.
~ Howard Bloom, author of Global Brain |
