The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future"In prehistorical times, Eisler argues, women and men lived together in egalitarian communities devoted to nurturance; with the imposition of male domination, female values gave way to creeds of hierarchy, aggression, power, obedience. Eisler, a futurist, posits a new society based on the recovery of more humane values."--From Library journal (6/1/85). |
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Page 81
... mind of the past , to be driven under the ground , out cast , like dirt ! " 13 Although in Aeschylus's time this mind of the past - bearing the fading memories of an earlier time - had not yet been completely de- stroyed , it was now ...
... mind of the past , to be driven under the ground , out cast , like dirt ! " 13 Although in Aeschylus's time this mind of the past - bearing the fading memories of an earlier time - had not yet been completely de- stroyed , it was now ...
Page 82
... mind that was driven out - the mind that worshiped the Goddess as the Supreme Creatrix of all Life and as the Mother not only of humanity but of all animals and plants - reality would have been a far different thing . To a mind ...
... mind that was driven out - the mind that worshiped the Goddess as the Supreme Creatrix of all Life and as the Mother not only of humanity but of all animals and plants - reality would have been a far different thing . To a mind ...
Page 83
... mind was , sometimes brutally and some- times subtly , sometimes deliberately and sometimes unwittingly , re- molded into the new kind of mind required by this drastic shift in our cultural evolution . It was a process that , as we have ...
... mind was , sometimes brutally and some- times subtly , sometimes deliberately and sometimes unwittingly , re- molded into the new kind of mind required by this drastic shift in our cultural evolution . It was a process that , as we have ...
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