The roles of both women and men will be far less rigid, allowing the entire human species a maximum of developmental flexibility. Instead of requiring individuals to fit into pyramidal hierarchies, these institutions will be heterarchic, allowing for both diversity and flexibility in decision making and action. But like the emerging egalitarian family and social-action networks, the social structures of the future will be based more on linking than rankings of domination.
The chalice and the blade our history our future full#
In the world as it will be when women and men live in full partnership, there will, of course, still be families, schools, governments, and other social institutions.
There is the path of partnership: a gylanic world based on mutual respect, mutual accountability, and mutual benefit.
There is the path of domination that at our level of technological development may take us to an evolutionary dead end. But there is another alternative: a way of life where the life-giving and illuminating power of the Chalice guides our world.Īs co-creators of our own evolution, the path we take is ours to choose. Ours is a time when the lethal power of the Blade ? amplified a millionfold by megatons of nuclear or biochemical warheads ? threatens to end all life. We stand at an evolutionary crossroads: breakdown or breakthrough. Exerpted and adapted from Riane Eisler, The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future.
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