Inspired by Riane Eisler ~ Women’s History Month | SAIV | The Spiritual Alliance to Stop Intimate Violence

Riane Eisler is among the most vital visionaries I have known in my lifetime. Her work has had a profound impact on my life and that of countless others across the world. Daily we are witness to stories of violence, collapse, cruelty, greed, oppression, suffering, and heartlessness. There are powerful antidotes to these many faces of violence and unconsciousness. The vision and wisdom found in the work of Riane Eisler is among them. I highly recommend her books and related resources as a source for profound possibilities and potentials for us individually and as a species struggling to evolve. Another world is truly possible. May we hit that tipping point that is so deeply needed of human beings who are awakening from the dominator trance and engaging in the collective work of birthing a more caring, just, sustainable, and peaceful world. — Molly

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Rhonda Case: "Riane Eisler is — like Dr. Gabor Maté, the late Marshall Rosenberg, and Dr. Viktor Frankl — a survivor of the Holocaust. Like them, the unimaginable trauma of her early years served as catalyst for a lifetime quest to explore the roots of human violence and to imagine new ways of living in peace."

What better way to meet Dr. Riane Eisler than through the voices of the women, young and old, whose own work and lives have been transformed over the past five decades by her work? The first in a series, written on International Women’s Day 2018, we begin with an introduction to Riane’s contributions to the international community, followed by a moving tribute to Riane by Jensine Larsen, Founder of “World Pulse.”

Riane Eisler, J.D., Ph.D, is a social and systems scientist, attorney, and author whose work on cultural transformation has inspired both scholars and social activists. Her groundbreaking research has impacted many fields, including history, economics, psychology, sociology, education, and healthcare. She has been a leader in the movement for peace, sustainability, and economic equity, and her pioneering work in human rights has expanded the focus of international organizations to include the rights of women and children.

Daniel Ellsberg (subject of the film The Post, author of "The Doomsday Machine") lavished well-deserved praise upon Eisler's groundbreaking classic when it appeared in 1988.

Dr. Eisler is the only woman among 20 great thinkers including Hegel, Adam Smith, Marx, and Toynbee selected for inclusion in Macrohistory and Macrohistorians in recognition of the lasting importance of her work as a cultural historian and evolutionary theorist. She has received many honors, including the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s 2009 Distinguished Peace Leadership Award, and is included in the award-winning book Great Peacemakers as one of 20 leaders for world peace, along with Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Martin Luther King.

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