The chalice and the blade : our history, our future /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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San Francisco :
Perennial Library,
1988.
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| Edition: | First Harper & Row paperback edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The chalice and the blade : Human possibilities: two alternatives ; The evolutionary crossroads ; Chaos or transformation
- 1. Journey into a lost world: the beginnings of civilization : The Paleolithic ; The Neolithic ; Old Europe
- 2. Messages from the past: the world of the goddess : Neolithic art ; The worship of the goddess ; If it isn't patriarchy it must be matriarchy
- 3. The essential difference: Crete : The archaeological bombshell ; The love of life and nature ; A unique civilization ; The invisibility of the obvious
- 4. Dark order out of chaos: from the chalice to the blade : The peripheral invaders ; Metallurgy and male supremacy ; The shift in cultural evolution ; Warfare, slavery, and sacrifice ; The truncation of civilization ; The destruction of Crete ; A disintegrating world
- 5. Memories of a lost age: the legacy of the goddess : Evolution and transformation ; A golden race and the legend of Atlantis ; The Garden of Eden and the tablets of Sumer ; The gifts of civilization ; A new view of the past
- 6. Reality stood on its head: part I : Mother-murder is not a crime ; The dominator and partnership mind ; The metamorphosis of myth
- 7. Reality stood on its head: part II : The rerouting of civilization ; The absence of the goddess ; Sex and economics ; Dominator morality ; Knowledge is bad, birth is dirty, death is holy
- 8. The other half of history: part I : Our hidden heritage ; The cyclic unity of nature and the harmony of the spheres ; Ancient Greece ; Androcratic right and wrong
- 9. The other half of history: part II : Jesus and gylany ; The suppressed scriptures ; The gylanic heresies ; The pendulum swings back
- 10. The patterns of the past: gylany and history : The feminine as a force in history ; History repeats itself ; Women as a force in history ; The female ethos ; The end of the line
- 11. Breaking free: the unfinished transformation : The failure of reason ; The challenge to the androcratic premises ; The secular ideologies ; The dominator model of human relations ; Forward or back?
- 12. The breakdown of evolution: a dominator future : The insoluble problems ; Human issues and women's issues ; The totalitarian solution ; New realities and old myths
- 13. Breakthrough in evolution: toward a partnership future : A new view of reality ; A new science and spirituality ; A new politics and economics ; Transformation.