Riane Eisler reads this new, accessible adaptation of her ground-breaking classic The Chalice as well as the Blade, in which she combined first theory with noted scholarship or grant to tell a new story of our cultural origins. Drawing proof from literature, artwork, sociology, archeology, politics, and economics, she eloquently reconstructs a prehistoric tradition based on collaboration instead of domination. She then traces the origins of the global change to patriarchy, showing that was as well as the ‘war from the sexes’ are neither divinely nor biologically ordained. Finally, and most considerably, she provides fresh scripts for living, proving a better upcoming is possible, and is actually rooted in the theatre of our past.