…life to you because what I'll be doing this weekend is... basically sharing a friend. Last year I was here with Rian Eisler, but that was a marriage of ideological convenience. Not that it wasn't sincere, but we were drawn together primarily because our…

…ride. I actually look forward to that day. I believe that that's within reach, you know. Anybody else? It's a term that Rian Eisler introduced in her book, The Chalice and the Blade, and it means related to Gaia, related to the goddess. Have you all…

…things, look them up, and then draw these graphs. But what I want to do here is show you, in honor of Rian Eisler, let's say, I'm going to change the customization. I'm going to move the position of the little date of interest pointer. I'm…

…as a psychologist and basically a man of ideas. And he also has the distinction of being the partner of Rian Eisler, the great lady archeological revolutionary who's discovered and made cogent, rediscovered and made cogent the notion of partnership. I…

…the first hippies. The Albigensians are basically a Cretan revival, which was the preceding wave. of the, what does Rian Eisler call it, the andro... The galactic? Yeah, the galactic resurgence. Yeah, the galactic resurgence. So since the patriarchal…

…chaos as well? Yeah. This is, let us say, a personal hypothesis, not to be taken too seriously. As visualized by Rian Eisler, the two different societies were kind of steady-state equilibrio. And between them, like when the Kurgan waves, you know, the no…

…it must be that this is some kind of control system, interspecies control system, and that the Gaian Partnership of Rian Eisler was a state of society only maintainable by frequent recourse to psychedelic substances which maintained the connection with the…

…all these distinctions. So then what came to be out of this Confluence of forces was what I call, following Rian Eisler, the earliest partnership society. It was a society of pastoralists because once it was understood that cattle could be domesticated,…

…out about 5 000 years ago. The imagination, the living in the imagination conference we just had, we were very, very fortunate to have Rian Eisler come in and talk to us. If you're not aware of her work, I urge you to look into it. Rian Eisler wrote…

…to have Rian Eisler come in and talk to us. If you're not aware of her work, I urge you to look into it. Rian Eisler wrote the chalice and the blade and she is a brilliant woman archaeologist a refugee from nazi Europe and her notion is, you know…

…values, language well I don't know about language, language is older but it all came together here. This is what Rian Eisler and Maria Gambutis and the enthusiasts of the partnership interpretation of paleolithic time is all about. And then we know…

…where it had created grasslands cut by bubbling streams with wooded uplands the Eden of the psilocybin partnership Paradise that Rian Eisler and Maria Gombutas have talked about. That same process of drying eventually turned the grasslands to desert and the…

…slogan at greater and greater cost to the sum total of everything profit driven it's not really need driven. I hear you I think Rian Eisler I think that was the key thing in her book was that the level of culture does not equate to the level of…

…to a certain point where we can recognize many other forms of transformation as being canonical things that nature does. Rian Eisler has very cleverly I think, adapted this new development in mathematical consciousness in her own utopian vision by proposing…

…everybody in this room has a far stronger ego than they need and in the society. I think the great thing that Rian Eisler did for this discussion was de genderize the terminology so that instead of talking about patriarchy and all this what we should…

…these were our ancestors. And then taking getting you get into this realm of prehistory. Terence referred to the work of Rian Eisler which in turn is based on the work of the archaeologist Maria Gambutas, whose major discovery over the last 20 years…

…to be first better hunting, then better sex, then great ideas. Who could turn it down? And I've talked like you know when Rian Eisler and I appeared here. Rian is by no stretch of the imagination a psychedelic. I mean she's a very straight and very…