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Inner Nature: Lyla June Johnston and Riane Eisler
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In this episode of Inner Nature, we join Lyla June Johnston and Riane Eisler. Their conversation takes us across the globe and throughout the annals of time, from a deeply ancient, harmonious, Neolithic settlement to the devastation of Nazi Europe, and from the pre-colonial mound-building societies of the Muskogee right up to present day. Throughout, they contrast systems of partnership, kinship, love, care, and humility vs. those of domination, violence, oppression, hierarchy, and hubris. They invite us to consider how a culture’s perceptions of gender parallel its regard for the environment. And they urge us to examine our lineages of trauma and to look to the past to understand what is possible for our future.
Lyla June is an Indigenous musician, scholar, and community organizer of Diné, Cheyenne, and European descent. Lyla recently earned her PhD from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, studying how pre-colonial Indigenous Nations designed abundant food systems for both human and animal life.
Riane Eisler is an attorney, social systems scientist, cultural historian, and futurist. She is the president of the Center for Partnership Systems and the author of several influential and acclaimed books, including “The Chalice and the Blade” and “Nurturing Our Humanity,” which outline what she calls the partnership and domination models of society.
Lyla June and Riane both discuss and exemplify profound love and spiritual courage in this conversation, providing a model and foundation for re-building societies based on respect among genders, between species, and for the living land that sustains us.
Further reading and points of reflection:
* How Love Can Help Solve Some of the World’s Most Pressing Problems
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