A different lens to look at the world. A change of direction in our lives. Building on her painful personal experience, as a young Jew fleeing with her family from the atrocities of the Holocaust, where she lost most of her family, Riane Eisler takes us on a circular journey that broadens to encompass the cosmological and spiritual dimensions of our intimate relation with the universe. This internationally acclaimed book, based on the pioneering research Eisler for her bestseller The Chalice and the Blade, demonstrates how a simple change of perspective can free us from the ‘dominator paradigm’ in order to achieve a partnership relational dimension in every sphere of our life. To promote mutual respect and the sacredness of life means overcoming traditional dichotomies perpetuated by fear and violence, such as conservatism/liberalism, religion/secularism, communism/capitalism, workers/white-collars, men/women. This is the right path for a “new life”.