#raine eisler

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The average prehistoric person could make a nice living in about a fifteen-hour work week. Fifteen hours a week for subsistence leaves a lot of time for other things. So much time that maybe the restless ones who didn’t have a baby around to enliven their life, or skill in making or cooking or singing, or very interesting thoughts to think, decided to slope off and hunt mammoths. The skillful hunters would come staggering back with a load of meat, a lot of ivory, and a story. It wasn’t the meat that made the difference. It was the story. It is hard to tell a really gripping tale of how I wrestled a wild-oat seed from its husk, and then another, and then another, and then another, and then another, and then I scratched my gnat bites, and Ool said something funny, and we went to the creek and got a drink and watched newts for a while, and then I found another patch of oats…

Ursula K. Le Guin, "Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction" (1986 essay). theanarchistlibrary.org. [Retrieved 8 February, 2025]

Why, yes. I am going to drip feed you this essay a paragraph or two at a time, out of order.

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I absolutely agree that the Story is the vital pivot around which human cultures turn. But I'm not sure I agree with Le Guin's premise, here, that the dominance of the Aggressive, Spear-Throwing, Hero within these stories began around those ancient Paleolithic cooking fires.

According to futurist and social scientist, Riane Eisler (Her official website), before the rise of either the Patriarchy or Matriarchy, the earliest human civilizations were Egalitarian, and the shift to a Dominator culture was probably long and gradual.

Maybe, way back then, there were plenty of stories about the adventures of gathering wild oats. Maybe, sometime in the future, we'll rediscover them.

After all, there's the Irish Proverb: Bíonn siúlach scéalach (Travelers have tales to tell). All you need to gather stories (or oats) is to go for a walk.

As it is now, we have no way of knowing either way.

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Regen - Joris Ivens & Mannus Franken (1929)

Music by Hanns Eisler (1941)

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REVIEW

The Chaos Kind by Barry Eisler

John Rain #11 & Livia Lone #3.5

 Chaos, indeed! This book had me writing names down at first trying to keep them all straight but very quickly their characters and personalities emerged so that keeping them straight was no longer difficult at all. In fact, I was quickly reading to see what would happen next and what part each player would slot into as the story progressed.

 What I liked:

* No trouble understanding the plot even though I have only read one previous book by this author.

* The plot, writing, and character development

* The location(s)

* That I could hate the bad guys

* That I could love the lethal team that worked together to thwart some very evil people

* The planning that went into various ops the team executed

* The action sequences and how real they seemed

* The interactions between the team and how they communicated, grew to respect one another over time, and worked together as equals but with specific capabilities within the group.

* That the women were treated as equals in the group

* That there were some romantic couples and some of the team that still may have a chance for romance in the future

* The “new blood” that might join the team in the future

* I would list the individual characters and their strengths, what I liked, etc BUT there were many and I liked them all…it would take too long. I will say that I would love to have them as friends and definitely would love to have them with me if ever in a tight spot.

* Dash: young man who has great potential in the future. Also admire his mother and her partner

* Wondering whether or not Rain and Delilah will really retire or not

* Thinking about how fine a line there sometimes is between fact and fiction

* Thinking about who will be in the next team that will continue the series

* Knowing that there will be another book because…there were a few left standing that really need to be felled.

 What I didn’t like:

* The people and events I was meant not to like

* Knowing that the evil people in this story are no doubt found in real life doing equally reprehensible things

* Having to wait to find out what happens next.

 Did I like this book? Yes

Would I read more in this series? Definitely!

 Thank you to NetGalley and Thomas & Mercer for the ARC – This is my honest review.

 5 Stars

BLURB

The assassins of Barry Eisler’s #1 bestseller The Killer Collective are back—and this time, it’s chaos. Assistant US Attorney Alondra Diaz hates traffickers. And she’s determined to put one of America’s most powerful financiers, Andrew Schrader, in prison forever for his crimes against children. But Schrader has videos implicating some of the most powerful members of the US national security state. To eliminate Diaz, the powers that be bring in a contractor: Marvin Manus, an implacable assassin whose skills have been forged in intelligence, the military, and the hardest prisons. Enter former Marine sniper Dox and black-ops veteran Daniel Larison with an unusual assignment: not to kill Diaz, but to keep her alive. A lot of players are determined to acquire the videos and the blackmail power they represent. But with Seattle sex-crimes detective Livia Lone, “natural causes” killer John Rain, and Mossad honey-trap specialist Delilah, the good guys might just have a chance. They’re not going to play by anyone else’s rules. They’re not going to play by any rules at all. They want a different kind of fight. The chaos kind.

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Hanns Eisler and Joris Ivens: Regen (1929/1941)

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1. The Chalice and the Blade , Our History , Our Future By : Raine Eisler New York, Harper Collins 1987     The Chalice and The Blade tells a new story of our current cultural origins.  It shows that warfare and the war of the sexes are neither divinely nor biologically ordained.  It proves verification that a better future is possible, and is in fact firmly rooted in the haunting dramas of what happened in our past. 2. A Time To Keep : The Tasha Tudor Book of Holidays NY Simon and Schuster 1977  My beloved Great Grandma signed this book as a gift when I was a child.  And it’s victorian country values and simple elegance influenced my drawing style and  philosophy for a lifetime.  3. The Classic Fairy Tales  By editor Maria Tatar , W.W. norton and co. 1999  The rendition of these classic fairytales show women our own herstory.  In a Patriarchal world like our true last names, given to us by our fathers, then changed by our husbands.  So much of our true linage , past , and wisdom,  is lost, appropriated, twisted and buried.  These classic tales remind us of who we really are.  4. Till We Have Faces  By: C. S. Lewis , Time Life Books 1956  A mythic tale about a remote God-haunted pagan kingdom filled with the divine magical terrifying and a static reality in which we all live now.  It is not an escape from life but the higher kind of fantasy that conveys the essence of things as they are in subtle symbolic terms. 5. Wuthering  Heights  By: Emily Bronte  Bantam Classics , originally published Dec. 1847 My personal take on this classic mother of all ghost stories, is that it’s a true depiction and definition of Soul Mates. How they are a mirror to your own self.  And if those who are fortunate enough in this lifetime to find their soulmate, can not step up to the tasks of communicating properly, and fixing whatever issues in yourself you see reflected in your soul mate, instead of having a life partner and source of strength to weather all storms of life.  The soul mates are doomed instead to be two halves of a whole. One a ghost , and the other alive but dead inside.  @damedarcy https://www.instagram.com/p/CjVUtFwuPcZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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CANTON, Mississippi (Reuters) - Harvey Hill wouldn’t leave John Finnegan’s front yard. He stood in the pouring rain, laughing at the sky, alarming his former boss’ wife. Finnegan dialed 911.

“He needs a mental evaluation,” the landscaper recalls telling the arriving officer. Instead, Hill was charged with trespassing and jailed on suspicion of a misdemeanor offense that could bring a $500 fine.

It was a death sentence.

The next day, May 6, 2018, Hill’s condition worsened. He flew into a rage at the Madison County Detention Center in Canton, Mississippi, throwing a checkerboard and striking a guard with a lunch tray.

Three guards tackled the 36-year-old, pepper sprayed him and kicked him repeatedly in the head. After handcuffing him, two guards slammed Hill into a concrete wall, previously unpublished jail surveillance video shows. They led him to a shower, away from the cameras, and beat him again, still handcuffed, a state investigation found. The guards said Hill was combative, exhibiting surprising strength that required force.

Video showed Hill writhing in pain in the infirmary, where he was assessed by a licensed practical nurse but not given medication. Mississippi law dictates that a doctor or higher credentialed nurse make decisions on medical interventions. But Hill was sent straight to an isolation cell, where a guard pinned him to the floor, removed his handcuffs, and left him lying on the cement. Hill crawled to the toilet. Then he stopped moving.

No one checked him for 46 minutes. When they did, he didn’t have a pulse. Within hours, he was dead. And he had a lot of company.

Hill’s is one of 7,571 inmate deaths Reuters documented in an unprecedented examination of mortality in more than 500 U.S. jails from 2008 to 2019. Death rates have soared in those lockups, rising 35% over the decade ending last year. Casualties like Hill are typical: held on minor charges and dying without ever getting their day in court. At least two-thirds of the dead inmates identified by Reuters, 4,998 people, were never convicted of the charges on which they were being held

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Review: Zero Sum by Barry Eisler

My rating: 4 of 5 stars After a stand-alone title (The God's Eye View) and the introduction of new series heroine (Livia Lone), Barry Eisler returns with a new John Rain thriller, his ninth, a prequel title that picks up a decade after Graveyard of Memories. This time around, Rain is tasked with eliminating a Japanese politician after taking a job from Victor, a Russian crime boss who has been displacing the Yakuza. Why Victor wants the politician dead and who he answers to are Rain's central mysteries, and after becoming romantically enmeshed with the pol's Italian wife and with his own life on the line John doesn't have a lot of time left with which to operate. After last year's Livia Lone, I can almost imagine Eisler turning back to his series staple with a degree of relief. There's a comfortable familiarity to a John Rain book, even as we venture back in time to see a younger, less experienced, less seasoned assassin, and it doesn't have the brooding darkness and emotional torment that Livia brought along with her. While Rain is still an emotionally complex figure, and the author continues to find neat new facets of the character to explore, there's also a certain sense that Eisler is happily unfettered from having to explore the psychological repercussions of long-term abuse and the grisliness of sex crimes that predominated Livia Lone. In fact, there are several moments where this book feels downright fun. Zero Sum is a leaner, breezier adventure with some great action scenes and a bit of tenderness thanks to Rain's relationship with Maria. It's interesting to see him romantically outclassed by an older woman who takes him to school more than a few times, and who leaves an indelible mark on his development that long-time reader's should appreciate. Mostly, it's just good to have John Rain back again. I'd love to catch up with him in the present-day, post-The Detachment, but I'll take whatever I can get. [Note: I received an advanced copy of this title from the publisher via NetGalley.] View all my reviews

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What are you top 10 must reads for understanding the divine feminine/Goddesses? Much love~

Hi there!

I love this question! And such a difficult one to answer simply because there are so many great books. I am going to answer your question in two ways: first, by providing a general reading list, and second, by providing a select reading list by goddess.

There are inevitably some setbacks to my recommendations--specifically because I have a limited background in many areas—but I intend to update this list in the future. To that point—thank you 🌺 to the person who asked me this question! You have inspired me to put together a “living” Goddess Recommended Reading list on my website. I will continue to update there in the future.

Worth mentioning: Many of the books I recommend are to some degree scholastic. But, all of which are readable and enjoyable to anyone inside or outside of academia.

Finally, right now I'm building my Journey to the Goddess YouTube channel where you can find my in-depth Interviews with scholars and artists about the Sacred Feminine. If you journey over to YouTube and enjoy what you see, please hit the “subscribe” button on my channel. Like the videos? Hit “like” as it will help my content show up for other like-minded souls.

General Goddess book recommendations:

1)    “Goddess: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine” by Joseph Campbell

This book is a collection of his lectures on the Goddess. It was, essentially, my introduction into the Goddess. It is also a book that I return to from time to time for inspiration. I greatly appreciate JC’s unique way of emphasizing cross-cultural patterns and the psychological-spiritual meaning behind myths and mythic figures. Though not without a bit of controversy, JC was a brilliant comparative mythologist who truly believed that human beings could transform themselves through the wisdom of myth.

2)    “The Living Goddess” by Marija Gimbutas

Marija Gimbutas was an archeo-mythologist who dared to theorize that the people of Neolithic Old Europe and Anatolia were egalitarian and worshipped a Great Goddess. This GG was likely a prototype for the later goddess figures that we know today. She had, and still has, many critics in mainstream archeology, but I find her theories fascinating, plausible, and liberating!

3)    “Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines” by Patricia Monaghan, PhD

Just a great all-around resource. She organizes by tradition, but you can use the index to find a goddess by attribute (i.e. sun goddess) or simply by name. I would trust any work written by her.

4)   “The Creation of Patriarchy” by Gerda Lerner

This book is been monumental in creating a solid theoretical framework for the development of patriarchy in the West and how it has impacted the lives of women and the role of the Great Goddess in culture.

5, 6 , & 7) 

“The Politics of Women’s Spirituality” Edited by Charlene Spretnak

“Weaving the Visions” Edited by Judith Plaskow and Carol P. Christ

“Womanspirit Rising” Edited by Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow

These three books feature a variety of essays, poems, and visions by the “Founding Mothers” of Goddess Spirituality. These books offer context, including an historical understanding of the Goddess; how to make meaning of the Goddess and why that is important for modern women; and most important, they present the voices and experiences of women from many different traditions—not simply those of from the Judeo-Christian world. With these books, you can learn from multiple lineages and lineage holders such as Paula Allen Gunn, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Luisah Teish.

Four books I have not yet read but have been recommended to me by grad school collogues:

8)    “The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image” by Jules Cashford and Anne Baring.

9)    “The Chalice and the Blade” by Raine Eisler. A classic.

10) “The Spiral Dance” by Starhawk. An ecofeminist, permaculturist and Earth-based spirituality practitioner.

11)  “Dancing in the Flames” by Marion Woodman. She was a deeply treasured Jungian analyst and teacher who taught on the subject of feminine consciousness.

Goddess recommendations by tradition and goddess:

1)    Mary Magdalene

Okay, it’s no secret that I am a Mary Magdalene devotee and I could recommend book after book after book. But, knowing what I know now, here are three books that I would recommend people start with:

      “The Woman with the Alabaster Jar” by Margaret Starbird for a well-researched approach to Mary Magdalene as bride to Christ.

      “The Meaning of Mary Magdalene” by Cynthia Bourgeault for a mystical Christian approach.

      “The Gospel of Mary of Magdala” by Karen L. King for a thorough academic approach.

       I have a full list of recommendations here: https://www.sheislove.com/mary-magdalene-celebration

2)    Inanna & Ereshkigal

“Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth” by Diane Wolkenstein and Samuel Noah Kramer. A beautiful collaboration between folklorist and Assyriologist. Poetic, historical, and psycho-spiritual.

“Descent to the Goddess: A Way of Initiation for Women” by Sylvia Breton Perera. A feminist Jungian approach to meeting the unconscious feminine, or “underworld” goddess within. Mostly psychological, but also spiritual and historical.  

 “Uncursing the Dark” by Betty DeShong Meador. A reclamation of the wisdom of the goddess of death as well as the repressed aspect of women’s psyches and archetypal expressions; that which has been labeled “dangerous” by patriarchy.

3)    Greek Goddesses

“The Goddess” by Christine Downing. Full disclosure, she is a professor at my graduate institution.

4)    Pele

“Pele, Goddess of Hawai’i’s Volcanoes” by Herb Kawainui Kane

5)    Hinduism

“Awakening Shakti” by Sally Kempton. Love this book.

“The Goddess in India” by Devdutt Pattanaik

“Hindu Goddesses” by David R. Kinsley

6)    Buddhism

“Wisdom Rising” by Lama Tsultrim Allione

“Dakini’s Warm Breath” by Judith Simmer Brown

“Buddhist Goddesses of India” by Miranda Shaw

7)    Black Madonnas

“Black Madonnas: Feminism, religion, and politics in Italy” by Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum

8)    Yoruba Diaspora

“The Divine Horsemen: Living Gods of Haiti” by Maya Deren. A slightly dated book but very good introduction to Haitian Vodun.

9)    Ecofeminism – If you want to understand the connection between the treatment of the planet and women under patriarchy. Timely in terms of understanding the psychological components behind climate change

“Gaia and God” by Rosemary Radford Ruether

 “Ecofeminism” by Vandana Shiva and Maria Mies

“Reweaving the World” edited by Irene Diamond and Gloria Feman Orenstein

“Mary Magdalene” by Pieter Leerman

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Ben Ful Links | July 26/2021

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Ben Ful Links | July 26/2021:

Shortly after this, I was contacted by a certain Barry Eisler who told me he was writing a novel and that in it a Forbes bureau chief modeled after me would be murdered with a heart-attack-inducing weapon while riding the subway.  It turns out Eisler was CIA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Eisler

At the time I thought it was funny but it was not long after his book “Rain Fall” (now called “A Clean Kill in Tokyo)” came that someone really did try to kill me with a heart-attack-inducing weapon when I was on the subway.  The would-be assassin was an older white male who stood out like a sore thumb in the subway.  He was carrying a two-foot-long, four inches wide (60 by 10cm) white cylindrical device.  As soon as I got out of the train he approached me very quickly from behind pointing the device at my back.  I escaped by ducking behind a pillar.

It turns out that a trademark of the Khazarian Mafia is to announce what they are going to do in a fiction format and then they actually do it.  Remember, for example, how the book about a ship called the Titan sinking on its maiden voyage came out shortly before the Titanic was sunk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wreck_of_the_Titan:_Or,_Futility

When I told him I did not respond to threats he said “If you write that, I will never talk to you again.”  For me, keeping access to a politburo level gang source who gave me dozens of major scoops, was more important than a relatively trivial story about a Japanese gangster getting a liver transplant.  The story was later broken by my colleague Jake Adelstein, who was told by gangsters associated with Goto to “erase the story or be erased, your family too”.[5]  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadamasa_Goto

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9 Febbraio - "LA COMPAGNIA DEGLI ASSASSINI" di Barry Eisler

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Titolo: La compagnia degli assassiniAutore: Barry EislerGenere: ThrillerCasa Editrice: Amazon CrossingLunghezza: 424 paginePrezzo: Ebook € 4,99 – Cartaceo €9,99 – Anche in KUData di pubblicazione: 9 Febbraio 2021 ACQUISTA SINOSSI Livia Lone e John Rain si sono uniti e hanno radunato una compagnia di assassini Quando la task force congiunta di FBI e polizia di Seattle porta a galla un giro di…

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REVIEW

The Killer Collective by Barry Eisler

John Raine #10

Livia Lone #3

Ben Treven #4

Powerful people conceal crimes, murder innocents and do dastardly deeds that sometimes seem unbelievable but sadly are based in fact. This fast-paced action-packed story kept my attention from beginning to end. The characters were well developed and likable, the story is dark and gritty and difficult but well worth having a spotlight focused on. Human trafficking is not right. Torture is not right. Hurtcore is not right. In this book a motley crew of people come together for a variety of reasons and in so doing solve a mystery, help bring down a group filming the abuse of children and come to grips with some of their own personal issues. A number of bad guys are killed and at one point I thought it seemed almost more like a computer game with so many being killed off and yet...it also seemed highly likely that this set of characters would act and react as they did.

This is the first book I have read by this author and though it also has a variety of characters with series of their own I had no trouble following the story, relating to the characters, realizing what their motivations were or rooting for them as they did what they did to get the job done. I can say that I am eager to read more by this author and though one of the series may be finished with this book there are more characters with series that can still be written – and I do hope they will be.

What I liked:

* Livia’s strength and dedication to protecting those that cannot protect themselves

* Dox’s appreciation of Livia’s strengths and limitations

* Raine’s meticulous mind and eventual admission of love for someone he walked away from

* Delilah – for more than one reaosn

* Supporting characters on the op and those that provided intel and equipment

* The believability of the story and how it unfolded

* The flaws within the characters

* That I felt I would like to know and befriend some of the people in the story

* The way the story unfolded

* And more

What I did not like:

* Knowing that Child’s Play really existed and probably still does in one form or another

* That people can be so very evil

* That sometimes there is no answer no matter how much we might look for one.

Thank you to NetGalley and Thomas Mercer for the ARC – This is my honest review.

5 Stars

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40492305-the-killer-collective

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A fast-paced, page-turning novel of betrayal, vengeance, and depraved secrets in high places from the New York Times bestselling author of the John Rain and Livia Lone series. When a joint FBI–Seattle Police investigation of an international child pornography ring gets too close to certain powerful people, sex-crimes detective Livia Lone becomes the target of a hit that barely goes awry—a hit that had been offered to John Rain, a retired specialist in killings appearing to be from “natural causes.” Suspecting that the FBI themselves were behind the attack, Livia reaches out to former marine sniper Dox. Together, they assemble an ad hoc team to identify and neutralize the threat: Rain; Rain’s estranged lover, Mossad agent and honey-trap specialist Delilah; black op soldiers Ben Treven and Daniel Larison; and their former commander, SpecOps legend Colonel Scott “Hort” Horton. Moving from Japan to Seattle to DC to Paris, the group fights a series of interlocking conspiracies, each edging closer and closer to the highest levels of the US government. With uncertain loyalties, conflicting agendas, and smoldering romantic entanglements, this group is hardly a team. But in a match as uneven as this one, a collective of killers might be just what they need.

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“I can’t remember the name, but I think it had an orange cover...” (4)

Unfinished Symphony by V.C. Andrews  |  In Sunlight, In a Beautiful Garden by Kathleen Cambor  |  World War Z by Max Brooks  |  Unlucky Thirteen by James Patterson  |  The Prince of Risk by Christopher Reich  |  The Circle by Dave Eggers  |  Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon  |  When Autumn Leaves by Amy S. Foster  |  Rain Fall by Barry Eisler  

Or was it one of these orange covers?  Maybe it was a different color.