Graeber blows. There were people talking about this shit in the 60s like James Woodburn. Go to the real homies who actually did fieldwork with immediate-return hunter-gatherers. This dude just a boring folk hero for dumb kids and bottom feeder anarchists.

Everyone raised by a single mother knows how evil, violent, manipulative, and disordered a matriarchy really is. 😅

I really enjoyed this talk. I have a saying 'we had legs before we had borders' and this talk gave me a feeling of myriad groups of egalitarian societies spread all across Earth, bumping up to each other, trading, sharing, mixing, learning and creating a network or environmental web of humans as one of many species among many many species. Mutual aid seems to be the most effective way to thrive living as part of the land, leading to cultural nurturing practices that nurture the whole. I often think of what optimally healthy human behaviour might mean as a nurturing dynamic that reflects how complex communities of creatures build fecundity incrementally ... That optimally healthy behaviour is a fundamental mandate for all species. Clearly the hierarchy of wealth culture is not of that.

Grand Greetings I’m Showing how Countless Societies of Matriarchal Women left vast symbolism that Matriarchs are Heaven as well as vast symbolism that Matriarchs are beyond Antarctica 💜 I am also Showing how Matriarchal Women left vast symbolism that if we build our homes & societies with Magnetic Elements then our foundations will power off the Terrain of the Earth for free because the Earths terrain too is Magnetic. Magnetic Elements are Jasper Sapphire Chaldedony Emerald Sardonyx Carnelian Chrysolite Beryl Topaz Chrysoprase Jacinth Amethyst and many more. Let’s build a New Earth💜.

Sigmund Freud would have had an African field day with these incest/fecal myths!

I would word it slightly different. Thrivival of the friendliest.

As our timeless "Mother of God" (mother and son) iconography suggests, matriarchal and patriarchal spirituality are inseparable and coexist through an understanding of God's eternal cyclical nature. Represented by the serpent in many creation myths, the living cycle has a trinity of a beginning (head), a middle and end (tail). As above so below, the sexes were created in the image of God's cyclical nature where Mother is the head and opening to all beginnings and Father holds the tail to all endings (through which the sowing of seeds allow for the next great matriarchal rebirth).The joining of the two (symbolized by the Ouroborus or the marriage ring) is the sacred union needed in assuring the creation and continuation of new life cycles. To speak of the present day God as "Our Father" is simply an admission to our collective positioning within the bigger cycle. As all mothers have direct experience with the creator quality of birthing, so is the direct experience of rebirthing the divinity within (baptism) belong to that which is spiritually matriarchal. (John 3, verse 3-8). Sekhmet statues (ancient Egyptian) carry most of their weight in symbolic memory of what was a mother culture dedicated to the direct experience of baptism. As the leg shaped hairlocks extend from maternal breasts to the womb of rebirth, the lioness's head proportions are such that they highlight the bust of a second animal figure. The Lioness's ears as eyes and eyes as nose (nostrils) brings to life the figure of a reptile. 'Neath the halo headress of the solar egg, the lioness's egg fertilization process being internal (Set) and the reptile's egg fertilization process being external (Setting), such being key components to the safety of entering the trans-egoic or "born again" state. The life threatening fear associated with the predatory nature of a lion and/or crocodile encounter are reflective of the intense ego death experiences associated with the transpersonal awakening process. In spiritually matriarchal times, illumination could be seen as wearing the false beard (ancient Egyptian funerary "ego" death mask) as the high state of cyclical self knowing; high awareness of both our upper matriarchal half and our lower (later) patriarchal half (compared with a mini lower body replica, an "as above so below" tail end beard extension); in full recognition of her civilizational Underworld; her inevitable cyclical destiny. The male pharaoh wears his beard tapered in reverse, indicating a pointing upwards towards the patriarchal head, divine representative of God's tail end cycle. Mary's anointing and wiping of Jesus's feet with her hair can then be seen as "Head to tail" (toe) imagery as she descends her matriarchal head to his patriarchal feet, thus reenacting the high understanding of the divine cyclical process. (John 12, verse 3) To carry the Ankh (now the female symbol ♀️) was perhaps to symbolically carry that upper and lower understanding. As the upper matriarchal womb symbolised the fertile birthing of civilization, below, the now Christian cross is carried to place emphasis on the lower (later) "End Times" Father principle of the great cycle. Lord Ganesh, the elephant headed Hindu diety, displays a cyclical head to trunk symbolism and points to the Mother head of his matriarchal elephant society. Ganesh (like the elephant) wears God's cyclical nature on his face. A whole temple was dedicated to Hathor (ancient Egyptian diety), who is the matriarchal "Uterus" personified. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gGHQYa2AiKp5gZI "See all women as mothers, serve them as your mother. when you see the entire world as the mother, the ego falls away. See everything as Mother and you will know God." - Neem Karoli Baba "My son, keep thy father's commandment and forsake not the law of thy mother" - Proverbs 6 : 20

God…to be a student listening to this man while he was alive. I. Am. Envious… R.I.P. Graeber

Pseudo history

The question needs a time and a place to be meaningfully asked ,It’s no surprise the class has been running for forty years ,I hope you graduate soon .

Good video, hope you continue

get back in the picket line and make me a sign woman

The patrirchy has never really existed

Amazing lecture

I liked the content but I also think that the last-mentioned theory of Lévi-Strauss is fundamentally wrong. There is no evidence that these people were "intellectually" and "philosophically" the same as us.

Thank you!

Like the requirement to have all these positive experiences growing up seems like a very precarious situation. Would you be grateful to someone who put you in a precarious situation? Would you be grateful to someone who caused the suffering of a loved one? What is the basis of there spirituality? How do you justify/ being to feel any semblance of gratitude for being involuntarily poked prodded and punctured by Life/Existence/God/Great Spirit

Why is it a fact of life that birth is painful to begin with. I understand that we had all these practices that evolved to help us survive and that being connected made us survive better but why be put in that position in the first place. What metaphysical explanation do they have for that? Why do they feel happy that they were born into a world full of torture?

Too much of this is oversaturated with intense victim narratives, marxist philosophies, and a total ignorance of the actual control structures that govern the world and the psyops that flow out of those structures. Very boomerish and disconencted.

So greatful to have found this! ❤

Read : The Inevitability of Patriarchy: Why the Biological Difference Between Men and Women Always Produces Male Domination by Steven Goldberg

Matriarchal When women is the head of the family is broken so bad no right for everything for the family the seed of father and the blood

Estoy muy agradecido con el profesor, porque dictó una clase muy emocionante que comencé a las 12 de la noche para usar como somnífero y terminé hasta la una y media de la mañana tomando apuntes porque me resulta muy útil para mi actual tema de investigación.

Esto es importante

I thought this talk was fantastic and the I really want to read this author and her partners book to be more Informed on the subject. I do hold some skepticism towards the point of the relevance of the role of the family declining and people being more inclined to assimilate into social institutions (a gross oversimplification of what was said). But family can evolve imo to be the building block for people to develop secure and safe bases to grown develop and learn from. Whose to say an institution would look out for you more than your own family? What are these institutions goals? What do they hope to achieve? Do they talk a good talk but actually otherwise like many institutions do. Family might not be the answer for cultural evolution, but for culture and society to evolve to aim towards a more harmonised state of being. I think family would be a foundational block. Kin offers unconditional love, something an institution in its own right cannot. But nonetheless fantastic talk thanks for uploading.

This reminds me of the Tapir track I saw in the rainforest in Costa Rica! thanks

I don't think I've heard this one yet - thanks!

thanks for posting!

yes. women actually made it and it lasted a long time. thousands of years. however, they made horrible mistake of birthing something that lead up to their own control and exploitment, and worse. men. sounds stupid but its real. oh, this sentence is mine and mine alone and cannot be used without explicitly hashtag-ing my channel here or anywhere else.

Loved this book

Tnx 4 uploading!

In the first world, males were irrelevant. Just studs. Women led, discovered, and invented everything. They formed the Matriclan, Totemic, and Taboo law systems to protect themselves and everybody. And I think that men are still irrelevant today. But a lot of confusion is clouding that since men built everything in modern civilization. Men can do magnificent things but are still irrelevant and still studs.

Of course, it did! It was primordial throughout the Stone Age. Briffault said that there is no sign of patriarchal organization in the animal world, the world we evolved from and it is matriarchal. Matriarchy still exists now in the human species, but it's under the guise of powerlessness. With everybody dependent on women and saying women are nothing at the same time.

Spiritually speaking, matriarchy can begin with a fundamental understanding of the cyclical nature of reality (God). Represented by the snake in many creation myths, the living cycle has a trinity of a beginning (head), a middle and end (tail). As above so below, the sexes were created in the image of God's cyclical nature where Mother is the head and opening to all beginnings and Father holds the tail to all endings (through which the sowing of seeds allow for the next great matriarchal rebirth).The joining of the two (symbolized by the Ouroborus or the marriage ring) is the sacred union needed in assuring the creation and continuation of new life cycles. To speak of the present day God as "Our Father" is simply an admission to our collective positioning within the bigger cycle. As all mothers have direct experience with the creator quality of birthing, so is the direct experience of rebirthing the divinity within (baptism) belong to that which is spiritually matriarchal. (John 3, verse 3-8). Sekhmet statues (ancient Egyptian) carry most of their weight in symbolic memory of what was a mother culture dedicated to the direct experience of baptism. As the leg shaped hairlocks extend from maternal breasts to the womb of rebirth, the lioness's head proportions are such that they highlight the bust of a second animal figure. The Lioness's ears as eyes and eyes as nose (nostrils) brings to life the figure of a reptile. 'Neath the halo headress of the solar egg, the lioness's egg fertilization process being internal (Set) and the reptile's egg fertilization process being external (Setting), such being key components to the safety of entering the trans-egoic or "born again" state. The life threatening fear associated with the predatory nature of a lion and/or crocodile encounter are reflective of the intense ego death experiences associated with the transpersonal awakening process. In spiritually matriarchal times, illumination could be seen as wearing the false beard (ancient Egyptian funerary "ego" death mask) as the high state of cyclical self knowing; high awareness of both our upper matriarchal half and our lower (later) patriarchal half (compared with a mini lower body replica, an "as above so below" tail end beard extension); in full recognition of her civilizational Underworld; her inevitable cyclical destiny. The male pharaoh wears his beard tapered in reverse, indicating a pointing upwards towards the patriarchal head, divine representative of God's tail end cycle. Mary's anointing and wiping of Jesus's feet with her hair can then be seen as "Head to tail" (toe) imagery as she descends her matriarchal head to his patriarchal feet, thus reenacting the high understanding of the divine cyclical process. (John 12, verse 3) To carry the Ankh (now the female symbol ♀️) was perhaps to symbolically carry that upper and lower understanding. As the upper matriarchal womb symbolised the fertile birthing of civilization, below, the now Christian cross is carried to place emphasis on the lower (later) "End Times" Father principle of the great cycle. Lord Ganesha, the elephant headed Hindu diety, displays a cyclical head to trunk symbolism and points to the Mother head of his matriarchal elephant society. Ganesha (like the elephant) wears God's cyclical nature on his face. A whole temple was dedicated to Hathor (ancient Egyptian diety), who is the matriarchal "Uterus" personified. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gGHQYa2AiKp5gZI "See all women as mothers, serve them as your mother. when you see the entire world as the mother, the ego falls away. See everything as Mother and you will know God." - Neem Karoli Baba "My son, keep thy father's commandment and forsake not the law of thy mother" - Proverbs 6 : 20

"The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory" by Cynthia Eller

I'm listening on vimeo now! All his talks are a must - thanks Professor Jerome Lewis. I just recommended your talks to a new correspondent.

Amazing talk

1:07:05 not sure if anyone can answer this but I’m curious if there is any information as to whether the sex strike started at the new moon, or if the new moon was the height of it and it started in the week or so leading up to the new moon

I wish she could speak for as long as she wants without having a time limit!

Love this so much. Where can I find the talk that followed this one? :)

Amazing story by entertaining expert

Let’s move to matriarchal capitalism to prevent matriarchy from dying again when society choose to pursue capitalism.

😂😂😂 some of this things are true in African 🇿🇦traditions. ✅✅✅🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

These Have To Be The Most Graphic Stories, Very Confusing However There's A Deep Underlying Logic That I Can't Explain. Its like i understand but not really 😅

This version is a bit better. Stil, the last one was great!

i love this! Women were assigned to the sun in times of Matriarchy. (And men were assigned to the moon). i think we are multidimensional enough today to understand that both men and women have equal solar and lunar times (we need the same amount of sleep and day light hours). Women have just as much light to shine as men and don’t need to “reflect” patriarchy. Women’s periods revolve around the moon, either starting on the full moon or new moon, and ovulating on the other. Because women are either most fertile or carnally sexual on the extremes of the moon, men bleed on the extremes of the moon by getting into more fights and accidents as a result, during the extremes of the moon, especially full moon. And there is great effort to wipe out the effect the moon has on the earth and on our bodies. Thank you for this !

I agree, after studying some anthropology and theology: People are brainwashed from the time they are babies to worship men and pray to a father taught that a patriarchal book that excludes women is “holy” (holy coming from the word “whole” “holistic”) and they are unopen to the idea of Matriarchy to the point that they can’t believe the earth was longer than 6,000 years old (because before then there was more Matriarchy). Rather than admit matriarchy existed, they would rather believe the world is only 6,000 years old and teach this to others.

this is required knowledge. am putting this in my syllabus for ritual theater & drama therapy

Only just now learned of his death. Rest in peace, a towering figure.

Someone needs to let him we absolutely cycle with the moon and women know this. My moon is on the new moon now, it’s flipped at times when I’m under tremendous stress, where bleeding on the full.