Introduction: The chalice and the blade : Human possibilities: two alternatives ; The evolutionary crossroads ; Chaos or transformation

1. Journey into a lost world: the beginnings of civilization : The Paleolithic ; The Neolithic ; Old Europe

2. Messages from the past: the world of the goddess : Neolithic art ; The worship of the goddess ; If it isn't patriarchy it must be matriarchy

3. The essential difference: Crete : The archeological bombshell ; The love of life and nature ; A unique civilization ; The invisibility of the obvious

4. Dark order out of chaos: from the chalice to the blade : The peripheral invaders ; Metallurgy and male supremacy ; The shift in cultural evolution ; Warfare, slavery, and sacrifice ; The truncation of civilization ; The destruction of Crete ; A disintegrating world

5. Memories of a lost age: the legacy of the goddess : Evolution and transformation ; A golden race and the legend of Atlantis ; The Garden of Eden and the tablets of Sumer ; The gifts of civilization ; A new view of the past

6. Reality stood on its head: part I : Mother-murder is not a crime ; The dominator and partnership mind ; The metamorphosis of myth

7. Reality stood on its head: part II : The rerouting of civilization ; The absence of the goddess ; Sex and economics ; Dominator morality ; Knowledge is bad, birth is dirty, death is holy

8. The other half of history: part I : Our hidden heritage ; The cyclic unity of nature and the harmony of the spheres ; Ancient Greece ; Androcratic right and wrong

9. The other half of history: part II : Jesus and gylany ; The suppressed scriptures ; The gylanic heresies ; The pendulum swings back

10. The patterns of the past: gylany and history : The feminine as a force in history ; History repeats itself ; Women as a force in history ; The female ethos ; The end of the line

11. Breaking free: the unfinished transformation : The failure of reason ; The challenge to the androcratic premises ; The secular ideologies ; The dominator model of human relations ; Forward or back?

12. The breakdown of evolution: a dominator future : The insoluble problems ; Human issues and women's issues ; The totalitarian solution ; New realities and old myths

13. Breakthough in evolution: toward a partnership future : A new view of reality ; A new science and spirituality ; A new politics and economics ; Transformation.