Visit Kramer and Alstad at: http://www.joeldiana.com/.
MORE ABOUT THE PASSIONATE MIND
In The Passionate Mind Revisited: Expanding Personal and Social Awareness (North Atlantic Books, July 2009, Trade Paper) Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad invite us on a liberating journey toward a deeper understanding of how our minds function and challenge us to make an honest and fearless examination of our most deep-seated beliefs and the worldviews that underlie them.
In this total revision of Kramer's 1974 classic, The Passionate Mind, the authors take on Eastern and Western spirituality and scientific materialism to give us a synthesized worldview that is more reflective of the complexity of our world and more relevant to the challenges we face. And the challenges are great. "We are a species at risk," they say, and assert that what has brought us to the brink of environmental, economic, and social collapse is our unwillingness to critically examine our beliefs, worldviews, values, and conditioning. They argue that we can and must embark on a path of conscious social evolution if we are to create a more humane and viable world.
In this sweeping work Kramer and Alstad extend the inner inquiry of The Passionate Mind to the social arena and global concerns. They offer original insights on the most fundamental human experiences and impulses, including love, pleasure, desire, fear, and freedom. They also take a unique stance on time, meditation, evolution, and the control mechanisms that are ever-present in human endeavors. The Passionate Mind Revisited is a profound inquiry into our nature, what brought us to this historic cusp, and what can make us viable.
ABOUT KRAMER AND ALSTAD
Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad began their life partnership in 1974. They speak and give seminars on evolution, social issues, spirituality, relationships, values, and yoga. They are coauthors of The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power (Frog, an imprint of North Atlantic Books, 1993), which addresses hidden authoritarianism and decodes social and "spiritual" control. Kramer and Alstad have taught at centers such as Esalen and Omega and throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. For more on their shared work, visit joeldiana.com.
Joel Kramer did postgraduate work in philosophy and psychology at the University of Florida, NYU, and Columbia (1959-1963) on the philosophy of science, ethics, epistemology, consciousness, and comparative religion. Since he was on the resident faculty at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, from 1968-1970, he has led seminars on the basic concerns of living and the evolution of awareness. An early innovator of modern American physical and mental yoga, Kramer wrote the seminal Yoga Journal article "Yoga as Self-Transformation" (1980) and introduced widely used principles foundational for many of today's leading teachers. Erich Shiffman's acclaimed 1996 book Yoga: The Spirit and Practice of Moving into Stillness (Pocket Books) features Kramer's approach to physical yoga.
Diana Alstad is an author, lecturer, and seminar leader. A Woodrow Wilson Fellow, she received a PhD from Yale in 1971 and was a professor at Duke University in the humanities. Alstad initiated and taught the first Women's Studies courses at Yale and Duke, co-founded New Haven Women's Liberation in 1968, and was on the board of the Veteran Feminists of America from 1998 to 2004. Her Yoga Journal article "Exploring Relationships" (1979) created a foundation for the Yoga of Relationship by extending Kramer's yogic approach to the social arena, a modality they continue to develop and teach. She has been an escort-interpreter and lecturer in French and Italian, and also speaks Spanish.
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