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The Passionate Mind Revisited takes readers on a liberating inner journey into the workings of their mind that can transform the way people look at themselves and the world. This expanded inquiry reflects the authors’ own and the world’s evolution since The Passionate Mind came out in 1974. The original book focusing on the individual is now extended to social and philosophical spheres and global challenges, exploring how the world’s life-threatening dramas are largely a function of people’s genetic and cultural conditioning, worldviews, beliefs, and values.
Kramer and Alstad assert that humanity is on an evolutionary cusp requiring further awareness and conscious social evolution. Worldviews can create rigid beliefs and narrow identities that are destructive in a world of global impact. While acknowledging the fallibility of any mental construction, the book offers an evolutionary worldview deemed more likely than traditional worldviews or scientific materialism.
In exploring what it is to be a human social animal, The Passionate Mind Revisited offers fresh vantage points on life’s core issues: the nature of thought, authority and belief, pleasure and pain, desire and fear, identity, love and care, freedom, power, gender, time, meditation, violence, and evolution. By demonstrating how to inwardly see and break through one’s conditioning, the authors delve deeply into the nature and processes of the mind, including how subjectivity filters perception. This approach to self-inquiry can help free people from mechanical responses that develop from unexamined beliefs and habits. Dysfunctional worldviews and their values inhibit the creative solutions much needed in a perilous world of runaway change. This book, through its discussion and methodology, fosters curiosity and truth-seeking. Kramer and Alstad offer new insights on personal and global issues that can facilitate a necessary shift to conscious social evolution.
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"In this timely, brilliant, and original tour de force, Kramer
and Alstad, two of the seminal thinkers of our time, have given us a
remarkable gift: a hopeful, unsentimental analysis of both how we got
here and where hope for a viable future lies. If you read one book
this year, let it be The Passionate Mind Revisited. It will
broaden your individual and social awareness and change your life."
—Jeffrey B. Rubin, PhD, author of
Psychotherapy and Buddhism
"Don't go to the movies. Put down your magazine. Shut off your
computer. Read this book. It will show you what is
really happening
now. Being able to understand how the world is changing and
what that means to you and your children is the real news of today.
Accessible and profound. Read it and weep—or clap with joy. This truly
is our future and, more importantly, our choice."
—Jeremy
Tarcher, founder of Tarcher Books
"The Passionate Mind Revisited is a fearlessly rational
engagement with subjects we all too often accept as beyond rational
thought—emotion, spirituality, relationships, and life in a time of
conflicting realities and an endangered planet. It's a fine and
important book, and deserves to be widely read."
—Walter Truett
Anderson, author of
All Connected Now: Life in the First Global Civilization
"Whether The Passionate Mind Revisited is for you depends
on your interest in philosophy, human behavior, epistemology, and
personal development. This ambitious, broad-ranging book is by
necessity abstract, but for philosophers, Diana Alstad and Joel Kramer
are miraculously clear and lead the reader by meticulous steps to some
surprising conclusions."
—Diane Johnson, author of
Le Divorce
"Nobody does a more masterful job of folding back the fabric of
our individual, cultural, and human attachments and revealing hidden
denials, hypocrisies, and paradoxes than Diana Alstad and Joel Kramer.
They are among the very few who can open hidden doors to rooms in your
house you never knew were there—to both delight and disturb. This book
will change the way you look at things—perhaps everything. Are you
courageous enough to risk that? Reading this book is a glimpse into
what the human mind is capable of perceiving and the mindset of the
evolved human mind in the next millennia."
—Kevin W. Kelley,
author of The Home Planet
"In 1974 The Passionate Mind took me on a journey into my
deepest self; it made me dance in the dark. Now, in
The Passionate Mind Revisited, the entire worlds—the cosmos in
which that self resides—is explored. The investment many children of
the ‘60s and ‘70s made in freeing ourselves is now turned toward a
globe in need of freedom from hunger, poverty, and violence.
The Passionate Mind Revisited is a critical tool for social,
political, and ethical transformation."
—Frances Kissling, former
president of Catholics for Choice
"A welcome infusion of clarity, brilliance, and inspiration that
will very likely blow your mind. This profound book is a
philosophical, intellectual, and spiritual Rosetta Stone—not a glib
compilation of simplistic answers but a critical frame of reference
that challenges the way we think about the nature of thinking itself.
The Passionate Mind Revisited is essential reading for anyone
trying to get their bearings amid confusing and contradictory claims
and ideas that have long been promoted about the meaning of
self-awareness and social consciousness. If you intend to delve into
any other discussion of the powerful social, religious, psychological,
ecological, and ethical changes confronting current and future
generations, read this book first or you may miss the crucial
context that will help you make sense of it all."
—Keith Harary,
PhD, executive director of the Institute for Advanced Psychology and
author of Who Do You Think You Are?
"The phrase ‘looking inward’ has become anathema to many social
reformers who put their emphasis upon external action. In turn, this
‘knee-jerk’ activism has been criticized by those who advocate inner
development. Diana Alstad and Joel Kramer believe that both approaches
can occur concurrently and provide a framework for this process in
this brilliant book. If the twenty-first century is not be the last
gasp of humanity’s time on Earth, the ideas and practices articulated
by these two innovators will deserve credit."
—Stanley Krippner,
PhD, professor of psychology, Saybrook Graduate School and coauthor of
Haunted by Combat: Understanding PTSD in War Veterans
"A breakthrough in spiritual realism, pioneering in its
confrontation of life’s perennial tough judgment calls, and courageous
in its intolerance of the cryptoscientific pseudo-spiritual gloss,
this book will meet you where you really live."
—Jeremy Sherman,
PhD, MPP, executive director of the Berkeley Consortium on Emergent
Dynamics
"The Passionate Mind Revisited has afforded me deeper,
clearer, more pragmatic approaches to my work and to the future of
humanity and life on Earth. My worldview and experience of the
spiritual dimensions of life are both more grounded and more
expansive from the exposure to their thinking and exploration of their
ideas. Much awaits you in exploring your own passionate mind! And the
Earth needs our passion and clarity more than ever."
—Rio de la
Vista, former editor of Windstar, conservationist
"In times of transition and not knowing, visionary artists dance with
the possibilities that they sense emerging for us. Diana Alstad and
Joel Kramer have seen a magnificent potential for humanity and have
written down their insights in an inspiring and practical way. I
recommend their book as medicine for all who are curious about what
might lie beyond the present confusion and challenges."
—Marion
Weber, founder of the Arts and Healing Network
"Nothing today is more critical than making sense of our times
and what they ask of us. Diana Alstad and Joel Kramer bring important
insight and integrity to this difficult task. Spiritual and scientific
sacred cows get equally unsparing treatment.
The Passionate Mind Revisited makes a valuable contribution at
both a personal and a societal level."
—Charles M. Johnston, MD,
author of The Creative Imperative
"Diana Alstad and Joel Kramer are exciting critical thinkers for
our times, who, as passionate individuals, offer us provocative
insights to investigate and navigate our own terrain in ransitional
times. The Passionate Mind Revisited is a classic reinvented
for this dynamic historic moment."
—Ganga White, author of
Yoga Beyond Belief
"Kramer and Alstad argue with clarity and passion that the
simplistic "be here now" mindset sweeping contemporary pop psychology
tragically fails to account for how the past and the future are always
part of how we construct any "now" and any "here." I found myself
cheering at their insistence that negating the future in the name of
spiritual enlightenment amounts to an amputation of our intrinsic
capacity to take future consequences into account—a task of vital
importance at this crucial stage in our evolutionary adventure."
—Keith
Thompson, author of Leaving the Left
"It is clear that The Passionate Mind Revisited is a
seminal book for our time. One of the core beliefs held by
nation-states and most individuals is that "more is better." What a
wonderful gift we have been given to challenge our unexplored
assumptions to help us shift to a world that can fulfill us all."
—Wilford
Welch, author of The Tactics of Hope
"The Passionate Mind Revisited is a promising
re-visioning of age-old philosophical dilemmas in a contemporary
setting with important social and political implications. The authors
are poignantly aware of the effects that Eastern thought and practice
have had on spiritually inclined individuals in America over the past
half-century, and they challenge head-on many assumptions flowing from
their own and others’ earlier teachings. Their systematic
demonstration leads to the stirring conclusion that a spiritually
aware, caring life has to be lived future-oriented and in time-not in
some timeless realm. By illuminating the roles of thought and
diversity in a life of spiritual awareness, the authors’ book would
re-orient and rejuvenate spiritual work, bringing it back into the
world of time to become more effective and socially relevant."
—James
Millikan, PhD, former professor of philosophy at Yale and University
of Florida
"In this book, Diana Alstad and Joel Kramer have combined more
than thirty years of writing, experience, and thinking to construct
for the reader a unique lens with which we might examine our
worldviews, ideologies, beliefs, fears, and hang-ups. We see more
clearly the consequences of our collective failure to free ourselves
from the spiritual and intellectual compulsions that have led us to
the brink of planetary doom. The coauthors urge all of us, if we are
truly serious about planetary survival, to continue the struggle to
engage collectively in the evolution of our consciousness. I commend
them for this book, a superb achievement."
—Charles H. Jones,
professor emeritus of law, Rutgers University School of Law
"The Passionate Mind Revisited is an excellent resource
for expanding personal and social awareness. Diana Alstad and Joel
Kramer integrate many cross-cultural and interdisciplinary ideas to
illustrate how we can continue to grow, create, and expand during
times of uncertainty and open to possibilities not considered
before."
—Angeles Arrien, PhD, author of award-winning
Signs of Life
“[The Passionate Mind Revisited] reads like a survival
guide for the new world order—a manual on how to live consciously and
well in a world that seems to be collapsing around us…The authors urge
us to ask ourselves life's most important questions. But this book is
not just a call to awareness; it is also a well-reasoned exploration
of the human condition. Kramer and Alstad show us that the truth lies
within us and that to know it, we must not only be open to it but also
listening for it. At the heart of the authors' message is that the
changes so desperately needed in today's world must necessarily begin
within each of us.”
—Yoga Journal
"[The Passionate Mind Revisited
is] a provocative challenge to existing worldviews and a celebration
of ‘conscious social evolution.’"
—iShift
“This
brilliant deconstruction of failed religions, social structures and
rigid fantasies of ideal human relationships will give you a
refreshing approach to a both/and perspective that will help you
become a trailblazer, aware and freed from the adolescent stage of
human evolution… The authors, Diana Alstad and Joel Kramer, show us
ways to fluidly navigate the different dimensions of the human
condition and come through it with our awareness, critical thinking
and compassionate hearts intact and thriving.”
—MagickTarot.com
“The Passionate Mind Revisited
takes readers on a liberating inner journey into the workings of their
mind that can transform the way people look at themselves and the
world… In exploring what it is to be a human social animal,
The Passionate Mind Revisited offers fresh vantage points on
life's core issues: the nature of thought, authority and belief,
pleasure and pain, desire and fear, identity, love and care, freedom,
power, gender, time, meditation, violence, and evolution. By
demonstrating how to inwardly see and break through one's
conditioning, the authors delve deeply into the nature and processes
of the mind… This book, through its discussion and methodology,
fosters curiosity and truth-seeking. Kramer and Alstad offer new
insights on personal and global issues that can facilitate a necessary
shift to conscious social evolution.
—Gaia Media
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