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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

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Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad are co-authors of The Passionate
Mind Revisited: Expanding Personal and Social Awareness (2009)
as well as of The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power.
They have written and taught together since 1974 on evolution,
spirituality, relationships, values, awareness, yoga, and social
issues. Visit their website at www.joeldiana.com.

Joel Kramer, the author of The Passionate Mind, did
post-graduate work in philosophy and psychology and was a resident
teacher at Esalen Institute (1968–1970). He is a pioneer and legend
of modern American yoga whose evolutionary vision of yoga freed it
from its authoritarian roots, re-visioning it for the West.

Diana Alstad, a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, received a doctorate from
Yale University in 1971. She taught in the humanities and initiated
and taught the first Women’s Studies courses at Yale and Duke. She
envisioned the Yoga of Relationship and developed it with
Kramer.