《passionate mind revisited, the》是2009年Random House US出版的圖書，作者是Joel Kramer。
基本介紹
- 中文名：passionate mind revisited, the
- 作者：Joel Kramer
- 出版社：Random House US
- ISBN：9781556438073
內容簡介,作者簡介,
內容簡介
The Passionate Mind Revisited takes readers on aliberating inner journey into the workings of their mind that cantransform the way people look at themselves and the world. Thisexpanded inquiry reflects the authors’ own and the world’sevolution since The Passionate Mind came out in 1974.The original book focusing on the individual is now extended tosocial and philosophical spheres and global challenges, exploringhow the world’s life-threatening dramas are largely a function ofpeople’s genetic and cultural conditioning, worldviews, beliefs,and values.Kramer and Alstad assert that humanity is on an evolutionarycusp requiring further awareness and conscious social evolution.Worldviews can create rigid beliefs and narrow identities that aredestructive in a world of global impact. While acknowledging thefallibility of any mental construction, the book offers anevolutionary worldview deemed more likely than traditionalworldviews or scientific materialism.In exploring what it is to be a human social animal, ThePassionate Mind Revisited offers fresh vantage points on life’score issues: the nature of thought, authority and belief, pleasureand pain, desire and fear, identity, love and care, freedom, power,gender, time, meditation, violence, and evolution. By demonstratinghow to inwardly see and break through one’s conditioning, theauthors delve deeply into the nature and processes of the mind,including how subjectivity filters perception. This approach toself-inquiry can help free people from mechanical responses thatdevelop from unexamined beliefs and habits. Dysfunctionalworldviews and their values inhibit the creative solutions muchneeded in a perilous world of runaway change. This book, throughits discussion and methodology, fosters curiosity andtruth-seeking. Kramer and Alstad offer new insights on personal andglobal issues that can facilitate a necessary shift to conscioussocial evolution.
作者簡介
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.
