Find us on facebookTHE PASSIONATE MIND: A Manual for Living Creatively with One’s Self contains Joel Kramer's early talks demonstrating his unique approach to self-exploration through helping people look within, expanding awareness through self-seeing and self-understanding. By using thought to explore itself, Joel leads people in a living inquiry, which is also an expression of his own inner inquiry concerning the basic mechanisms of thought and how it creates conditioning. As the mind turns inward upon itself to discover how it works, it can see the way beliefs, fear and desire filter and bias perception. This can be done whenever, wherever, alone or in relationship.
The Passionate Mind examines in simple language what each of us can be an expert in: what it means to be a human being from one’s own unique perspective. It addresses from a new vantage point life’s perennial core concerns: the nature of authority, belief, fear, desire, pleasure, freedom, love, time, meditation, and evolution.
The Passionate Mind offers a methodology for self-inquiry wherein if the reader temporarily suspends agreeing or disagreeing as the author suggests, and lets the words carry one wherever they do, many readers experience a shift into a broader way of observing what goes on inside themselves and also in the outside world.
“Intriguing topic discussed with eloquence.... Stimulating and mind-stretching.... Subjects of elemental and universal interest: belief, pleasure, freedom, fear, death, time, analysis and the unconscious, images, love, sexuality, meditation, evolution” 