"[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....But this book is not just a call to awareness; it is also a well-reasoned exploration of the human condition."
-- Yoga Journal, February 2010 (complete review)
"By bridging aspects of intelligent design with evolution in a new approach they call 'possibilism,' authors Diana Alstad and Joel Kramer probably haven't solved the American culture wars. But they might have."
— Guernica Magazine
"...[In] this ambitious, broad-ranging book...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
"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
"...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 and The Good Life
"...The Passionate Mind Revisited is a critical tool for social, political, and ethical transformation."
— Frances Kissling, former president of Catholics for Choice
"[The book] 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. The chapter Evolution... offers an eminently sensible alternative view of the great mystery: intelligence without design. This fine and important book deserves to be widely read."
— Walter Truett Anderson, author of All Connected Now: Life in the First Global Civilization
"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....Reading this book will change the way you look at things-perhaps everything. It is a glimpse into what the human mind is capable of perceiving..."
— Kevin W. Kelley, author of The Home Planet
"... A book permeated by so many challenging and provocative insights is rare. If the twenty-first century is not to be the last gasp of humanity...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
"A welcome infusion of clarity, brilliance, and inspiration that will very likely blow your mind..."
— Keith Harary, PhD, executive director of the Institute for Advanced Psychology and author of Who Do You Think You Are?
"...An excellent resource for expanding personal and social awareness. [The book] integrates 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
"Diana Alstad and Joel Kramer are exciting critical thinkers for our times, who offer us provocative insights to investigate and navigate our own terrain in this...dynamic, transitional historic moment....cutting edge perceptions that nourish and awaken the thinking person."
— Ganga White, author of Yoga Beyond Belief
"...[The authors see] a magnificent potential for humanity...Their book [is] medicine for all who are curious about what might lie beyond the present confusion and challenges."
— Marion Weber, founder of Arts and Healing Network
"...The Passionate Mind Revisited is a seminal book for our time....What a wonderful gift we have been given to challenge our unexplored assumptions to help us create a better world."
— Wilford Welch, author of The Tactics of Hope
"A breakthrough in spiritual realism, pioneering...and courageous...This book will meet you where you really live."
— Jeremy Sherman, PhD, MPP, executive director of the Berkeley Consortium on Emergent Dynamics
"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 'here' and any 'now.' 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...."
— Keith Thompson, author of Leaving the Left
"Reading The Passionate Mind Revisited has afforded me deeper, clearer, more pragmatic approaches to my work...[and made] my life more meaningful, effective, and fulfilling. My worldview and experience of the spiritual dimensions of life are both more grounded and more expansive..."
— Rio de la Vista, former editor of Windstar and conservationist
"...A promising re-visioning of age-old philosophical dilemmas in a contemporary setting with important social and political implications.... the book re-orients and rejuvenates spiritual work, bringing it back into the world to become more effective and socially relevant."
— James Millikan, PhD, former professor of philosophy at Yale and University of Florida
"... an exciting and hope-inspiring intellectual journey well worth the effort. The coauthors urge all of us...to engage collectively in the evolution of our consciousness and create the possibility for survival....A superb achievement."
— Charles H. Jones, professor emeritus of law, Rutgers University School of Law