JUSTIN YOUNG

Here’s an image I created for Diana Alstad and Joel Kramer’s new book called The Passionate Mind. The book was released July 14, 2009 and i’m proud to be on the cover. If you’re interested in owning a copy, the book can be purchased here from Amazon, or here direct from the publisher.

I’ve known Joel and Diana for a number of years, i met them in the unique Marin beach community of Bolinas, CA.  Bolinas is one of my favorite places in the world. There is really nothing like it that i can think of. It’s a mixture of artists, writers, musicians, farmers, beach bums, salty sea dogs, and even a few isolated conservatives (ex-hippies). Many of the homes are handmade little jems, built like wooden ships or tree houses nestled in the woods. I’ve been fortunate to spent a lot of time there over the years, and I did a private sculpture commission there in the early part of the 2000’s.

The Passionate Mind Book Cover

“The Passionate Mind Revisited takes us on a liberating inner journey that can transform the way we look at ourselves and the world.
In this major new work from two of our brightest minds, Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad boldly address the idea that we are a species at risk and that we must pass through a process of ‘conscious social evolution’ if we are to survive. The authors assert that many of our social problems are products of our limited worldviews, beliefs, and identities and that we must understand and break through this lifetime of conditioning to see our lives and the world in a new way.
In its revelation of why conscious social evolution is both possible and necessary, The Passionate Mind Revisited speaks to thoughtful people of all ages interested in self-awareness and in creating an existence and a world defined by hope and possibility. Kramer and Alstad’s provocative ideas show the vital role of human awareness in meeting humanity’s evolutionary challenges.”
– from the back cover – Published by North Atlantic Books

About the Authors (website) :

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.

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.