Joel Kramer is an internationally acknowledged adept of physical and mental yoga who taught at Esalen Institute in the 60s and 70s. He is co-author of The Guru Papers with Alstad and author of The Passionate Mind. Diana Alstad taught humanities at Yale and Duke and has led seminars together with Kramer since 1974.
Kramer, Joel and Diana Alstad

Code	Name	Price	Description
33001	Kramer, Joel Bringing Spirituality Down To Earth	$11.95	This talk explores common dangers of what Kramer calls a great paradox of spirituality. Though genuine spiritual opening can dissolve boundaries and connect us to greater, impersonal dimensions of the universe, the very tools we use to bring about these connections can also trap us in narrow, constricted experience. - 1983 Chiago - One Audiotape
33002	Kramer, Joel Bringing East and West Together	$11.95	Kramer thoughfully and passionately examines the conflict in world-views he considers to be the root of most psychological difficulties. He terms individuation and merging - in which we want to be wholly ourselves, and yet also seek union with something vastly more profound than the personal - the opposing tendencies most of us alternate between. The latter, emphasized by many spiritual traditions, can be a cause of difficulty as easily as it can be a solution. - 1983 Chicago - One Audiotape
33003	Kramer, Joel Decoding Social and Spiritural Control	$11.95	Authoritariam hidden in culture, values and our minds is an age-old planetary "social virus" geared at maintaining power. It is at the core of many basic global and personal problems - including social breakdown and difficulties with addiction, self-control, and intimacy. This talk extending the ideas of The Gugu Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power shows that people are not the problem, but rather traditional morality - our guidelines for relating - is dysfunctional in today`s complex world. - - One Audiotape
33004	Kramer, Joel Moral Wars and Survival	$11.95	Kramer states that the basic battle on the planet today is for people`s minds. Who has the right to decide what`s right and what gives anyone the right to do so is central in this struggle. Kramer says that any morality that polarizes altruism and egoism, cooperation and competition, is authoritarian, and thus cannot cope with acceleration change. Such dysfunctional moralities, our operating systems, are at the core of social breakdown and the problems threating humanity. - - One Audiotape
33005	Kramer, Joel Spiritual and Violence	$11.95	Spirituality and violence have been deeply intertwined historically says Kramer creating the current planetary contex of morality and power. Evolution uses crises and necessity to forge change. He states that our survival depends on a more evolved relationship to spirit that bring together things traditionally considered opposits, such as egoism and alturism, control and surrender, and competiton and cooperation. - - One Audiotape
KR001	Kramer, Joel and Diana Alstad The Gugu Papers (Book)	$15.95	Easily the most comprehensive, erudite, and timely book in print to explore authoritarianism in religion, institutions, power, the family, intimacy and sexual relations, and personal problems such as addiction.... Argues persuasively that any system of values that places tradition and the past above the imperative to question the present is destined to become increasingly lethal. - Keith Thompson, San Francisco Chronicle. - - One BOOK