Joel Kramer & Diana Alstad: Roping The Sacred Cows: Learning To Question Authority

Pervading all societies are structures that dictate limits to freedom--many quite hidden and unexamined. But this moment in history, says Joel Kramer, is a historical crossroads when "the moral order, the glue that has held civilizations together, begins to unravel"--a time to escape authoritarian constraints and move into self-trust and creativity. The San Francisco Chronicle called The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power (North Atlantic Books 1993) "easily the most comprehensive, erudite and timely book" on the subject. Here its authors articulate their provocative and rarely voiced ideas about how to move beyond authoritarianism on social, spiritual and personal levels.

Kramer is also an internationally acknowledged yoga adept, and Alstad initiated the first Women's Studies courses at Yale and Duke Universities.

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