The Dreamers

A look back at season 2

’Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness’, Freud once stipulated - an insight with high relevance for our not so humane current times. With two of the three musqueteers beeing live together in Ljubljana, the guys probe questions about law, religion and science : Why can a company have judicial standing as its own entity or persona? And what does cats have to do with it all ? (or rather, perhaps, not have to do with it…). Tune for a session of wild jams from the center of Europe!

Why is it so difficult to talk about a positive future? How or where can we find ways to do it anyway? The guys explore what happens when we have the capacity to wait and withstand frustration, and what happenss when we dont. They talk about a moral imperative to act in the world; and about finding those people who need you as additional conduits to creatively co-dream a possible future.

In this episode the guys continue the exploration of what’s wrong with modern psychiatry and mental health leading into the ever widening raft between progressive, emancipating ideologies and a conservative, rigid way of conceptualizing reality.

A propos the tragic homicide of a homeless man on the NYC tube the RII crew discuss the prolongation of psychic and socioeconomic pain as kind of cries into the wilderness - they all somehow trigger a need to remain asleep in those who refuse to see that torch of hope and community beyond the confines of shortsighted economic gratification.

Together with guest Noreen Anderson, Martin and Dan probe questions of spiritual, social and material importance and try to envision a future of solidarity, even in times of AI and exteded mind. Tune in as we explore truth telling in the digital era!

In this episode Dan asks whether Homo Sapiens could in fact be better understood as Homo Oneiros, or The Dreaming People? Dreams fill our art and entertainment, our museums, the shows we watch, and our search for truth in science and psychology. We sleep a third of our lifetime, and entertain visionary ideas and imaginatory explorations for much of the remaining two. What if dreaming is the biggest deal of all? Bion’s theory of dreaming by James Grotstein - https://icpla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Grotstein-J.S.-Chapter-25-what-does-it-mean-to-dream.pdf Frank Wilczek on complementarity in Science - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-mind-expanding-power-of-complementarity/ Crick, F., Mitchison, G. The function of dream sleep. Nature 304, 111–114 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1038/304111a0