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Must say that passage about how it's bad to understand atoms and genes pissed me off.
This episode was kind of meh, nothing very new about dreams, and the discussion of drugs was even more shallow. Leave that to the experts (like Erik Davis).
PF on Doors of Perception. Fabric important in the western tradition (its where painters could get non-figural). Brad Warner against drugs. Flying to the top of a mountain vs climbing there. Capitalism, acquistion (this is exactly what Chögyam Trungpa criticizes as spiritual materialism).
Drugs and dreams as rivalrous siblings
Sleep as a problem with capitalism, as an affront, as resistance (eh do not buy it, capitalism doesn't care). JFM hates Inception, doesn't say why but I can guess.
The reality of dreaming. They abyss, the world underneath, dreams a more real (because underneath, more fundamental?). Surrealism as over real. Scoffing at the GC theory of dreams (didn't realize that was so widesdpread). Surreal is akin to supernatural. The dream as the rejected cornerstone that becomes the capstone.
Perhaps I am not bought-in enough to the Weird, I have kind of the weaksauce take that they disdain, rather than embracing dreams as somehow more fundamental than the waking world. I want to grant dreams a degree of reality, they want a revolution where the dreams are more important than waking.