Summary: The guests this week are KMO and Olga Kuchukov. KMO is most well known for creating the C-Realm podcast, while Olga is a massage therapist and yoga expert turned co-host of the Z-Realm podcast. While the C in C-realm stands for consciousness, the Z in the Z-realm stands for Zombie. It's Thursday June 7th, 2012 an Douglas Lain is the host of this podcast. I want to thank David B for his generous donation to the podcast and let everyone know that there are currently 3 copies left of my novella Wave of Mutilation. So the next three people who donate or subscribe to the Diet Soap philosophy workshop will be the last people to get signed copies of that book. The music at the outset of this podcast is The Gonk from the 1978 version of Dawn of the Dead. --- Unrelated Essay from Tor.com Dreaming Captain America and Falcon Last week I checked out two very different books from the Woodstock public library with the hope that I could use one in order to understand the other. One of the books was Jack Kirby’s Captain America Bicentennial Omnibus and the other was Sigmund Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams. You’d think that my growing up in the 70s would’ve put to rest any inclination to pursue Freudian theories about childhood trauma and put to lie the notion that repressed wishes from waking life were the stuff of our dreams. After all, everyday waking life in the 70s was a life already populated by dream characters. From the Village People to HR Puffnstuf, the 70s were a dreamtime, so Freud couldn’t have been right with his dream theory about day residues and repression. Growing up in the seventies meant you didn’t need a talking cure; instead the way to understand your dreams was to check the TV Guide or thumb through your comic book collection. On the other hand, some say that Freud didn’t mean that dreams were brought on by substantial real traumas in the world, or that our dreams emerge from our psychic depths in response to the bad stuff or bad desires we encounter in our waking life, but rather something a bit more twisted than that. For example, in his new book Less Than Nothing, for example, the psychoanalyst Slavoj Zizek interprets Freud’s description of dream-work from Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams. “[For Freud] the paradox is that this dream-work [or the mental process that hides the true wish that the dream is fulfilling from consciousness] is not merely a process of masking the dream’s ’true message’: the dream’s true core, its unconscious wish, inscribes itself only through and in this very process of masking…in short, it is the process of masking itself which inscribes into the dream its true secret.” Read more at Tor.com
