Aug

30

Dream On

Filed Under The Mystery 

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I am becoming a rabid fan of Oprah Winfrey. Not just her TV show, or even because of it. Sometimes I like the show, sometimes I can’t bear to watch another celebrity bouncing around on her couch. On her TV show, she has to appeal to a broad afternoon American demographic in order to sell her sponsors’ products. So, one day she’ll be in her “Dr. Phil” mode, doing the “tough love” thing [which irritates the @#$% out of me], the next day she’ll be interviewing a gentle soul like Eckhart Tolle, who is to Dr. Phil what a Montblanc fountain pen is to a billy club. The day after that Tom Cruise will be making a bleeping asininity out of himself.

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What I love is her website. There are more freebies on that site than any other I can think of. HOURS of webcasts, uninterrupted by commercials. [There is an annoying pitch at the beginning of each webisode, but that's followed by up to an hour of straight delivery of the goods.] Her site has REAMS of digital article pages written by some of the most interesting folks in the field of personal transformation.

My most recent invite [she sends out almost daily offerings of more freebies once you sign up] was to listen to her interview a poet, novelist, and now dream therapist named Rodger Kamenetz. He’s written a book called The History of Last Night’s Dream. Haven’t read it yet, but it’s on its way from Amazon.

Below I’ve “embedded” a droll little 5 minute preview of material Oprah covers in about 40 minutes on her website. [View the webcast HERE.]

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From that little monolgue you might get the impression this guy’s some kind of space cowboy. Dream on. He just has a sense of humor. Here’s an excerpt from his website Bio:

Rodger Kamenetz is the Erich and Lea Sternberg Honors Professor at Louisiana State University and is also the recipient of the LSU Distinguished Faculty Award for 2008. He has a dual appointment as a Professor in the Department of English and in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies. He is the founding director of LSU’s highly successful MFA program in Creative Writing, and the founding director of the Jewish Studies Program. He holds a B.A. from Yale College and graduate degrees from Johns Hopkins and Stanford Universities.

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