The author of "Rich Dad Poor Dad," Robert Kiyosaki is an entrepreneur, educator, and investor who believes that each of us has the power to take control of our financial future. In the first half, he talked about his latest book, "Capitalist Manifesto," and offered commentary on the political and economic landscape. He advocated for teaching financial literacy to children in school, adding that he started his education about money and capitalism by playing the board game Monopoly. The curbing of the oil industry is hurting the US middle class, he contended, particularly with the halting of the Keystone pipeline.
While enrolled at the US Merchant Marine Academy in 1965, his economics teacher encouraged him to read Marx's Communist Manifesto, Hitler's Mein Kampf, and Mao's Little Book. He now believes that many of Marx's ideas have spread into the US education system and that our personal freedoms are being eroded. Concepts of capitalism need to be taught in the schools, he reiterated, as "the beauty of America" has been "that you can be born into nothing and climb to the top."
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A pioneer in lucid dream research at Stanford University and Montreal's Sacré-Coeur Hospital, Craig Sim Webb has 25 years of experience researching and writing about dreams and consciousness. In the latter half, he talked about the creative aspects of dreams, and how musicians have often incorporated ideas and actual music that originated in their dream state. Dreams seem to be an interface of the physical body/brain and the more ethereal nature of the mind, he suggested. Speaking of precognitive dreams, Webb hypothesized that strong emotional events of the future might leave a kind of ghost print in our psyche. For instance, he recalled how he dreamt of a huge tower falling into rubble in a big city. He had this dream on September 11th, but five years before 2001.
Before Johnny Cash started working with Willie Nelson in The Highwaymen, he dreamed that Nelson had a specific named song for him. Cash was able to reach out to Nelson, and discovered that, indeed, he'd just written a new song with that title, but he hadn't shared that information with anyone, Webb recounted. He talked about Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead, who said he gets dream visitations from his departed bandmate Jerry Garcia. Reportedly, the dream version Garcia gave Weir a song that appeared in the form of a creature. Webb also played some excerpts from his own songs that were inspired by dream content, such as his composition MorpheoN, in which he heard three repeating musical notes in a dream.
News segment guests: Mish Shedlock, Howard Bloom