The Theater of the Mind: Paul Levinson interviews Dan Abella about his New Book

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 223, in which I interview Dan Abella about his new book, The Theater of the Mind.

Among the topics we discuss: Marshall McLuhan, Julian Jaynes, Gestalt psychology, ideas for inventions and music in dreams, the power of the spoken word and the acoustic, the history of motion pictures, the essence of "poetic faith," how art reduces stress, and much more.

More about The Theater of the Mind here and here.

Publications and Music mentioned in the interview:

• The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (Julian Jaynes)
• The Photoplay: A Psychological Study (Hugo Münsterberg)
• Biographia Literaria (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
• (free article) "McLuhan's Space" (Paul Levinson)
• (music) "Welcome Up" (Paul Levinson)