An intellectual odyssey – from Pythagoras to planetary consciousness. Prisoners of the Real makes the connection between solar and lunar knowledge, illustrating the cost of society’s preoccupation with certainty and order. With insights from linguistics, psychology, physics, literature, philosophy and management science, it opens the door to a new vision of freedom and cooperation –Dionysian leadership.
“Dionysian leaders use artistic methods to invent structures of reality. Although they acknowledge that scientific and artistic processes have equal worth, they de-emphasize logical reasoning and deduction and focus on metaphorical thinking. Their interest is not definition but discovery.”