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The Cyber Security Recruiter PodcastThe Cyber Security Recruiter talks to Christopher Emerson, Founder & CEO, White Oak SecurityChristopher Emerson Founder & CEO of White Oak Security - a Cyber Advisors Company joins The Cyber Security Recruiter Podcast...Here's how this weeks episode will benefit YOUR cyber security career:⬆ - From student, to consultant, to director, to business owner, & beyond. Learn how to optimize your security career growth. The secret sauce! Christopher 'breaks things down' for the community. ⬆ - Goal setting, knowing where you want to go, dreaming big. Learn how all these things can set you up for success in your security career. ⬆ - Christopher discusses how introverts can still...
2024-08-2153 min
UPTHINKING FINANCEChecking in with Richard LatermanRichard Laterman is a Portfolio Manager at ReSolve Asset Management, Inc. with 18 years of investment experience in capital markets. He has the unique ability to take complex information and boil it down into something concise and understandable. In his role, he provides us with invaluable information about geopolitical events, economic events, and the markets. In this conversation, we get Richard’s opinion on the world, the drive to embrace alternative strategies, and the necessity of leaning into discomfort. You will want to hear this episode if you are interested in...The typical day in the...
2024-06-2845 min
Dante's ParadisoConversation: The Sphere of Venus, with Robert-Louis AbrahamsonA conversation about the main topics and purpose of the Third Sphere in Dante's Paradiso - the Sphere of Venus. We'll meet the souls of Carlo Martello, Cunizza, and Bishop Folchetto, and explore the themes of mercy, forgiveness, love, spiritual growth, and the transition out of the earthly shadow into the higher Divine realms from the Sun and beyond.We'll also discuss different forms of love, and how self-management of your soul can shape reality, your relationsships, and transform your perception of the world.Hosts are Richard Emerson, and English Professor Robert-Louis Abrahamson....
2023-12-091h 07
Dante's ParadisoConversation: The Sphere of Mercury, with Robert-Louis AbrahamsonA Conversation about the Sphere of Mercury in Paradiso, and how the Transcendent and Divine Truth is shining through the bigger scales of Empires, Civilizations and Humanity at large.One of the main arguments in the Second Sphere is that on a cosmic scale, Humanity is a young species with a very recently emerged self-awareness, moral capacity, and Free Will. And over the longer time spans, we need to align both spiritually and with our Institutions and Civilizations with the Transcendent Good and Truth, argues Beatrice.Hosts are Richard Emerson and English Professor Robert-Louis Abrahamson.
2023-12-081h 13Dante's ParadisoIf the Cosmos is not Random, the Rest FollowsWhen the Pilgrim talks with Carlo Martello in the Sphere of Venus, they quickly move from purpose vs. randomness in the Universe, to the shaping forces that must originate in G-d. And Dante connects this to something as simple as why offspring are often different from their parents. The idea of Telos is working on all scales.©2023 Richard EmersonMusic: "Miserere Mei" by Gregorio Allegri.
2023-12-0508 minDante's ParadisoDante's Cosmological Argument for a First CauseIn the Sphere of Venus, Carlo Martello explains to the Pilgrim that all material things have both a nature and a purpose, which is reflected through the orderliness of the Cosmos. The alternative would be a collapsing reality, lying in ruins.©2023 Richard EmersonMusic: "Miserere Mei" by Gregorio Allegri.
2023-12-0504 minDante's ParadisoThe Sphere of Venus, and meeting Carlo MartelloThe third sphere in Paradiso, the Sphere of Venus, moves beyond the human scale and starts blending the Angelic with the Blessed Souls. And the Pilgrim expands his Spiritual experience from himself and G-d as in the Moon, to now also including other souls.©2023 Richard EmersonMusic: "Miserere Mei" by Gregorio Allegri.
2023-12-0506 min
The Cyber Security Recruiter PodcastThomas Richard & Benjamin Thal, Offensive Security Manager, EmersonAnother week & another brand new release of The Cyber Security Recruiter Podcast Massive thank you to my good friend Benjamin Thal from me & the entire team at Profectus CyberBen is the Offensive Security Manager at Emerson His insights & story provide even more mega learnings for us all. Enjoy this weeks episode folks it’s packed full of career growth gains & entertainment for us allHere are some resources that Benjamin mentioned:Podcast - Darknet DiariesBook - Leaders Eat Last...
2023-11-1759 min
Dante's Divine Comedy - Daily PurgatoryThe Sphere of Venus, with Prof. Robert-Louis AbrahamsonA Conversation about the main topics and purpose of the Third Sphere in Dante's Paradiso - the Sphere of Venus. We'll meet the souls of Carlo Martello, Cunizza, and Bishop Folchetto, and explore the themes of mercy, forgiveness, love, spiritual growth, and the transition out of the earthly shadow into the higher Divine realms from the Sun and beyond.We'll also discuss different forms of love, and how self-management of your soul can shape reality, your relationships, and transform your perception of the world.Hosts are Richard Emerson, and English Professor Robert-Louis Abrahamson....
2023-11-161h 07Dante's Divine Comedy - Daily PurgatoryThe Sphere of Mercury, with Prof. Robert-Louis AbrahamsonA Conversation about the Sphere of Mercury in Paradiso, and how the Transcendent and Divine Truth is shining through the bigger scales of Empires, Civilizations and Humanity itself.One of the main arguments in the Second Sphere is that on a cosmic scale, Humanity is a young species with a very recently emerged self-awareness, moral capacity, and Free Will. And over the longer time spans, we need to align both spiritually and with our Institutions and Civilizations with the Transcendent Good and Truth, argues Beatrice.Hosts are Richard Emerson and English Professor Robert-Louis Abrahamson.
2023-10-241h 13
Burning Phoenix Podcast#22 - Book Tips, when the left brain takes over, and the Renaissance.We'll look at two books in this episode: “More than Allegory” by Philosopher & Scientist Bernardo Kastrup, and “The Age of Utopia” by Historian and College Professor John Strickland.Our video talk with Tom LA Books is here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01AUovOS3BoAnd our GoodReads page is here:https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/21804137.Richard_EmersonThanks for listening!
2023-02-0411 minBurning Phoenix Podcast#9 - Exodus, a New Series from Dr. Jordan B. PetersonA look at the new series about Exodus from Dr. Jordan B. Peterson (16 episodes for Part I), plus a few excerpts from "The Life of Moses" by St. Gregory of Nyssa. Thanks for listening!
2022-11-2614 min
Burning Phoenix Podcast#8 - Cosmic Skeptic, and the Idea of a Transcendent RealityWhy the dimension or perspective of an Immaterial or Transcendent Reality is important, not as a "that which we yet don't know", but a mysterious aspect of Being and the Cosmos.
It is also instrumental for a balanced thinking, and to avoid the excesses of the left brain hemisphere.
Thanks for listening!
2022-11-2312 minBurning Phoenix Podcast#8 - Cosmic Skeptic, and the Idea of a Transcendent RealityWhy the dimension or perspective of an Immaterial or Transcendent Reality is important, not as a "that which we yet don't know", but a mysterious aspect of Being and the Cosmos. It is also instrumental for a balanced thinking, and to avoid the excesses of the left brain hemisphere.Thanks for listening!
2022-11-2312 minBurning Phoenix Podcast#7 - When Private Money and Power goes Too FarLooking at private money into US elections, and the excesses of the Catholic Church in 1054-1302.We'll also look at the idea of fighting the mythological monster Hydra, and aiming at the belly and not endlessly cutting off its heads, as Dante warns against to the Holy German Emperor in 1311. A similar dynamic and approach might be relevant for private money influences today.Thanks for listening!
2022-11-2012 minBurning Phoenix Podcast#6 - The Rise of China, and two asymmetrical Global SystemsThoughts on the rise of China, now soon the size of the US economy, and within this decade (2020s) most likely becoming the biggest economy on the Planet. Their economy is already 60x bigger in the last 40 years. And a global economic supremacy for China is nothing new, it has already happened twice before in the earlier Tang and Ming Dynasties.We might be moving towards a sort of Yin-Yang World Governance now with China and the US/West, at least in the short/medium term. With two asymmetrical philosophies and systems, hopefully finding a constructive balance...
2022-11-1710 minBurning Phoenix Podcast#5 - How to build an Ark, if the Flood is ComingFive points about how to mentally and practically prepare - if a bigger metaphorical Flood is indeed coming soon in America now in 2022/23, and to some extent in parts of Europe.1. Start building an Ark, immediately - with solid knowledge. It might be urgent. What to put in the Ark? The timeless parts of the Tradition, with Greek Myth and Philosophy, and/or f.ex. Dante's Divine Comedy, which is very solid.2. Thinking: Start thinking critically, and not just what "feels good". There are many dilemmas and ambiguous aspects of the world.3. Attitude...
2022-11-1409 minBurning Phoenix Podcast#4 - Three Practical Ways to start Balancing your BrainThree practical activities that could start today:1. Spend time in nature.2. Reduce online time drastically.3. One of these: Play an instrument for 20 minutes. Read and contemplate old mythology and symbolism. Do 20 minutes of Tai Chi. Do something creative like writing a poem, a little story, make a painting, or compose a song.All of which stimulates the right brain hemisphere, and could start a path to a more balanced Renaissance Mind outlook, and experience of life.Thanks for listening!
2022-11-1307 minBurning Phoenix Podcast#3 - Elon Musk as a Modern Day Guelph, Rising against the AristocracyLooking at parallels between modern day America and the 13th century powerful City-State of Florence.Thanks for listening!
2022-11-1107 minBurning Phoenix Podcast#2 - The Current Moment, in the Bigger PictureAn introductory episode for the Burning Phoenix Podcast, about how we will be drawing from the perspectives of Dr. Iain McGilchrist, Dante Alighieri, and Historian John Strickland on this podcast - to better understand the deeper patterns and trends of the last 3,000 years of European history, and what we might be seeing happening at this current moment of Time.Join the conversation on https://burningphoenix.substack.com -and thanks for listening!
2022-11-0914 minBurning Phoenix Podcast#1 - Myths and Subjugating Truth"The Aspirations of Changing and Controlling Truth"How trying to control and subjugate the Truth is expressed in Ancient Traditions.Join the conversation here:https://burningphoenix.substack.com/p/the-aspirations-of-changing-and-controlling
2022-11-0805 min
AW Morning Coffee ShowThe Seven Virtues, and the PurgatoryLooking back at Purgatory after a reading the Paradiso, more things are standing out and shining even more clearly.
2022-07-0204 min
AW Morning Coffee ShowBook Talks, and the "Age of Utopia". Views on the Renaissance and Enlightenment.In this episode we'll look at the "Age of Utopia", the third volume of John Strickland's great history work "Paradise and Utopia". We'll especially discuss the view of the Florentine Renaissance and Humanism, from the Greek Orthodox perspective.
Book Talks: https://awpodcast.com/renaissance
Age of Utopia: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Age-Utopia-Christendom-Renaissance-Revolution-ebook/dp/B09MDQ8M5Q
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2022-01-1022 min
Dante's Divine Comedy - Daily PurgatoryInterview: TomLABooks, Inferno 26, and Intellectual Hubris.In this episode we're having independent Dante Researcher Tom LA Books back for a conversation about the Big Picture of the Divine Comedy. We'll talk about how we can see some of the major themes of this overall picture in the contrast between Ulysses' "Mad Flight" in Inferno, and the beginning of the Journey in Paradiso. We'll also touch on philosophy, theology, psychology, practical life-advice from Dante, how life can change around 30, and countless small points and ideas of wisdom and beauty everywhere in the Comedy.Catch Tom's next video, and follow his Journey through P...
2021-12-051h 09
Dante's Divine Comedy - Daily PurgatoryInterview: Dr. Phil Cary about Dante's Cosmology, and the 24 Wise People in the Sun.Join us for a wide-ranging conversation with Ivy League Professor Dr. Phil Cary, about the structure of Dante's Cosmology and the 24 wise people in the sphere of the Sun.We'll also talk about the movement of the souls, and his favorite moments of wisdom and beauty from the Divine Comedy.Thanks for listening!..Dr. Phillip Cary is Professor of Philosophy at Eastern University in St. Davids, Pennsylvania, where he is also Scholar-in-Residence at the Templeton Honors College. After receiving his B.A. in English Literature and Philosophy from...
2021-11-2756 min
Dante's Divine Comedy - Daily PurgatoryFlorence in the 13 hundreds: An overview. Arts, Architecture, Dante, and the Albizzi Family.In the episode we'll look at the arts and architecture of the 13 hundreds, and the events with the Rise of Banking Families, an economic crash, the Black Death, and the temporary move backwards with the Oligarchy of the Albizzi Family.
Overall movements are still the Rise of the Merchant Classes and Growth of Cities, and we'll see how the Albizzi Oligarchy creates the conditions for the next century with the Age of Medici and the artistic explosion of the Florentine Renaissance.
Thanks for listening!
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2021-11-1318 min
Dante's Divine Comedy - Daily PurgatoryThe Lord of the Rings, and themes in the Divine Comedy.In this episode we'll look at the deeper theological themes in the Lord of the Rings, and see how they are expressed by J.R.R. Tolkien, and in Dante's Divine Comedy. We'll also see how the beauty and wisdom of deep theology can greatly enrich and embed great epic stories and poetry.
Timestamps:
00:00 - The Tavern
00:10 - Intro
01:28 - Lord of the Rings
13:20 - Divine Comedy
28:40 - Summary
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2021-11-0532 min
Dante's Divine Comedy - Daily PurgatoryInterview: TomLABooks & The Divine ComedyIn this episode we're having our first guest here on the podcast! We're very happy to present to you Tommaso in LA, who's currently making an excellent 100 video series on the Divine Comedy on his youtube channel, and we'll discuss the role that Dante is playing in his life, and his favorite scenes and discoveries from each of the three books.Timestamps:00:00 - Introduction00:53 - Dante11:24 - Inferno28:30 - Purgatory36:20 - Garden of Eden44:54 - ParadisoTom's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel...
2021-11-0159 min
Dante's Divine Comedy - Daily PurgatoryThe 12 hundreds in Florence, and the World Dante grew up in.In this episode we'll look at the historical events of the 12 hundreds in Florence, with the rise of the Merhcant class, the rivalries between dynasties, and the wars between the Guelphs and Ghibellines. This is a very helpful background to understand more of how Dante's outlook on the World was shaped in the first 35 years of his life, and the conditions and tensions he was caught up in when he became a Prior of the City, in the Summer of 1300.
The Plaque for Buondelmonte on Ponte Vecchio is here:
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2021-10-3029 min
Dante's Divine Comedy - Daily PurgatoryDante's Letter to Emperor Henry VII, his "Shining Hope" for Florence.In this episode we'll look at Epistle VII that Dante wrote to the Holy Roman Emperor Henry VII of Luxembourg, after Henry's descent into Italy in 1310.
We'll go through the historical context of the letter, as well as Dante's life in exile after 1304, and the immediate aftermath of Henry's conquest. We'll also look at some passages in "The Paradiso" with Dante's description of becoming a "Party of One" after breaking with the White Guelphs, and how Beatrice presents Henry VII's place in the Heavens.
A great map of Europe in the time of Emperor Henry V...
2021-10-2523 min
Dante's Divine Comedy - Daily PurgatoryThe Letter to Cardinal da Prato, Part IV. The hope of Dante and the Exiles.In this fourth and final episode about the First Letter by Dante to Cardinal Niccolò da Prato, we'll look very briefly at the events between 1302-1304 with the new Pope Benedict XI, and the Letter or Epistle I in its fullness.
We'll also see how Dante himself describes the events of the last four episodes, in Canto 6 of the Inferno.
Thanks for listening!
2021-10-2118 min
Dante's Divine Comedy - Daily PurgatoryFrom Charles of Valois in November 1301, to Dante's Exile and April, 1302.In this third episode on the background for Dante's Epistle I to Cardinal Niccolò da Prato in 1304, we'll look at the events and chaos that comes when the French Prince Charles of Valois enters Florence, and until the final banishment of the Bianchi in April 1302.
In a little over two years, the Black Guelphs and Corso Donati have then taken full control of the city, but at a very high price, and the tensions between Pope Boniface and the French King have also increased.
Dante is now in Exile, in which he will remain for the...
2021-10-1823 min
Dante's Divine Comedy - Daily PurgatoryFrom Dante's Priorate in 1300, to Prince Valois entering Florence in November, 1301.In this second episode on the historical background for Dante's Epistle I to Cardinal Niccolò da Prato in 1304, we'll look at the events from Dante's summer as a Prior in June 1300, until the entering of the French Prince Charles of Valois into Florence in November, 1301.
We'll also look at the politics and strategies from Corso Donati, the head of the Neri, by going to Rome during these months, and laying plans with Pope Boniface VIII and the French King Philip the Fair.
And a big thanks to our very generous patreon-supporters who are funding this p...
2021-10-1714 min
Dante's Divine Comedy - Daily PurgatoryThe Summer Dante became a Prior in Florence, and context with two Feuding Families.In this episode we'll look at the historical background of Dante's First Epistle to Cardinal Niccolò in 1304, by outlining the events in Florence from January to June of the year 1300. After a brief peace in the city, the two rivaling families of the Donati and the Cerchi import another family feud from Pistoia, thus becoming the Bianchi and Neri factions. Violence breaks out on May 1st 1300 at the Piazza di Santa Trinità, and on June 15th, Dante becomes a member of the governing council of six Priors, in Florence.
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2021-10-1520 min
AW Morning Coffee ShowDante's View on Consciousness, and the Embryo. With Coffee!A look at two great highlights from Canto 25 in Dante's Purgatory; the nature of the relationship between the body and the soul, and when during the development of the embryo the soul/consciousness enters the fetus.
Tommaso's video on this canto is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e8KLBpAtEM
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2021-10-1213 min
Dante's Divine Comedy - Daily PurgatoryDante's Letter to his Patron, Can Grande della ScalaIn this episode we'll look at the main highlights from Dante's Epistle XIII to Lord Can Grande della Scala, his Patron in Verona, to whom Dante dedicates the Third Canticle of the Divine Comedy, the Paradiso.
We'll also look at Dante's expressed practial purpose and overall meaning of the Divine Comedy, and the four established levels of interpretation in the Medieval and Ancient Traditions:
Literal, Allegorical, Moral and Anagogical.
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2021-10-1112 min
2021-10-1104 min
AW Morning Coffee ShowDante's Letter to Can GrandeGood morning!
In this episode we'll talk about Dante's Letter to his patron in Verona Can Grande della Scala, and two upcoming new books this November, from historian John Strickland and from philosopher and scientist Iain McGilchrist.
Enjoy! 😊
2021-10-1117 min
Dante's Divine Comedy - Daily PurgatoryDante’s Plea to return the Papacy to RomeIn the Epistle XI to the Italian Cardinals in 1314, Dante both makes a plea to elect an Italian Pope and return the Papacy to Rome, and also compares the Church to the Greek Myth of Phaethon, who loses control over Apollo's Sun Chariot - and burns down the world.
We'll also discuss the contexts provided by Italian scholars Claudio Rendino and Gian Luca Potestà.
https://dantescomedy.com/dantes-plea-to-return-the-papacy-to-rome
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2021-10-0610 min
Dante's Divine Comedy - Daily PurgatoryDante’s Relationship to Scripture, and to the ChurchIn 1314 Dante wrote an Epistle to the Italian Cardinals defending himself from the charge that he was behaving like Uzzah in the old Biblical Stories, who was struck dead as he touched the Holy Ark. Dante then separates the Church, from the Scripture.
https://dantescomedy.com/dantes-relationship-to-scripture-and-to-the-church
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2021-10-0607 min
Lyceum Outdoor EditionMonday, Renaissance and Enlightenment, and an integrated Cosmology.Drawing on history, philosophy, literature, theology and science - to ponder how to recreate a more integrated and unified outlook on the World.
Enjoy, my friends!
2021-08-2310 minLyceum Outdoor EditionSunday, The Ethics, and the EnlightenmentMore connections between the Nicomachean Ethics and Dante's Purgatory, plus a more nuanced view of the Enlightenment.
Enjoy, my friends!
2021-08-2209 minLyceum Outdoor EditionFriday, and the Nicomachean EthicsHighlights from re-visiting the Aristotelian Ethics - and its very useful practicality in life.
Have a great weekend, my friends!
2021-08-2006 minLyceum Outdoor EditionMondayNew week, thoughts on the Italian Humanism, and soon a new reading of the Aristotelian Ethics!
Enjoy!
2021-08-1606 minLyceum Outdoor EditionSundayOut in the fields,
with updates on weekend podcasting on Dante, Humanism and the Renaissance, and new conversations in the McGilchrist forum.
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2021-08-1509 minLyceum Outdoor EditionWarmup Episode 3 - The Italian Humanism, with Manetti and MirandolaReflections on "The Dignity of Man" from both Manetti and Mirandola, the argument they make and how their writings have been perceived and placed by posterity.
Enjoy!
2021-08-1405 minLyceum Outdoor EditionWarmup Episode 2 - the Channel McGilchrist Forum and Dante's Divine ComedyWe've started a new thread, let's see where it goes!
2021-08-1402 min2021-08-1400 min
AW Morning Coffee ShowSummer, Paradise, and Great Coffee!Weekend episode and catch-up for the last month, including new discoveries in Paradise! Join our FB Group for more about Dante and the Divine Comedy: https://www.facebook.com/groups/664633241078292 Enjoy!
2021-06-1213 min
Cosmology & ScienceBook Review - Richard Dawkins "Outgrowing God", Part I.Initial thoughts and comments on the opening arguments in Richard Dawkins' book "Outgrowing God. A Beginner's Guide" (2019).
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2021-05-1218 min
AW Morning Coffee ShowDante’s 700 year Anniversary, and the Bright Spot TheoryDante Projects are here: dantescomedy.com The Bright Spot Theory is here: awpodcast.com Good Coffee!
2021-05-0211 min
Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard OstlerEpisode 405: Emerson Fersch, Former Stake President, Disciple of ChristMy friend Emerson Fersch, recently released as Stake President in the California Long Beach East Stake, talks about ‘creating Zion’ in his stake where everyone felt welcome, loved and needed. That included a significant outreach to LGBTQ Latter-day Saints in his stake—as well as working to make sure other groups who often feel on the margins feel a sense of belonging.
Emerson also talks about his conversion story to the Church and falling in love with his dear wife Darcy (they now live in Cedar City, Utah) and their joint efforts to connect more with the blessings of the Gospel...
2021-05-011h 39
AW Morning Coffee ShowEpisode 23 – Hebrew numbers 10-40, Quick Book Review “Darwin’s Doubt” by Stephen Meyer, and Super SunnyGood morning, and enjoy! The Cosmology & Science Podcast is here: https://anchor.fm/thesciencepodcast
2021-04-0513 min
AW Morning Coffee ShowEpisode 22 – Hebrew numbers 5 to 10, Easter Saturday, and Great weatherGood morning, and great coffee!
2021-04-0311 min
AW Morning Coffee ShowEpisode 21 – Darwin’s Doubt, Stephen Meyer, Hebrew Numbers, and Great CoffeeGood morning, and happy Friday!
2021-04-0216 min
AW Morning Coffee ShowEpisode 20 – New books, and Great CoffeeUpdates on the podcasts, and Sunny Saturday!
2021-03-2704 min
AW Morning Coffee ShowEpisode 19 – New Podcast Show, Proust Quotes, and Great CoffeeGood morning, and enjoy! Journey with Dante Podcast: Website: https://awpodcast.com/journeywithdante Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2Ouf…
2021-03-2607 min
AW Morning Coffee ShowEpisode 18 – Great Coffee, and finished “Combray”Good morning! The Proust “Overture” is here: anchor.fm/thebookpodcast And “Combray” is here: patreon.com/thebookpodcast
2021-03-2503 min
Dante's Divine Comedy - Daily PurgatoryPurgatory, Episode 15After ascending up the mountain we’re entering into the Garden of Eden, where the Pilgrim meets Beatrice and drinks from the two rivers of Lethe and Eunoë. The first river is to remove the memories of sins, and the second is to restore the memories of all the Good in the world and in Life. There are also two big allegorical scenes with the symbolic entering of Scripture, and the History of the Church up to Dante’s time in the thirteen hundreds. After the final moments by the river of Eunoë – the Pilgrim is now fully reborn, ready an...
2021-03-2214 min
AW Morning Coffee ShowEpisode 17 – Meaning of Italian “Grazie”, a new Dante Commentary, and Great Coffee!Good morning, and Great Coffee! The new Italian Commentary has this beautiful front page:
2021-03-1709 min
Dante's Divine Comedy - Daily PurgatoryPurgatory, Episode 14On the Seventh and last Terrace we’ll meet the souls of the Lustful, and the Pilgrim is talking with the poets Guido Guinizelli and Arnault Daniel. And then they meet the Angel of Joy, and go through the wall of Fire – the spiritual purification. The final Terrace ends with a beautiful dream of flowers and the Active and Contemplative Life, and in the very last verses Virgil has a final and Crowning Speech for the Pilgrim.
Enjoy!
Recommended version for joining this series is Mark Musa’s Penguin Classics Edition here: https://amzn.com/0140444424
2021-03-1513 min
AW Morning Coffee ShowBook Review Episode 1 – The Age of DivisionA first episode with a book review – “The Age of Division” by John Strickland, about the emerging differences between Eastern and Western Traditions from around 1050 to 1500. And some reflections on Dante’s Comedy as both countering some of these trends, and unifying elements from both Traditions.
2021-03-1411 min
Dante's Divine Comedy - Daily PurgatoryPurgatory, Episode 13As the Pilgrim, Virgil and Statius enter the Sixth Terrace they come to a strange tree and hear a voice within – symbolic of the “theophany” where the Divine shows itself to the three Poets. This is in some ways the result from the “spiritual release” in the previous Terrace, as the soul is now having an increased capacity to perceive the Divine. We also meet the Gluttons, who are very thin souls and metaphorically spiritually “starved” – which expands on the theme of the nature of the Soul and its relation to the Earthly Body.
Enjoy!
Recommended vers...
2021-03-0812 min
AW Morning Coffee ShowEpisode 16 – Good Friday, New Papacy Video, and Great Coffee!Our new video: https://youtu.be/RK1Zb-31zqw Mythos & Logos Premiere on Monday 8th: https://youtu.be/2JUO9QnCJpI Book: “Age of Division” by John Strickland
2021-03-0504 min
AW Morning Coffee ShowEpisode 15 – The Papacy, The Normans, and Good CoffeeGood morning! Today we will have a brief summary of how the Papacy became an autonomous political unit with full independence and Self-Governance, in 1059.
2021-03-0308 min
AW Morning Coffee ShowEpisode 14 – Mosaics, St. John’s Basilica in Rome, and Foggy!Good morning, and good coffee! Here are the pictures: Basilica of St. John in Lateran, Rome Emperor Constantine kneeling on the left, Emperor Charlemagne on the right. Enjoy!
2021-03-0205 min
Dante's Divine Comedy - Daily PurgatoryPurgatory, Episode 12In the Fifth Terrace we’ll meet the penitents for the Vice of Avarice or Greed, as well as the moment of the whole Mountain trembling and the meeting of the transitional figure of the Roman Poet Statius, who was a secret Christian. This symbolizes an important expansion of the figure of Virgil as a guide, and a gradual change towards Beatrice and the nature of the Earthly Paradise and Paradiso itself.
Enjoy!
Recommended version for joining this series is Mark Musa’s Penguin Classics Edition here: https://amzn.com/0140444424
2021-03-0113 min
AW Morning Coffee ShowEpisode 13 – The Monastic system, Dante’s Third Dream, and SpringGood morning, and enjoy!
2021-03-0109 min
AW Morning Coffee ShowEpisode 12 – Sunday, Viking words in English, and Good CoffeeExamples of Viking words in English are f.ex.: ‘knife’, ‘take’, ‘window’, ‘egg’, ‘ill’ and ‘die’, plus likely more than six hundred other “loan words” in modern Standard English. English place names ending on -by, -thorpe, -toft, -holme, -kirk, -thwaite, -wick, -borough and -ness also have their suffixes from the old Viking language!
2021-02-2807 min
AW Morning Coffee ShowEpisode 11 – Ambushed, Strickland, and Dante’s Third TerraceGood morning – and enjoy!
2021-02-2707 min
Dante's Divine Comedy - Daily PurgatoryPurgatory, Episode 11When we reach the Fourth Terrace the night is coming closer, and Virgil is giving an explanation to the Pilgrim about Love as the motive force for also the Vices, in the three versions of misdirected Love, too little Love, and excessive Love. This three-fold explanation also gives the structure of the Seven Levels of the Mountain, and the theme of Love (with the Natural and Rational Love) then becomes the central theme at the Heart of Purgatory (in Chapter 17), and also for the whole Divine Comedy as a literary work. Love is that which moves the Sun and...
2021-02-2510 min
AW Morning Coffee ShowEpisode 10 – Strickland, John Chaffee, Great Coffee and Rainstorms!Good morning – and enjoy! Podcast: “Ambushed” by John Chaffee. Book: “Age of Paradise” by John Strickland.
2021-02-2406 min
Dante's Divine Comedy - Daily PurgatoryPurgatory, Episode 10The Terrace of Wrath is clouded in thick, black smoke, symbolic of the blinding nature of the emotion of Wrath and Anger. This level opens with examples of Meekness and Gentleness, before we get some thoughts on Reason as important to mitigate and manage the emotion of Wrath, and the role of Free Will in creating the evil in the world, as explained by the soul Marco Lombardo. The attack on the Church is also especially wrathful in these chapters. But the overall message is a positive one, our ability and capacity for the Good.
Enjoy!
2021-02-2210 min
AW Morning Coffee ShowEpisode 9 – Villa Jovis, Emperor Tiberius, and early Renaissance.First impressions from reading Strickland’s “Age of Paradise”. Enjoy!
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Dante's Divine Comedy - Daily PurgatoryPurgatory, Episode 9On the Second Terrace we’ll meet the souls who are repenting for Envy, metaphorically with their eyes sewn shut by Iron Threads. The offsetting Virtues are here Love/Charity and Generosity, and Virgil has a long speech on both the sources of Envy, and the multiplying effects of having values of Spiritual Good more than the Earthly. The healing effects of the Climb continues as the Pilgrim now only has five of the seven scars left on his forehead, as they reach the next Terrace.
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2021-02-1810 min
AW Morning Coffee ShowEpisode 8 – Strickland, Garden of Eden, and M. LegrandinGood morning – and enjoy!
2021-02-1609 min
AW Morning Coffee ShowEpisode 7 – New Week, and a Book TipAbout Rod Dreher’s “How Dante can save your Life”. Enjoy!
2021-02-1509 min
Dante's Divine Comedy - Daily PurgatoryPurgatory, Episode 8The First Level of Purgatory is the Terrace of Pride, where the souls are carrying heavy stone slabs on their backs to apprehend a new sense of Humility towards the limitations of human nature and the rational Intellect. This was Dante the Writer’s own main Vice in life, and we’ll first get three examples of Humility from the Biblical Stories and Roman History, as the Virtue to offset and balance the Pride. An implied theme here is also that the Vice of Pride is underlying and amplifying all the other Vices further up the Mountain.
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AW Morning Coffee ShowEpisode 6 – Coffee, Renaissance and chats with a Historian.Good morning, and Good Coffee!
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AW Morning Coffee ShowEpisode 5 – Sunny Morning, and the Nature of CreativityGood morning, and enjoy!
2021-02-1106 min
Dante's Divine Comedy - Daily PurgatoryPurgatory, Episode 7In chapter 9 we’ve reached the Gate of Purgatory, and the threshold to the Terraces in the Purgatory Proper. The Pilgrim has first fallen asleep and had a prophetic dream about an Eagle lifting him up to the consuming Fire, and then learns that St. Lucia carried him up to the Gate in his sleep. Symbolically this chapter is a movement into a deeper and more spiritual part of the Climb, and the slowness of Ante-Purgatory is now left behind us.
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AW Morning Coffee ShowEpisode 3 – Nyssa, Purgatory, and Glastonbury AbbeyGood morning! Here’s the video from Mythos & Logos: https://youtu.be/fIocP7WTyMU
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AW Morning Coffee ShowEpisode 2 – Proust, Bergson, Bloch, and the nature of TimeA brief excerpt from “Combray”, where young Marcel has a friend Bloch who has some musings on Time. This also expands on an episode from the Florentine Renaissance Podcast from yesterday! Enjoy!
2021-02-0807 min
Dante's Divine Comedy - Daily PurgatoryPurgatory, Episode 6In chapter 8 of the Purgatory we’ll see the scene of the Two Angels and the Serpent, playing out an eternal battle between the forces of vices and the virtues. The Pilgrim also discovers three new Guiding Lights in the emerging night skies – the Theological Virtues of Faith, Hope and Love/Charity. In a deeper sense this chapter starts the transition from the more Earthly Ante-Purgatory to the more theologically layered experience of the Terraces of Purgatory.
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Recommended version for joining this series is Mark Musa’s Penguin Classics Edition here: https://amzn.com/0140444424
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AW Morning Coffee ShowSunday Morning!With news and updates, and things to look forward to next week!
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AW Morning Coffee ShowLate Night EpisodeWith thoughts about getting too much on a flow while making an episode! Which partly happened today presenting a few chapters from a book.
2021-02-0504 min
AW Morning Coffee ShowReading a book, 15 years later.Some thoughts on reading Marcel Proust, 15 years later. How perspectives might change from one’s early 20s to late 30s. Enjoy!
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AW Morning Coffee ShowFriday 3rd CoffeeGood Afternoon! We’re now on our third coffee – and loving our new setup!
2021-02-0501 min
Dante's Divine Comedy - Daily PurgatoryPurgatory, Episode 5In this episode we’ll cover chapter 5-7 in the Ante-Purgatory, where the Pilgrim and Virgil meet Sordello, as a new Guide who is a Roman Poet but also had Faith and is among the saved souls. There is also an incredible beauty as they enter the Valley of Princes, with the fourth group of souls, and they have to stop as the first day is coming to end, in the dusk and twilight.
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Recommended version for joining this series is Mark Musa’s Penguin Classics Edition here: https://amzn.com/0140444424
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Dante's Divine Comedy - Daily PurgatoryPurgatory, Episode 4The fourth Canto is in many ways the real beginning of the Climb, and one that gives us a new understanding both of orientation (and re-orientation), and the nature of a major learning process – metaphorically climbing the Mountain. And we’ll meet Belaqua, an old indolent friend of Dante the Writer. The late repentants who are indolent have to wait the same amount of years as they postponed their “Metanoia” and changing their minds.
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Recommended version for joining this series is Mark Musa’s Penguin Classics Edition here: https://amzn.com/0140444424
2021-01-2709 min
Dante's Divine Comedy - Daily PurgatoryPurgatory, Episode 3The third chapter is a lighter canto, and describes the transition from the Beach to the Mountain across the fields. Main symbolic theme is the role and limitation of Reason, both as the foundation and crucial for the Climb, but also its limitations. This topic will be increasingly clear through the book – until the Crowning moment after the Seven Terraces.
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Recommended version for joining this series is Mark Musa’s Penguin Classics Edition here: https://amzn.com/0140444424
2021-01-2109 min
Dante's Divine Comedy - Daily PurgatoryPurgatory, Episode 2In this second episdode we’ll meet the Angelic Boatman arriving at the shores of Mount Purgatory, and see the symbolism of both the Boatman and the role of Cato as the Guardian of the Mountain and Growth.
Overall this is a chapter of beauty, renewal and rebirth.
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Recommended version for joining this series is Mark Musa’s Penguin Classics Edition here: https://amzn.com/0140444424
2021-01-2108 min
Dante's Divine Comedy - Daily PurgatoryPurgatory, Episode 1Welcome to this first episode of the Purgatory Series!
We’ll talk about the symbolism of the first chapter but also the bigger context and framing of the book and the Comedy as a whole. Enjoy!
Recommended version for joining this series is Mark Musa’s Penguin Classics Edition here: https://amzn.com/0140444424
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New Zealand Brewer PodcastRichard Emerson - NZB Podcast Episode #31In episode #31 of the New Zealand Brewer Podcast we take a look at the life of Richard Emerson, a trailblazer who is often lauded as the ...
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The Parallax Podcast | CrikeyParallax Podcast: Emerson on Terminator and rise of the machinesCould scenarios depicted in the Terminator movies transpire in real life? To what extent is science fiction becoming fact? Special guest Dr. Craig Emerson joins The Parallax Podcast.
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SwampcastAbsolute euphoric silliness with passerby Richard Emerson: "So many songs in my mind..."After interviewing Serge Beauregard, GatorJUG had this euphoric guest: "Richard Emerson"!
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