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Emerson Dameron's Medicated MinutesEmerson Dameron's Avril 14We explore the meditative practice of water pouring and how this simple action can become a mindful ritual. The episode demonstrates how everyday actions can be opportunities for presence and attention.• Using water itself as a tool to manipulate more water• The repetitive nature of pouring as a mindfulness practice• Finding beauty and meaning in seemingly mundane activities• How small, deliberate actions can create moments of presence• Connecting to ancient traditions through simple everyday ritualsTry this water-pouring exercise at home. Pour slowly, with full attention, and notice the sensations, sounds, and visual...2025-04-1430 min
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 ComedyThe 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 ComedyThe 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 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
Dante's Divine ComedyInterview: 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 ComedyInterview: 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 ComedyFlorence 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!
A special thanks goes out to...2021-11-1318 min
Lyceum Outdoor EditionDante's Letter to Can Grande, out in the fieldsWalk and talk, out in nature!2021-10-1104 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.
Enjoy!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 minLyceum Outdoor EditionWarmup Episode 1General outline for the Podcast!2021-08-1400 min
Renaissance & Dante's ComedyThe Creation of the AngelsIn Canto 29 of Paradiso Dante describes the when, where and why of the Creation of Angels.
Full essay is here:
https://dantescomedy.com/the-creation-of-the-angels
Enjoy!2021-07-2309 minRenaissance & Dante's ComedyThe First Mover - and MotionIn just seven tercets, Dante inverts the model of the Universe from the material to the conceptual, and describes the origin and source of Motion and Time itself.
Enjoy!2021-07-1910 minRenaissance & Dante's ComedyThe Keys to Entering Heaven - the Pilgrim is ExaminedFrom the 8th sphere in Paradiso!
The essay is here:
https://dantescomedy.com/the-examination-of-virtues-for-the-pilgrim
Enjoy!2021-07-1707 minRenaissance & Dante's ComedyOutdoor Edition - Catching Up!On the Mystical Tradition in the 11 and 12 hundreds, the opening tercets of Purgatory and Paradiso, and the ongoing Divine Comedy series on youtube from a friend in LA, "Tom LA Books".
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1Se0davqIVb5KsQ1ruCZ_Q
Enjoy!2021-06-2812 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 minRenaissance & Dante's ComedyLove and Wisdom, in the Sphere of the SunHow Dante connects Seraphims and Cherubims with the Franciscan and Dominican Orders, as two major defining elements of the Divine and Theology itself, in the sphere of the Sun.2021-05-2906 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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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thesciencepodcast/messageAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy2021-05-1218 minRenaissance & Dante's ComedyThe Birth of the Divine ComedyThe moment when the Poem is born.
From John Ciardi's translation of the Divine Comedy.2021-05-0406 minRenaissance & Dante's ComedyThe Mystery of Beatrice's ProphecyA suggestion for interpreting the number "515" at the end of Purgatory.
From dantescomedy.com2021-05-0404 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
Renaissance & Dante's ComedyEnter Emperor Justinian. Canto 5 in Paradiso.Highlights and reflections on Chapter 5.2021-04-2912 minRenaissance & Dante's ComedyParadiso, Canto 1. Reading and commentary.Looking at the great translation of the Divine Comedy by John D. Sinclair from the 1940s. 2021-04-2834 minRenaissance & Dante's ComedyGroup Reading of Paradiso - Welcome!We've just started a group reading in our community on https://reddit.com/r/dantescomedy - and would like to welcome everyone to join in!
2021-04-2704 minRenaissance & Dante's ComedyFree will, and adjusting Misguided LovesReflections on Canto 18 in Purgatory.2021-04-1205 min
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/thesciencepodcast2021-04-0513 minRenaissance & Dante's ComedyEpisode 12 – The Canto of LightReflections on Poem 15 from Purgatory – the Poem of Light.2021-04-0314 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 minRenaissance & Dante's ComedyEpisode 11 – Creativity, Renewal, and the First Day on the TerracesReflections on the first four Terraces, the psychological process on each level, and the role and nature of Art ant the Artist.2021-03-2911 minRenaissance & Dante's ComedyEpisode 10 – The symbolism of The Earthly ParadiseReflection on Canto 28-33 in Purgatory. A unity of personal and general Revelation with Scripture, and Beatrice.2021-03-2910 min
AW Morning Coffee ShowEpisode 20 – New books, and Great CoffeeUpdates on the podcasts, and Sunny Saturday!2021-03-2704 minRenaissance & Dante's ComedyEpisode 9 – Purgatory as Process, and the Divine Arts.Reflections on Purgatory 9 and 10, the threshold into what Dante saw as the symbolic Church Life, and apprehending the Divine Arts with Humility.2021-03-2710 minRenaissance & Dante's ComedyEpisode 8 – Lady Philosophy, and the Participatory Nature of PurgatorioReflections on Canto 9 and Canto 2, in Purgatorio.2021-03-2611 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/thebookpodcast2021-03-2503 minRenaissance & Dante's ComedyEpisode 7 – Dante as a PersonReflections on canto 7, and some descriptions of the person Dante by his late-contemporary fellow writers Boccaccio and Petrarch, coming one generation after him in Florence and Arezzo.2021-03-2311 min
Dante's Divine ComedyPurgatory, 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 minRenaissance & Dante's ComedyEpisode 6 – The Comedy and Eastern Theology.Reflections on Theosis, in the Comedy.2021-03-2105 minRenaissance & Dante's ComedyEpisode 5 – The Portal into the Heavens, with the Moon.How the twin Portal of the Moon opens a material and spiritual experience, simultaneously.2021-03-2108 minRenaissance & Dante's ComedyEpisode 4 – Dante’s Argument for Virtues, in his Times.Reflections on Canto 6.2021-03-2107 minRenaissance & Dante's ComedyEpisode 3 – Building Virtue like a Steady Mountain.Reflections on Canto 5.2021-03-2006 minRenaissance & Dante's ComedyEpisode 2 – The story of Phaethon, and the Pilgrim’s Role in Canto 4.Reflections on Canto 4 in the Purgatory.2021-03-2010 minRenaissance & Dante's ComedyEpisode 1 – The New Poetry in Purgatory, and the nature of the Climb.Welcome to this first episode! The youtube channel is here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM…2021-03-2008 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 ComedyPurgatory, 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/01404444242021-03-1513 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 ComedyPurgatory, 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 Strickland2021-03-0504 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 ComedyPurgatory, 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/01404444242021-03-0113 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 ComedyPurgatory, 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 ComedyPurgatory, 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!2021-02-1808 min
Dante's Divine ComedyPurgatory, 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.
Enjoy!
Recommended version for joining this series is Mark Mu...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 ComedyPurgatory, 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.
Enjo...2021-02-1512 min
AW Morning Coffee ShowEpisode 6 – Coffee, Renaissance and chats with a Historian.Good morning, and Good Coffee!2021-02-1207 min
AW Morning Coffee ShowEpisode 5 – Sunny Morning, and the Nature of CreativityGood morning, and enjoy!2021-02-1106 min
Dante's Divine ComedyPurgatory, 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.
Enjoy!
Recommended version for joining this series is Mark Musa’s Penguin Classics Edition here...2021-02-1112 min
AW Morning Coffee ShowEpisode 4 – Florence, Night Sky, and Great CoffeeHave a great morning!2021-02-1004 min
AW Morning Coffee ShowEpisode 3 – Nyssa, Purgatory, and Glastonbury AbbeyGood morning! Here’s the video from Mythos & Logos: https://youtu.be/fIocP7WTyMU2021-02-0907 min
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 ComedyPurgatory, 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.
Enjoy!
Recommended version for joining this series is Mark Musa’s Penguin Classics Edition here: https://amzn.com/01404444242021-02-0807 min
AW Morning Coffee ShowEpisode 1 – New WeekHappy morning, and Good Coffee!2021-02-0803 min
AW Morning Coffee ShowSunday Morning!With news and updates, and things to look forward to next week!2021-02-0705 min
AW Morning Coffee ShowSaturday Morning, and Glastonbury AbbeyOur new little radio show is live!!2021-02-0603 min
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!2021-02-0503 min
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 ComedyPurgatory, 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.
Enjoy!
Recommended version for joining this series is Mark Musa’s Penguin Classics Edition here: https://amzn.com/01404444242021-02-0514 min
AW Morning Coffee ShowFriday CoffeeGood morning! First little warmup episode – enjoy!2021-02-0502 min
Dante's Divine ComedyPurgatory, 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.
Enjoy!
Recommended version for joining this series is Mark Musa’s Penguin Classics Edition here: https://amzn.com/01404444242021-01-2709 min
Dante's Divine ComedyPurgatory, 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.
Enjoy!
Recommended version for joining this series is Mark Musa’s Penguin Classics Edition here: https://amzn.com/01404444242021-01-2109 min
Dante's Divine ComedyPurgatory, 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.
Enjoy!
Recommended version for joining this series is Mark Musa’s Penguin Classics Edition here: https://amzn.com/01404444242021-01-2108 min
Dante's Divine ComedyPurgatory, 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/01404444242021-01-2108 min