"The Lord of the Rings", a Book Talk with Podcaster Adam Bishop
In this episode we'll be talking about the great literary epic of J.R.R. Tolkien: "The Lord of the Rings" with podcaster and student of linguistics in Missouri, Adam Bishop. The focus of the conversat...
7 Tammi 202224min
Interview: Dr. Phil Cary about Dante's Cosmology, and the 24 Wise People in the Sun.
Join us for an excellent 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 movem...
27 Marras 202156min
Meditation #7 - How to escape the Grip of the Sirens
In the second Dream of the Purgatory, Dante is giving us a practical suggestion as to how we could escape the temptations and being in the thrall of the destructive Sirens. He then sums it all up in o...
14 Marras 20218min
Meditations #5 - Dante's thoughts on Free Will and a Predictable Future.
When Dante asks his great-great grandfather Cacciaguida about his own future, Cacciaguida explains how this can be foreseen in the timeless Realm of Paradiso, without removing Dante from his Free Will...
9 Marras 20217min
Meditations #4 - Dante's view on Imagination
In this episode and Meditation #4 we'll look at Dante's thoughts on the nature of Imagination, and how he is beautifully showing us his experiences of three scenes in his mind, and the going in and ou...
9 Marras 20217min
Meditations #3 - Motion, Aristotle, and the key to Empyrean.
In this Meditation we'll look at how the idea and concept of Motion becomes the transitional point from the Prime Mover, and into the Empyrean in Paradiso. It's deep within the motion itself, that the...
8 Marras 20215min
Meditations #2 - Dante asks; Why all the suffering in the World?
In the terrace of Wrath, the Pilgrim asks Marco Lombardo about all the evil in the world, as he saw it in Italy in the 13 hundreds. Main ideas from Dante is that our Free Will to make choices had been...
8 Marras 20216min
