Longing for the Infinite – 7 key features of Dante’s transhumanism
The word transhumanism was coined by Dante to capture his realisation of divine life in paradise. It has been colonised today by technologists dreaming of utopias. I explore 7 key differences to reco...
14 Mar 202127min
Dante, awakening, and erotic love
Dante’s journey is all about erotic love, through ugly possessiveness, and powerful passions, to the realisation that love is usually experienced as an ignorance about what we desire, to which he awak...
7 Feb 202134min
Dante's Divine Comedy and Spiritual Sight
This is a recording of a talk I gave online as part of St Albans Cathedral's online adult education programme. The talk with images is online here - https://youtu.be/MiiG-isCCA0 For more on Dante, inc...
13 Jan 20211h 1min
Dante Top 10 Spiritual Insights
We will learn a lot about Dante’s language, love, politics and humanism in 2021, the 700th anniversary of his death. But perhaps not so much about the spiritual insights he felt charged by heaven to c...
5 Jan 202112min
Paradiso 33
Dante reaches the end of his journey, which is also the origin and moment of complete reception of divine life and light.
8 Nov 202027min
Paradiso 32
Bernard takes Dante on a tour of paradise, which is also a gathering together of all he has experienced.
7 Nov 202019min
Paradiso 31
Dante sees paradise as a white rose of beauty and heavenly amphitheatre of life, shining like the sun.
7 Nov 202020min
Paradiso 30
Dante enters the Empyrean conveying, in visions, the direct experience of divine, living light.
25 Okt 202030min
