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How To Know Paradise and Know It Now - the way of #Dante's #Paradiso #DivineComedy
Today, people feel Dante's Paradiso is irrelevant. It's not. It is the place of true perception and delightful knowledge, and the goal of the Divine Comedy. The question is how to follow Dante's lead and become aware of this domain of reali
Book Launch and Celebration of Dante 700, 14 Sept 2021, event recording
For further details about Dante's Divine Comedy: A Guide for the Spiritual Journey - https://www.markvernon.com/books/dantes-divine-comedy-book For further details about the Dante Society of London - https://dantesocietylondon.com/index.htm
Why Dante Matters - a conversation with the Church Times podcast
Mark Vernon talks about Dante and his new book, Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Guide for the Spiritual Journey (Angelico Press) at the Church Times podcast. This year marks 700 years since Dante’s death, and the Church Times of 10 September 2021
Book launch! Dante's Divine Comedy: A Guide for the Spiritual Journey
To preorder Dante's Divine Comedy: A Guide for the Spiritual Journey see - https://chbookshop.hymnsam.co.uk/books/9781621387480/dantes-divine-comedy To join me and register for the online book launch on 14th September at 6pm BST see - https
Did Dante really go to paradise?
In this 700th anniversary year, the truth of the Divine Comedy is a key issue. Modern critics may explain its spiritual veracity by putting its impact down to social construction and performativity. But Dante knew about literature as much a
Dante and the Divine Masculine
Categories like feminine and masculine can constrain as much as illuminate. But there is no denying that men and male entities play a major, often surprising part in Dante's journey through the Divine Comedy. This talk complements my look a
Dante and the Divine Feminine
Categories like feminine and masculine can constrain as much as illuminate. But there is no denying that women and female entities play a major, often surprising part in Dante's journey through the Divine Comedy. Saints including Beatrice,
Seeing In Depth - Dante on the Trinity
The Divine Comedy aims to deepen and broaden our perception of reality, often by exploding preconceptions. Nowhere is this more true than in Dante's take on the Christian perception of the Trinity. For Dante, it is way more than a doctrine.
How Dante Discovered the Power of Now
For more on Dante do see - https://www.markvernon.com/dantes-divine-comedy Details of my book, Dante's Divine Comedy: A Guide for the Spiritual Journey, are here - https://www.markvernon.com/books/dantes-divine-comedy-book Also, use this co
Descent is Ascent - How the road up is the road down in Dante's Divine Comedy
[This is an audio version of a talk with images, which is on my YouTube channel.] Making sense of why Dante had to travel through hell, what was going on in purgatory, and how that's all linked to the destination of heaven, comes with appre
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 recover Dante’s vision from the Divine Comedy
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 awakens. The Divine Comedy is, therefore, a
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, including details of my forthcoming book -
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 communicate in his Divine Comedy. My top
Paradiso 33
Dante reaches the end of his journey, which is also the origin and moment of complete reception of divine life and light.
Paradiso 32
Bernard takes Dante on a tour of paradise, which is also a gathering together of all he has experienced.
Paradiso 31
Dante sees paradise as a white rose of beauty and heavenly amphitheatre of life, shining like the sun.
Paradiso 30
Dante enters the Empyrean conveying, in visions, the direct experience of divine, living light.
Paradiso 29
The unity of the eternal and temporal, as interpenetrating expressions of the divine, is unpacked by Beatrice.
Paradiso 28
Dante gains inner sight of the still centre of all things, the spark of being and ever present origin.
Paradiso 27
Dante is full of the superabundance of heaven, when the lights around him turn red and Peter condemns the church.
Paradiso 26
A blinded Dante realigns his desire to the heavens, and is confronted by the unexpected light of Adam.
Paradiso 25
The light of hope, James, joins Dante and Beatrice. They shine with this virtue, before the heavens fall silent.
Paradiso 24
Dante must delight Saint Peter with insights on faith. He finds words to express his awareness and love.
Paradiso 23
In a series of shattering visions, Beatrice helps Dante steady himself and become capable of the light.
Paradiso 22
Beatrice helps Dante tolerate the tremendous vision in Saturn, as Benedict descends the ladder.
Paradiso 21
Dante is in the heaven of Saturn, though its glory must be shown gradually, lest he be blasted by the light.
Paradiso 20
Souls Dante never expected to see are encountered in Jupiter, and Dante learns of new heavenly dynamics.
Paradiso 19
The heaven of Jupiter shows the divine plenitude. Accepting human finitude readies Dante for more.
Paradiso 18
A deeper symmetry in life appears to Dante as, guided by Beatrice, he moves to the heaven of Jupiter.
