Audible have released the audiobook of Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Guide for the Spiritual Journey. I hope you enjoy the first chapter, Inferno 1. For more information go to Audible. The sample chapter can also be heard by finding my podcast feed, Dante’s Divine Comedy.
Tag: Divine Comedy
Dante’s Inferno, Part 2, dangers in spiritual seeking, with Rupert Sheldrake
An MP3 of the conversation is on my podcast feed, Dante’s Divine Comedy. This episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues is the second part of a conversation between Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon on the Inferno of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Deeper regions of hell are explored, in which individuals aren’t just confused about life but have… Continue reading Dante’s Inferno, Part 2, dangers in spiritual seeking, with Rupert Sheldrake
Angelology with Lorna Byrne. A conversation and inquiry with thoughts from Dante and Blake
An MP3 version of the conversation is on my podcast stream, Dante’s Divine Comedy. Dante and Otherworld Journeys was an online conference organised with the Scientific and Medical Network. This is the conversation, with extra thoughts, that I had with Lorna Byrne. I was particularly glad to compare her experience with those of other angel… Continue reading Angelology with Lorna Byrne. A conversation and inquiry with thoughts from Dante and Blake
Dante’s Inferno and the meaning of descent, with Rupert Sheldrake
Watch on YouTube! Also on your podcast feed. The Divine Comedy by Dante is one of the great spiritual works of the Christian tradition. But how can it be read and what does it mean? In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon discuss the first part of Dante’s cosmic pilgrimage.… Continue reading Dante’s Inferno and the meaning of descent, with Rupert Sheldrake
Dante and Spiritual Intelligence – a lecture to the Temenos Academy
An MP3 version of the talk is online here. This lecture was given to the Temenos Academy on Tuesday 19th October 2021 – a particular delight as it was on its perennial philosophy course that the Divine Comedy first began to open up to me. See here for more details – https://www.temenosacademy.org I make some… Continue reading Dante and Spiritual Intelligence – a lecture to the Temenos Academy
How To Know Paradise and Know It Now – new Dante talk
A MP3 version if this talk is here. Today, many 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 reality that is here, now… Continue reading How To Know Paradise and Know It Now – new Dante talk
Book Launch and Celebration of Dante 700, event recording
MP3 version here. 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.html 2:34 Welcome 3:23 Dante’s first 700 years 6:08 Dante Society of London 9:14 Invoking Dante today 10:33 Introducing my new book 18:08 Reading in Italian and… Continue reading Book Launch and Celebration of Dante 700, event recording
Did Dante really go to paradise?
An MP3 version of this talk and others is online here. 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 as he knew about divine… Continue reading Did Dante really go to paradise?
The fractal consciousness of Dantes’ Divine Comedy
I’ve a piece on Dante just published at Aeon. Dante Alighieri was early in recognising that our age has a problem. He was the first writer to use the word moderno, in Italian, and the difficulty he spotted with the modern mind is its limited capacity to relate to the whole of reality, particularly the… Continue reading The fractal consciousness of Dantes’ Divine Comedy
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 at Dante and the Divine Feminine, now considering Dante’s encounters with figures such as Belacqua and… Continue reading Dante and the Divine Masculine