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And the source of your light is what your arts c..." } ] }, { "term": "God's legacy", "usages": [ "Human participation in creation through imagination and love." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0042" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0042", "segment_id": "seg-0042", "start": 2812.66, "end": 2861.56, "time_label": "46:52", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "says this there is no end to the universe at no point will we know everything we exist because we are continued God's Legacy when we imagine things we are create we are engaged engaged in the act of creation that is God..." } ] }, { "term": "Godhead candle", "usages": [ "Jiang's image for God as divine good burning in human beings and reflected through love." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0034" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0034", "segment_id": "seg-0034", "start": 2260.09, "end": 2341.33, "time_label": "37:40", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "All right? That's the experiment. Sorry. Hold on. Now, guys, let me ask you this question. What is this? You remember? It's a Godhead. It's what Donny saw when he experienced God. You remember, he saw three circles and..." } ] }, { "term": "human effigy in God", "usages": [ "Dante's shocking discovery, in Jiang's reading, that the human image stands within the Holy Trinity." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0024" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0024", "segment_id": "seg-0024", "start": 1622.53, "end": 1694.51, "time_label": "27:02", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And this too what I saw is such a great one please. But he keeps on looking. What does he see? Eternal light you only dwell within yourself and only you know you. Self -knowing self -known you love and smile upon yourse..." } ] }, { "term": "imagination-to-memory", "usages": [ "Jiang's description of the sequence by which a vision is imagined, made into story, and preserved as memory." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0018", "video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0019" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0018", "segment_id": "seg-0018", "start": 1247.51, "end": 1307.425, "time_label": "20:47", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And only this man Dante, can give us the truth, even though we are angels. Only Dante, a mortal man, has access to truth. We angels do not have access to truth. This is radical and revolutionary. Okay? And honestly, if..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0019", "segment_id": "seg-0019", "start": 1307.425, "end": 1366.36, "time_label": "21:47", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And what is radical about this is that our most advanced neuroscience, our most advanced scientists who understand how the brain works, they will tell you this is exactly how the brain works. You imagine the world and t..." } ] }, { "term": "jigsaw puzzle answer", "usages": [ "Jiang's name for the answer Dante withholds so the reader must assemble the truth personally." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0026", "video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0027" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0026", "segment_id": "seg-0026", "start": 1747.677, "end": 1818.1, "time_label": "29:07", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "But then my mind was struck by light that flashed and with this light received what it had been asked. He now has an inspiration. He now can imagine what God is. He now knows the answer. He knows the answer. He's figure..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0027", "segment_id": "seg-0027", "start": 1819.07, "end": 1875.76, "time_label": "30:19", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? And it's a lifetime it's a lifetime journey. Don has spent 20 years doing this. Okay? So I encourage you all to go on this journey. But you know what? This journey is way too long. So I'll give you the my version..." } ] }, { "term": "love only between humans", "usages": [ "Jiang's conclusion that love is not attachment to objects or an abstract idea of God, but relation to people because God is within humans." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0041" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0041", "segment_id": "seg-0041", "start": 2763.03, "end": 2812.66, "time_label": "46:03", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "love is the greatest force in the universe because it is God we're created out of nothing no we're created out of God okay God is in us God is with us the heavenly city was created by self -love the love of God uh was c..." } ] }, { "term": "nobility", "usages": [ "For Jiang's Dante, nobility means redeeming oneself from sin through will and love, not never having sin." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0015", "video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0016" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0015", "segment_id": "seg-0015", "start": 1060.05, "end": 1122.35, "time_label": "17:40", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "agree with Augustine and say and believe that everyone is born in sin, and we are incapable of redeeming ourselves from our sin, then how do we explain Mary? Right? Mary gave birth to Jesus. If Mary had sin, then God ha..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0016", "segment_id": "seg-0016", "start": 1122.35, "end": 1187.24, "time_label": "18:42", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Right? That's love, right? What Donny is saying is, that's not love. That is not love. Ask yourself this question. If your mother and your child says to you, mother, I only love you if you let me eat chocolate every day..." } ] }, { "term": "paradox", "usages": [ "A truth that seems like a contradiction and forces the mind to work." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0006" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0006", "segment_id": "seg-0006", "start": 387.737, "end": 465, "time_label": "6:27", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Think of paradox as a puzzle. Okay? What is the hand, what is the sound of one hand clapping? Okay, a paradox. A truth that seems like a contradiction. He will use this all the time. And the other is structure. Okay? Th..." } ] }, { "term": "secret box", "usages": [ "The Divine Comedy as a future-facing object that entices readers into transformation." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0036", "video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0037" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0036", "segment_id": "seg-0036", "start": 2413.65, "end": 2487.98, "time_label": "40:13", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "comedy any questions about this so far um that's a really good question who is he writing to who is his audience um so he's writing in Tuscan rather than Latin and he calls it the Commedia so I think he's trying to avoi..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0037", "segment_id": "seg-0037", "start": 2487.98, "end": 2555.66, "time_label": "41:27", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "curious as to what this is and at first they can't figure it out but they stick at it and over time it begins to transform how they see the world okay does it make sense he's a prophet he's a poet and so he's not really..." } ] }, { "term": "The Commedia", "usages": [ "Dante's own title for the poem later called The Divine Comedy; Jiang links it to the comic-low vernacular mode." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0002" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0002", "segment_id": "seg-0002", "start": 70.35, "end": 150.21, "time_label": "1:10", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "All right, so his book, his poetry is called The Commedia, The Comedy. 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What little I recall is to be told from this point on in words more weak than those of one..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0023", "segment_id": "seg-0023", "start": 1557.37, "end": 1622.37, "time_label": "25:57", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "But through my sight which as I gaze grew stronger that so appearance even as I altered seemed to be changing in the deep and bright. Okay? Can you continue please? Essence of that exalted light. Three circles appeared..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0027", "video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0028" ], "note": "Jiang recounts Beatrice and Dante meeting around age 10 and Beatrice dying at 24 in childbirth.", "possible_update_to_prior_position": false, "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0027", "segment_id": "seg-0027", "start": 1819.07, "end": 1875.76, "time_label": "30:19", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? And it's a lifetime it's a lifetime journey. Don has spent 20 years doing this. Okay? So I encourage you all to go on this journey. But you know what? This journey is way too long. 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Again,..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0034", "video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0035" ], "note": "ASR noise obscures several words around 'candle' and the ending quote, but the repeated interpretation of love, God, and divine light is stable.", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0034", "segment_id": "seg-0034", "start": 2260.09, "end": 2341.33, "time_label": "37:40", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "All right? That's the experiment. Sorry. Hold on. Now, guys, let me ask you this question. What is this? You remember? It's a Godhead. It's what Donny saw when he experienced God. 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