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Because those fields persist after decomposition, souls in hell or purgatory can still feel pain and bodily semblance.
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Afterlife
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Another student adds that the afterlife journey only begins once a person's earthly life is complete, so there is no literal acceleration while one is still alive.
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Jiang says occultists often read Dante literally as a visionary of the afterlife and use him to think about demonic and angelic possession.
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The infernal dead can see far-off future events but not the present unless someone informs them.
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He concedes that people do believe stronger commitment to faith, hope, and love makes reward more likely, but he stresses that the reward may not arrive in this world.
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A student says Dante reduces fear by making the unknown afterlife knowable through the guided journey of the poem.
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A student says reading His Dark Materials broke a vague Christian heaven-and-hell framework and replaced it with a more equal afterlife vision in which closure and responsibility must be found within this world.
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Jiang says the first thing that happens after leaving the body is a life review in which the complete moral record of one's acts, including forgotten harms, becomes visible.
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"And we think that the soul, oh, it's a spark in us or it's part of the brain. No, it's actually the body itself,..."
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"Not as much, but there's still some elements to it. That's how your body is. That's how people are able to feel pain, both..."
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"so how can i like you know get up to heaven faster i think in general the journey to heaven"
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"or to purgatory or to hell really start after a person completes his life's journey so until the person completes his life journey there's..."
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"...had a near -death experience or he had visions of the afterlife. And they do take him literally. And today we will go into..."
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"Line 94. Ah, as I hope your seed may yet find peace, I asked, so may you help me to undo the knot that..."
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"before his question, let him know it was because I had in mind the doubt you've answered."
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"out yeah but he yeah right okay so so so you're right in that you know like it is believed that if you truly..."
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"making the unknown unknown so like people are scared of hell they're scared of burning in hellfire and to be honest they don't really..."
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"as a person why like like philip pullman reading reading his dark materials has given me a new perspective what happens after i die..."
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"to you, when you actually ascend, when you leave your corporal body, the first thing that happens is something called a life review, where..."
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"to change in heaven like maybe develop like a will to advance or of course it is what's the problem so um at first..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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A source-grounded reading of the first Dante livestream's central claim: Dante begins in heaven because paradise reveals the real method of reading, the real structure of freedom, and the real reason hell forms inside...
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