When challenged with a Catholic repentance formula, Jiang refuses simplification and says the routes into purgatory are broader and more flexible than people assume, but entry still demands total commitment once inside.
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Jiang suggests the Divine Comedy may produce a consciousness comparable to psychedelics if read with sufficient total commitment rather than superficially.
Jiang says European elites are pot-committed and will not relinquish the Ukraine war easily even if the strategic case is failing.
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"So when you asked that question prior to the reading of like, what makes the same thing, what makes the same sin differentiate from..."
"...why is once you're in purgatory you have to show total commitment. Okay? Alright, so as the angel says, it's easy to get in..."
"Okay, if you want to commit yourself to working hard for eternity then you come in, okay? Because the thing about purgatory that's very..."
"So I want to confirm this, okay? Your psychedelic experience is very similar to you reading the Divine Comedy."
"Yeah. So my argument would be, well, that's because you have not fully read Divine Comedy, right? We're just stretching the surface. If you..."
"That, I don't think the European elite can stomach. They've basically pot committed. They've pushed all in in this war in Ukraine. And I..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
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.
Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
Danny from CapitalCosm asks the obvious question: where does the world go from here?
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