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Bromwich's settled view is that the witches should be understood through belief: people believed in them, and once belief is strong enough, the experience becomes real in practice whether or not the metaphysics are resolved.
Jiang says he does not believe in hell as eternal fixed damnation, but does believe that there are hellish dimensions in which low emotions are stored and inhabited.
Jiang accepts the student comparison between Inferno and Journey to the West at the narrative level but notes that Dante's cosmos does not permit the same kind of interchangeable divine protection across beings.
Jiang says sex represents God because sex is the unit or unity of all things.
Jiang says the soul is infinite and exists in multiple dimensions at once, while ordinary human attention is trained to fixate on the here and now.
Jiang interprets the universe as having one source that emanates divine light and serves as the underlying fundamental principle of reality.
Truth is identified with the universe and with God; speaking truth therefore means speaking the universe.
He says the metaphysical system has three exploitable principles: unity, symmetry or polarity, and as-above-so-below reflection.
"years of conversing with the things on the other side was they didn't have very interesting things to say they they were like gossiping..."
"really right um yeah what i believe is that we exist in infinite dimensions and um you can describe the some of these dimensions..."
"dante's inferno reminds me a lot of uh the chinese uh novel journey to the west in the way that it's first of all..."
"yeah you know you're absolutely right in that uh inferno it there's much more of a narrative angle to it right whereas in paradise..."
"very much like some kind of uh role -playing philosophy uh yes yeah but there's a very big difference is uh the monster in..."
"to climax aka getting closer to God exactly okay the sex is meant to represent God it doesn't make sense you guys okay because..."
"going on is that the soul uh is infinite okay what i mean by that is that it's existing in different dimensions all at..."
"and with which as light in you it too is bound, each different power forms a different compound. Because of the glad nature of..."
"Maybe China doesn't matter. Maybe it's all just a delusion. Maybe it's all these lies that the media has been feeding us in order..."
"Okay. Okay. So the word prophet doesn't actually mean someone who predicts the future. Okay? The word prophet actually means someone who speaks to..."
"now justify all their transgressions right as a way to empower Satan also there's a fundamental weakness in the system okay so let's go..."
"session yeah no um that was really well done so thank you so much yeah um and. and so um i'm so slowly trying..."
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.
A source-grounded reading of the seminar's central move: Inferno is not only a theater of punishments but a machine for moral reflection, and Virgil's authority keeps showing the limits that Dante will eventually have...
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,...
A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante restores imagination against empire, reveals a universe held together by divine light, and ends by making humanity necessary to God's own self-knowledge.
The interview opens as a first-week war briefing and then keeps widening.
A source-grounded reading of the Iliad as self-recognition: Achilles becomes a mirror for humiliation and pride, Homeric speech tries to control reality, and the ancient poet becomes prophet and teacher because truth is beautiful,...
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's attack on the scientific worldview: Big Bang, evolution, neuroscience, school, and transhumanism become parts of one material story that forgets divinity, fears death, and lets power reinvent reality.
Peter Limberg keeps pulling Jiang from method into metaphysics, from Protestant anxiety into secret societies, from Odessa and Iran into elite panic and digital control, until one governing claim comes into focus: power rules...
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