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Purgatory - and developing your Brain
Join us on a new journey starting this week, with daily reflections on how to grow your mental faculties and outlook on the world.
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Richard Emerson

June 2024

The Hemispheres as Dante's "Two Wheels"
A comparison of McGilchrist's hemispheres and Dante's "Chariot" for Wisdom. How to grow a more balanced and developed brain.
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May 2024

The Garden of Eden as reflecting the Brain Hemispheres
The first story about human beings presents the basic choice: Perception or Reality.
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October 2023

Newsletter, October 2023
A new season of Burning Phoenix, and a new Podcast: "Dante's Paradiso"
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Richard Emerson

May 2023

Envy as Blindness to Reality
The Process of finding Truth and Good Life
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October 2022

Newsletter, November 2022
New writings, McGilchrist, and our Changing Times
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Richard Emerson

April 2022

Newsletter, April 2022
New Interviews, Virgil's "Aeneid", and the History of China
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Richard Emerson

February 2022

Pirsig, The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and The Sacred
We’re half way through the cult-philosophy-classic novel “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” by Robert Pirsig now, and it’s a fascinating read…
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Richard Emerson
Newsletter, February 2022
Book Reviews of the "Renaissance", and Strickland's "Age of Utopia"
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Richard Emerson

August 2021

Reading Dante Spiritually, and looking at Italian Humanism
We have two new episodes out on the podcast this week - on our newly updated and "rebranded" Summer Podcast! New name at the moment is "Renaissance and…
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Richard Emerson
Redressing an Imbalance in the Brain Hemispheres
How to loosen the Grip of the Left Hemisphere
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The Idea of the Renaissance
The Arts & Sciences
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