Descent is Ascent - How the road up is the road down in Dante's Divine Comedy

[This is an audio version of a talk with images, which is on my
YouTube channel.]

Making sense of why Dante had to travel through hell, what was
going on in purgatory, and how that's all linked to the
destination of heaven, comes with appreciating how, in the
spiritual life, descent and ascent are profoundly linked.

Dante explores the links between virtues and vices, moving beyond
the literal, high places are risky places, desiring not more but
it all, the cross and failures as digressions, the emptiness that
opens to fullness, and how hell is the way human beings discover
the reality of heaven.

For more on Dante do see -
https://www.markvernon.com/dantes-divine-comedy.

Details of my book, Dante's Divine Comedy: A Guide for the
Spiritual Journey, are here -
https://www.markvernon.com/books/dantes-divine-comedy-book