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Higher Self Yoga: Consciousness in the Divine Comedy

December 30, 2021 By Sephora Affa, FSU '24

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“[. . .] As an example, consider this scene at the bottom of the mountain of Purgatory.  These souls have figured out how to get out of hell and have crossed the river to this mountainous island. The journey up the mountain (toward increasing freedom from destructive patterns and closer to higher consciousness) waits for them.

“What do they do?  They turn away from the mountain, hang out on the shoreline, and stare out at the water waiting for entertainers to arrive:  TV channel surfing, 14th Century style.  Fortunately, Dante himself is being guided to start to climb the mountain because there is much more waiting for him if he ascends. He does so, and at the very top he meets Beatrice, his Higher Self, who then guides him into higher states of consciousness in paradise.” [. . .]    –Dr. Richard Schaub Ph.D., Higher Self Yoga, July 8, 2020

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: Beatrice, Circles of Hell, Cosmos, Energy, Guides, Heaven, Journeys, Mountains, Neuroscience, Paradiso, Psychology, Self-Help, Spirituality, Suffering, Transformation, Wisdom, Yoga

Gluttony NFT: Kozachok’s Inferno

December 30, 2021 By Sephora Affa, FSU '24

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“What is going on here? In the third circle of Kozachok’s Inferno, we find the realm of Gluttony. After a life of over-indulgence and over-consumption of food, the souls who land in this circle of hell, are now symbolically and literally becoming a never ending supply of food for the smaller creatures.

[. . .]

“‘Kozachok’s Inferno’ is a personal version, a customized representation of the 9 circles of hell, influenced by Dante’s Inferno, the first part of Dante’s Divine Comedy, which is a long Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321. It is not a direct reproduction of Dante’s Inferno, I do not follow the accuracy of those layers or circles of hell, except the main theme (eg circle of Lust, of Gluttony, of Greed etc), but the reasons and punishments of each circle of hell will be different in my version.” [. . .]    –@kozachok, SuperRare, 2019

Categories: Digital Media
Tagged with: Circles of Hell, Crypto Art, Digital Arts, Gluttony, Inferno, NFTs, Punishment, Rivers, Third Circle, Torture

Circle 9 Brewing, San Diego

November 27, 2021 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

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“Small craft brewing operation decorated with imagery inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy — the brewery gets its name from Dante’s nine circles of hell. Fortunately, the beer is cold, and tasty, and often a good pairing with the abundance of Asian restaurants in the area.”     –description on the San Diego Reader

“Lager up, sinners, or wait till the next batch. . . While the Japanese rice lager they served abroad wasn’t served at the opening, an Americanized version of the beer, dubbed Limbo, was.” [. . .]     –Ian Anderson, San Diego Reader, August 21, 2017 (retrieved November 27, 2021)

Learn more about Circle 9 Brewing on their FaceBook page here. (Note: The official website for the brewery appears to be inoperable as of posting.)

Categories: Dining & Leisure, Places
Tagged with: Beer, Brewery, California, Circles of Hell, Ninth Circle, San Diego, United States

Tony’s Kansas City Blog, “Guy Fieri Reveals 3rd Circle Of Hell Replica In Kansas City Power & Light Restaurant” (January 24, 2019)

November 27, 2021 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

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“This isn’t news but every broadcaster in KCMO mentioned it anyway, take a look at this new joint wherein locals can order gourmet fake tacos.

“And then there’s this passage that might or might not be a review: ‘Upon reaching the Third Circle of Hell, Dante and Virgil find souls of gluttons who are overlooked by a worm-monster Cerberus. Sinners in this circle of Hell are punished by being forced to lie in a vile slush that is produced by never-ending icy rain.'”     —Tony’s Kansas City, January 24, 2019 (retrieved November 27, 2021)

Read more about Guy Fieri’s new restaurant here.

Categories: Dining & Leisure, Written Word
Tagged with: America, Circles of Hell, Food, Gluttony, Kansas City, Missouri, Restaurants, Reviews, Tacos, United States

IKEA, the 10th Circle of Hell

November 26, 2021 By Hannah Raisner, FSU '25

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“It’s fitting that IKEA stores are organised in a series of winding circles with no easy escape. It’s not unlike the circles of hell that the protagonist of Dante’s Inferno must wander before heading on to Purgatory and then Heaven.

But unlike the soul in Dante’s epic poem, you never get to Heaven. What awaits you once you’ve managed to locate and then purchase your Tuffing and Malfors is yet another circle of hell. This one is in your own home and the instrument of torture is an Allen key.”    –Kasey Edwards, The Sydney Morning Herald, July 15, 2019

Categories: Consumer Goods, Written Word
Tagged with: 2019, Circles of Hell, Essays, Furniture, Hell, IKEA, Tenth Circle

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