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You and your guest round out this discussion very well. I liked how you focused on describing the indescribable. It's hard to comment without trying to sound like I know something. What I do know is you both did a great job! Peace.

I think I liked this one better than the first. I didn't think I would because, having been raised Roman Catholic, I often find discussions about Purgatory very biased. This was fascinating to walk through the different levels. As a poet and an aspiring mystic, I found the comments challenging and inspiring my own vision of salvation. There are actually quite a few references to Purgatory in the Bible according to some Catholic scholars. I've found those discussions intriguing as well. Great job, as always, striking that beautiful balance of directing the conversation while letting it go where it needs to go. Peace!

You have an amazing interview style, because it's conversational and casual, free flowing and friendly, yet very systematic in how you move through the topic and engage the guest. When you comment, it's always affirming, taking the speaker's thought and moving it along to deeper places. I really enjoyed hearing this episode. I confess I never really explored Dante's Inferno to this extent. I'm a man who writes about faith, so this was fascinating and insightful. I loved how the guest was excited about the material and felt confident to share his opinions with such enthusiasm. That's largely in part to how comfortable and free you make your guests feel. You did the same for me when we met on our hike/podcast - a real tribute to how far you are willing to go for your art! Thank you for sharing the link with me, Zach!

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Found you through your Dante video- subbed as soon as I noticed you covered this work.

I wonder how the puer, living a ghost life, ties in with the imposter syndrome.

Great interview with excellent subject material! I think this perfectly explains the phenomenon of "the left can't meme." What can't be stated simply is usually obfuscation and justification - lies. And humor always requires a certain level of truth.

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There are some serious gaffes, errors, and historical inaccuracies in this presentation. These include: The Bible never teaches and no school of theology that I know of says that "The world, the animals, and the plants were made for Man" Rather, even before the fall of man, he is called to be a steward of God's creation. A creation that was created by and FOR the Son of God. For His own enjoyment and for His glory, though he does share those things with us. So, bottom-line, Muir's views on nature were, for the most part, standard Christian beliefs. Colossians 1:16 "For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him." Similar to many other misinformed internet sources, you erroneously say that John Muir was raised by a strict Calvinist. Even before moving to America, Muir's father was a member of a dissenting church. Here in America, he was active in The Restoration Movement (also known as the American Restoration Movement or the Stone-Campbell Movement, and pejoratively as Campbellism), a Christian movement that began on the United States frontier during the Second Great Awakening (1790-1840) of the early 19th century. The parties to this movement did not agree with Calvinists even on the creeds, as they did not make use of creeds, finding sufficient truth in the Holy Bible alone. Was Muir's father strict, even perhaps abusive? Yes, but reading "Muir of the Mountains", a Muir biography by Supreme Court Associate Justice, Willam O. Douglas will help put this in context. Thrashing was the order of the day. At school, at the age of eight, the teacher would thrash a student for forgetting even a small amount of extensive memorization homework. Similarly Muir's father would thrash his sons for staying out too late, for going too far from the farm on weekends, for breaking other rules, and for any errors in memorizing and reciting the Bible. The boys even engaged in thrashing one another. From Douglas' book: They had a game played with whips. Two boys, each with a whip, would stand facing each other and thrash one another on the legs until one quit from the pain..." While I appreciated much of what you had to say about Muir, nature, and God, a fair amount of what you said raised serious concerns. Your stated openness to mystical esoteric teachings. Your positive affirmation of the apostate heretic Allan Watts, etc. This is not fear of the unknown. It is avoidance of the known and false. We have only a finite amount of time in this life to explore ideas. To invest time in reading books by guys like Watts is poor stewardship. One thing Watts said I can recommend: Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

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great episode! amazing guest, very knowledgeable on many subjects

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