Ancient World

Good morning! 🌇☕️☀️

Calm weekend now, still a bit rainy – and we have 80 pages left in the first volume of the history books! But first, more coffee…… 😊

It’s a great feeling to sometimes find back to the deeper experience of reading a good book, like we’re doing now with a four volume history work over the last 2,000 years. And we’re slowly discovering new things about the Easter Roman Empire and the times between the fall of the Western Empire in 410 and Emperor Justinian trying to reconquer Italy from the Goths.

Which also connects to Chapter 6 in Dante’s Paradiso which is fully dedicated to Roman history through the voice of Justinian himself!

And.. we’re also pondering the deeper allegorical meanings of the Earthly Paradise at the top of Mount Purgatory – and how it is referencing the deep symbolism from the Revelation by St. John. It’s partly extra complicated because most of the commentaries are more descriptive on these chapters.. but we are looking into the Italian scholarship as well.. doing a bit of research!

A soothing evening with tea and rainstorms outside..

It’s been busy days for a while – the Purgatory Series is now fully made with 15 episodes and will be posted in the next few weeks until late March.

We’re also reading up on Ancient and early Medieval history with two great books called “Age of Paradise” and “Age of Division”, by John Strickland!

And we’ve been making lots of Morning Coffee shows lately, they’re coming daily in times when there are lots of new things happening, and sometimes a bit more sporadically. All episodes are posted here awpodcast.com/morningcoffee – and check the “links” in the menu for more platforms!

New week, and we’ve just finished episode 13 (of 15) on the Purgatory Podcast! It’s a beautiful morning up here in the mountains, and a much better and calmer week this week. New things are getting sorted into place, and we can get back to enjoying life, hobbies, coffee, walks and nice chats with the skypework 😊

Have a great Morning!

The changes in Terrace Five in the Purgatory still linger as the trembling mountain, which is not an earthquake, shakes the whole story from its first foundations – and into a new exploratory adventure. And we suddenly have a new guide with the Pilgrim, Statius, and we are very close to the Earthly Paradise, and the Paradiso itself.

Happy Sunday morning! 🌇☀️😊

Hope you’re having a great morning – it’s been a good podcasting week here with testing more podcasts directly from a website, and making a couple of more episodes on the Purgatory!

Terrace Five was a big episode, and now we’ve just read up on Terrace Six, which seems light – but has some deep symbolism as we’ve reached the step after the big “release” and trembling of the Mountain.

Just three more episodes with this Purgatory series, and we’ve been through the book three times! :))

This is the first post! 😊

Good evening!

We’ve had some brief testing here today with a new test blog, and setting up a rss feed for podcasting platforms here: https://awpodcast.website/renaissance

And it went very smoothly so far; meaning that we can post new episodes directly on a blog/website and it will automatically be listed on apple podcasts, spotify and the others..

The idea for this next podcast, after the Purgatory series is completed, is to explore a description of the Renaissance through the eyes and the cosmology of Dante and the Late Medieval Times. The Renaissance as something 50-150 years in front of you, starting to see the little signs….