To Heaven with Dante: A Transpersonal Journey

Many English-speaking people who want to be educated try to read Dante, the ‘best known, least read’ of all the classical poets, and find him impossible. In my thirties I did just that: ‘Where do I begin?’ The library yielded a translation of ‘The Divine Comedy’ – a great fat epic in three volumes. Wading into the Inferno, I struggled through a couple of sections and decided this wasn’t for me. Too gloomy, too stilted, too difficult to grasp – and above all – too many words. I gave up almos...