Jeremy Naydler, ‘The Inner Beloved’

This talk will be an exploration of the numinous inner figure, to whom Dante gave the name Beatrice, or “the bringer of blessings”. Like Rumi and Ibn Arabi before him, Dante knew the Inner Beloved both as a real human being and also as an archetypal power mediating the divine presence. Although needing to be encountered in the flesh in order fully to be experienced, ultimately the Inner Beloved dwells in the innermost recesses of the soul, there commanding our most ardent devotion and stimulating our deepest creative energies.
Jeremy Naydler holds a PhD in Theology and Religious Studies. He is author of several books on religious life in antiquity, including Temple of the Cosmos, Shamanic Wisdom in the Pyramid Texts and The Future of the Ancient World. Jeremy teaches Dante’s Divine Comedy for the Temenos Academy’s Foundation Course in the Perennial Philosophy.