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310 - Annie Crawford - C.S. Lewis on Progress, AI, and Gender

The Symbolic World

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Ascending into the Mystic and the C.S. Lewis Trilogy

Exploring the concept of ascending into the mystic and the C.S. Lewis Trilogy, this chapter discusses the difference between integrating consciousness and disintegrating the mind. It examines Lewis' portrayal of heaven as hyper real in 'The Great Divorce' and how his trilogy is modeled after the Divine Comedy, with a flipped structure for a flipped world.

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