@herofoundry: Hell Isn't Fire: It's Being Stuck! (Dante vs Aquinas) . Joseph Campbell discusses Dante and Aquinas' starkly different ideas about hell, and James Joyce's 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man', in which his alter ego Stephen Dedalus experiences a pivotal, ecstatic vision of a young girl wading in a stream, which serves as a secular epiphany to counter the hellfire sermons he recently endured. . #Dante #Aquinas #Hell #JamesJoyce #Epiphany #Theophany #Philosophy #Religion #Spirituality #Ego #Transcendence #JosephCampbell #Mythology #HerosJourney #ConceptualEngineering #PowerOfBelief #SymbolicWorld