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My journey home from Lisbon, where I lived for a week as a resident of the House of Beautiful Business, was not direct. Instead of flying away at the close of doors, I sat for some time on the rocks above the seaside cave that the Portuguese call the Boca do Inferno — the Mouth of Hell. It was at this place that <a href="https://medium.com/@JonathanCCook/the-5-strange-truths-fernando-pessoa-brings-to-business-52af6454ae69" rel="noopener">Fernando Pessoa</a>, the poet of Lisbon, helped the occultist Aleister Crowley to fake his own death. On this westernmost tip of the European continent, gazing out into the Atlantic Ocean, my mind wandered to the journey of Dante Alighieri toward the gate of his own Inferno. “Halfway along the journey of life,” he wrote, “I found myself within a forest dark, for the straight path had been lost.” He described the forest as fearful and bitter, little better than death. Yet, Dante said that he found something of worth in this dark place. From the desire to share it, his greatest poem was created. <a href="https://journalofbeautifulbusiness.com/in-the-shadow-of-the-house-of-beautiful-business-3430dc6317b6">Read More</a>