Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso

 The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (1308-1320)

An Italian narrative of 14,000 lines exploring what is the most wonderful and depraved about humanity. 

It is an ambitious quest through 3 domains of afterlife.

Inferno

Purgatorio

Paradiso

Hell is a place and state of mind in which people are trapped. They've lost their capacity to change and have been shaped by bad habits that have become so ingrained that they don't believe they can change. Hell is where people are destined to live ;ives on repeat as the past dominates their minds and stops any novelty or freshness from appearing. 

Purgatory is a zone of change. It works not by purging what's deemed impure, but, rather by purging whatever blocks a soul from knowing more of life. 

Paradise is the last and most difficult leg of the journey. To enter this real, one must undergo 'the most complete kind of self-confrontation, self-reconfigurations, and self-transcendence.'