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Philokalia Ministries

Season 1

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Philokalic Spirituality in a Post-Modern Culture

Wednesday Apr 10, 2013

Philokalic Spirituality in a Post-Modern Culture

Wednesday Apr 10, 2013

A study on the anthropology of Saint Gregory Palamas. The theology of the person, as this is revealed in the hesychast ascetic tradition, is the most significant counter-argument to post-modern individualism and relativism. The ascetics of introversion and of conscious tranquility (hesychia) is not a psychological proposition but the authentic and only way of transforming the “repulsive mask” into a person.

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Nous Part Ten - Theoretic Nous and Deified Nous

Wednesday Apr 03, 2013

Nous Part Ten - Theoretic Nous and Deified Nous

Wednesday Apr 03, 2013

Theosis and Deification - "Mind that sees God"; cannot reached blessed state unless passing through practical stage of asceticism and purification; fixed and faultless movement between nous of man and Nous of God; joy that comes through theosis; seeing God's virtues in self.

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Nous Part Nine - Nous in Temptation and Battle

Wednesday Mar 27, 2013

Nous Part Nine - Nous in Temptation and Battle

Wednesday Mar 27, 2013

Stages of Temptation; Inventiveness of the Demons and their strategies; Examining one's falls, their causes and committing them to memory; knowing one's weak spots; Ignorance and Captivity; Cures; Spiritual work and the beauty achieved through humility, silence and prayer.

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Nous Part Eight - Prayer, Asceticism, Dispassion

Wednesday Mar 20, 2013

Nous Part Eight - Prayer, Asceticism, Dispassion

Wednesday Mar 20, 2013

Prayer; Body and its place in purifying the nous through asceticism; necessity of asceticism; impassioned nous and dispassionate nous; contemporary questions about connection between liturgy, worship and the ascetical life; group questions about disciplining the body as a means of purifying the nous and rigor and consistency needed in such discipline.

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Nous Part Seven - Prayer That Transcends the Passions and Conceptual Thoughts

Wednesday Mar 13, 2013

Nous Part Seven - Prayer That Transcends the Passions and Conceptual Thoughts

Wednesday Mar 13, 2013

Prayer and the Apophatic tradition; imageless and without conceptual thoughts or the use of imagination; perceived and real differences from Western Spirituality; purification of the Nous essential for salvation; signs of such true prayer; virtue alone does not lead to God; how prayer binds us to God

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Nous Part Six - Prayer and the Cultivation of the Soul, Fathers Understand of Demons

Wednesday Mar 06, 2013

Nous Part Six - Prayer and the Cultivation of the Soul, Fathers Understand of Demons

Wednesday Mar 06, 2013

Prayer and the Purification of the Nous; Critique of Centering Prayer; The Fathers Understanding of Demons; Demons in the Desert; Snares of the Demons; Struggling Against the Demons, Indirect Warfare, Asceticism and Modernity

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Nous Part Five - Memories, Imagination, Prayer

Wednesday Feb 27, 2013

Nous Part Five - Memories, Imagination, Prayer

Wednesday Feb 27, 2013

Cultural Collapse and Schizoid nature of modern society; purification of memories and imagination; Remembrance of Death and Perception of Religious and Spiritual Reality; Prayer as essential to identity as human beings and our life

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Nous Part Four - Purification of Memories and Recollections

Wednesday Feb 13, 2013

Nous Part Four - Purification of Memories and Recollections

Wednesday Feb 13, 2013

Healing of the Nous through purification of the memories and recollections; Analogy of Psychoanalysis - projecting memories onto screen of Nous to be healed through mortifications and asceticism, detachment; why the thoughts that arise through the memory are the most irksome and challenging to address in the spiritual life; a healing that takes years. . .

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Nous Part Three - Purifying the Nous and Asceticism in Modern Culture

Thursday Feb 07, 2013

Nous Part Three - Purifying the Nous and Asceticism in Modern Culture

Thursday Feb 07, 2013

Importance of Holy Spirit in teaching Nous how to heal the soul; Holy Desire necessary for pursuing purity of Nous, Striving for perfection; Asceticism and Modern Culture; How to communicate the value of asceticism.

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Nous Part Two - Vigilant Gate Keeper

Wednesday Jan 30, 2013

Nous Part Two - Vigilant Gate Keeper

Wednesday Jan 30, 2013

Nature of Struggle with attacks on Nous; Obedience and Remembrance of God; Hating Sin; Unceasing Prayer; Watchfulness and Prayer Linked together; Beginnings of Watchfulness - Temperance in Food and Drink, the Rejection of Different Thoughts, Peace of Heart; Purifying Fire of Holy Communion; Revealing of False Self

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The Nous - Part One

Wednesday Jan 23, 2013

The Nous - Part One

Wednesday Jan 23, 2013

Definition of the Nous; Man as Triune Image of God - nous, word, spirit; Three powers of the soul; Creative factor of every aspect of civilization; difference in object from other methods of meditation; Fall of Nous of Man before and after Christ; Nous as vigilant gate keep of soul

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Nepsis, Wakefulness, Attentiveness

Thursday Jan 17, 2013

Nepsis, Wakefulness, Attentiveness

Thursday Jan 17, 2013

How to Read the Fathers, What is Nepsis: Being present to where we are; Aliveness to God; the Mind as a sentry; Mindfulness; Attentiveness and Prayer must be combined; All the sense must be guarded as well as thoughts from demonic intrusions and temptations; the Relentlessness of the Demons; Necessity of Interrogating thoughts and questioning their origin; The never ending work of nepsis; Hatred for sin and swiftness in casting out sinful thoughts.

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Intro. to History of Philokalia and Characteristics of Philokalic Spirituality

Wednesday Jan 09, 2013

Intro. to History of Philokalia and Characteristics of Philokalic Spirituality

Wednesday Jan 09, 2013

Ressourcement, Kollyvades, primary features of movement; Three basic themes of Philokalia; Relevance of Philokalic spirituality for contemporary Christians.

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Invitation to Philokalia Study Group

Monday Jan 07, 2013

Invitation to Philokalia Study Group

Monday Jan 07, 2013

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