Podcast Episodes

Philokalic Spirituality in a Post-Modern Culture

Season 1 Episode 14

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 mos…

13 years, 2 months ago

Nous Part Ten - Theoretic Nous and Deified Nous

Season 1 Episode 13

Theosis and Deification - "Mind that sees God"; cannot reached blessed state unless passing through practical stage of asceticism and purification; f…

13 years, 2 months ago

Nous Part Nine - Nous in Temptation and Battle

Season 1 Episode 12

Stages of Temptation; Inventiveness of the Demons and their strategies; Examining one's falls, their causes and committing them to memory; knowing on…

13 years, 2 months ago

Nous Part Eight - Prayer, Asceticism, Dispassion

Season 1 Episode 11

Prayer; Body and its place in purifying the nous through asceticism; necessity of asceticism; impassioned nous and dispassionate nous; contemporary q…

13 years, 2 months ago

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

Prayer and the Apophatic tradition; imageless and without conceptual thoughts or the use of imagination; perceived and real differences from Western …

13 years, 3 months ago

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

Prayer and the Purification of the Nous; Critique of Centering Prayer; The Fathers Understanding of Demons; Demons in the Desert; Snares of the Demon…

13 years, 3 months ago

Nous Part Five - Memories, Imagination, Prayer

Cultural Collapse and Schizoid nature of modern society; purification of memories and imagination; Remembrance of Death and Perception of Religious a…

13 years, 3 months ago

Nous Part Four - Purification of Memories and Recollections

Healing of the Nous through purification of the memories and recollections; Analogy of Psychoanalysis - projecting memories onto screen of Nous to be…

13 years, 4 months ago

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

Importance of Holy Spirit in teaching Nous how to heal the soul; Holy Desire necessary for pursuing purity of Nous, Striving for perfection; Ascetici…

13 years, 4 months ago

Nous Part Two - Vigilant Gate Keeper

Nature of Struggle with attacks on Nous; Obedience and Remembrance of God; Hating Sin; Unceasing Prayer; Watchfulness and Prayer Linked together; Beg…

13 years, 4 months ago