In a previous post, I cited some ancient Christian teaching regarding the mind and the spiritual battle waged in the arena of thoughts. I want to return to the topic again, this time with some personal reflections. The past three months in particular have been a rather specific engagement with the notion of spiritual warfare [...]
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Noetic Battles Revisited
Posted in Church Fathers, Jesus Prayer, Patristics Sources, Prayer, True Philosophia, the Way of Life on Sunday, 2 November 2008 | 1 Comment »
Ostrov Again
Posted in Jesus Prayer, Orthodoxy, Prayer on Monday, 28 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Been doing some watching of Ostrov again. I got the Film Movement copy from Netflix which has much better English subtitles. I did some more ‘net searching and found this interesting tidbit at Ostrov (film) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Pyotr Mamonov, who plays the lead character, formerly one of the few rock musicians in [...]
Elijah, Ostrov and Things Not Seen
Posted in Jesus Prayer, Movies and Pop Culture, Orthodoxy, Prayer on Sunday, 20 July 2008 | 2 Comments »
I have been watching Ostrov (The Island) again (link is official movie site in Russian only). I’ve written about it before. It had a powerful impact on me in the beginning (last fall), and it’s impact has only grown, particularly during this past February. That impact, put simply (and it joins nicely with the feast [...]
Friday Meditation I
Posted in Fr. Seraphim (Rose) of Platina, Friday Meditations, Jesus Prayer, Orthodoxy, Prayer on Friday, 11 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
[H/T: Fr Stephen] This next features a couple of photos of one of my patrons, Father Seraphim Rose: And here is the Kyrie:
Noetic Battles
Posted in Church Fathers, Jesus Prayer, Patristics Sources, Prayer, True Philosophia, the Way of Life on Friday, 11 July 2008 | 1 Comment »
A few days before my birthday in 2005, I purchased and received Anthony M. Coniaris, Confronting and Controlling Thoughts According to the Fathers of the Philokalia (Minneapolis: Light and Life Publishing 2004). It was a providential purchase. For this is a matter about which I am much concerned presently. I may offer some thoughts on [...]
Ostrov Has Come
Posted in Jesus Prayer, Movies and Pop Culture, Orthodoxy, Prayer, True Philosophia, the Way of Life on Monday, 5 November 2007 | 12 Comments »
Well, I got in the mail today, my copy of Ostrov (The Island) (link is official movie site in Russian only; the IMDb link is here; and you can order it from Amazon here, but ensure that you are ordering the NTSC version). The movie is only in Russian, but the distributor included a very [...]
Road Trip CD Mixes
Posted in Ancient Faith Radio Podcasts, Jesus Prayer, Orthodoxy, Prayer on Monday, 5 November 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Back when I was a teenager (now more than two decades ago), I used to make cassette tapes of my favorite songs (some 80s hair bands, pop songs, a little Led–I was an eclectic) for listening while on vacation. Well, I’ve moved from 80s hairbands to 80s talk–AD 380s, that is. Or, well, podcasts from [...]

