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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]

