SAINT SILOUAN THE ATHONITE - Part 3 (Pure Prayer/Noetic Stillness/Imagination/Ascetic Struggle/Uncreated Light)

"Keep thy mind in hell, and despair not." -St. Silouan The Staretz' Teaching, continued:Chapter 6: Pure Prayer and Mental StillnessConcerning the Three Forms of PrayerOn the Development of Intrusive ThoughtsHesychasm - Christ's Commandment to love God with all one's mind, and with all one's heartAnthropological Basis of HesychasmExperience of EternityThe Start of Spiritual Life - Struggle against the PassionsChapter 7: The Imagination and the Ascetic Struggle against its Various AspectsChapter 8: Uncreated Divine Light and Ways of ContemplationGodlike Impassibility (Dispassion)The Darkness of DivestitureTelegram episode with open source free downloadable mp3 files for off-line use: https://t.me/athoniteaudio/9511Listener Support for ongoing narration projects: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=U5LVZ28LK275C