We will be exploring the relationship between freedom & obedience, individualism an collectivism, with the help of the most blessed Saint Sophrony.
I will reading from and referencing "Freedom & Obedience in the Vision of Saint Sophrony", just released through St. Tikhon's Monastery. It was written by Priest Mikel Hill.
Reading and commentary from Alexandr D's book, "Geopolitics".
Geopolitics
https://www.geopolitica.ru/bind/geopolitika#entity-111
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz_5Oaw8ink
"Orthodox Psychotherapy: The Science of the Fathers", by Metropolitan Hierotheos S. Vlachos.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tdXSlPZfjY
Thinking out loud about Symbolic Truth. This is more or less me struggling through ideas about how Truth as a Person- the Person of Christ- can map on to truth in the more conventional and even scientific sense. There's more to be said here (obviously)- especially as to how Love and Beauty in the Symbolic sense can revolutionize the way we go about doing Science, Culture and Politics.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zijISsFcwik
This short reading is meant as an adjunct to the discussion I had with Richard Rohlin on the Orthodox view of Gender- from Chapter 5, "Only Priests Can Marry" from Timothy Patitsa's "The Ethics of Beauty". If this resonates with you, please check out our conversation (link below).
https://youtu.be/6B6AWZHh7Go
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FRI491k5KU
How can we think about Spiritual Warfare understood in the Ancient world and here and now in 2022?
Text referenced "Living Without Hypocrisy: Spiritual Counsels of the Holy Elders of Optina"
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaPhLEQgnOA
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow...
Hebrews 4:12
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_eHJYLtLOc
This chapter starts the third and final section of the book. Section is title "The Victory of the Cross".
Here's the complete playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvKtT_f6iRVOM3rwdzUFNRhgZsI2txnJg
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pn2ITafSng
Drilling down on key terms from the Glossary: A-M (Abyss-Metaphysics)
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Some relevant and helpful playlists:
Geopolitics:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvKtT_f6iRVOMNvpisB-lleHgS82hFKQE
Heidegger:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvKtT_f6iRVMg5ntDnuSA0r4QAcd-JmsT
Noomakhia:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvKtT_f6iRVMyYHY1pVGCqUBXdjdSIt2S
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlTtBv3_RYg