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The Cell, Meeting God and Ourselves (Part VIII) The Cell as Sacred Space

10/11/2024

The Cell as Sacred Space As we have seen, the cell is the reason for anachoresis. The monk withdraws to find a place for solitude, silence, and transformation. The cell is different from the rest of the inhabited world because of what happens in the cell and in the interior life of the monk. For this reason, the monk must guard the cell both by being a good steward of what takes place within the

The Cell, Meeting God and Ourselves (Part IV)

10/04/2024

The cell is a battleground where the monk is confronted with the desires and passions that deface his or her inmost self. It can be a terrifyingly vulnerable venue for naming the ego as the self-imposed ruler of the mind. The ego sets itself apart from God and the world in order to maintain its control over its self-created identity, desires, and needs. The ego knows it is limited by time and space, and this

Sacred Cosmology in the Christian Tradition (Part V)

09/02/2019

St. Maximos the Confessor 1,400 years ago, St. Maximos the Confessor (580-662) brought the ‘Logos’ paradigm to new heights, creating an unsurpassed synthesis showing that all are representatives of one simple and supreme principle, the Logos Principle which underlies the deep structure of the cosmos. For Maximos, the perennial integrity paradigm of the cosmos was self-evident. It was the Church as the cosmic ‘living symbol’; the house of all horizons and perspectives. The Logos is

The Cell, Meeting God and Ourselves (Part VIII) The Cell as Sacred Space

06/23/2017

The Cell as Sacred Space As we have seen, the cell is the reason for anachoresis. The monk withdraws to find a place for solitude, silence, and transformation. The cell is different from the rest of the inhabited world because of what happens in the cell and in the interior life of the monk. For this reason, the monk must guard the cell both by being a good steward of what takes place within the

The Cell, Meeting God and Ourselves (Part IV)

10/24/2016

The cell is a battleground where the monk is confronted with the desires and passions that deface his or her inmost self. It can be a terrifyingly vulnerable venue for naming the ego as the self-imposed ruler of the mind. The ego sets itself apart from God and the world in order to maintain its control over its self-created identity, desires, and needs. The ego knows it is limited by time and space, and this

Sacred Cosmology in the Christian Tradition (Part V)

07/12/2013

St. Maximos the Confessor 1,400 years ago, St. Maximos the Confessor (580-662) brought the ‘Logos’ paradigm to new heights, creating an unsurpassed synthesis showing that all are representatives of one simple and supreme principle, the Logos Principle which underlies the deep structure of the cosmos. For Maximos, the perennial integrity paradigm of the cosmos was self-evident. It was the Church as the cosmic ‘living symbol’; the house of all horizons and perspectives. The Logos is

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