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	Hesychasm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		By the 14th Century on Mt Athos the terms Hesychasm and Hesychast refer to the practice and to the practitioners of a method of mental ascesis that involves the use of the Jesus Prayer assisted by certain psychophysical techniques.
		Hesychasm can be defined as a traditional complex of practices and attitudes in Eastern Orthodox monasticism that today has the following sense: the Hesychast is he who withdraws to a place of isolation and solitude to practice systematically the Jesus Prayer and mental ascesis, perhaps assisted by certain psychophysical techniques.
		Hesychasm is a traditional complex of practices embedded in the doctrine and practice of the Orthodox Church intended to purify the member of the Orthodox Church and to make him ready for an encounter with God that comes to him when and if God wants, through God's Grace.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hesychasm (2680 words)

	Hesychasm
		Hesychasm then contains two elements, the belief that quietist contemplation is the highest occupation for men, and the assertion of real distinction between the divine essence and the divine operation.
		Barlaam, like all opponents of Hesychasm, based his objections mainly on a vehement denial of the possibility of an uncreated light that was yet not God's essence; throughout the controversy he and his party used the arguments they had learned in the West to show the impossibility of such distinctions in God.
		In 1368 the seventh Synod of Constantinople (concerning this matter) under the Patriarch Philotheus (1364-1376: Callistus's successor) excommunicated the Barlaamite monk Prochorus Cydonius, confirmed the "Tomus" of 1351 as a "Faultless Canon of the true faith of Christians", and canonized Palamas as a Father and Doctor of the Church.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/h/hesychasm.html (2948 words)

	Encyclopedia: Hesychasm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hesychasm was defended theologically by Gregory Palamas at about three separate Hesychast Synods in Constantinople in the 1340s; he was asked to by his fellow monks on Mt. Athos to defend it from the attacks of Barlaam of Calabria, who advocated a more intellectual approach to prayer.
		Hesychasm can be a complex issue to understand, but it is easier when one realizes it has three distinct but interrelated meanings.
		In effect this made the church stronger: and this same monastic, or Hesychast, party was responsible, at least if you take John Meyendorff's position, for pushing the spread of Orthodoxy in the Slavic world, along with its particular theology of prayer, and prayer directed at mystical experience.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hesychasm (1070 words)

	Hesychasm: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Hesychasm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In Eastern Orthodoxy, hesychasm is a form of experiential prayer.
		It was defended theologically by Gregory Palamas at about three separate Hesychast Synods in Constantinople in the 1340s; it was attacked by Barlaam of Calabria[?], who advocated a more intellectual approach to prayer.
		Hesychasm is described in great detail in the Philokalia[?], a compilation of what various Eastern Orthodox saints wrote about prayer.
	www.encyclopedian.com /he/Hesychasm.html (184 words)

	Hesychasm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		First, hesychasm refers to the spirituality which was characteristic of the early Church Fathers in the 4th and 5th centuries.
		Secondly, hesychasm refers to the type of contemplation which developed with the Byzantine spirituality from the 10th to the 14th centuries.
		Thirdly, hesychasm refers to the theological exposition of the contemplation of God as proposed by Gregory Palamas in the 14th century and became the official doctrine of the Orthodox Church.
	www.themystica.com /mystica/articles/h/hesychasm.html (270 words)

	ScienceDaily: Hesychasm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Hesychast controversy arose on Mt Athos in the 14th Century when Barlaam of Calabria encountered Hesychasts and heard descriptions of their practice, also reading the writings of the teacher in Hesychasm of St Gregory Palamas.
		Hesychasm was defended theologically by St Gregory Palamas, who was asked by his fellow monks on Mt. Athos to defend it from the attacks of Barlaam.
		The doctrine of Hesychasm was eventually upheld as the doctrine of the Orthodox Church at a Synod in Constantinople.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/hesychasm (3070 words)

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		Therefore, it is not surprising that this renaissance of translating activity caused by the revival of hesychasm coincided with a revival of monasticism within Russia.
		The renaissance of hesychasm in the fourteenth century was still in evidence in the late fifteenth century, as made evident in the influence Mount Athos had on the spirituality of St. Nil Sorskij during his stay from 1465-78.
		As such, hesychasm continues to be a vital source of spiritual renewal which continues to foster and strengthen Eastern Christianity's ties to its patristic and existential past.
	www.arts.ualberta.ca /axismundi/2001/to_be_transformed_part2.php (7997 words)

	Hesychasm - An Introduction Courtesy of SeekersWay.org
		Hesychasm involves a discipline of special breathing exercises, physical postures, and the continuous repetition of the Jesus Prayer as a means of obtaining an inner quiet that leads to inner visions.
		It was given theological justification by Gregory Palamas (a fourteenth-century Byzantine saint), and was received as official doctrine of the Greek Orthodox church in 1351.
		Hesychasm formed in the Eastern Christian churches during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
	www.seekersway.org /seekers_guide/hesychasm_1_m.html (146 words)

	Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This monograph is concerned with the analysis of the anthropology of hesychasm in the context of the Byzantine culture.
		Spiritual and mystical phenomenon of the hesychasm is presented as an integral whole has been developing in the lap of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
		The author believes heart to be the center of the all somatic and spiritual life of man. It thinks, senses and it is the organ of conscience and love and the main point of human organism.
	www.ccel.org /contrib/ru/Other/Klimkov/summary.htm (957 words)

	Horujy S.
		In the case of Hesychasm, the final goal, or telos of the practice is the deification (j'ewsis), i.e.
		What is entirely unacceptable for Hesychasm, is the main principle of this position, the idea of successive stages when the Spiritual Process moved by mystical Godstriving ends and gives its place to social activity.
		The telos of Hesychasm, which is Theosis, means the participation in the Divine Being as a hypostatic and dialogical being, and this is an authentic Christian and patristic concept, radically different from the final spiritual states in Eastern practices.
	horujy.chat.ru /nije.html (3291 words)

	Hesychasm
		Hesychasm (from Greek word "hesychia" – silence, peace, quietness) – teaching and practice aimed for the acquisition of the Holy Spirit and deification of human soul and body.
		The ultimate goal of hesychasm is human transfiguration and theosis after the likeness of the risen Christ.
		Hesychasm is opened to the eternity and even in this age it allows us to partake in the sacrament of the Divine Silence.
	www.hesychasm.ru /en/index.htm (286 words)

	Orthodox Christian Monasticism - Hesychasm
		The Hesychasm is an orientation of the Eastern monasticism that search for the Christian perfection in union with God through continual prayer.
		Thus the Hesychasm is part of the Tradition of the Church and not as a separate tradition, as the heart is the most inner body of the body.
		The history of Hesychasm begins with the IV-V century as a real movement of spiritual and theological renewal, through the introduction of the Jesus Prayer as method that produce a state of concentration and inner peace, in which the soul listens and opens to God.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/orthodox_christianity/10151 (357 words)

	THE PICTURE OF THE MODERN WORLD
		It is evident that this secularism is related to man’s turn towards the horizontal dimension of life and to a neglect of the vertical dimension towards God, as well as to scholasticism and moralism which developed in the West.
		That is, in the domain of the Church, the dominant trend is, by and large, that shaped by Stephanos of Nicomedia, with whom St. Symeon the New Theologian disagreed.
		Orthodox hesychasm is closely connected to the cure of man. Today, men seek therapy because they are possessed by the tragedy of sensual pleasure and pain.
	www.pelagia.org /htm/ar03.en.the_picture_of_the_modern_world.htm (6104 words)

	Theosophical Society in America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hesychasm's roots extend back almost two thousand years to the beginnings of the Christian church.
		As a result, hesychasm disappeared from Western culture but survived because the Orthodox church embraced and preserved this tradition of quiet meditation.
		Hesychasm is an ancient mystical tradition that offers time-proven methods for detaching from the ego and experiencing transcendent states of consciousness.
	www.theosophical.org /theosophy/questmagazine/marchapril2000/hesychasm (3009 words)

	ORTHODOX PSYCHOTHERAPY Chapter 5
		Indeed, as has already been pointed out, hesychasm is the most suitable method for self-concentration and the ascent of the soul to God and communion with Him.
		We certainly know hesychasm as a theological movement of the fourteenth century, mainly represented by St. Gregory Palamas, which uses a particular psychosomatic method and seeks, with the help of divine grace, to unite the nous with the heart and so to live in communion with God.
		Gregory Palamas was not the introducer of hesychasm, but its exponent, the one who lived and expressed this whole holy journey of the soul.
	www.pelagia.org /htm/b02.en.orthodox_psychotherapy.05.htm (7359 words)

	Culture in Late Byzantine Period
		Hesychasm was a conventional term to describe this method of prayer and contemplation by monks, which was designed to attain communication with God through internal quietude.
		The term was used, moreover, to describe not only this psychosomatic method of prayer, but also a whole intellectual "school" in Byzantine society, which claimed that God may reveal himself to man in a direct communication with him, when man constantly seeks him through the "prayer of the mind" or of "the heart".
		Thus, the term hesychasm was also used to refer to these religious and social conflicts of the 14th and 15th centuries in Byzantium.
	www.fhw.gr /chronos/10/en/pl/pn/pnb3.html (229 words)

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		At the heart of this monastic spirituality was the development of hesychasm as a means toward achieving an experience of the divine (theosis), and this development proved to be of immense importance in the history of the Orthodox Church.
		The term hesychasm is derived from hesychia; a word which denotes tranquillity, stillness, and concerted concentration.[10] As early as the fourth century, the term hesychia was used to describe the life of the desert monk as being one of interior silence and diligence in pursuit of communion with God.
		In his defence of hesychasm, Palamas sought to formulate a theological basis for an existential spirituality which conformed to accepted patristic teachings, and as such, his writings are filled with quotations from the Fathers.
	www.arts.ualberta.ca /axismundi/2001/to_be_transformed_part1.php (4851 words)

	Hesychasm
		As such, it is the eso ego or inner I in Hesychasm, the asmita or I-principle in Yoga, and the aham in Buddhism (Buddhism's notoriously famous doctrine of anatman does not deny the I, rather, it denies the Vedantic concept of atman, namely, that our self is identical with eternally unchanging Brahman or divine Spirit).
		In Hesychasm, there is no transcendence of or leaving behind or leave-taking of the ethical, interpersonal, or personal sphere for some state allegedly "beyond good and evil." Since reality is inescapably interpersonal, ethical virtue is the very point and goal of the spiritual life of the Christian.
		As indicated, a science awakening of inner presence that is the phase of moving from the contra-natural to natural state in Hesychasm increasingly disappears in the west after Aquinas and largely due to his rationalistic influence that the Franciscans tried to stop.
	digilander.libero.it /benparker/HESYCHASM/Hesychasm22.htm (6371 words)

	Hesychasm - OrthodoxWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hesychasm is a mystical tradition of experiential prayer in the Orthodox Church.
		It is described in great detail in the Philokalia, a compilation of what various saints wrote about prayer and the spiritual life.
		Hesychasm was defended theologically by Gregory Palamas at about three separate Hesychast Synods in Constantinople from 1341 to 1351; he was asked to by his fellow monks on Mt.
	www2.orthodoxwiki.org /Hesychasm (300 words)

	Book Review: Orthodox Psychotherapy
		Hesychasm, rather than a facet of Orthodox theology, is presented as the embodiment of its sacred tradition.
		Conversely, it is those ignorant of the truths of hesychasm who trivialise the sacred rites and stand thereby in peril.
		Fears that a resurgence of hesychasm could collapse the Church into isolated worshippers confined to their icon corners are dismissed as unfounded.
	www.new-ostrog.org /review4.html (1450 words)

	Hesychasm: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hesychasm (meaning quietness in Greek (Greek: A native or inhabitant of Greece)) is a mystical (mystical: mysticism (ancient greek mysticon = secret) is meditation, prayer, or theology...
		It is described in great detail in the Philokalia (Philokalia: more facts about this subject), a compilation of what various Eastern Orthodox saints (saints: A person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization) wrote about prayer.
		Hesychasm was defended theologically by Gregory Palamas (Gregory Palamas: gregory palamas (1296 - 1359) was a monk of mount athos in greece, and later...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/hesychasm (487 words)

	The Way of Inner Silence, (April 2001) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hesychasm is a quality of conscious presence that combines constant inner awareness and prayer with deep stillness.
		In the midst of violent attack, he maintained an attitude of extraordinary inner peace — as he would later on the way to the cross — and responded to the hatred and fury with silence and a detachment that mystically saved him from harm.
		Though particularly evident in the humility and inner grounding of the Christ, hesychasm is a universal concept.
	www.newtimes.org /issue/0104/silence.htm (912 words)

	Talk:Hesychasm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As far as I know, this is not part of Orthodox doctrine but is either a syncretistic theosophical misinterpretation of Hesychasm or something dreamed up by some Western comparative religions undergrad.
		It cannot be emphasized strongly enough that Hesychasm is an Orthodox practice and that the texts make certain basic unspoken assumptions about the Hesychast, for example that he is a member of the Orthodox Church and that he regularly attends the Orthodox mysteries (sacraments).
		Such a POV is out of fashion nowadays, but it must be said that divorcing Hesychasm from its Orthodox context and then using it is fraught with danger.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Hesychasm (804 words)

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