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> "Hesychasm was a sort of ritual prayer to retire "inward" and away from all the senses in order to achieve a more direct union with God, often by using a word
by chrisweekly 6y ago
> "Hesychasm was a sort of ritual prayer to retire "inward" and away from all the senses in order to achieve a more direct union with God, often by using a word or a mantra to concentrate and free the mind."
This precisely describes several variations of meditation style pre-dating Christ, let alone 13th-century Christians.
- spijdar 6y agoHence it being demonized by one half of Christianity, I imagine. Accusations of syncretism and heresy and magic and mysticism and other things that make/made the Catholic (and Catholic off-shoots e.g. protestantism) side of Christianity uneasy.