The Mountain of Silence: Orthodox Book Review

Get the study links over on archive.org

https://archive.org/details/the-mountain-of-silence-workbook-public-version/The%20Mountain%20of%20Silence%20Study%20Guide-%20Public%20Version/

Mountain of Silence- It’s a good introduction to Orthodoxy spirituality and affordable. It’s the first book in a three part series. It covers a lot of key Orthodox spiritual terms and topics. Most of the terms are found in the Bible, and I find the usages of the root terms in scripture and have their definitions (mostly from the Vines and Philokalia) and some verses included in a study guide.

I also add a lot of other quotes for other books and include useful hyperlinks in the guide’s footnotes. I have documented sources but I didn’t not use a standardized documentation format. I cover the main topics of the book in the study guide and have a lot of quotes from the book. I have two versions of the study guide, one 28 pages long and another workbook 33 pages long. I include also PDF versions and Libre office files so the document can be edited as needed.

Covers: Western spirituality vs Orthodoxy, how to pray and methods for getting victory over distracting thoughts like daydreaming

Illnesses of the Heart: Ignorance, Forgetfulness, Hardness of Heart, Contamination, Imprudence

Terms: Metanoia, Nous, Askesis, Logismos, Plani, Theosis, Catharsis, Temptation, Discrimination, Dispassion, and more

Five stages when temped by the logismoi: Assault, Interaction, Consent, Captivity, Passion/Obsession

00:00 Introduction
00:35 What’s been going on
01:14 What I’ve been reading
02:32 Neo-gnostics and proto-Protestantism
05:05 Other related books
06:09 The workbook
06:48 Glossary and dictionary for terms
07:59 E-sword
08:47 Back to The Mountain of Silence
10:18 About the book
11:01 Quote 1
12:01 Illness of the heart and key terms
12:39 Quote 2
13:38 Quote 3
14:06 Quote 4
14:20 Quote 5
14:44 Conclusion