You Don't Need Spiritual Techniques... You Need Repentance | St. Paisios

Modern spirituality promises healing.

St. Paisios points to something much deeper.

In the conclusion of our trilogy on yoga, the New Age, & Orthodox Christianity, Dr. Michael Christian & John examine the teachings of St. Paisios the Athonite on repentance, discernment, the passions, logismoi, prayer, & communion with Christ.

Rather than becoming fascinated by counterfeit spirituality, St. Paisios calls us to become transformed through humility, confession, repentance, & the healing of the whole person.

Topics include:

• Yoga & Orthodox Christianity

• New Age spirituality

• Logismoi (thoughts)

• The passions

• Philautia (self-love)

• Spiritual deception (prelest)

• Discernment

• The Jesus Prayer

• Prayer vs spiritual technique

• Healing through repentance

Drawing from With Pain & Love for Contemporary Man, Passions & Virtues, Spiritual Awakening, Family Life, & The Gurus, the Young Man, & Elder Paisios, this episode offers the Orthodox answer to today's search for healing.

Chapters:

00:00 Coming Up

00:39 Orthodox Health Intro

02:09 St. Paisios & the Orthodox Answer to False Spirituality

08:49 Why Modern Man Is Vulnerable to Spiritual Deception

12:20 Book Ad

13:08 Orthodoxy Is Not a Christianized New Age

18:42 Spiritual Causality Without Superstition

23:18 St. Paisios on Curses, Repentance, & Confession

25:11 The Spiritual Power of Words, Blessings, & Curses

29:47 Logismoi: The War Within Our Thoughts

33:33 Can You Trust Your Inner Voice?

38:33 The Fly, the Bee, & Purifying the Heart

40:48 Understanding the Passions & Pathology

42:58 St. Paisios: The Passions as Powers of the Soul

47:40 The Body Is Not Spiritually Neutral

49:25 Energy Ad

50:10 Gluttony, Trauma, & an Orthodox Vision of Healing

53:35 How Counterfeit Spirituality Exploits the Passions

56:29 Philautia: When the Self Becomes an Idol

59:27 When Self-Love Becomes Self-Worship

01:02:20 Real Stewardship vs. Self-Ownership

01:03:47 Fasting Can Heal (or Feed) the Passions

01:05:39 True Discernment Is More Than Spotting Error

01:09:27 Testing Counterfeit Peace & Spiritual Experiences

01:11:13 Obedience, Spiritual Fatherhood, & Healing

01:13:22 Confession Brings Deception Into the Light

01:14:48 Fasting Ad

01:15:32 Prayer Is Communion, Not a Spiritual Technique

01:16:29 St. Paisios the Radio Operator & Prayer

01:19:01 The Jesus Prayer Is Not a Mantra

01:21:11 Prayer, Repentance, & Real Transformation

01:24:24 The Orthodox Answer to Yoga & the New Age

01:27:43 Come Home: Christ's Mercy Is Greater

01:29:34 Outro

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