Hesychasm | Wikipedia audio article

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesychasm 00:00:27 1 Etymology 00:00:36 1.1 Meaning 00:01:05 1.2 Usage 00:02:24 1.3 History of the term 00:06:05 2 Origins 00:06:14 2.1 Platonism 00:06:37 2.2 Jewish Merkabah mysticism 00:08:01 2.3 Gospel-interpretation 00:08:35 3 Practice 00:08:44 3.1 Stages 00:09:16 3.2 Katharsis (purification) 00:11:04 3.3 Theoria (illumination) 00:14:04 3.4 Theosis (deification) 00:15:34 4 Integration in Orthodox Church life 00:17:51 5 Hesychast controversy 00:21:29 6 Roman Catholic opinions of hesychasm 00:28:02 7 In art 00:28:22 8 See also Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago. Learning by listening is a great way to: increases imagination and understanding improves your listening skills improves your own spoken accent learn while on the move reduce eye strain Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone. Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio: https://assistant.google.com/services... Other Wikipedia audio articles at: https://www.youtube.com/results?searc... Upload your own Wikipedia articles through: https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts Speaking Rate: 0.9476820255002768 Voice name: en-AU-Wavenet-A "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." Socrates SUMMARY ======= Hesychasm is a mystical tradition of contemplative prayer in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Based on Jesus's injunction in the Gospel of Matthew that "when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray", hesychasm in tradition has been the process of retiring inward by ceasing to register the senses, in order to achieve an experiential knowledge of God (see Theoria).