By Kyriacos C. Markides
An acclaimed professional in Christian mysticism travels to a monastery excessive within the Trodos Mountains of Cyprus and provides a desirable examine the Greek Orthodox method of spirituality that would entice readers of Carlos Castaneda.
In an enticing mixture of dialogues, reflections, conversations, historical past, and shuttle details, Kyriacos C. Markides keeps the exploration of a religious culture and perform little identified within the West he started in Riding with the Lion. His past e-book took readers to the remoted peninsula of Mount Athos in northern Greece and into the crowd of historical monasteries. There, in what should be known as a “Christian Tibet,” thousand priests and hermits perform the non secular arts to achieve a oneness with God. In his new booklet, Markides follows Father Maximos, one in every of Mount Athos’s priests, to the afflicted island of Cyprus. As Father Maximos establishes church buildings, convents, and monasteries during this deeply divided land, Markides is woke up anew to the significant spirituality of the Greek Orthodox Church.
Images of the land and the folks of Cyprus and info of its tragic background improve the Mountain of Silence. just like the writings of Castaneda, the ebook brilliantly inspires the confluence of an internal and outer trip. The intensity and richness of its non secular message echo the techniques and writings of Saint Francis of Assisi and different nice saints of the Church besides. the result's a impressive work–a relocating, profoundly human exam of the function and the ability of spirituality in a fancy and complicated international.
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I came to consider it axiomatic that society gave birth to the gods, not the other way around; society created the religion it needed for its own survival. At worst, religion preserved class inequities by shifting people’s focus from the real world of injustice and oppression to the fantasized beyond of “pie in the sky” salvation. At best, it helped people cope with their personal tragedies, a useful collective illusion for the maintenance of social stability and order. Therefore, when believers of all faiths kneel down to pay homage to their deities, in reality they unwittingly worship their society in disguise.
But it was not to be. In the fall of 1993 my plans turned upside down after I received a letter from Stephanos, my old friend and confidant with whom I had shared many an experience with the Cypriot healers in the 1980s. A veteran of Sufi and Hindu esoteric groups during his many years in London, Stephanos turned his attention to Christianity after retiring early from business and returning to Cyprus. “You will be interested to know,” he wrote, “that an extraordinary monk from Mount Athos has come to Cyprus.
The sunlight disappeared completely and a torrent of rain began pouring down. I drove with extra caution over risky curves as the rain blocked a good part of my vision. I stopped at a coffee shop in Kakopetria, a village below the snow covered Mount Olympus, the highest summit of the Troodos Range named since antiquity after Mount Olympus in Greece. As I sat in the smoke-filled coffee shop waiting for the rain to subside I witnessed a scene that I had known too well growing up on the island. ” When I finally reached my destination, the winds were howling and the relentless rain was accompanied by lightning and thunder, a magnificent pandemonium.
