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This book is good

I also recommend everyone check out ‘From Glory to Glory’, which contains numerous passages from the writings of St. Gregory of Nyssa’s mystical writings. It’s a great book, and I love his doctrine of epektasis, or the perpetual striving and growth into perfection in God.

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Yeah, I have a naturally skeptic mindset as well, and considered psychosomatic causes as explanations, but didn’t find them to be the best explanations ultimately. This might not make sense to some but if one experiences it, they would perhaps conceive it differently.

I think Buddhism has some right basic intuitions about the world. It is inherently unsatisfying, and worldly desires and the desires of the body will never bring us to satisfaction, because at our root we have an infinite desire for God, and only the Infinite Himself can fulfill this as we come into communion with Him and partake in His divine nature. Not to mention that our basic feelings of alienation from self, from nature, etc. are a result of the Fall, and deep down we keenly perceive this. Maybe check out ‘From Glory to Glory’, a collection of St. Gregory of Nyssa’s spiritual and mystical writings, he talks about some of this stuff and engages in apophatic theology and talks about desire