Comments by "Orthodox Boomer Grandma" (@orthodoxboomergrandma3561) on "Fr. Peter Heers u0026 Fr. Silouan Justiniano - Perennialism Pt. 1" video.

  1. I will certainly, in my feeble way, try to warn potential Orthodox converts away from perennialism! And we have to know about it to warn others. As a former member of a Hindu cult I wonder what I would have said if an Orthodox person had tried to warn me away! Probably, in my pride, “get lost!” Ugh
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  2. All those folks possibly being “led” by who? God? Their pride? through perennialism… we do need to help them. Fr Seraphim Rose’s Orthodox Survival Course will help! And his “Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future.”
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  3. Also what about Robin Amis and the Praxis Institute. He was baptized and went to Mt Athos to see St Paisios… Boris Mouravieff is wild also. I flirted with M but tossed him out! Amis’ “A Different Christianity” is pretty interesting…it “helped” me, or so “I” “thought.” Once I decided not to “trust” myself and hew more closely to the writings of the Saints of the Church, I realized I didn’t need that type of “help.” Satanically inspired light can look really pretty…
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  4. 🤣🙏🏻☦️
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  5. I’d love for you to go in depth on Gurdgieff, Ouspensky, GE Palmer vis a vis Orthodoxy! I didn’t discover G and O till 2020 and then I tried to grasp their trajectories and influence. I know several now Orthodox people who claim G was formative and very helpful to them. Very thorny..
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  6. I love that phrase the scandal of particularity! The unique hypostasis of the human person is THE one thing that cannot stand! Hence humanism and now transhumanism! I have an Orthodox monk scholar friend who LOVES Sherrard…maybe you could get a blessing to have the former Vincent Rossi, now Fr Maximos at St Silouan’s ROCOR monastery here in Sonora California to come on to discuss! Fr Peter knows him…
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  7. All those folks possibly being “led” by who? God? Their pride? through perennialism… we do need to help them. Fr Seraphim Rose’s Orthodox Survival Course will help! And his “Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future.”
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  8.  @As-fs6qd  I started to go down that rabbit hole and bought at least one or two shelves of books. But then I stopped and realized that G’s “Esoteric Christianity” was a lie, without Christ and without Love. I have many more shelves of real Orthodox books, saints lives, the Patristic Fathers and hesychasts like St Gregory Palamas. I decided to spend my limited time left on earth (I’m 64) pursuing Theosis. I still have much repenting to do and I have begun to taste compunction and weeping in prayer… pursuing Christ doesn’t leave me time to research G anymore. However, I would like to know more about what destroyed Ouspensky. I read that he told his students to go to Mt Athos. Gerald Palmer did…which is why we have the Philokalia in English now.
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  9. This past Great Lent I asked for and received the Gift of Remembrance of Death. Now I’m struggling not to waste ANY of my precious remaining time to be in Compunction and Repentance with tears on my “intellectual passions.” But they are very ingrained due to my academic background and that of my parents. Both Fordham Chemistry graduates. And my Dad was a Roman Catholic with a mind completely bent by scholasticism. He literally got severe OCD from his endless hours of reading Aquinas etc. He had no supernatural loving faith yet whenever he lost a book of matches in the house he would go nuts yelling about how “God took it!” It was to punish him for certain sins that RC priests in the 60s told him were “ok.” Very sad. Anyway, thank you for this fantastic discussion. I follow your brother religiously! You’ve given me more reasons to quit indulging my intellectually stimulating book buying sprees. I’m going to try to stick with St Joseph the Hesychast and Elder Ephraim, St Isaac the Syrian. And a fantastic book by Irene Hausherr called “Penthos: The Doctrine of Compunction in the Christian East.” It’s ironic though because I only came across that very practical book while on one of my intellectually passionate explorations of the internet!
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  10.  @riapresley5446  I use them all the time too! It slows my brain down a bit!
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  11. I couldn’t believe I hadn’t heard of G or O! I’d been Orthodox six years! Now 8 and still barely tasting the Wisdom! I’d come out of a Hindu cult so I was very interested in the G phenomenon! I would love an expert to discuss! Robin Amis probably could have but he’s gone…🙏🏻memory eternal!
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  12.  @As-fs6qd  and I did read the book against G! Thanks for reminding me
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  13.  @As-fs6qd  I haven’t read Schuon but Guenon and Girard have added to my phronema… have you read the biography of Fr Seraphim Rose? A very recent Orthodox monk who built a monastery in Nor Cal. He died tragically early at age 48 in 1982.
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  14. What paper of Fr Peter’s is Fr Silouan referring to?
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  15.  @pah9730  thank you!
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  16. Hi John! Well, you never got to host a talk between Fr Peter and Fr Maximos (Vincent Rossi). Memory Eternal! He reposed quite quickly after getting a cancer diagnosis a few months ago! Thank God Fr Peter got to visit and say goodbye to Fr Maximos due to my prodding if I may say so without vainglory! He saw him only a few hours before he reposed on the night he visited our Union of All Orthodox Christian Healing Arts Center. He broadcast his current Series 2 Lesson 6 on the Book of Revelations. I still hope and pray that you can visit us too!
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