Ego Su Eimi

On Christian Meditation and Mysticism

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Many in western Europe and North America may not associate Christianity with meditation (sometimes referred to as “contemplation” in older English texts), but the former has utilized the latter for centuries in innovative ways. Akin to the Sufi practice of dhikr, Orthodox Christian monastics and ascetics have triggered the experience of hesychasm by repeated recitation of the…