The Pragmatic Mystic: An Orthodox Miscellany

The Pragmatic Mystic: An Orthodox Miscellany

Reposted from last year: A dead end in meditation

On meditative nihilism

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Addison Hodges Hart
Jun 10, 2025
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There is a kind of meditation for which I feel not merely distaste but something akin to horror. Without giving details of my own experience – and I’ve done my fair share of experimentation in these things – I’m confident enough to maintain that there are forms of meditation one would be wise to avoid. Not being as wise as I should have been in years go…

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