Mount Athos
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Sep 21, 2026
Glenn PeersGUEST
But on the other hand, it also felt weakly self-aware.
Glenn PeersGUEST
Even as I was trying to write through elements of my own positionality within the book, and there was also some autobiographical elements within the book, primarily the encounter on Mount Athos of a manuscript that's the subject of one of the chapters, and the ways in which I came to know the book in this direct, physical, experientially overwhelming way.
Glenn PeersGUEST
When I arrived with my friend Nektarios Zaras, we went to see the librarian and he immediately offered us almost any book to examine.
Glenn PeersGUEST
It was really an extraordinary act of generosity.
Glenn PeersGUEST
But on the other hand, it also felt weakly self-aware, even as I was trying to write through elements of my own positionality within the book.
Glenn PeersGUEST
And there was also some autobiographical elements within the book, primarily the encounter on Mount Athos of a manuscript that's the subject of one of the chapters, and the ways in which I came to know the book in this direct, physical, experientially overwhelming way.
Glenn PeersGUEST
When I arrived with my friend Nektarios Zaras, we went to see the librarian and he immediately offered us almost any book to examine.
Glenn PeersGUEST
It was really an extraordinary act of generosity.
Glenn PeersGUEST
But on the other hand, it also felt weakly self-aware, even as I was trying to write through elements of my own positionality within the book.
Glenn PeersGUEST
And there was also some autobiographical elements within the book, primarily the encounter on Mount Athos of a manuscript that's the subject of one of the chapters.
Glenn PeersGUEST
and the ways in which I came to know the book in this direct, physical, experientially overwhelming way.
Glenn PeersGUEST
When I arrived with my friend Nektarios Zaras, we went to see the librarian and he immediately offered us almost any book to examine.
Glenn PeersGUEST
But on the other hand, it also felt weakly self-aware, even as I was trying to write through elements of my own positionality within the book.
Glenn PeersGUEST
And there was also some autobiographical elements within the book, primarily the encounter on Mount Athos of a manuscript that's the subject of one of the chapters.
Glenn PeersGUEST
and the ways in which I came to know the book in this direct, physical, experientially overwhelming way.
Glenn PeersGUEST
When I arrived with my friend Nektarios Zaras, we went to see the librarian and he immediately offered us almost any book to examine.
Peter HeersGUEST
whatever, but it was really amazing to watch.
Peter HeersGUEST
And even in Greece, because I was in Greece for the first two years of it, and then on Mount Athos even, even on Mount Athos, we saw there was no place on the face of the earth that did not have this question.
Peter HeersGUEST
I mean, it reminds me of Solzhenitsyn who says, you know, good and evil...
Peter HeersGUEST
it goes down the heart of every human being, the divide, right? Well, the divide goes across every society, every community on how they respond to the question of truth.
Peter HeersGUEST
And he stands up and he says, Elder Paisios, Saint Paisios, would never have got the vax, would never have put on a mask, would never have done social distancing, would never have not gone to church.
Peter HeersGUEST
He went out and he said, let me just make it clear to everybody.
Peter HeersGUEST
The saint that you love and you want to imitate, he wouldn't do any of this, right? Say Elder Parthenios, one of the greatest elders alive, still alive, 50 years an abbot, the dean of abbots on Mount Athos, right? He's been so dogged against every COVID-related nonsense, against Ukrainian schismatic nonsense, against ecumenism.
Peter HeersGUEST
He's been absolutely stalwart, pillar for decades and decades and decades.
Glenn PeersGUEST
But on the other hand, it also felt weakly self-aware, even as I was trying to write through elements of my own positionality within the book.
Glenn PeersGUEST
And there was also some autobiographical elements within the book, primarily the encounter on Mount Athos of a manuscript that's the subject of one of the chapters, and the ways in which I came to know the book in this direct, physical, experientially overwhelming way.
Glenn PeersGUEST
When I arrived with my friend Nektarios Zaras, we went to see the librarian and he immediately offered us almost any book to examine.
Glenn PeersGUEST
It was really an extraordinary act of generosity.
Glenn PeersGUEST
But on the other hand, it also felt weakly self-aware.
Glenn PeersGUEST
Even as I was trying to write through elements of my own positionality within the book, and there was also some autobiographical elements within the book, primarily the encounter on Mount Athos of a manuscript that's the subject of one of the chapters, and the ways in which I came to know the book in this direct, physical, experientially overwhelming way.
Glenn PeersGUEST
When I arrived with my friend Nektarios Zaras, we went to see the librarian and he immediately offered us almost any book to examine.
Glenn PeersGUEST
It was really an extraordinary act of generosity.
Glenn PeersGUEST
But on the other hand, it also felt weakly self-aware, even as I was trying to write through elements of my own positionality within the book.
Glenn PeersGUEST
And there was also some autobiographical elements within the book, primarily the encounter on Mount Athos of a manuscript that's the subject of one of the chapters, and the ways in which I came to know the book in this direct, physical, experientially overwhelming way.
Glenn PeersGUEST
When I arrived with my friend Nektarios Zaras, we went to see the librarian and he immediately He offered us almost any book to examine.
Glenn PeersGUEST
It was really an extraordinary act of generosity.
Michael ArmentaNARRATOR
A veritable copy of Babrius was found in a manner as singular as were the manuscripts of Quintilian's Institutes and of Cicero's Orations by Poggio in the Monastery of St. Gall, A.D. 1416.
Michael ArmentaNARRATOR
M. Meonides, at the suggestion of M. Villemaine, Minister of Public Instruction to King Louis Philippe, has been entrusted with a commission to search for ancient manuscripts, and in carrying out his instructions, he found a manuscript at the Convent of St. Laura on Mount Athos.
Michael ArmentaNARRATOR
which proved to be a copy of the long-suspected and wished-for choliambic version of Babrius.
Michael ArmentaNARRATOR
This manuscript was found to be divided into two books, the one containing a hundred and twenty-five and the other ninety-five fables.
EthanHOST
A complete rejection of humility.
EthanHOST
And the demon takes him right to the point where he says, okay, after communion tomorrow, a chariot of fire is going to take you from the cliff of Mount Athos up to heaven like the prophet Elijah.
EthanHOST
And he is so deluded at this point.
EthanHOST
And Elder Joseph is... has a sense that there's something very wrong with Father John, and he asks him to come in and to confess his thoughts.
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