Daskalos (Stylianos Atteshlis) - Labyrinths (1990s) [TapeRip - 4 MP3]
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Duration: 2 hours 44 minutes
What is life?
What is the cosmos?
What are the archangels?
What is the true name of each thing that exists?
What is matter?
What is a human being?
What is God?
These are some of the weighty questions that Daskalos addresses in this two-part talk that was given on successive days sometime in the 1990s.
The location was the Stoa - a small lecture hall and garden full of olive trees and cacti at the back of his house in Strovolos, Cyprus.
He explains why everything is alive and death does not exist and discusses how the "petty time-and-place self" is reflected in the three mirrors of matter - our material body, emotions and feelings - and lost in the labyrinth of illusions that they generate.
"The stones are alive, the sand is alive, crystals are alive", Daskslaos tells us and he asks: "How can we understand these kinds of life?".
Try to tune into the vibrations of Daskalos's voice and listen with your heart as well as with your head.
Really, the idea is to tune into the elemental of the talk, which exists eternally and contains the full meaning of Daskalos's teaching.
Much knowledge and understanding can come in this way.
Daskalos
Dr. Stylianos Atteshlis, better known as "Daskalos", (Greek for "teacher"), was a great Greek Cypriot Christian mystic and healer.
That's my assessment, not his.
He had no patience with anyone who wanted to call him "Master", insisting that he was no more than a fellow student of the mysteries.
Nor did he ever insist that he alone knew the truth. On the contrary, he advised his students to investigate everything for themselves and never to accept anything as true merely because he said so.
He also encouraged them to explore other religions and philosophies if they felt so inclined.
Buddhists, Jews, Muslims and even atheists attended his talks (he once said that he could have a more honest and sensible discussion with a sincere atheist than with a religious fanatic).
Professor Kyriacos Markides of Maine University has written a trilogy of excellent books about Daskalos's extraordinary life and teachings.
Although Daskalos only really approved of the first volume - The Magus of Strovolos - all three contain invaluable insights into his uniquely profound and coherent metaphysical system.
I recommend, The Magus of Strovolos, as a way into Daskalos's thought, (although he disliked being called a "magus" and preferred the term "mystic").
It's on the tracker here:
http://theoccult.bz/details.php?id=31429
Most English translations of his own writings leave much to be desired, although a new, professionally translated collection of his talks, Words of Truth, is excellent.
The Esoteric Practice, also contains many simple but powerful practical exercises. It's on the tracker too:
http://theoccult.bz/details.php?id=43653
For me, Daskalos's teachings represent the most profound and transformative system of knowledge that I've ever encountered in several decades of spiritual search that began with Kabbalism and progressed, through Zen Buddhism, to pure mysticism.
There's a saying in Western magic that: "All magicians become mystics in the end".
My own experience certainly bears this out.
In my teens I wanted to use magic to manipulate the world to suit my own ends.
Now I understand that what I really wanted was to change the way I felt inside.
I thought I could achieve that through manipulating the world, but it's so much simpler and more effective to work directly on one's consciousness, which is the whole point of mysticism - to exchange separation and insecurity for what Daskalos called "at-one-ment" or Theosis.
Daskalos has a somewhat unusual style of delivery which takes a little getting used to, but it's well worth the effort as much of the material here is not available elsewhere, to the best of my knowledge.
A website called: The Researchers of Truth, is run by some of Daskslos's students here:
http://www.researchersoftruth.org/
It contains many transcripts of his talks and much else besides.
MsSVig
Duration: 2 hours 44 minutes
What is life?
What is the cosmos?
What are the archangels?
What is the true name of each thing that exists?
What is matter?
What is a human being?
What is God?
These are some of the weighty questions that Daskalos addresses in this two-part talk that was given on successive days sometime in the 1990s.
The location was the Stoa - a small lecture hall and garden full of olive trees and cacti at the back of his house in Strovolos, Cyprus.
He explains why everything is alive and death does not exist and discusses how the "petty time-and-place self" is reflected in the three mirrors of matter - our material body, emotions and feelings - and lost in the labyrinth of illusions that they generate.
"The stones are alive, the sand is alive, crystals are alive", Daskslaos tells us and he asks: "How can we understand these kinds of life?".
Try to tune into the vibrations of Daskalos's voice and listen with your heart as well as with your head.
Really, the idea is to tune into the elemental of the talk, which exists eternally and contains the full meaning of Daskalos's teaching.
Much knowledge and understanding can come in this way.
Daskalos
Dr. Stylianos Atteshlis, better known as "Daskalos", (Greek for "teacher"), was a great Greek Cypriot Christian mystic and healer.
That's my assessment, not his.
He had no patience with anyone who wanted to call him "Master", insisting that he was no more than a fellow student of the mysteries.
Nor did he ever insist that he alone knew the truth. On the contrary, he advised his students to investigate everything for themselves and never to accept anything as true merely because he said so.
He also encouraged them to explore other religions and philosophies if they felt so inclined.
Buddhists, Jews, Muslims and even atheists attended his talks (he once said that he could have a more honest and sensible discussion with a sincere atheist than with a religious fanatic).
Professor Kyriacos Markides of Maine University has written a trilogy of excellent books about Daskalos's extraordinary life and teachings.
Although Daskalos only really approved of the first volume - The Magus of Strovolos - all three contain invaluable insights into his uniquely profound and coherent me
I recommend, The Magus of Strovolos, as a way into Daskalos's thought, (although he disliked being called a "magus" and preferred the term "mystic").
It's on the tracker here:
http://theoccult.bz/details.php?id=31429
Most English translations of his own writings leave much to be desired, although a new, professionally translated collection of his talks, Words of Truth, is excellent.
The Esoteric Practice, also contains many simple but powerful practical exercises. It's on the tracker too:
http://theoccult.bz/details.php?id=43653
For me, Daskalos's teachings represent the most profound and transformative system of knowledge that I've ever encountered in several decades of spiritual search that began with Kabbalism and progressed, through Zen Buddhism, to pure mysticism.
There's a saying in Western magic that: "All magicians become mystics in the end".
My own experience certainly bears this out.
In my teens I wanted to use magic to manipulate the world to suit my own ends.
Now I understand that what I really wanted was to change the way I felt inside.
I thought I could achieve that through manipulating the world, but it's so much simpler and more effective to work directly on one's consciousness, which is the whole point of mysticism - to exchange separation and insecurity for what Daskalos called "at-one-ment" or Theosis.
Daskalos has a somewhat unusual st
A website called: The Researchers of Truth, is run by some of Daskslos's students here:
http://www.researchersoftruth.org/
It contains many transc
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MsSVig