Prelest

This exploration is coming soon. It will cover prelest — spiritual delusion — as understood in the hesychast tradition, and the specific forms it takes in contemporary seekers.

The exploration will examine the tradition's detailed phenomenology of prelest: how it arises, what it looks like from the inside, and why the most earnest and committed practitioners are sometimes the most vulnerable to it. It will address the specific dangers of imagining spiritual progress, cultivating spiritual experiences as ends in themselves, and bypassing the difficult work of purification in pursuit of the extraordinary — and why the tradition's remedy for prelest is almost always the same: humility, submission to a wise guide, and a return to the ordinary.