Robin Amis (1932–2014)

The author went to Mt. Athos as a young man, got on the right side of monks who became mentors, stayed a good while, then left and spent the next three or four decades studying Eastern Orthodoxy and its time-honored ways of seeking and finding God. He has much to say and inserts well-framed quotations from varied mystical traditions. God is real, more real than we can imagine, but to find God first one must first believe (for which you need God's help). Then one must be willing to wait a show more very long time (God's clock is not our clock). In the end God's peace and love are worth the wait. show less

This is incredible insight into the oral teachings of the early Church. An expensive book even in paperback ($50 -$180). The author has a web site where you can read some of the book. This is a book that will take hundreds of hours of study to get to where the author is in spiritual understanding.