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Seven Years On Mount Athos: The Power Of Believing
| Title | Seven Years On Mount Athos: The Power Of Believing |
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| Date | 2025-03-16 11:01:47 |
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Desciption
In the book “7 years on Mt. Athos – The power of believing” you will find the experiences and the internal struggle of a young monk from the Desert of the “Holy Mount” Athos. After being in isolation for 7.5 years, monk Clement faces a dilemma: continue living till the end of his life in hermetism or return to society. He wants to leave but is also trapped by the teachings of his order. How can he escape? Transferred through the narrative of his biography are his thoughts and reactions that led him to isolation in the first place, and eventually back to society. He reveals his secret actions and thoughts, for the time he lived in the hermitage on Mt. Athos, that led to the decision to return. This is a case of an honest confession of a human who accepts his own mistakes with dignity, and shares the teachings of his former order that he found applicable to everyday life in society, where he lives as a husband and a father. Read more
Review
Editorial Reviews About the Author Christos Palaskas was born in 1981 in Brooklyn, New York. He moved to Greece in 1989 with his deeply religious mother to her hometown of Litochoro near Mount Olympus, the home of the 12 gods of mythology. He studied Information and Communication Systems Engineering at the University of the Aegean on the island of Samos and then served 17 months with distinction as a cadet officer in the Hellenic Special Forces. Following military service, he worked as a computer technician and computer science teacher in Katerini. On April 14, 2006, he made the prayerful decision to leave his family, relatives, friends, and society to seclude himself in a monastery on "Holy Mountain" Athos. On August 25, 2013, after great internal struggle, he returned to society, settling in the city of Thessaloniki, where he worked for 2.5 years. He then moved to Seattle, Washington, where he worked as a software engineer for the automotive industry and met his wife Tiffany. He has two children, a boy and a girl. He has now found his opportunity to improve the world with Blockchain Technologies, sharing novel ideas with people.
