on 22-Aug-2016 (Mon)

The human body has about 25,000 genes. Researchers already know of 65 genes they believe carry a risk for autism. Now, researchers at Princeton University in New Jersey have identified 2,500 more that could help create the conditions for autism.

Each monastery or group of monks evolved its own Gerontikon often around a nucleus of Sayings of their founder or some other monk especially remembered there.

Gerontikon: . In the Gr. Ch., a book containing a collection of anecdotes and apothegms or sayings of ancient anchorites and monastic fathers.

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Gavin Flood writes, ‘the ascetic writes or inscribes tradition on the body through action’.89​

According to Flood, the ascetic strives to eradicate the self by conforming to the tradition.93 Is this what Isaac means by humility? For Flood, the ascetic paradoxically uses the will to perform techniques that strive to ‘subjugat