Robin Amis

Robin Amis (1932–2014) was a British author, poet, publisher, editor and translator. Although he had studied a wide range of spiritual traditions, including Kabbalah, the Fourth Way and Hindu teachings, it was his conversion to the Eastern Orthodox Church and his relationship with Mount Athos, the ancient monastic republic in Greece, that ultimately defined his life and work. Over a thirty-year period, between 1982 and 2013, he made more than 60 visits to Mount Athos, where he was recognised as a "''synergatis''", a fellow worker and equal of the monks. Amis documented the results of his research in ''A Different Christianity: Early Christian Esotericism and Modern Thought'' (SUNY, 1995), and recounted his experience on the Holy Mountain in ''Views from Mount Athos'' (Praxis 2014). As founder of Praxis Institute Press, he translated, edited and published the three-volume English language edition of Gnosis by Boris Mouravieff as well as books on Hesychasm and the spiritual tradition of Eastern Orthodoxy. He was married to the American artist Lillian Delevoryas and in the last years of his life lived in Bristol, England. Provided by Wikipedia