Romanian subjectivities are the product of historical and cultural forces that go further back in time than the communist regime and farther out in space than the former Iron Wall, and are the locus of alternate but no less applicable forms of civility and self-determination, distinct from the Western or Eurocentric model of civil personhood. In my fieldwork, which I carried out in postsocialist Romania between 1997 and 1998, I experienced and observed the centrality of Orthodox Christian symbolism (particularly the Trinity) and formulations of personhood in various alternative-healing contexts. The healing movements discussed in the dissertation---the ELTA movement, Radiant Technique, and Hesychasm---draw amply on Eastern Orthodox Christian symbols and traditions, in both language and practice. They also test the boundaries, distinctions, and authority of Orthodoxy with varying degrees of cosmopolitanism, pragmatism, and religious syncretism. These alternative or complementary healing methods and their discursive universes situate themselves culturally as narratives of Romanian selfhood that are richly informed by Orthodox ontology and epistemology. These practices can also be viewed as creative and thoughtful engagements with dominant discourses of modernity and as experiential reworkings of embodied orientations of past and present. I argue that these struggles are representative of the creative, interpretive, and self-constructing efforts of postsocialist Romanian persons, and that they are both acts of freedom and political acts. The techniques and narratives encountered in my research of healing pose explicit and implicit challenges to the value systems of socialism/communism and capitalism/modernity, in a series of complex and intersubjective negotiations of meaning, agency, and identity