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# hygienic darkroom retreat | ||
# darkroomretreat.com | ||
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Howdy. This is the source code of my website on hygienic darkroom retreating. It amounts to free and open source psychology, so a git repo was fitting. Dig in, make pull requests with corrections, suggestions, new pages and blog posts you have written, etc. Welcome. | ||
Howdy. This was the source code of my website, <https://darkroomretreat.com>. It has been renamed and moved to <https://hygienicdarkretreat.com>. The page-for-page meta redirects seem to be working. The code repository is at <https://github.com/swimmingly/swimmingly.github.io> |
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Thanks to hundreds of people in a dozen countries on 2 continents for over 3 decades, who morally and materially aided me during my prodigal search, especially my Norwegian... | ||
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#### editors | ||
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...for heroic efforts to make this book real. In its triage, you were as merciful as you could be: | ||
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- Are Solheim, writer and fellow refugee in darkness, for seeing and believing in me and the book, for visionary editing, hosting me during the rewrite, and your compassion for mankind, even me | ||
- Magnus Vanebo, philosopher, for enthusiastically diving into the text and sensitively editing it | ||
- Also, Bertrand Besigye, famous poet and fellow journeyman in darkness, for early support of the book | ||
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#### collaborators | ||
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- Marion Abbott, for friendship, overflowing transworld conversations, and constant in-the-trenches support starting 2016 | ||
- Simen Kirkerød, friend, host, serious retreater and observer, with loads of ideas and help since 2013 | ||
- Johan Järlind: investor-partner, retreat supporter, confidant, and friend in critical years 2012-13. You gave me so much, I'm speechless except... thank you. | ||
- Chrissy Weisgard: friend, host, client, morale-booster since 2009 | ||
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#### family | ||
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Immediate, extended, and adopted: I leaned on all of you that would let me. It can't be easy rearing a stubborn 20, 30, then 40 year-old psychotic child in defiance of a world that denies everything real. Thanks, especially, to: | ||
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- Brother Paul, for shelter and guidance you should never have had to give | ||
- Grandmother Anna Lou Craig Callen Posey, always there. RIP. | ||
- Brother Francois, for constant experience of love | ||
- Cousin Christopher, for your generosity and grit | ||
- Uncle Jim---dropout, drug dealer, beach bum, dumpster diver, Mexican pastry lover, loser, cool-ass mofo---for laughingly giving the system the finger till the day you died. RIP, man. | ||
- Trimurti: my second family, torn away as soon as I noticed, for helping further raise me | ||
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#### influences | ||
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...for friendship, support, and/or raising the bar so high that anti-gravity boots became necessary. And especially my elders: | ||
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- Jack Nuckols: a giant and first among my elders, you stuck around and watched over me till I found my way. RIP. | ||
- Willetta Warberg: you poured your heart and soul into me through your piano, kindness, and huge personality. RIP. | ||
- John Boyer: you fed me with so much of your _time_. | ||
- Purna Steinitz: you destroyed my sentimentality and kept your terrible promise. | ||
- DeWaynn Rogers: you helped me get up, push back, and stay out of the system's clutches. RIP. | ||
- Harold: you showed me my job. | ||
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Each of you gave me the world. | ||
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#### old friends | ||
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- John Roberts: lifelong friend, biggest supporter, and host | ||
- Danny Meulbroek: guardian, supporter, and host extraordinaire | ||
- Evelyn Thomas and Sterling Voss: supporters, fellow investigators and survivors | ||
- Ian Robertson: for the life-ring of rationality when it mattered most | ||
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#### since darkness | ||
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- America | ||
- Crea Egan for helping Harold begin with darkness, thus opening the door for me. | ||
- Rob Miller, Malia Shultheis, and Jen Carroll: supporters and early retreat hosts | ||
- Brian Sullivan: early collaborator, who gave first help in developing these ideas and, as always, trying them out | ||
- Jesse King, John Monroe, and Elisabeth Goward, Dome Villagers at Maitreya Ecovillage, Eugene: camaraderie and support | ||
- Blanche Colson: for getting me started in commercial window coverings for darkrooms. Of course, it was cardboard. | ||
- [Hannah Christina Torres](https://hannahtorres.massagetherapy.com) for the second window covering idea | ||
- Daniel Tucker and Les Stitt, then Ben Ramsey and Stephanie: for KCMO shelter | ||
- Frank Cicela: supporter since 2002 | ||
- Brad Crutchfield: friend, always-interested supporter, and deep well-wisher | ||
- Guatemala | ||
- The Maya: for your friendship and unshakable presence | ||
- Niels Gronau: for your miraculous Guatemalan facility | ||
- Elena Rago: friend, neighbor, and provider of an experimental facility | ||
- Karsten: friend, neighbor, supporter, client, and for lending me tools and a workshop where such things are rare | ||
- Tom Savage: friend and supporter | ||
- Sandro Garcia, Nancy Martin, and Violet: heroic friends, hosts, supporters, retreaters | ||
- Joshua Brang and Nadja: friends, supporters, and (Josh) travel agent | ||
- my clients: for exploring darkness with me | ||
- Europe | ||
- Kostas: fast friend, host, and shepherd from Athens to Thessalonika | ||
- David Friman and Erika Hedstrom, for shelter and space to test darkroom design | ||
- Oscar, Limme, and Max at Kulturforeningen Gryning of Helsingborg: friends, hosts, and supporters. Cheers! | ||
- Anna Ericksson: supporter and darkness experimenter | ||
- Sanna Aatig: friend, supporter, host, and nurse in my darkest days | ||
- Åsa Ringstrom and Johan Lörne: friends and supporters | ||
- Richard Nöjd for hard-won darkroom design ideas | ||
- A woman, unnamed, who initiated me in an essential part of my lost self, leading to the [conclusive test](/report/2x3-day/) of this idea | ||
- Marcus Ivarsson and Emma Sofie Berg: connectors | ||
- Stisse and Carina Gilgren: Swedish godparents | ||
- The people and place of Skattungbyn, Sweden | ||
- Dr Anette Kjellgren: for unqualified, professional encouragement | ||
- Oscar Nelson for the donation that sustained me and the book for a winter | ||
- Bård Anders Lien, friend, host, sponsor, apprentice _and_ guide in Oslo | ||
- Terje Tjensvoll, supporter, host, collaborator, and guardian | ||
- Elisabette Molin: friend, host, and champion retreat supporter | ||
- Astrit Gashi, friend and host | ||
- Ketil Berg, friend, host, sponsor, treasurer extraordinaire. Without you, 2015 would have been very hard to survive. RIP | ||
- Marie Richert and Virginie Bournaud, friends, hosts, sponsors, and guides in Paris | ||
- 40 contributors to my 2016 crowdfund to support a 21-day retreat | ||
- Aimee Fenech and TomTom, friends, hosts, helpers, and mentors in Spain | ||
- Jan and Thomas Hermann, hosts in La Alpujarra proper | ||
- Mary Salama back home in America, for proof-editing this book in 2018 | ||
- Lougaya and J. for support and for trying and making darkness wholeheartedly. | ||
- Jan Hlavacek, Stepanka Trenz, Martin Pokorny, Petr Vesely, Katerina Cervena, Honza Dlabal for showing me dark retreating in Czech Republic | ||
- Pavel, Cestr family, Jarda and Jana, and my other neighbors in Czech Republic, for such great peace, kindness, and respect | ||
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I called some people here guides, but anyone who hosted me also guided me. I've needed a lot of help for a long time. Everyone on this list put a lot of time and energy into me and my work. | ||
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I also made enemies and hurt some people along the way. I'm sorry it didn't go the way we thought at first. Here's hoping it was not in vain. | ||
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Onward, then, till the task is complete. |
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- anthropology, history | ||
- Jim Woods at Herrett Museum, Twin Falls (with thanks to Janie Brumbach, RIP) | ||
- _The Songlines_, Bruce Chatwin | ||
- _Earth in Upheaval_, [Immanuel Velikovsky](https://www.velikovsky.info) | ||
- _Ishmael_, [Daniel Quinn](https://ishmael.org) | ||
- _Where White Men Fear to Tread_, [Russel Means](https://www.russellmeansfreedom.com) | ||
- [Prosper Waukon](https://bit.ly/prosperwaukon), Winnebago entrepreneur and ambassador | ||
- _Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilization_, [John Zerzan](https://www.johnzerzan.net) | ||
- psychology | ||
- _The Continuum Concept_, [Jean Liedloff](https://continuum-concept.org) (also anthropology) | ||
- _Summerhill_, A S Neill, genius headmaster | ||
- _Magical Child Matures_, [Joseph Chilton Pearce](https://joseph-chilton-pearce.com/) and [here](https://ttfuture.org) | ||
- _Birth Without Violence_ Frederick Leboyer | ||
- _The Primal Scream_, Arthur Janov | ||
- _Mass Psychology of Fascism_, Wilhelm Reich | ||
- _Fury on Earth_, Myron Sharaf, biography of Wilhelm Reich | ||
- _Pleasure_, Alexander Lowen, student of Reich | ||
- _Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries_, Alice Miller | ||
- philosophy | ||
- my parents, John and LouAnn, and brother, [Paul](https://blacklabworld.com) | ||
- _Atlas Shrugged_, etc, Ayn Rand, preceptor | ||
- [Tantric Hinduism](https://www.hohmpress.com/products/the-alchemy-of-transformation) with my former guru, [Purna Steinitz](https://goo.gl/dEcMwg) | ||
- _In Search of the Miraculous_, PD Ouspensky (GI Gurdjieff's basic teachings) | ||
- The Bible as law, with DeWaynn Rogers (late legal counsel, enigma, and possibly Teacher of the Age) | ||
- Christianity, the Bible as it is, and Satan's rule of the world in ["Total Onslaught"](https://adtv.watch/series/total-onslaught) video series on YouTube, Walter Veith | ||
- [_Our Universal Journey_](https://ourjourneyhome.earth), George Kavassilas + [YouTube interviews](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV75wDOASk_eAijH1idZyya3AE7RmwbG1) | ||
- animism from nature, books (above, especially by Quinn), elders (scoutmaster Jack Asher; godfather and mentor, [John Boyer](https://www.facebook.com/boyerjewelry/)), extended family, and friends | ||
- health | ||
- my parents, always keenly interested in diet and health | ||
- hygiene | ||
- initiated into hygiene by [Frederic Patenaude](https://fredericpatenaude.com), author of _The Raw Secrets_, which I edited and co-published. | ||
- _Do You Really Need Eyeglasses?_, Marilyn B. Rosanes-Berrett | ||
- _Fit for Life_, Harvey and Marilyn Diamond | ||
- [*Science and Fine Art of Natural Hygiene*](/f/hygiene.pdf)\*, Herbert Shelton | ||
- _The 80/10/10 Diet_, [Dr Douglas Graham](https://foodnsport.com) | ||
- _Introduction to Human Technology_ and _Human Technology_, William Arthur Evans (thanks to friend, Sterling Voss, for finding this rare work) | ||
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- design and art | ||
- my parents and brother | ||
- grandelder and grandmaster craftsman and engineer, [Jack Nuckols](https://rockcreekmetalcraft.com) | ||
- childhood teacher, Steve Parks (Horizons School, Twin Falls) | ||
- accompanist and mentor, [Willetta Warberg](https://bit.ly/willettawarberg) | ||
- _The Dark is Rising_, Susan Cooper | ||
- _BuckyWorks_, Jay Baldwin (about Buckminster Fuller) | ||
- _The Natural House_, Frank Lloyd Wright | ||
- _Selected Poems_, Robert Bly | ||
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- experiences | ||
- 1 week of peaceful society at Sawtooth Methodist Church Camp, Idaho, Joanie Williamson, director, 1985 | ||
- 3 months enraptured, Idaho, 1987 | ||
- 23 days fasting in California desert, 1991 | ||
- hundreds of hours since 1986 in conversation with mentor and godfather, John Boyer, jeweler, especially 1991-93, Idaho | ||
- 1 week of fresh, rich society at Rainbow National Gathering, Idaho, 2001 | ||
- 56-hour dark retreat, supported by Harold, Oregon, 2006 | ||
- 10 days in audience of Advaita master, [Arnaud Desjardins](https://arnauddesjardinsdvds.com), Montana, 2007 | ||
- 8 seconds in dreamtime, with Adrian Wolfe, Oregon, 2008 | ||
- 18 months with the Maya of Lake Atitlan, Guatemala, 2011 | ||
- 2 months of life-altering sex, Sweden, 2012 | ||
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Born 1971, Twin Falls, Idaho. | ||
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My family and elders trained me to think and to make things. We constantly discussed philosophy, health, design. They became my main interests. | ||
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Music was the air we breathed. My brother, Paul, carries that torch. | ||
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At 16, [joy overcame me](/conjecture/rapture) for 3 months. It inspired me to independently investigate its cause full-time for 21 years using my interests. A little autistic, I can focus obsessively and extrapolate correct conclusions from little data. | ||
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I tested my findings while traveling America. I lived outside, with friends and relatives, and in small groups. I played music, did odd jobs, and built alternative shelters. | ||
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In 2008, I discovered darkness as the means nature provides us to heal from trauma, the cause of our strange suffering. Out of this came the [*darkness conjecture*](/conjecture/)\*, the concept of the restful use of darkness in support of the self-healing psyche. It became my purpose. Since then I have: | ||
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- designed, built, and upgraded darkrooms (30 in America, Guatemala, Sweden, Norway, Spain, and Czech Republic, consulting on 4 more, all in 4 climates on 4 continents) | ||
- retreated (27 times, from 2-7 days) and supported retreats (30) | ||
- given talks (14) and consulted for readers worldwide | ||
- refined my work, documenting it at [darkroomretreat.com](/) | ||
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[Proof of concept](/report/2x3-day) came in 2013. I rewrote the conjecture as this book. Development of the model of hygienic darkroom retreating ended in late 2019. All details of theory, protocol, and design were worked out. It became a practical solution. The phase of application of the solution began. | ||
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