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Four Days in the Dark

The Myths That Make Us

CHAPTER

The Dark Retreat: A Psychotechnology to Balance the Scales of a Culture That Denies Its Inner World

Tibetans, Chinese and the Koji have used darkness for thousands of years as an initiatory ritual. They believed this kind of practice under the supervision of a teacher was capable of unlocking new skills, perceptions and types of consciousness. The secret to healing is finally feeling whatever it is that you have spent your life trying not to feel.

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