73-day solitude retreat led to profound insights despite brushes with insanity
Monastic Academy offers unconventional schedule for meditation and growth through continuous experimentation
Alignment of wisdom, love, and power crucial for personal transformation towards noble actions
Deep dives
Daniel's Background and Unique Experiences
Daniel Thorsen, a monastic living at the Monasti Academy in Vermont, shares his profound insights and experiences, including a 73-day solo retreat that brought forth transformative insights despite facing challenges like brushes with insanity.
Monasti Academy's Unconventional Approach to Retreats
At the Monasti Academy, retreats have an unconventional schedule from 4 am to 11 pm, incorporating one-on-one meditation interviews with experienced practitioners and focusing on continuous experimentation and growth of participants.
The Path to Trustworthiness and Integrity
The podcast discusses the journey towards trustworthiness and integrity, emphasizing the fusion of wisdom, love, and power in one's actions, with introspective explorations on personal transformation and alignment with a higher purpose.
Exploring the Purpose of the Path of Transformation
The conversation delves into the purpose of transformative practices, highlighting the aspiration to serve the world selflessly and to cultivate deep trustworthiness through aligning wisdom, love, and power towards noble intentions and actions.
Embracing Service, Compassion, and Humility
Deep reflections on the significance of engaging in service, embodying compassion, and embracing humility as fundamental components on the path to awakening and becoming a trustworthy, integrated individual in service of all beings.
This is a special episode with Daniel Thorson — who I initially came across through his super podcast called 'Emerge' and later learned that he was living as a full-time monastic at the Monastic Academy in Vermont — where after a series of conversations, he persuaded me to come and sit for a 10-day retreat — which I just returned from myself recently.
I found this was an immensely rich conversation, and I'm grateful to Daniel for opening up about some of the experiences he had recently during 73 days of solitude and silence (which he described as the most profound experience of his life) — during which he had some brushes with insanity but emerged (no pun intended) on the other side with some very hard-won insights to share.
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