I spent a week in total darkness | my darkness retreat experience
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- čas přidán 18. 04. 2022
- I spent a week in a completely dark and silent room. This extreme and accelerated meditative/spiritual experience is known as a Darkness Retreat. It was the most challenging, unique, and profoundly powerful journey I have ever had. There was over 7 hours of audio, of which I edited down to what I feel are the most useful insights I was shown in the darkness. My goal with this - what I suppose you could refer to as a documentary - was to provide more in depth look at the journey and what I went through in that room. My hope is that it sheds light on this amazingly complex yet simple medicine and just how much it was able to give to me. And perhaps spark interest in other people pursuing its spiritual and life-changing effects. Comment below with any questions and thoughts, and please share!
Also, I think I see a bug on both your 'like' and 'subscribe' button...quick, hit them both and keep your screen clean. #darkness #darknessretreat
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Embodiment of your True Self is a ongoing process. I applaud you honoring your self and going on this retreat!!
Thank you so much for the kind words.
Thanks so much for sharing this. Such an amazing and vulnerable experience. So much of what you have said resonates with me. Glad you feel a bit more peace now.
This was great. What a awesome experience. Thanks for sharing with us. As someone who struggles with pretty severe anxiety and not ever living in the moment there was a lot of things said here that felt familiar.
Thank you so much for the kind words my friend. I’m happy that it resonated with you.
should make more stuff like this man your a natural. What your explaining about the best friends and treating ourselves before other people.. and then getting angry when we don't. Such a weird synchronicity because I have been having this exact thought replaying in my head for a month now paired with severe depression. "Anger" that I wont put myself first in turn not treating others well but deep down all i WANT to do is help other people. "I live in my head" yup haha. It is funny how our minds all go to similar places whether its just breath, plant medicine, darkness, etc we seem to just realize its about love. It really is beautiful and sad all at the same time
Thank you so much man. And I’m sorry you struggle with that too, because it is, yes, sad & beautiful but also extremely confusing. And it begets more anger.
The darkness held all of that. It was the most difficult and beautiful thing I’ve ever done.
I completely respect your dedication to block out the material world and find the true light/world in your own energy and vibration and bring it back out with you.
To comprehend that feeling of self worth, higher power equality, appreciation for everything that brought u to that one moment of void filled love makes my heart feel your connection in the dark.
So happy u were able to fall in to the crack that others walk over daily and see what’s beyond the light of this world.
Thank you so much for watching and for sharing that kind sentiment. Means alot to me 🙏🏻
Thank you so much for sharing your experience! I’ve been researching darkness therapy for a few months now and the more I learn, the more I want to experience it myself! Your video offered a great perspective in contrast to other videos I’ve seen. I really enjoyed it. 🙌🏼
Thank you so much for watching and for the kind words! I’m happy it resonated with you!
I have done this five times. I set up my own space and went exploring. I had no idea what to expect. The first time I had some challenges with incessant memory recall. The other four times I didn't have that challenge. The visuals were INTENCE. I eventually had an experience that I call "Going to Narnia". It was life changing. Amazing!
Wow I’ve never seen someone online post or share anything so raw and real. Makes me recognize how out of touch this digital world really is … Thanks for sharing man
That means a lot to me. Thank you for watching 🙏🏻
This deserves WAY more views....thank you so much for sharing.
Thank you for watching!
Great work Casey. Great Video. Great discussion at the end 🌅
I’m going to take this on this summer.
I appreciate the kind words. And good luck to you 🙏🏻
Great work Casey!
Thank you!
Thanks for sharing your journey ❤
Of course!
Your mountain lion short led me here. I was just telling a friend...I just want four days of fasting in darkness ...to rest. I didnt know this was a thing! Thank you for sharing. This is great...typing as you speak of roaring at the end!!! 🤣
Wow this deserves nuch more views!
Appreciate that so much 🙏🏻
That was really great for me to hear. Thank you!
Do you think you will evee go back to do this again?
I emailed them for more info but heck I'm considering blacking out my own room to practice 😆
Thank you for watching. Yes 100%. I want to do it once a year from now on.
This inspires me so much that from this night i m going to increse my meditatation from one and half hour to two hour, going more deep....
🖤🙏🏻
Beautiful in every way 🚀
Thank you so much for watching 🙏🏻
@@CaseyRyan thank you so much for sharing all of this and putting it together in such way, I stayed hooked for the whole thing man I even cried listening to you talking in the dark and when you came out.
We have shared pains and paths.
I ve done a lot of inner work and I appreciate Aubrey very much as well.
This is my next trip hands down
Mad respect and thank you again
Wow!!
Thank you for watching!
This was great for the prep for my darkness retreat. Can you provide me with the voice recorder you used? No worries! I read your messages saying you think just being in silence is better. I’m taking your advice. This was so thankful😊
Yes I blacked out a simple audio recorder and just practiced using it. I could see it being useful for the purposes I used it for or for an audio journal of sorts, but the next retreat I do I will be silent. Biggest advice: rest. Just rest in the darkness as much as you can. Don’t feel like you need to do a bunch of things.
This video was truly inspiring, you did an amazing job! I’d love to know how you got all of the audio recordings. I have just committed myself to doing this darkness retreat by the end of 2023. I want to be able to record my thoughts so that I can recall the entire process. What kind of equipment would I need to record for 7 days?
Looking forward to hearing back from you, thanks!
Late to replying to this, apologies. But I used a blacked out voice recorder that was super simple to turn on an off. I practiced using it before I went in.
Casey!!!! I have been waiting to hear about your darkness retreat. I have so many questions and want to hear more. How were you so calm? Did you want to light that candle again? Ahhhh. Did you hyperventilate? What else did you do? That's so much time to do nothing. Tell me more!
Thanks for asking, Em! As Scott, the facilitator says in the interview at the end...people are practicing for 5-10 years prior to going in. I've spent a lot of time in uncomfortable situations; mediations, physical practices, cold plunges, sauna, psychedelics, etc...so during the torturous times, I was prepared and more easily able to get back to my regulated state. But trust me, there were many many moments when I was not calm at all.
I had about 1-2 hours on day 4 when I felt a pretty bad pressure in my chest that felt like claustrophobia, but not bad other than that. And yes, I thought about leaving, lighting the candle, etc so many times. But I'm very happy that I didn't.
Also, a lot of time to do nothing yes..but I filled space with 5-6 hour meditations, yoga, rest, and sometimes just listening.
Wow. 7 days!!! Did you ever poop?
@@emilymyles9062 haha I didn’t! Super strange and idk why. Alas, it has returned.
Brother, you're a fuckin warrior! Thank you for sharing this. I'm getting ready to do a week of darkness retreat next month. I have no idea what's gonna happen, but I'm ready. Question, what voice recorder did you use? I'm looking for one with no light emitting from it, dark mode. Thanks!
Thanks so much for watching. And best of luck to you in the darkness, it is a journey for sure. I just searched on OfferUp and FB marketplace, and found a VR-500. It had a little red light still so I had to tape over it, but it was super easy to use because you just had to flip a switch and it turned on.
Having said that, I’m glad I documented it because I def wanted to document it for CZcams purposes, but next time I do it/if I could do it again, I would just not worry about recording anything and be silent. I did it find it kind of a chore to “ have” to record something when I thought of it. So just be sure that’s what you want to do, but I think just resting in the silence is a better approach. Thanks again for watching.
@@CaseyRyan thanks for the tips! I thought about just leaving the recorder on the whole week.
I’m curious, did any childhood trauma (if you had any) resurfaced while you were in the darkness retreat?
@@kn5132how was your retreat? I’m going on 10/15
@@nathancook373 It was a lot more AND better than I expected. All I can say is, "Life changing!" The answers you need are within you. I'm doing another one soon (bc I need more answers!) :)
@@kn5132 Wow!! That’s so good to hear. How many days did you do? Sounds like it was transformative.
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Thank you, Whitney!
I think I’ve made an observation that most people I know personally who have lost someone close have that same fear of vulnerability and closeness which I can understand because it’s like why get close to someone for fear of losing someone again it’s an attachment style called either dismissive or fearful avoidant have u looked into that?
I appreciate the comment. In my graduate work and residency I was fully immersed in learning about attachment theory. I would say everyone has a degree of anxious attachment; exasperated by subjective trauma.
IFS has always been more relevant to me which covers our differing modes of being.
@@CaseyRyan anxious attachment usually is on the opposite side of the coin then any kind of avoidant attachment tho I’m more anxious attached and I too easily am vulnerable and open with people
But I do agree that most people have difficulties in either being too attached to relationships or purposely avoiding intamacy
I don’t know if I’ve even met one person with a healthy attachment style I’d like to think I’m close to one tho 👍🏼
Thank you for inspiring us all. #yougothugecahoonas
I appreciate you Jesse!
I’m scared of darkness so I could never do this
You could.
Um, the fatness of my arse will always matter. Lol 🖤 moving on....
(jk listening and thankful fir this journal.)
How old are you?
I am 33 years old.
Hermosa eleccion 6😍 PORNTINDER.Uno de mejor siempre en mi corazónf mañas no se la.🌹🤩💜 Son unos de los mejores conciertos.