Everything sort of works, but it’s more grey than colourful. Yes, you’re living, but why exactly, and what for, who for? Where did I lose my thread, my path, am I still following it? Those were exactly my questions, together with a slight curiosity and excitement, as I made up my mind to step into the depths of the darkness in Lomec.
My expectations of the dark retreat
My experiences exceeded my expectations! The all-pervading darkness and silence. The professional approach of the guides and Lenča’s wonderfully tasty vegetarian food.Oh no, this is only where it begins. And what exactly?
Starting darkness therapy
Tomáš tells me that after two or three days of the dark retreat it all kicks in, the brain starts working in a different mode. In my case, though, everything is completely different from day two. If I were to compare my brain to a computer, mine literally started defragmenting itself. In other words, all my memories from, let’s say, the last 15 years started to replay, sort themselves out and file themselves in the right places. I didn’t have to do anything, just lie there and watch; everything else takes care of itself. “System maintenance” was flashing on the monitor in the control tower. I could look through all my memories and go back and forth through them; they were all available down to the smallest detail.
Results of darkness therapy
Of course I have many more experiences. It goes roughly like this: I’d always be lying comfortably on my sleeping mat and my brain, my being, my soul would say… (spontaneously, just out of the blue) time to get to work. Straight away I had a thought in my head and I worked on it until the problem was resolved. That it was sometimes very intense is something not only my guides know about, but their children too, and quite possibly the neighbours, who probably heard the sounds coming from the sanctuary. That’s how, in two regressions, I lost 2 T-shirts and about 100 tonnes of baggage.
At first I wondered whether it might have been better to choose the 14-day option, but I’ll tell you this. If they’d told me about another week on the Friday, Lomec would probably be one sanctuary short 🙂
Dear friends and future fellow travellers through the darkness and through your own selves. I warmly recommend darkness therapy to you, and I thank Existence, Tomáš, Lenča and my family that I, too, was able to immerse myself in the darkness.
Jakub
