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from the book hygienic darkroom retreat by Andrew Durham.

relief, rest, recovery

A hygienic darkroom retreat consists of extended rest in a totally dark room. One is alone, with supporters nearby. There is food. The room is quiet, comfortable, and well-ventilated.

Why do this? For:

  • relief from distress and overstimulation
  • rest from exhaustion and depression
  • recovery from trauma and disease

This is a complete manual, with theory, protocol, and design. It explains why retreating works and how to do it. It includes drawings and instructions for beginning at home.

Neither spiritual, therapeutic, nor psychedelic, this is the first approach to darkness based on hygiene. Hygiene is the science of health, a branch of biology. It respects life’s self-preserving nature. It identifies life’s normal conditions: air, warmth, work, relationship, cleanliness, etc.

different types of dark retreats exist – psychedelic, therapeutic, new-age and hygienic. the hygienic method of darkroom retreating is conceived and practiced in harmony with the principles of hygiene, the science of health.

What is hygiene?
Hygiene is the Science of Health.
Hygiene rests on the fact of the self-healing body.

Hygiene started in 1832 and spread worldwide. The 19th century’s famous improvements in public health resulted. Its rudiments became common sense. Billions who never see doctors benefit from hygiene daily. But few know it formally—or its greatest benefits.

The two videos below: Robert Sniadach and John Fielder, two well-respected teachers speaking on the self-healing body etc – ie foods do not heal, modalities do not heal, drugs do not heal, supplements do not heal, Natural Hygiene does not heal, darkness does not heal.
The organism as a whole is the healer. “Organism” includes both the body and the soul.

And the whole being—the unconscious autonomic organism—

The organism is the actor. It is also the knower. It already knows everything about itself, therefore everything that is wrong and everything that needs to be done.

Then it also has the power to do it, provided the proper conditions.

The hygienic darkroom retreat provides the optimum proper conditions.

Dr John Fielder, Atherton Tableland Australia.

i have included two more videos as they are part of a series even though they are not specifically about how the body heals.

John Fielder – How Natural Hygiene Works and The Body Heals Pt 1
(Frederich Patenaude – Raw Vegan Show #45)

John Fielder – When To Fast, Mono Meals, Daylight Diet Pt 2
(Frederich  Patenaude – Raw Vegan Show #46)

John Fielder – Raw Children, Animal Products, Vegan Pregnancy Problems 3
(Frederich Patenaude -Raw Vegan Show #47)

Dr Robert Sniadach USA

Robert Sniadach – SuperFoods, Cleansing, Detoxifying and Healing Foods Don’t Exist