The “dark retreats” that lasts for days is the latest spiritual invasion of the technology elite

There is about Berman says five darkening centers in the United States in the United States are about 100 around the world. Sky Cave has three dark rooms. The decline costs four nights of $ 1,770, with an additional night for stability and the other to cancel the pressure after that.

The potential effects of the prolonged darkness have not been studied, but there Early indicators It indicates that the practice may have a group of Mental health benefits; Czech center He claims that it is possible Reducing “long -term fatigue and stress” by stimulating the treatment of internal experiences. When people come out of one of the three “caves” of Sky Cave Some show Crying with emotion.

But the process of subjecting self -confinement in complete darkness also carries incomprehensible risks. David Locke, Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Greenwich says:

Some people at the Berman Center spent up to 40 days in one of its deprived housing. Others lasted only half an hour. “We don’t let people come more than four nights anymore,” says Berman. “We don’t actually believe this is useful, because we tend to find that most people use a kind of strategy to stay in the dark for long periods of time.” Berman explains that such strategies are difficult to identify, but they are mainly related to people “doing” things in dark practices, even meditation or spiritual practices – instead of just relaxing, not doing anything, and surrendering a feeling of control. This ultimately enhances them to some extent from the mysterious and deep subjective process that is said to be dark, he says.

“This is a very dangerous practice if not done correctly,” Holecek adds, which has expressed special concern for people who go to the mentality of “A Machismo, White-Knockle.”

“I know that the people who went to those who come out worse,” he says, explaining that a 49 -day decline was one day the advanced Buddhist rituals outside some of the traditions that are still used. “I fell unusual because the unpopular and unplanned people entered for 49 days, and then, instead of achieving the enlightenment, they were literally keen.”

Jason Halbert, former Vice President of World Snap, has declined darkness in Sky Cave in February 2024. The profile Soon after, Halbert, the world of behavior, explained that it took one day to get used to not being absent from his phone. He said: “When you are really deprived of any internal optical motivation, whether your phone, light and television – at the present time, you left dreams, ideas and black.” “We are not aware of a huge amount of operators that entrench our identity.”

Halbert described himself as a person who “thinks all the time”, his tangle for four nights in the dark to “clean my office” and said that he helped him think about how to be “a better human, professional, father, coach, and husband.” (Halbert Snap left in 2019; in 2017, information I mentioned He claimed that the current and former employees had told “strange” and “inappropriate” stories at work. Halbert told WIRED that allegations are “wrong”.