About to go into a 42 day silent dieta.
Funny time to start a substack
"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you".
-Anne Lamott
This avatar is preparing to unplug, and not for a mere few minutes. That won’t do. Neither will your run of the mill 10 day Vipassana. Not after all that the last 10 months have brought up. I am entering a 42 day silent dieta.
To those who don’t know me, this is me.
Should all go well, tonight, Saturday August 3rd, I am signing off. I will be in my silent dieta Sunday August 4th up to and including Saturday September 14th. That is exactly 6 weeks aka 42 days.
I will be combining two ancient techniques that are rarely combined: silent meditation + a medicine dieta = silent dieta. The practice of silence is pretty self explanatory- no talking, no phone, no media, news, books or emails.. no communication with the outside world really. A medicine dieta (pronounced dyeh-tah) is not a weight loss quest, but a vision quest of sorts, being in deep communion with a plant, a fungi, or a medicine, often involving altered states. The 6 week long combination of a dieta and silence promises to be especially potent, and as I enter it, I am filled with equal parts excitement and angst.
During my time in silence I will be writing. Come fall, I (or a version of me) will be back with some notes. See you everywhere.