Living in Complete Darkness for 7 Days w/ Aubrey Marcus
The Mindset Mentor
Rob Dial
4.8 • 13.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Do you think you could make it 7 days in complete darkness and complete silence? Well, that is what my buddy Aubrey Marcus did! And in this episode, we’re going to be talking about his new documentary Awake in the Darkness and all of the amazing lessons that came from his week in the dark.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everybody. I'm excited how my buddy Aubrey Marcus here. Round two. Round two, let's go. |
| 0:12.5 | You're one of the few people. I think I've only done round two with one other person on the podcast. |
| 0:16.4 | I feel honest. So I'm honored to have you. And we were talking a couple of weeks ago and we were |
| 0:21.6 | talking about this new documentary that came out. I was like, we got to talk about this in the |
| 0:25.3 | podcast because number one, I told you right before you started, there's a freakish part of me that |
| 0:29.2 | wants to do it. And I want to talk about it. And I want to make this medicine aware for people |
| 0:35.3 | to know that it's out there. Who do want to get into it? And I'm excited to dive in. So to give |
| 0:42.1 | a quick overview, you spent seven days in complete darkness, like literally no bit of light, |
| 0:48.7 | you can't see your hand in front of your face, right? It has to be absolute black. And I'll clarify, |
| 0:55.6 | it was six days, not quite a full seven, but it has to be absolute, absolute black. Like any |
| 1:02.8 | bit of light turns the darkness retreat into some form of solitary confinement, right? Like the medicine |
| 1:09.7 | is in the absolute. It's like an absolute fast. Like if you have like a little sandwich, you're not |
| 1:16.0 | fasting. You're just not eating as much. And with the darkness, it's the same thing. The darkness |
| 1:21.3 | has to be absolute. So they have to engineer the room that you're in to make sure that no light |
| 1:25.7 | gets in. And light is leaky. This is not an easy engineering thing to solve because it comes through |
| 1:32.0 | different bottoms of doors, the cracks of windows, the little little vent that might let some light in, |
| 1:37.7 | bouncing off this thing to this thing. And you get in there and you immerse yourself in the absolute |
| 1:43.3 | black and very, very interesting things happen. Of course, it involves also absolute silence the |
| 1:49.5 | whole time and isolation from everybody else. So it's just you and whatever is inside your mind, |
| 1:56.0 | in your heart, in your spirit that you start to interact with. And then a very interesting thing |
| 2:01.5 | happens around day three, four or five, depending on the individual, where you start to an experience |
| 2:08.6 | and endogenous DMT trip. And for anybody who's drunk, ayahuasca or experienced DMT, it's a very |
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