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 [Proof of concept](/reports/2x3-day) came in 2013. I finished developing the model of hygienic darkroom retreating in 2019, working out all details of theory, protocol, and design. It became a practical solution. Now the phase of application has begun: bringing the solution to the world.
 
-Ideas are applied with money. This is a strange shift in focus after a lifetime of poverty. Poverty enabled me to focus on truth, and when some emerged as a technique, to maintain suitable testing conditions. 
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-Which led to money. So here we go.
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 ### contact
 
 website: [darkroomretreat.com](/)  

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-### site changelog
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-2019
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-April
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-- hygiene: improved Law of Force with idea of structure.
-- psychology: started simplifying the style with hemingway app
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-March
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-Radical goings on, pushing the theory of hygiene fully over the hump to v3.0
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-- hygiene
-    - organized hygiene's Laws of Life, adding _Law of Coordination_ and dividing _Great Law_ into laws _Force_ and _Proportion_.
-    - reinstated the old law list as an appendix
-- psychology
-    - completed the revision of the hygienic pathology
-    - reordered the pathology section, demoting the traditional pathology as well as allopathy
-- air: helix vent reverted to old version with slight improvements to make it smaller and more durable. New 4-channel design was too hard to make. It could work with machines.
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-The book just needs new drawings now.
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-2018
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-October - December
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-Method is sufficiently perfected for safe mass use.
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-- introduction > requirements new section
-- format
-    - importance of 5-day retreat restored
-    - 9-day retreat
-        - importance increased
-        - need for greater support discovered
-- psychology > pathology radically simplified
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-September 1
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-- every plan improved or refined, especially helix vent
-- hygiene chapter divided into three chapters: hygiene, darkroom retreat,  psychology;  laws of life and pathology appendices integrated into them; significant revision of psychology chapter and hygiene > false capacity 
-- blurb rewritten according to emerging new concept of darkness
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-2017
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-September 23
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-- Site content updated to match book. 
-- Dozens of spelling and grammatical errors and typos corrected with help of editor and spell-checker.
-- book edited in minor ways througout, especially:
-    - hygiene: [false capacity](/hygiene#false-capacity) added
-    - format: 9-day retreat more strongly recommended, [warning](/format#warning) section aded
-    - design: reorganized
-    - make: split into four chapters: [make](/make), [air](/air), [darkness](/darkness), [water](/water)
-    - air: added critical designs for silencer and fan mount
-    - faq: demoted from chapterhood and placed after appendices 
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-2016 
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-November
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-Site moved to github and converted to jekyll static site generator (from nanoc after 3 years with it)
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-April 17
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-Two years of work on new edition of book finally finished!
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-- in general
-    - major additions to hygienic theory
-        - law of vital capacity
-        - the primacy of darkroom retreating over fasting
-    - clear DIY emphasis: make basic darkness in your bedroom now, find deluxe darkness in a remote location later
-    - improved organization throughout
-- chapters
-    - new preface and streamlined introduction
-    - protocol: new sections
-    - make: 19 new CADD-generated designs for vents, blinds, sleeping mask + color photos of some prototypes
-    - new appendices of hygiene's pathology and laws of life
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-**site: [jekyll](https://jekyllrb.com)  
-hosting: [github](https://github.com)**
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+### site changes
 
+Site has changed regularly for 20 years, from its beginning at geocities to andrewdurham.com to here.

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 The idea is to make the book and components available with minimal friction in every way, at every level of distribution, so that we all can retreat asap and make reasonable livings as we go. If anything about this license seem to conflict with these goals, please let me know.
 
-We now possess the means of recovering the whole self, the source of all wealth. It will eventually make money irrelevant. Meanwhile, this is a structure in which we can be cool and have a good time making money.
+We now possess the means of recovering the whole self, the source of all wealth. It will eventually make money irrelevant. Meanwhile, this is a structure in which we can make a living and have a good time and be cool while doing it.

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 I do everything related to hygienic darkroom retreating: provide, study, experiment, write, speak, consult, design, build.
 
-I do nothing related to other approaches to dark retreating, ie, spiritual, therapeutic, and psychedelic retreats. There is no use asking. I have suffered too much tragedy related to these things to ever consider them again. I can only hope this book helps you re-evaluate your approach. I would gladly consult with you about it.
+I do nothing related to other approaches to dark retreating, ie, spiritual, therapeutic, and psychedelic retreats. There is no use asking. I have suffered too much tragedy related to these things to ever consider them again. Perhaps this book will help you re-evaluate your approach. I do consult about this.
 
 ### retreats
 
-I now support retreats at my place in USA ($4400) or yours anywhere ($7000 + expenses). Fill out [brief form](/retreat).
+I support retreats at my place in America or yours anywhere. [Enroll here](/retreat).
 
 ### writing
 
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 - Cryptocurrency (notify me of payment by [email](/about)):
     - Litecoin: ltc1qzvj6uc703jnl9rn8jkh5fp43r3a8cuq6f3gnk0 
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 Put this one together in a few minutes. It's like the mask below but without seals. Combined with a mostly darkened room, it blocks 95% of light and lets me sleep in and nap. Later, I succeeded in stapling seals to it.
 
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 ![photo: sleeping mask, instant](/img/photo/sleeping-mask-instant.jpg)
 
  

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 But probably you cannot do everything correctly the first time. Certainly, you will do your best. You can improve upon it later. If we could already do everything correctly, we would have no need of darkrooms. Just be honest with yourself about whether your best is good enough for now. This is a real chance to decrease suffering. Don't cut corners if you can help it. This principle applies to everything in the list below.
 
-A darkroom functions perfectly. It has a minimalist aesthetic for ease and safety in use. It is non-toxic. It is comfortable. Myself, I prefer economy in construction and operation. But the world likely needs 5-star darkrooms as well. If that is your inclination, go for it.
+A hygienic darkroom functions perfectly. It has a minimalist aesthetic for easy and safe use. It is non-toxic. It is comfortable. In construction and operation, it can embody economy or 5-star luxury. But it is always world-class in terms of function.
 
 I welcome everyone's improvements to these specifications judged by the objective standards of reason, good (life-supporting) design, and hygiene.
 

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 #### people
 
-Hygiene originated at the peak of the Enlightenment in America. It is a gift of the children of Revolutionaries, nearly topping that of their parents.
+Hygiene originated at the peak of the Enlightenment in America. It is a gift of the children of Revolutionaries, perhaps topping that of their parents.
 
 In 1822, Dr Isaac Jennings abandoned drugging. He prescribed fasting under the guise of sugar pills. His success drew patients from far and wide.
 
 Hygiene became a mass movement in 1832 with the lectures of Sylvester Graham, physiologist and namesake of Graham (whole wheat) flour. Dr Russell Trall amplified the efforts of Jennings and Graham. He had independently abandoned drugging. He advanced hygienic theory and practice. He spread hygiene widely with publications, teaching, and organization.7
 
-Florence Nightingale, mother of modern nursing, spread hygiene perhaps more than anyone else, before nursing was co-opted by medicine. With help from Trall and James Jackson, Ellen G White imbued the Seventh Day Adventist Church with hygienic principles.[^2] Adventists live an average of 10 years longer than those around them.
+Florence Nightingale, mother of modern nursing, spread hygiene perhaps more than anyone else, before nursing was co-opted by medicine. With help from Trall and James Jackson, Ellen G White imbued the Seventh Day Adventist Church with hygienic principles.[^2] Today, Adventists live an average of 10 years longer than those around them.
 
 Many other bold men and women alike gave their lives to hygiene. They touched tens of thousands personally and affected hundreds of millions with their influence. To name some: William Alcott and his daughter, Louisa May Alcott, Emmet and Helen Densmore, Edward Dewey, Susanna Dodds, O S Fowler, Felix Oswald, Mary Gove, Edmond Moras, Thomas Nichols, Chas Page, Hermann Reinheimer, Harriet Shaw, Joel Shew, George Taylor, and Robert Walter.
 
 If hygiene were a computer program, these initial efforts would be version 1.0. 
 
 Hygiene 2.0 is marked by integration. After the untimely death of Dr Trall, John Tilden buoyed hygiene with his practice and neat formulations. Herbert Shelton, revived and systematized hygiene for the 20th century with his Olympian efforts. He rechristened it, "Natural Hygiene". He did this to strike the imagination, but also to distinguish it from medicine's corruption of the word to mean mere cleanliness.
 
-The Frenchman, Albert Mosseri, further modernized hygiene with his piquant prose and innovations in [fasting](/other-writings/fasting). 
+The Frenchman, Albert Mosseri, further modernized hygiene with his piquant prose and prodigious innovation in [fasting](/other-writings/fasting). 
 
 Mosseri's reader and translator, [Frederic Patenaude](fredericpatenaude.com) of Quebec, introduced Mosseri to a wider audience through his magazine "Just Eat an Apple" and hygienic book, _Raw Secrets_ (both of which I edited and co-published).
 
-Shelton's student, TC Fry, created a widely-used hygienic course of study. A student of Fry, Harvey Diamond and his wife, Marilyn, introduced hygiene to millions with their book, _Fit for Life_.
+Shelton's student, TC Fry, created a widely-used hygienic course of study. A student of Fry, Harvey Diamond and his wife, Marilyn, introduced hygiene to millions (including me) with their book, _Fit for Life_.
 
-Another student of Fry is Douglas Graham. He wrote [_The 80/10/10 Diet_](https://foodnsport.com), an extremely effective approach to hygienic diet. The book strips it down to its frugivorous essence. This is the main book I recommend on diet.
+Another student of Fry is Douglas Graham. He wrote [_The 80/10/10 Diet_](https://foodnsport.com), an extremely effective approach to hygienic diet using the familiar idea of calories in the titular ratio to understand food. The book strips diet down to its frugivorous essence. 
 
-[Loren Lockman](https://tanglewoodwellnesscenter.com)'s teachings and practice of frugivorous diet are unusually elegant.
+[Loren Lockman](https://tanglewoodwellnesscenter.com)'s teachings and practice of frugivorous diet are unusually elegant. Loren, whom I spent time with in 2003 and 2004, is simply a genius of diet.
 
 Many others could be named. These have been important to me.
 
 #### influence
 
 While many semi-natural approaches to health emerged in the same period, hygiene was the most natural and logically consistent of all. Thus it became the vanguard of the natural health movement of the 19th century. That century's famous improvements in public health resulted.
 
-Medicine—mainly Rockefeller's pharmaceutical interests—opposed this progress every step of the way. It took credit for the successes it failed to prevent. It made especial war on hygiene's teachings, practisers, and institutions. It used propaganda, lobbying, and prosecution.
+Medicine—mainly Rockefeller's pharmaceutical interests—opposed this progress every step of the way. It took credit for the successes it failed to sabotage. It made especial war on hygiene's teachings, practisers, and institutions. It used propaganda, lobbying, and prosecution.
 
-Hygiene has had a weak link: over-emphasis on toxemia. Medicine used this to reduce hygiene to cleanliness in the public's minds. It was as if the thing it nearly destroyed never existed. (I correct this flaw in [chapter 3](/psychology).)
+Hygiene has had a weak link: over-emphasis on toxemia. Medicine used this to reduce hygiene to cleanliness in the public's minds. It was as if the thing it nearly destroyed never existed. I replace this weak link in [chapter 3](/psychology).
 
-Despite all this, hygiene remains the most effective and influential approach to health and healing in history. It now benefits virtually everyone on the planet several times a day, whether he knows the word, hygiene, or not. It is common knowledge that fresh air, pure water, bathing, exercise, and nutritious food are essential to a healthy life. These simple things benefit people more than medicine can pretend to. They provide endless reasons to avoid visiting doctors and seek the hinted at truth
+Despite all this, hygiene remains the most effective and influential approach to health and healing in history. It now benefits virtually everyone on the planet several times a day, whether he knows the word, hygiene, or not. It has become common knowledge that fresh air, pure water, bathing, exercise, and nutritious food are essential to a healthy life. These simple things benefit people more than medicine can pretend to. They provide endless reasons to avoid visiting doctors and seek the hinted at truth behind them.
 
-Hygiene 3.0 begins with the dawn of a hygienic psychology, the restful use of darkness, and the recognition of trauma at the root of disease. Hygiene's influence will regain its former ascendency and increase to permanent dominance. To mark this turnaround, I am leaving behind the special name for our tradition, Natural Hygiene, and reclaiming the ordinary word, hygiene. Medicine no longer defines it for us.
+Hygiene 3.0 begins with the dawn of a hygienic psychology; the restful use of darkness, and the recognition of trauma as the root of disease. Hygiene's influence will regain its former ascendency and increase to permanent dominance. To mark this turnaround, I am leaving behind the special name for our tradition, Natural Hygiene, and reclaiming the ordinary word, hygiene. Medicine no longer defines it for us.
 
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 As we can see, hygiene is philosophical. Its primary laws, Force, Order, Coordination, and Capacity, mirror the axiomatic concepts found in realist metaphysics: being, identity, knowing, and causality. Applied to life, they mean: Life is. Life is what it is: alive, ie, self-preserving and conditional. Knowing is inherent in life. Life functions in accordance with its nature.
 
-Life is assertive and active. This regards the _Law of Force_. It is intelligent, not a helpless, stupid reaction. This regards the _Law of Coordination_. Self-preserving means self-generating, self-maintaining, and self-healing. These obtain in every aspect of life and at every scale, from the cells to the organism as a whole. This is part of the _Law of Order_. It preserves itself as well as it can. This is the _Law of Capacity_ (more about this law later).
+Life is assertive and active. This regards the _Law of Force_. Self-preserving means self-generating, self-maintaining, and self-healing. These obtain in every aspect of life and at every scale, from the cells to the organism as a whole. This is part of the _Law of Order_. It is intelligent, not a helpless, stupid reaction. This regards the _Law of Coordination_. It preserves itself as well as it can. This is the _Law of Capacity_ (much more about this law later).
 
 Other laws follow. The _Law of Action_ states that only the organism performs vital action, including healing. So only the organism can heal the organism. Again, this is true at every scale. Even a cell must heal itself; another cannot. The _Law of Power_ states that energy used to perform action resides only in the organism, not anything external to it. (This law might have treated the ability as well as the energy to act. The _Law of Capacity_ now addresses ability along with other elements.)
 
-Thus, no drug, herb, or food heals; neither any condition nor practice; nor treatment, person, or device. Thus there is no cure, no indication to medicate. Attempting to correct the organism from the outside further traumatizes, poisons, and exhausts its power to heal itself. Whatever benefit appears in the short term undermines vitality in the long term. Such attempts mask the body's illness and delay its healing. This is an example of the intriguing _Law of Dual Effect_.
+Thus, no drug, herb, or food heals; neither any condition nor practice; nor treatment, person, or device. There is no cure, no indication to medicate. Attempting to correct the organism from the outside further traumatizes, poisons, and exhausts its power to heal itself. Whatever benefit appears in the short term undermines vitality in the long term. Such attempts mask the body's illness and delay its healing. This is an example of the intriguing _Law of Dual Effect_.
 
 Find further discussion of these laws by [Shelton](/nhs.pdf) and other hygienists he mentions.