The Great Retreat
This site is about a group of men and women preparing to enter a silent meditation retreat in Southern Arizona for three-years, three-month, and three-days.
Some will be totally alone. Others will be going in with a partner but will maintain complete silence. But all of them will be cut off from the larger social world for three-years, three-months, and three-days in small cabins in the remote foothills of the Chiricahua mountains. Why? What are they searching for? Who and what are they leaving behind? How might they change after so many years of silence and solitude?
Diamond Mountain
On this weblog I’ve posted video clips and written commentary about the people entering this long retreat on December 2010 (click on tabs up top or on the right side under “Pages”). All of this material is part of an ongoing documentary film project that will be completed when the retreatants return – sometime around 2014.
Everything on this site – from video clips to writings - is in process. It will be updated with new clips and writings frequently. Ideally, I’d like this blog to stimulate conversation and critical feedback on any and all dimensions of this work. Please check out the footage, ask questions, make suggestions, and help create this film
Sincerely,
Matthew