{"id":293236,"date":"2020-06-05T10:03:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T16:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1158859"},"modified":"2020-06-05T10:03:02","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T16:03:02","slug":"man-asks-did-i-miss-anything-after-emerging-from-75-day-silent-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/man-asks-did-i-miss-anything-after-emerging-from-75-day-silent-retreat\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Asks &#8220;Did I Miss Anything?&#8221; After Emerging From 75-Day Silent Retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/202055\/rs_600x600-200605073228-Daniel-Thorson-1.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"41.96269982238\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"27.97513321492\">\n<p><strong>Daniel Thorson<\/strong> returned from a 75-day silent retreat to find that many changes had taken place around the world.<\/p>\n<p>On March 13, the <em>Emerge<\/em> podcast host headed into a solo retreat at Vermont&#8217;s Monastic Academy, which, according to its website, is a &#8220;training center&#8221; that is &#8220;dedicated to creating wise, powerful, and loving leaders who are an unstoppable force for social and environmental peace on Earth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In his final tweet before signing off, Thorson wrote, &#8220;Off into silent retreat (aka voluntary physical and memetic self-quarantine) for the next 75 days or so. And, if you&#8217;re curious about why I would do such a thing, I&#8217;ve just released a podcast with my teacher Soryu Forall. May you be happy and safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thorson began his retreat just as the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/coronavirus\">Coronavirus<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;pandemic was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1128415\/how-the-coronavirus-is-impacting-hollywood-and-entertainment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spreading around the world<\/a>. Yet, little did Thorson know what he would be returning to once his retreat was complete. As&nbsp;Thorson was just learning&nbsp;of the pandemic and social distancing, another history-changing moment&nbsp;occurred when <strong>George Floyd<\/strong> was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1156273\/lebron-james-justin-bieber-and-more-stars-speak-out-about-george-floyd-s-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">killed at the hands of Minnesota police<\/a>, sparking&nbsp;a call for justice and protests around the world.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59.867374005305\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"11.777188328912\">\n<p>In late May, Thorson returned to social media after his self-quarantine. &#8220;I&#8217;m back from 75 days in silence,&#8221; Thorson <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dthorson\/status\/1264231987025457157\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted<\/a>. &#8220;Did I miss anything?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He later sent a note to his followers, letting everyone know he missed their messages. &#8220;On a related note I am declaring notification bankruptcy, so if you reached out while I was gone do it again if it&#8217;s live,&#8221; Thorson advised.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"socialcontent-twitter-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-type=\"async\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"52.879518072289\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"6.4939759036145\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">On a related note I am declaring notification bankruptcy, so if you reached out while I was gone do it again if it&#8217;s live.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daniel Thorson (@dthorson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dthorson\/status\/1264231990800367616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 23, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"61.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"13\">\n<p>As Thorson began to venture out after his retreat, he shared his observations with his social media followers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People at the grocery store seem more anxious than I remember,&#8221; Thorson tweeted on May 25.<\/p>\n<p>That same day, he also asked his for advice on the pandemic, noting, &#8220;What&#8217;s the best sensemaking on COVID that you&#8217;ve seen in the last couple months? Beginning to wade in and it&#8217;s pretty noisy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"35.929252782194\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"15.864864864865\">\n<p>As some might remember, actor&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/jared_leto\">Jared Leto<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;had a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1131674\/jared-leto-is-just-learning-about-the-coronavirus-after-12-day-silent-meditation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">similar experience<\/a>&nbsp;after learning about Coronavirus following a 12-day silent&nbsp;meditation in March.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody has extremely strongly held, very different opinions about everything: how dangerous it is, what the response should have been, how it&#8217;s going, whether or not we need to isolate, how to treat it if you get it,&#8221; Thorson told the&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/02\/us\/coronavirus-meditation.html?smid=tw-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Times<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;in an interview published this week. &#8220;There is one consensus proposition that, it seems to me, everybody holds. It&#8217;s that whatever happened in the last three months is one of the most significant events in modern history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1158859\/man-asks-did-i-miss-anything-after-emerging-from-75-day-silent-retreat?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Thorson returned from a 75-day silent retreat to find that many changes had taken place around the world. On March 13, the Emerge podcast host headed into a solo retreat at Vermont&#8217;s Monastic Academy, which, according to its website, is a &#8220;training center&#8221; that is &#8220;dedicated to creating wise, powerful, and loving leaders who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-18 15:13:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}