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Ian Gardner says Acrya plans darkness study with Harvard-linked meditation centre

By Egleze Editorial Desk · Published August 4, 2026 · Third Wave Podcast · Inside the World of Dark Retreats | Ian Gardner
Ian Gardner says Acrya plans darkness study with Harvard-linked meditation centre
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Inside the World of Dark Retreats | Ian Gardner

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""Part of the part of the what we're going to do with our location is we're doing a study with um the Institute for Advanced Consciousness Research and the Harvard Meditation Center around the physiological impact of being in the dark and what that does to your DMT levels, to your hormone levels.""

Gardner says Acrya plans a study at its Costa Rica site with the Institute for Advanced Consciousness Research and the Harvard Meditation Center to measure physiological effects of extended darkness. He says researchers would track DMT levels, hormones and other markers to document healing accounts he describes as anecdotal.

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Inside the World of Dark Retreats | Ian Gardner
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